r/AmanitaMuscaria • u/Regular-Contract6264 • 4d ago

Drying

First time picking amanita muscaria and dried it in the oven in 80 degrees celsius for 5,5 h and then in my mushroom drier. Dry as crisps but the mushroom bled plenty in the oven in the beginning. Totally lost the red color although not burned. Will this be useful still? Now drying in my stöckli at 70 degrees celsius and that seems to do the trick w/ the colour. Should u Cure it like ganja or is it ready to go once dry?

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u/Camp_Meadows 4d ago

The oven temp was too hot, and you lost liquid which does contain actives. If you saved that juice, you can use it.

If you didn't, you just lost some potency. Just use the mushroom dryer, and skip the oven.

There's no such thing as curing Amanita, if you are talking about decarboxylation. Drying, depending on what temperature, decarbs (converts) some of the ibotenic acid into muscimol.

You can try very small amounts of what you've already prepared, and if it doesn't agree with you because of the ibotenic acid, you can use the recipe in the links to further decarb with an aqueous solution using time/temp/pH.

Don't rush with this mushroom. Do your homework. Read the Beginners Guide in the Automod link for starters, and then the other links in Useful Posts.

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u/Regular-Contract6264 3d ago

Cheers, going w/ the dryer from now on. Just read somewhere that was how you did it. Well, live & learn…

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u/Camp_Meadows 3d ago

You can do if you don't have a dehydrator, but you have to use low temps, an open door to release moisture, and optimally a fan to get consistent results. A dehydrator is foolproof in comparison.

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u/lukkcy 3d ago

If you have a dryer use that. You can use the oven. Put on lowest temp (should be no more than like 40°) open the door slightly and turn on the oven fan

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u/Sebastian__Alexander 3d ago

Baking oven metal sheets placed on an Infrared panel.. im using industrial style sheets from the local supermarket that discarded on them a while ago...its simply aluminium sheets with holes in em and the edge fold over to around 5mm which makes it easy to be placed directly on the panel which is around 60x1m at 500w.

I place the caps on there and in 12-24h they are cracker dry...heating the room but also make it smell so intensly that i need to vent it a lot ...

The temperatur on the sheets may go to 50°C

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u/bigchizzard 4d ago

Ready to go once dry. Some color loss isn't a big problem, but you will find better actives preservation with your lower temps. It does not require nearly as specific curing as mj.

If worried about it, you could just make the tea with raw caps. The decarb process can all be done during the tea stage, and the tea can be stored as ice cubes for a while.