Ok well today there were so many all over the paddock it was just overwhelming
There were these huge ones at the edge of a line of trees that had caps as big as a laptop, seriously, I have never seen any gold tops as big as those ever, at first I thought no way they are cubes man, must be some freak kind of other shroom, but they were gold, they had a skirt, they were growing from cow poo and when i kicked one over the stem instantly went dark blue, scary as hell, one of these wet would weigh a few ounces, just incredible.
So I decided I would leave them as their were so many normal sized ones I had a carrier bag full in under 10 minutes anyway. I figured the big daddy or mommy shrooms were best just left to continue sporing, they will be just covering a massive area with fresh spores so in the name of sustainability I left them to do their thing.
Tomorrow I will go take pics to give you some idea of the scale of these monsters.
I am trying the fan method, I just put them all in the bottom of a cardboard box and laid a box fan on top on high, will be interesting to see the difference in drying them this way.
The ones dried in the oven don't really seem to suffer from that method though, I keep the oven to around 40 degrees and that is supposed to be well under the temp that would degrade them and they still kick your ass.