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- From: lamontg@stein.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist)
- Subject: Re: freezing mushrooms in liquid nitrogen
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.070541.5811@u.washington.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov18.091609.5076@cs.uow.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 07:05:41 GMT
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- 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 ?
-
- Well, the best thing to do would be to extract the psilocybin and store
- with an inert atmosphere in low temperature...
-
- I'd guess that it wasn't the process of freezing, but either that there
- was condensation or humidity inside the container, or else that you do
- need it to be stored under vacuum or an inert atmosphere.
-
- --
- Lamont Granquist lamontg@u.washington.edu
- "When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases."
- -- Robert Anton Wilson
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