Lifehaker instructions will help make stocks that will be stored for a long time.
What mushrooms can be dried
Different species are suitable. Most often, tube is sent to drying – those that are like a hat on a sponge. For example, boobs, boletus, chice, oils, mossy, goats, Polish. By the way, with the help of drying it will be possible to process old and outgrown tubular mushrooms that are not suitable for pickling and salting.
From lamellar (with plates under a hat), honey mushrooms, rushes, umbrellas, champignons, red -haireds are dried. But the loads, rawers and waves are not suitable for this, because in the process they become bitter.
You can process in this way chanterelles, chills, grogs.
How to prepare mushrooms for drying
Washing mushrooms before drying is not recommended so that they do not absorb excess moisture. It is enough to remove the garbage from them with a brush or a slightly damp cloth and clean the legs with a knife.
If you want to leave the mushrooms intact, choose specimens of approximately the same size so that they are dried evenly. If you cut into pieces, try to make them the same.
Cut the mushrooms into pieces or dry the whole. Hard: Gato Plateado / YouTube
Consider that when drying, the volume of mushrooms is very significantly reduced, so do not cut them too small. The optimal thickness of the pieces is about 1 cm. You can divide the mushrooms into hats and legs, cut in halves or quarters.
How to dry mushrooms in the oven
Put the mushrooms on the grille in one layer so that they do not come into contact with each other. If the holes in it are too large, lay the baking paper. Send the grille to the oven, preheated to 50 ° C.
Shot: Ogorodgid/YouTube
The door should be ajar all the time by 10-15 cm. After 1.5–2 hours, increase the temperature to 75 ° C. Leave the mushrooms for another 2 hours, then reduce the intensity of heating to 55 ° C and wait 2 hours again. Then break one of the pieces in half. If it is dry inside, mushrooms can be removed, if moist – hold them in the oven at 55 ° C until cooked.
After such dehydration, take out the grilles with blanks and let them completely cool at room temperature.
How to dry mushrooms in a microwave
Put the mushrooms on a plate or grille in one layer. It is desirable that the pieces do not come into contact with each other. Send them to the microwave for 20 minutes, setting a power of 100 watts.
Then open the door and ventilate the camera for 7-10 minutes to get rid of excess moisture. Turn on the microwave oven again for 20 minutes, and then ventilate 7-10 minutes. In total, four to five such cycles need to be carried out. Remove the finished product and cool at room temperature.
How to dry mushrooms in an electric dryer
Put the pieces in one layer on special pallets. Set the temperature at a level of 40-50 ° C. The process will take from 6 to 12 hours – it all depends on the size of the mushrooms and the characteristics of the device itself.
Photo: Mateusz SUSKA / Shutterstock
It will be useful to first read the instructions and set the settings recommended by the manufacturer for dehydration of this product.
How to dry mushrooms on a thread
This is the longest, but the cheapest way from the point of view of electricity costs. String whole or cut mushrooms on a rope or copper wire, observing a small distance.
Hard: Gato Plateado / YouTube
Slue the “garland” in dry, warm and ventilated room.
Photo: Sunrise Hunter / Shutterstock
The duration of such drying depends on the size of the mushrooms, but on average the process takes a week. Remove the finished product from the thread and send for storage.
How to store dried mushrooms
Mushrooms quickly absorb extraneous smells. Dried pieces or entire specimens must be stored in tightly closing containers to save the true aroma.
Photo: Mozco Mateusz Szymanski / Shutterstock
Suitable glass jars with a screw or plastic lid, food containers or bags with a clip. Also, special packages will be made as a package, from which air is pumped with a vacuumer. Dried mushrooms are stored at room temperature about 3 years.
What mushrooms can be dried
Different species are suitable. Most often, tube is sent to drying – those that are like a hat on a sponge. For example, boobs, boletus, chice, oils, mossy, goats, Polish. By the way, with the help of drying it will be possible to process old and outgrown tubular mushrooms that are not suitable for pickling and salting.
From lamellar (with plates under a hat), honey mushrooms, rushes, umbrellas, champignons, red -haireds are dried. But the loads, rawers and waves are not suitable for this, because in the process they become bitter.
You can process in this way chanterelles, chills, grogs.
How to prepare mushrooms for drying
Washing mushrooms before drying is not recommended so that they do not absorb excess moisture. It is enough to remove the garbage from them with a brush or a slightly damp cloth and clean the legs with a knife.
If you want to leave the mushrooms intact, choose specimens of approximately the same size so that they are dried evenly. If you cut into pieces, try to make them the same.
Cut the mushrooms into pieces or dry the whole. Hard: Gato Plateado / YouTube
Consider that when drying, the volume of mushrooms is very significantly reduced, so do not cut them too small. The optimal thickness of the pieces is about 1 cm. You can divide the mushrooms into hats and legs, cut in halves or quarters.
How to dry mushrooms in the oven
Put the mushrooms on the grille in one layer so that they do not come into contact with each other. If the holes in it are too large, lay the baking paper. Send the grille to the oven, preheated to 50 ° C.
Shot: Ogorodgid/YouTube
The door should be ajar all the time by 10-15 cm. After 1.5–2 hours, increase the temperature to 75 ° C. Leave the mushrooms for another 2 hours, then reduce the intensity of heating to 55 ° C and wait 2 hours again. Then break one of the pieces in half. If it is dry inside, mushrooms can be removed, if moist – hold them in the oven at 55 ° C until cooked.
After such dehydration, take out the grilles with blanks and let them completely cool at room temperature.
How to dry mushrooms in a microwave
Put the mushrooms on a plate or grille in one layer. It is desirable that the pieces do not come into contact with each other. Send them to the microwave for 20 minutes, setting a power of 100 watts.
Then open the door and ventilate the camera for 7-10 minutes to get rid of excess moisture. Turn on the microwave oven again for 20 minutes, and then ventilate 7-10 minutes. In total, four to five such cycles need to be carried out. Remove the finished product and cool at room temperature.
How to dry mushrooms in an electric dryer
Put the pieces in one layer on special pallets. Set the temperature at a level of 40-50 ° C. The process will take from 6 to 12 hours – it all depends on the size of the mushrooms and the characteristics of the device itself.
Photo: Mateusz SUSKA / Shutterstock
It will be useful to first read the instructions and set the settings recommended by the manufacturer for dehydration of this product.
How to dry mushrooms on a thread
This is the longest, but the cheapest way from the point of view of electricity costs. String whole or cut mushrooms on a rope or copper wire, observing a small distance.
Hard: Gato Plateado / YouTube
Slue the “garland” in dry, warm and ventilated room.
Photo: Sunrise Hunter / Shutterstock
The duration of such drying depends on the size of the mushrooms, but on average the process takes a week. Remove the finished product from the thread and send for storage.
How to store dried mushrooms
Mushrooms quickly absorb extraneous smells. Dried pieces or entire specimens must be stored in tightly closing containers to save the true aroma.
Photo: Mozco Mateusz Szymanski / Shutterstock
Suitable glass jars with a screw or plastic lid, food containers or bags with a clip. Also, special packages will be made as a package, from which air is pumped with a vacuumer. Dried mushrooms are stored at room temperature about 3 years.