Easy Steps to Dry Mushrooms
Step 1a – Grow your mushrooms
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Methinks that we need a quicker solution. Ding, Ding!
Step 1b – Buy, Borrow, Beg or Steal your Mushrooms
Ah, that was a quicker way of getting some Agaricus bisporus, or button mushrooms. Phew.
(Disclaimer: theft is usually illegal 🙂 )
Step 2 Clean and Slice Mushrooms
We may get into the wash/wipe/brush mushrooms controversy in another article. For the moment we mean ‘clean somehow’ your mushrooms.
Do I need to tell you how to slice a mushroom? Life’s too short, and nor may you borrow one of my favourite knives – it was my grandmother’s and has an edge on it like a … like a … like a very sharp knife.
Step 3 Load Your Food Dryer
Unless you live in a hot, dry, sunny climate (you wish!) do not use a washing line.
Find your electric food dryer or dessicator (it’s next to your yoghurt maker and that lonely icecream maker).
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Start loading the food dryer’s trays with the sliced mushrooms.
and more
and more
first tray full!
Follow your food dryer’s instructions, and after a few hours you will have a delicious ingredient to keep in your kitchen store cupboard.
The food dryer shown here is my Food Dehydrator.
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