🍄 Dehydration and Storage: The Proper Way (Edible Mycology) 🍄 

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@@Mycophilia no it's still there in my feed

@@tonystewart7624 weird, lately I can’t see some comments once I click on the comment thread

I appreciate you coming here mushvibes! Thanks for the comment!

@@Mycophilia I have to know, after all of your use of mushrooms, do you believe in socialism and do you believe in god?

Congratulations John! Happy I was a part of it!

@@Mycophilia I went hiking in NH the past two days which was great for me and the dogs. It kept me from obsessing on the grow. When I returned they had exploded in size and some were opening up - but, and there is always a but, I have a little piece of trich the size of two quarters. I know I should probably just harvest the entire thing but I harvested anything near the contamination and surgically cut out the trich area in its entirety. My little experiment to see if it will return and to what extent. You probably already know the answer but I had to try and save it. Sad to only get one flush. ALSO- I have a jar of sclerotia that has one patch of contamination. Can the potatoes be harvested or is the entire jar a lost cause?

@@johnbauby6612 the taters can be saved

Glad to hear that! Thanks for commenting Rob 🍄 ❤️

I got dozen shrooms in plastic cover ... I kept it without seperating mushroom for dry process in box ... Now boost has grown on them , pls suggest is it edible ???

My pleasure Pacer, I’m happy people are finding them useful. And thanks for commenting!

Thanks glad you found it!

Best of luck 😊

@@Mycophilia I pulled it off. Now about to go again. Just found my new hobby.✌️

@@TommyRetailarmy congratulations! Glad to hear things went well!

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After realizing how much we over-complicate things, I tried to do the simplest possible and also the thing I would think would be most destructive to the flavinoids, so I put them out in the sun to dry. It's hot as fuck where I live so it was like 90 degree air and then the sun heating the fruits up way beyond that, and the worst part is the UV light which completely destroys these compounds pretty much instantly in aqueous and powder forms. It dried them surprisingly well, I didn't use any silica gel or anything and just put them in a sandwich baggie (not even ziplock) and set them in a dark cabinet for a few years. When I took them out and tested them, they were just as flavorful as any other from that isolate. I did not expect that result at all, I was terrified since I grow plants so my house is at like 50-60RH all the time and they should have just soaked up enough water to degrade in all those years (about 4 years I think?) I still use silica gel in my storage containers, but only because sometimes I screw up and think a batch is completely dry but really I had added a few things to the dehydrator and forgot they weren't all in there for the same amount of time. But I'm not worried that totally dry fruits are going to soak up normal household humidity levels in storage.

So how were they? I was planning to experiment with long term storage but i won't be able to do the first taste test for another 5 years

Happy to hear that! 😊

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Are dehydrated in a food dehydrator without a thermostat and the potency was lost

Wow sounds perfect but How do you make sure that silica gel pouch don't come in contact with the powder?

Awesome! Congratulations!

How did it go? I am starting out

@@charlesard8639 Success (allegedly)! I was totally amazed that it worked (allegedly)! I was using Uncle Ben Tek but that wasn't ideal so I moved to quart mason jars of popcorn, sterilized the poor man way. I don't have a pressure cooker. Now I use agar to grain because it's much easier and Uncle Ben isn't really any faster than doing it the "correct" way. Allegedly 😊

me too!

I had 2 grow bags. They were completely ready to go. And I got nothing on both. I guess I have to try again. Months of waiting for nothing. Smh

Glad it was helpful!

Cool, thanks for the comment D!

I got dozen shrooms in plastic cover ... I kept it without seperating for drying process ... Now mold has grown on them , pls suggest is it edible ???

@@samanyahuduga3198 i wouldn't

I would love to see how you do this. Keep us posted on it mate. I am just in the process of injecting my first bag of Golden Teacher spores……should be an interesting 2024!

​@@cyberbidhow is it going?

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For sure THC! And I appreciate your comments!

To the point? It takes him a fourth of the video to get into any settings or strategies

Thanks for watching :)

Thank you Tony! And I appreciate you commenting!

Can I use the owen? I don't have dehydrator

Thanks for the comment!

Glad I could help 😊

Exactly, I'm in the same place. Just got this machine today.

Thanks Joy 😊

Most welcome!

Mexican and Floridian grass lovers are also known to preserve their taste for a long time. It was generally thought that those heavier in the flavonoid itself (rather than the pro-flavonoid) wouldn’t preserve as well, but our understanding of that is changing quickly. Recent evidence suggests that some species produce the same flavonoids through different synthesis pathways, which have a lot of implications, one of which being stability of the end products along with the byproducts that are released throughout their unique processes, which lead to a different range of taste effects. Thank you for your comment!

