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While you can grab a handful of shrooms and eat them as they are or with a handful of peanut butter candies with a colorful hard outer shell, you know the ones I'm talking about, for a consistent dose creating psilocybin powder is the easiest way to consume psilocybin, therefore, giving you more control over your overall experiences with shrooms. Not only does it provide more control through consistency but it also is the easiest way to dose. Creating psilocybin powder requires the mushrooms to be completely dry before being pulverized in a coffee grinder. Because the particles of the shrooms can get stick to the grinder blades of the coffee grinder is strongly advised to have a specific coffee grinder that is strictly for use with shrooms and properly labeled.
3 Ways to Dry Out Shrooms
1. Leave the fresh shrooms out on a towel to dry
Lay the shrooms evenly out on a towel to dry or to decrease the dry time you can also use a fan set to low pointing to the shrooms.
2. Using a food dehydrator set to low
This is the best option for drying out shrooms without losing potency like you would with drying in the oven. This is also the best choice for those who are in humid climates.
3. The old school tried-and-true method
Wrap the mushrooms in a dark cloth and leave them in the sun or in front of a fan for a few hours until the shrooms become wrinkly. With the shrooms in this state, they can be stored for a few weeks. For longer storage, take the wrinkled and rubbery shrooms and create an epsom salt desiccant. An epsom salt desiccant is created when you fill the bottom of a pan with an even amount of the epsom and bake at 250F/120C for 2 hours. Remove the epsom salt from the oven, and smash with a hammer and place the hot desiccant into separate storage containers with airtight lids. It is important to do the last steps quickly, as the desiccant will begin absorbing the moisture in the air as soon as it is removed from the oven. Once the storage containers have the bottoms layered with the desiccant, lay a paper towel over the top and place a mesh screen place on top. Evenly layer the pre-dried mushrooms on the screen and place with the air-tight fitting lid. Store the containers in a cool, dark, dry place and check on the shrooms every few days. When the mushrooms are cracker dry they are ready to be transferred to a sandwich baggie or in a jar with an air-tight lid. This method requires much patience as it takes a few weeks to reach full dryness.
Both mushrooms and truffles can be stored in an airtight container with a tight-fitting lid in a cool, dark, dry place for a few years without losing potency in these conditions.
Turning your dried psilocybin mushrooms into a powder is by far the best way to yield the most consistent psilocybin microdose. By grinding your mushrooms up together, you homogenize the variance in psilocybin content between caps and stems, and from shroom to shroom.
How Much Powdered Mushroom Should I Use?
Use a digital scale that weighs 0.1 grams to weigh out the fully dried mushrooms you intend to turn into powder. Knowing the weight of the mushrooms prior to pulverizing helps reduce the loss of mushroom powder from transferring from container to container and will make it easier to measure out how much you need for your next dose. The low density of the psilocybin powder causes the powder to disperse into the air while handling it. Try not to shake or knock the container the powdered psilocybin in is and be mindful to not breathe too hard as your breath can blow the powder and or the powdered psilocybin can be inhaled through your mouth or nose.
If you weigh out 4 grams it will yield 20 microdoses of 0.2 grams powdered psilocybin.
Microdosing is about 1/10 of a standard dose of 2 grams - 5 grams.
Truffles contain less psilocybin than mushrooms then microdosing would require 0.5 to 1 gram of powdered magic truffles.
These dosing suggestions are just that they are suggestions. It is important to remember when dosing with mushrooms or truffles that every individual will have their own unique experience from each other as psilocybin will have greater or lesser effects on each person due to their neurophysiology, weight, and the potency of the psilocybin. It is suggested to be patient and start off with a micro or low dose in order to set a base dose to help you decide if you would like to take more or less shrooms depending on the effects the microdose had on you.