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Offlinekykeon
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Drying with micro waves...
    #850537 - 08/29/02 05:24 AM (21 years, 7 months ago)

Question: does anyone have REAL experience of drying shrooms on the microwave oven? please post what temp and how much time you use.

thanx!

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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: kykeon]
    #850585 - 08/29/02 06:02 AM (21 years, 7 months ago)

my guess is no one has any positive experience with microwave-drying fungus


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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: kykeon]
    #850614 - 08/29/02 06:30 AM (21 years, 7 months ago)

it's not like weed. it dosn't have to be dry to take. I suppose if you were selling it, but you'd want to dry it correctly anyways.


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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: kykeon]
    #850635 - 08/29/02 06:51 AM (21 years, 7 months ago)

the microwave will destroy your shrooms!
Do not due this unless your looking to burn them up!

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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: kykeon]
    #850661 - 08/29/02 07:10 AM (21 years, 7 months ago)

I saw a microwave tek for drying shrooms some place.
I can't remember where......sorry!

I have never tried it though.


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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: psilocybinjunkie]
    #852139 - 08/29/02 08:00 PM (21 years, 6 months ago)

thanx to all!!

Roadkill if you ever remember, pm me... thanx!

i think we should make a test about that potency and heat thing
someday... i think its a myth, but i am not quite sure about it.

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    #852214 - 08/29/02 08:32 PM (21 years, 6 months ago)



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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: Macey Howard]
    #852331 - 08/29/02 10:30 PM (21 years, 6 months ago)

I think the microwave would really fuck them up. They would boil from the inside out. I mean look how steak turns out. Fan drying only takes a day or two and fans are cheap, readily available, and easy to operate. How quickly do you need them? You can eat them fresh if you want them right away. They're better that way too unless you can't stand the taste.


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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: Macey Howard]
    #852379 - 08/30/02 12:20 AM (21 years, 6 months ago)

once i took a mushroom and boiled it for 15 minutes in water. I mean fuckin HOT water. Then i took it out, let it cool and ate it. I bet my ass that it was fuckin potent. Thats why i am saying that some people should make the same test (we can make out one) and post their results. What do you think of that?

Also, i dont need the shrooms fast or anything else. I just wanna know if there is a more convenient method othen than fanning 2 days and then putting in a dessicant chamber. A food dehydrator may be nice, but i dont have one

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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: kykeon]
    #852412 - 08/30/02 01:32 AM (21 years, 6 months ago)

I think microwave drying is definitally worth looking into just because it doesn't seem that there is much experience with it and it would be good for the community. The whole "drying with heat will lower potency" theory may be disproved (or proved). If heat really did lower potency then why is mushroom tea so popular? Since microwaves work by sending radio waves at a certain frequency which will penetrate the mushrooms and excite the water molecules it would be different than using an oven where the whole mushroom would be heated by conduction.
Another thing everyone has been talking about is the blueing of the mushrooms (from touching) and how this is an indication of lose of potency, well if that is indeed true then grinding them up in a coffee grinder surely would not be a good idea but many people have done that and have experienced the same effects as consuming mushrooms normally.
I guess what I'm saying is that this is not yet an exact science.......I think that is what makes this hobby so damn cool

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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: Snoop]
    #852487 - 08/30/02 03:38 AM (21 years, 6 months ago)

Snoop, thats the way i c the whole matter!

Well, i am gonna try a microwave dry tek this weekend, so i will post the results.

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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: kykeon]
    #852617 - 08/30/02 05:22 AM (21 years, 6 months ago)

more power to you. While your ar it, some other fun microwave items are cd's, plastic army men, and aluminum foil strips. Just try mucrowaving a regular store bought one just to see if it can actually be dried, then go from there.


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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: Shaw]
    #852652 - 08/30/02 05:39 AM (21 years, 6 months ago)

thanx... that was a wise advice indeed. i suppose my trial&error will probably sacrifice some shrooms... why it have to be magic?

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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: kykeon]
    #854109 - 08/30/02 09:20 PM (21 years, 6 months ago)

Uh...
If you put a peice of hard toast in the microwave, what does it do???

Well.... it actually softens it, I think the microwave will make your shrooms really soggy and wet, as it does to bread and such.

But I am prepared to eat my words in light of new developments,
So go for it.
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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: kykeon]
    #854173 - 08/30/02 10:55 PM (21 years, 6 months ago)

microwaving is a bad idea, the principal upon wich a microwave opperates is that it makes water molecules within cells rotate, the result is that the bonds between water m9olecules and others is broken, thus destroying cells from the inside out. i see burnt goo in your future.


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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: kykeon]
    #854190 - 08/30/02 11:09 PM (21 years, 6 months ago)

Like someone else has already said... one dosent have to dry 'shrooms to eat them.... if one wants to SELL them, then they better be dry. (wet 'shrooms can start to turn moldy after about 48 hours in a plastic bag in the dark)

I have head of people using microwaves for this purpose. Please keep in mind that fresh mushrooms have more water (by volume) in them than any plant does.... Some say that by placing one layer of them on multiple layers off paper towels on top off a paper plate for about two minutes or so works.....

