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- From: LILMARA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Martin Lilly)
- Subject: Re: freezing mushrooms in liquid nitrogen
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- References: <1992Nov18.091609.5076@cs.uow.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 09:25:46 EST
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- In article <1992Nov18.091609.5076@cs.uow.edu.au>
- u8802411@cs.uow.edu.au (Malcolm James St Clair) writes:
-
- >
- > It's about that time of year so I was
- >wondering if anybody has had experience preserving
- >mushrooms.
- > I have only ever heard that they must be
- >consumed fresh (AFOAF has had dried ones but they
- >weren't all that good)
- > So i was thinking maybe its the process of
- >freezing that destroys the goodies. If so then maybe
- >fresh mushrooms could be dropped into a thermosflask
- >of liquid nitrogen, and then placed into a regular
- >freezer.
- > Has anybody tried this ?
- >By the way does anybody know the pressure and
- >temperature that foodstuffs are freeze dried at ?
- >
- Don't freeze moist mushrooms- you will be sorely disappointed by the slimy,
- black goo that results. The main enemies of psilocybin are light and oxygen.
- Drying at low temps (<150 degrees F) until the shrooms are hard crackers will
- not affect potency adversely; these can then be stored in single dosage
- seal-a-meal aliquots in the freezer for at least a year.
-