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Drying mushies in a paper towel.
    #7613538 - 11/09/07 01:28 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

So basically, after I pick my mushrooms, I chop them up and place them in 2 paper towels, and roll them up in it. The next day, the two paper towels are soaked, so I take out the mushies and do it again. I keep doing this for about a week, and it's preyy cracker dry by then. I noticed though that the paper towel often has broen spots all over. Anyone know what this is? Another thing, is there any potency loss by doing this? Since the paper towel is basically just SQUEEZING all the water out.


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Re: Drying mushies in a paper towel. [Re: Diamonds808]
    #7613558 - 11/09/07 01:35 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

the brown is most likely spores that are falling out of the caps. doubt any potency loss unless there kept in direct sunlight or are allowed too get hot.and ya dont nessicarly have too chop em up. just slice of the cap at the closest point to the stem and slice the stem down the middle. best way is a decandessant chamber, or put em in a cardboard box with a fan constantly blowing on em. thats what i do and it takes em about 3 days or so too be cracker dry.


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Re: Drying mushies in a paper towel. [Re: nk pakelika]
    #7613822 - 11/09/07 05:49 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Use a fan, its gets them pretty dry in a surprisingly short time, then into a descicent chamber.

I tried this for the first time a few days ago, shrooms were almost cracker dry, after 4 hours fanning then 12 in a tub with descicent


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Re: Drying mushies in a paper towel. [Re: veda_sticks]
    #7613910 - 11/09/07 06:44 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Or just fan for 24-48 hours and they will be cracker dry (unless you've got a high ambient humidity).


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Re: Drying mushies in a paper towel. [Re: bmy]
    #7614121 - 11/09/07 08:35 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

yea, drying them out on paper towels is not going to dry them fast enough and you're probably going to get all kinds of nasty spoilage growing in them by the time you think they're dry. Seriously, eww... make sure to boil those as a tea or you might have one hell of a tummy ache.

If you want to dry them fast and easy, just place them in between two cheap, clean, paper furnance filters and bungee cord them to a box fan. I make beef jerky that way too and there was a whole episode of "Good Eats" on the Food Network Channel on how to use a box-fan as a dehydrator.

When dehydrating the most important thing is to get them dry fast, like in less than 10 hours fast. Otherwise the fruits, vegetables, meats, etc. will become susceptable to rot..which sounds much more likely than spores when I read about those brown spots on the paper towels.


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Keep in mind that inoculating or whatever in front of a flow hood won't help your bad substrate, your bad inoculant, your bad sterile procedure, etc. etc. etc. It's not a +3 flowhood of magic, it's just a tool.


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Re: Drying mushies in a paper towel. [Re: mycocurious]
    #7614227 - 11/09/07 09:20 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Two words: Computer case


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Re: Drying mushies in a paper towel. [Re: xFrockx]
    #7614289 - 11/09/07 09:48 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

two words: nasty filthy. your mushies will be quickly covered in a dust that is comprised mainly of human-skin dander and hairs (especially if you have pets)...


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figgusfiddus said:
Keep in mind that inoculating or whatever in front of a flow hood won't help your bad substrate, your bad inoculant, your bad sterile procedure, etc. etc. etc. It's not a +3 flowhood of magic, it's just a tool.


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Re: Drying mushies in a paper towel. [Re: mycocurious]
    #7614719 - 11/09/07 11:19 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I don't know how you keep your computer, but the inside of mine is as clean as any dehydrator/fan/ect you could ever find. A dusty computer is an unhappy computer.


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Re: Drying mushies in a paper towel. [Re: mycocurious]
    #7615290 - 11/09/07 01:25 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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mycocurious said:
If you want to dry them fast and easy, just place them in between two cheap, clean, paper furnance filters and bungee cord them to a box fan.  I make beef jerky that way too and there was a whole episode of "Good Eats" on the Food Network Channel on how to use a box-fan as a dehydrator.





Haha, when I read the "paper furnance filters and bungee cord them to a box fan" I was sure you had to had watched that Good Eats episode! Good stuff! I wanted to do such a dehydrator myself, but the box fan is a bit expensive for me :frown: Instead I used a old computer fan, an old bowle with holes drilled around the bottom, and an old towel streched out with steel wire. It does its job, but I bet Mr. Browns dehyrdator is much better.


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Re: Drying mushies in a paper towel. [Re: bmy]
    #7615609 - 11/09/07 02:49 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

paper furnance filters? interesting

I have been taking mine and placing them in a folded over newspaper. works great, they are cracker dry within a week tops.

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Re: Drying mushies in a paper towel. [Re: katfish]
    #9466454 - 12/20/08 11:10 AM (15 years, 1 month ago)

do you then place them in a cardboard box after you put them in the newspaper? or are you just letting them sit like that. i just grew my first shroomz ever and im curious on how to dry them without a fan because i have to keep it hidden.


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