Fresh mushrooms?

[PeyoteK]

Does anyone prefer their mushrooms fresh as opposed to dry? Any problems with the taste when they're fresh?

 

[Alucard_X]

i dont notice much of a difference, other than the fact the eigth or qtr will look really shadey because it'll look small. but whenever i've had fresh shrooms they kicked my ass

 

[budtokem]

dry mushrooms usually have a stronger taste than their fresh counterparts. most people i have known that have eaten fresh mushrooms, including myself, have liked the taste better than the dry kind. except my girlfriend will not touch fresh mushrooms; she finds them disgusting.

 

[vibr8tor]

It shouldn't decrease the potency if you dry them the right way though.

 

[SuperDankyBuds]

If shrooms are not dried correctly they can lose up to 50% of their potency. Call me crazy but I've never found that the taste of any shrooms to be that horrible fresh or preserved. I guess I was just blessed with cooperative taste buds.

 

[AJAX]

2 weeks ago I took shrooms for my first time, and I really dont think I dried them right but anyways I ate about 5 decent sized caps of semi-dried shrooms and I felt alittle but not much, then my friend came over with fresh ones and I ate one cap and 20 mins later, I was tripping nuts. Any more and I would have flipped the fuck out, but that fresh shroom definitly did the trick, if you can get them fresh eat them that way. PEACE

 

[wickedclown_stl]

You do know they take a while to kick in, don't you? How long did you wait before taking the fresh stuff?

 

[vibr8tor]

And what drying method did you use?

 

[canebrain]

I find it very easy not to dry mushrooms properly and if you don't they will lose potentcy and go off quicker. The best way to do it is once picked is to freze dry them this will keep them at the potency they were when they were picked and they will last easily for a year. Personally I like my mushrooms freshly picked as they taste alot nicer and you can be shure of full potency (an also they are legal) (in England)

 

[Murdoc]

i'm guessing none of you here ever grew, so heres how it works,
freeze drying works well if you can get very low temps, simply placing in freezer is bad since the cell walls will rupture causing the mushies to blue which show the oxidation of psilocybin to psyloncin (sp?) which is bad since it should only happen in your body, this results in a loss of potency.
5 caps should not give u a trip unless they were huge, such as 3in + , or u are extremly small/sensitive.
properly dried mush are done like this, 1st place over a fan (any moving air) to air dry for a few hrs(preferably 4-8hrs) the u have to place in dessicant(CaCl2 or anything else)chamber then they should stay in there for ~2days+ then u get cracker dry mushies.
never dry using heat, it destroys the psilocybin.
if anyone needs more info go to the shroomery.org or just ask

 

[Murdoc]

oh yeh, fresh are slightly better, but u won't notice the diff. if u get well dried mush.
the taste is pretty bad, the best meth to mask it is using chocolate, a buddy does this, powders the mush melts chocolate layers some on botton places mush then another layer to make a mush/ch bar.
but drinking it down w\ c-milk works fine for me