If your not concerned about how they look dry, one might consider cutting the mushrooms into very tiny bits with a pair off scissors and laying them on to a plate- they should be very dry within hours this way (about 8 to 15).


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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: canid]
    #854486 - 08/31/02 05:58 AM (21 years, 6 months ago)

if you want them dry that bad just throw them in the oven....


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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: Shaw]
    #854971 - 08/31/02 12:02 PM (21 years, 6 months ago)

also, for fun, nuke a bar of soap, the fucker gets HUGE


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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: matts]
    #855383 - 08/31/02 05:08 PM (21 years, 6 months ago)

I didnt bother reading the other posts because i know it will make the mushrooms loose alot of potency. A microwave is not a trying appliance, have you ever used your microwave to dry something?

Put a glass of water in the microwave, it get hot (ta-da!). If you put a mushroom in there it would start to heat the water molecules in the mushroom, thus heating the mushroom and destroying some/all of the psilocybin/psilocin.

If you want to waist your mushrooms sure go for it but i wouldnt do it....
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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: Fd3000]
    #855438 - 08/31/02 05:51 PM (21 years, 6 months ago)

Drying cubes with a microwave, is like trying to wipe your ass with a large live hungry alligator. It just isn't going to work. SixTango  :grin: 


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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: Snoop]
    #856773 - 09/01/02 10:29 AM (21 years, 6 months ago)

Basically psilocybin breaks down at a certian temperature.. you can simmer mushrooms in mushroom tea without much of a decrease in potency. You can also turn the oven on.. then let it cool off for 5 mins.. put the mushrooms in and keep the oven door ajar(or something). Dunno how hot a microwave gets though ^^

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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: Jammer]
    #857822 - 09/01/02 07:37 PM (21 years, 6 months ago)

Thanx to all of you for the replies.

I took a agaricus shroom and cut two slices (foto 1)



Then I put one of the slices in the microwave oven in the lowest temp possible, 80 watt, for 30 minutes.

The result was to send the water out of the shroomie, which was dried (foto 2)



As you can see, the SIZE is definately smaller, as it should be. The only problem was the alteration of colour, which means that it was somehow boiled a little. Also its not crack dry, after 30 mins in the microwave oven, it had to pass another 30 minutes in front of a fan.

The temp was not THAT high to destroy psilocybin. Even if it was boiled, i find it similar to making tea as far as temp goes.

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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: kykeon]
    #858143 - 09/01/02 11:35 PM (21 years, 6 months ago)

Quote:

The temp was not THAT high to destroy psilocybin. Even if it was boiled, i find it similar to making tea as far as temp goes.




How do you know, if you didn't try a psilocybian mushroom? You still have to try 3-5 Equadors of yours (or your usual dosage), eat them and then only you'll be able to say whether or not psilocybin was destroyed. As soon as I can, I will do that test.

It's not that I disagree with you. As a matter of fact, when I was younger, the first time I ate mushrooms, a friend and I put some eighty liberty caps in the oven and let them dry for one whole hour (or more) at 200 deg. C., then we ate them and tripped hard. I don't remember the exact number we put in that oven, and I never ate liberty caps since, so I can't really say. What is certain, is that such a high temp did not destroy the whole content of psilocybin. I'll retry it for the fun with cubies :smile:.

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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: LilMerlin]
    #858156 - 09/01/02 11:54 PM (21 years, 6 months ago)

I am not saying that high temps do not destroy psilocin/psilocybin. I cant say that, for i dont know. All i do know for sure is that i boiled some shrooms once and i tripped okee. But still, i dont know if i would have been tripping harder if i hadnt boiled them :wink: lol lol :laugh: thats the point; all i am saying is "lets take nothing for granted, lets experiment with everything" and I am glad you agree with that. I do hope your experiment will work and will not result in useless shroomies...

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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: kykeon]
    #858269 - 09/02/02 04:10 AM (21 years, 6 months ago)

Sorry, I thought you were drawing a conclusion from your experiment in the microwave, where you put a non-psilocybian mushroom.

And I don't care about useless shroomies... I have more of them than time to trip :smile:. Now, I'm collecting prints in order to send them to the FSRE.

As I ate over-mature and heat-dried shrooms (2.5 gr.), my next test will be to take 2 or 2.5 gr. but cold-dried shrooms so that I can compare their power. Maybe the following time I'll dry them in the oven at 200 C. But whatever I try, I will report it here.

So, we'll have an occasion to chat again soon :smile:,
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Re: Drying with micro waves... [Re: kykeon]
    #860538 - 09/03/02 01:17 AM (21 years, 6 months ago)

i tried that once, being in a real hurry,
all the shrooms looked burned but weren't actually burned,
still pliable but brown.
i wouldn't recommend it.
and heat does destroy potency,
toss a bag in the trunk of your car for a week
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