drying shrooms

[bighooter]

1. What is the best way to dry shrooms?

2. Say for example I had 500 grams of fresh shrooms, when dried approximately (just give me a rough idea please) how many grams will I then have?

If you could please answer these 2 simple questions I would be delighted as i have had no luck over at the shroomery, and i'm sure my dearest friends will help me out on bluelight PEACE

 

[Ismene]

1. Lay them out on paper towls and apply some form of gentle heat to them. A heated airfan 2 or 3 feet away. You can try and not use any heat at all but I usually find that takes forever.

2. Somewhere between 45-50g dried. It's supposed to be 10:1 but I always find you lose a little more than that.

You're welcome.

 

[clifford]

As far i know, you can also do it naturally in an extremely dry controlled environment which will evaporate enough of the water content.
For a large amount a very low external heat source & circulation like a space heater and fan or u can get fans like Ismene is talkin about.

figure out watcha wanna do soon, b/c fresh mushrooms will go moldy and smelly and not something your going to want to eat after a few weeks.

PS. they don't actually need to be dried out to to work, the psilocyn is still all there. Mushrooms are like 80% water or something like that, so you would have eat a larger mass of em, but its kinda hard to tell how much is the right amount plus you can't keep them as long like I mentioned above.

 

[DwayneHoover]

Using dessicant really does draw like 99.99% of the water out, leaving them bone dry, very easy to crush, and impervious to pretty much any kind of mold or rot, extending their shelf life, IMO. It's like "Freeze Dried Magic"!

 

[Black Octagon MK 2]

Using dessicant really does draw like 99.99% of the water out, leaving them bone dry, very easy to crush, and impervious to pretty much any kind of mold or rot, extending their shelf life

+1 (this is the "best" way, and thus the most appropriate answer to the OP's question).µ

P.S., this info certainly IS readily available over at the Shroomery...http://www.shroomery.org/10611/Drying