Amanita Research Forum

Hey Thank you for letting me to join this forum I am from Lithuania. I have been very interested with Amanitas for last few years. I pick them by my self in local woods, dry them or make Soma and recently started selling them so if any of you guys did not find any Amanitas this year you can pm me o...

Last night I thought I'd set a couple caps out on the kitchen counter to air dry. Upon reviewing this morning it seemed to me that they would take approximately forever to dry and they were already starting to discolor a bit. I think they would just go mushy and disintegrate before they dried. So I ...

I suspect that having fresh caps in a sous vide bag at such a temperature would cause some decarb. What may be a better experiment would be to see how hot you could get the sous vide cooker (could you get it above conventional boiling temp by using saturated salt water?) and placing the shrooms in ...

Hi everyone, I am Derek, 48, English living in France. I play harmonica, make homemade bread, beer & mead & naturally mushrooms are the logical next step, except I can't find any round here so had to buy it on eBay.. I am particularly interested in brewing with muscaria to make a musky mead, in sma...

My oven doesn't have a fan so I began considering other drying methods. I have a portable induction stovetop that lets me set a specific temperature. After some testing with a meat thermometer sitting in a pan of water, it seems to run a bit hot, but I can modulate the temperate by turning it up/dow...

Found these today in northwest Washington State.

Just found these today here in northwest Washington State. I've never tried amanita before and am keen to do so. My understanding, largely from watching Amanita Dreamer, is to dry them in the oven while trying to keep the temp at about 165F. And then to simmer the dried mushrooms in water on the sto...