Amanita Research Forum

The fly agarics in this fall's crop are so huge that I haven't been bothering to dry the stems. So having some left laying around, I fried one up in some olive oil, and of course ate it. A stout stem, maybe 6 inches long. It turns out that they're at least mildly psychoactive. Kind of tasty, too - I...

but if you want to get into specific reports of liver and kidney problems, we could take a look at it. What do you mean? Here's what I was talking about: I also read something about kidney and liver damage. That might be serious, or it might be like the repetitive injections of ibotenic acid into t...

Pardon me if I didn't understand it right - it sounds like "let's cook the mushrooms, and then dry them"? I wouldn't go there myself. The structure breaks down too much, there's vital fluids leaking out, and what's left would be difficult to work with to dry.

I've been seeing what looks to me like some scorching. While I have the "convection" fan on, I know from cooking in that oven that the temperatures will be higher in some places than others. As I imagine is usually the case.

For what it's worth, I've sometimes done that, to no ill effect.

If you can keep it to the lower end of that range, reliably, then it looks OK to me. 87°C (188.6°F) is hotter than I think is recommended, though honestly I may have lost track of the optimum temperature - I think it's 160-170°F. I just hauled in an armload of the stuff and have been drying it in th...

... repetitive injections of ibotenic acid Don't do that, for sure - inject it into your brain, or anywhere else. For more realistic scenarios, liking eating a little or drinking an infusion, I doubt we'll ever have really detailed information on health effects - the chemistry of the species is too...

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Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:28 pm

After a few hours nothing had happened, so i fried the soggy mushrooms in butter, salt, and chilli flakes till they were crisp, and served on a slice of sourdough, it was delicious, what an incredible umami flavour they have!

Sounds brilliant. We need a recipes section.

Additionally, how long would I dry my Amanitas in 70C for? I've heard 24h on one of Amanita Dreamer's videos, but many friends of mine did it only 6-8 hours and was just fine. In other words, does the conversion of Ibotenic acid to muscimol finish when the mushroom is cracker dry or even if it's dr...

Interesting, that so much liquid dribbled out, but they didn't deteriorate. I cut mine in strips, and left the oven door open a bit and the convection fan on, and monitored temperature with a cheap oven thermometer, a dial type that hangs from an oven rack. It has been a while - it's the middle of s...