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cmod777debian
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half assed drying chamber with pics
#8947148 - 09/17/08 11:19 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Hello all!
Do any of you think this would work?
Desiccant in the bottom of a bowl. Foil wrapped around a clothes hanger with holes poked through it them some shrooms.
Would it dry them?
How long does a desiccant take to dry?
Here are some pics
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AltonBrown
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Re: half assed drying chamber with pics [Re: cmod777debian]
#8947189 - 09/17/08 11:25 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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i get called a d****bag for this. but, I take a cookie sheet and place aluminum foil on it that I've rippled like a potato chip. i place the mushies on the rippled foil and and put it on the top rack of my oven, leaving the oven door open using a 2x4 piece of wood, I set the oven to as low as possible. i rotate the knob until the oven lite JUST turns on. its like a dehydrate that happens to be the same appliance i use for pressure cooking.
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cmod777debian
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Re: half assed drying chamber with pics [Re: AltonBrown]
#8947204 - 09/17/08 11:27 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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I've done deer jerky this way. But shrooms arent going in the oven. Its easier to kill a deer(and clean/skin) than grow shrooms
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AltonBrown
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Re: half assed drying chamber with pics [Re: cmod777debian]
#8947245 - 09/17/08 11:38 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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ok, my way takes an hour...
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cmod777debian
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Re: half assed drying chamber with pics [Re: AltonBrown]
#8947268 - 09/17/08 11:44 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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I will have to look into that.
any advice on my setup though....Alton?
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Re: half assed drying chamber with pics [Re: cmod777debian]
#8947303 - 09/17/08 11:55 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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i've never tryd it. but thats how jerky stayes dry you know. trial and error...
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cmod777debian
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Re: half assed drying chamber with pics [Re: AltonBrown]
#8947312 - 09/17/08 11:58 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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yeah.
you notice any potency issues with the oven method?
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Re: half assed drying chamber with pics [Re: cmod777debian]
#8947360 - 09/18/08 12:07 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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no potency issues. you can even put a thermometer along side of your crop and you'll notice its cooler than a store bought dehydraterz. people are just too much of mushroom fiends to try. just look up the vaporization temp of the active ingredient in you crop and you'll see the light!
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Re: half assed drying chamber with pics [Re: AltonBrown]
#8947422 - 09/18/08 12:21 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Get a laundry basket (the squaty rectangular ones) put duck-tape over the immediate bottom holes in the vertical basket walls, (So when the shrooms get dry and semi weightless they don't fly out). then throw a box fan over the top...
Well, heres Fahtsters detained post on how to dry this way...
http://archives.mycotopia.net/discus/messages/5/44046.html?1072655415
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Re: half assed drying chamber with pics [Re: Boris]
#8947468 - 09/18/08 12:34 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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I fan them dry til they are damn close to bone dry (about 24 hours), then use a little chamber similiar to your setup to finish drying them completely. The fan drying will save you a lot of desiccant - you are however going to want an air tight lid for that chamber. Wasn't sure if I saw a lid in that pic.
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cmod777debian
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Re: half assed drying chamber with pics [Re: c1dh3d]
#8947664 - 09/18/08 01:26 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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thanks......I will make it air tight
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Re: half assed drying chamber with pics [Re: cmod777debian]
#8950994 - 09/18/08 06:41 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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instead of alum foil, you could use coffee filters, will breathe better. or just get a paint strainer at "the depot" for like $1 and put your shrooms in there. then put that in the chamber. the stainer is also goof for fan drying, just put them in there and clip the bag in front of the fan
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