mudva

that's fine if you are harvesting a few, but try finding enough vodka and fridge space to process a half dozen rucksacks full, you'll either end up moving out so the fridges can move in or you'de want to be a major shareholder in Shmirnoff , either way it's ridiculously impractical for large quantities .

good one it's probably one of the most useful appliances anyone can invest in I've had mine for 20 years and it's certainly paid for itself hundreds of times over, great for fruit leathers dried bananas are out of this world far superior to shop bought one's and dried tomatoes are brilliant as well, have seen some on Ebay going cheap check it out cheers mudva

it has been my experience that the Kiss method in this case dying using a properly designed food dehyrator is the best method , there are many myths surrounding the drying of mushrooms one of them that it should be done at as gentle a heat as possible WRONG! the best way to dry mushrooms is with your dryer set at the maximum setting hit em hard & fast the quicker you remove the moisture from the mushrooms the better, heat is not nessicarlity the enemy of the active ingetients in mushrooms my first experiences on mushrooms in the mid 70's was ingesting Mushroom Milo the shrooms were placed inside a boiling pot of water inside a stocking squezzed of their juice after a couple of minutes,then milo, milk, sugar added and then it was off to checkerboard land! so heat is obviously not an issue, after 8 to 10 hours depending on the initial moisture content of the shrooms( picked during rain or dry conditions) the shrooms should be brittle snap dry, and crush into powder easily between you fingers, now you have two choices store then as complete or partial shrooms or cram the lot into a blender and blend them into a nice fine dust or powder, if you choose to blend them into a powder you will be able to see through the blending process wether your shrooms are truly dry or not, if they are properly dried there should be no limit to how fine you can blend them if there is too much moisture you will end up with a darker material that sticks to the walls of the blender & the blades this does happen from time to time and it's back in the dryer on trays for an hour or so to finish them off, after a while you will know you have it right, the material should powder easily be light grey in colour with no sticking, once you have the shrooms in a powder form you are in possession of the simplest most stable form of shrooms which should last you even at a cool room temperature for many months without refrigeration,the other advantages of drying in this way is that the experience is slightly different , firstly the trip comes on much faster from between 15 to 20 minutes it's very clean, with no gut churning kidney aching effects, also any pasture parasites and worms are desicated and pulverized by the drying & blending process,remember shroom grow in cow shit and there's all sorts of wonderful creatures crawling around in cow shit liver flukes, maggots you name it, raw mushrooms are a bad idea because of this one fact alone,also this process reduces a knapsack of fresh shrooms into a powder that is hard pressed to fill halfway an average snap lock sandwich bag.you will be amazed at just how compact your harvest will look after following this process,half a 35mm film canister full of this powder is more than enough for most people to experience a 6 to 8 hour trip from between 2 to 3 grams it comes on fast it's clean and it doesn't leave you with a kidney hangover the next day , as far as I'm concerned this is the simplest and safest way to process and consume this sacred plant. good luck & happy shrooming