Glad to hear that 😊

You can just set up a little diving board off the front of the stove over the oven door by setting something heavy on a cookie cooling rack or something with metal mesh like that and the hot air from the oven will rise through the fruits without a fan. This is also a handy setup for doing sterile work on instead of a flow hood. The hot air coming out of an oven above 250C is sterile.

Thanks! Been searching for a while if using an oven would work Im gonna trust you friend

Thank you 💜

Give me those sweet sweet flavonoids

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Don't cut anything if you can avoid it because it causes oxidation.

Yes

Was it a Multispore grow?

​@@MycophiliaWhy? Can you explain how this effects it. I'm completely new to this.

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To a certain extent but fairly minimal, it’s mainly in there for humidity that can enter over time, not for dehydration of the mushrooms. It takes a lot more than a packet or two if it’s anything more than a bit of humidity ime

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With a regular food dehydrator they usually max just go to 165. As long as it has a fan and isn’t broken you won’t be burning them. With very small fruits I go same temp but 16-18 hours

just put them back im the dehydrator for 24h (if they‘re not moldy)

I’m not familiar with air fryers for dehydration so I cannot say. If you’re asking whether different varieties require different dehydration times, no it doesn’t really matter unless you have some huge fruits. Then you could cut them in half to dry them quicker, but for dehydrators as I say 24 hours in a dehydrator will just about always get the job done no matter the size.

I've used an air fryer to dehydrate fruits and it works fine, just make sure you turn the heat all the way down. I would recommend getting a dehydrator though, it is better than an air fryer.

Was it from multispore? Because if it was, it was a bunk flush which happens.

@@Mycophilia it was from itw. Believe it was e4k. Light heat doesn’t mess them up but you can definitely over do it and mess up a batch. First time I tripped was on some from the fields and he boiled water with them in there and we all tripped aggressively. I had a cheap dehydrator I couldn’t control the heat. Cooking them for hrs. I have had some junk from itw only thing really good I’ve had is the pe. So who really knows.

I was wondering the same thing.

Taste=compounds in Mycophilia lingo!

Thank you so much my recent harvest went perfectly👍

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Slicing will oxidize more flavonoids as you’re exposing more surface area to the open air. If space is an issue, I like to lay the fruit on my palm, and gently lay the cap down with my other palm. One part of the cap will disconnect from the stem, but some should still be connected so that you’re not completely separating them (cap and stem).

@@Mycophilia Thank you!

Thank you so much Beeker!

If you have to redry your mushrooms, obviously it is not an ideal situation but I'm sure you know that. I would do it if they don't smell like they're starting to rot. As long as the odour is not too pungent. Basically there's two concerns, the first is that you don't get sick from them. And the second is whether the flavonoids haven't degraded due to oxidization.

@@Mycophilia Gotcha. So in this specific scenario, they were dried for about 6 hours and then stored for a few days before being dried again for about 16 more hours, so I wouldn't expect too much flavinoid degradation, no? Thanks so much 👍

@@mikeangelo8833 probably not. Best of luck!

Did you find the answer to this?

Nope he just said do it for 24 hours

Yes.

For storage. You can't store them wet or they'll just turn back into mycelleum.

Unless you refrigerate them

Yes totally fine, wouldn’t go beyond a week though

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No, but I would watch a video called harvesting talk that I have on this channel, just type in harvesting talk Mycophilia in the RU-vid search bar

Everything is in the video

Yes, I state in this video mine is at 165f.

Not if it's new but I would recommend it if you've used it with contammed spawn before. Either way, I would give it a good cleaning with soap and water.

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For how long

you need to put dessicant into your jars and be sure they are well sealed.

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Yes it’ll work

@@ashleyjones112 hey Ashley, thanks for your interest :) I only do private questions through my paid mentorship program. If interested, send me an email and I would be happy to send you the details: mycophilia.official@gmail.com

If they had bad bacteria and parasites before hand, I can’t say they’re 100% safe to eat. If they were fine and healthy before, they are safe to eat.

Check out my video Harvesting Talk for all your answers!

There’s no decarbing as they’re completely unrelated to cannabis. They’ll be fine.

Absolutely not!

Google mushroom dehydrator. It's bigger than the one on this video and better

Not long at all

@@Mycophilia ahh gotcha. Thanks

I don’t know of any dehydrators made specifically for mushrooms, just any food dehydrator will do. Spores can get in the air, to avoid that you should harvest before spirulstion

Sporulation

@@Mycophilia thank you! I just meant could I use an air fryer/food dehydrator that I use for other food day to day for other things.

@@isaiahsnell8410 I can’t recommend air fryers as I’ve never personally used them. As long as it has a constant fan on and has around 165f and not much more I can vouch for