Collected works and current thoughts
Overview
Growing mushrooms starts with creating some kind of safe growth environment for spores/live cultures/inoculated grains. This details how to prepare a jar of grain that can take any of those.
End Goal
Something that looks approximately like this:
This is what a jar looks like shortly after it is safe to take out of the pressure cooker. The aluminum foil on the top protects the lid, which has holes with some kind of filter. If you don’t do this, the filters will allow some moisture to get through.
The condensation on the inside could indicate the grains were too wet. For this jar, that is not the case. But as this cools, it will disappear.
Equipment
Ingredients
- Palouse Hard Red Spring Wheat
- 32 Oz. Mason Jars
- Gypsum this is powdered, but pelleted is fine (and less dust)
- Strainer to wash grains I use one of this in my sink over the drain
- Lage pot to cook the grains
Steps and Amounts
- Measure out enough grain for your jars. My most recent experience was 7.5 cups of grain made 7 jars. So 7
