Using Electric driers for drying mushrooms

Contents:

• Proper preparation
• The drying process
• Terms of storage

Dried mushrooms have high nutritional value, rich aroma and taste, perfectly retain their useful properties. With Electric driers can make a good supply of mushrooms in the winter, spending a little time.

To get a quality product, it is necessary to know which mushrooms are suitable for drying, how to properly prepare, dry, and, of course, how to store.

Virtually all edible mushrooms can be dried, but it is better to use for this kind of tube:

• white;
• aspen;
• boletus;
• boletus;
• Mokhovikov.

In the dried form of these mushrooms have a very distinct flavor, but not so on the plate forms. Ryzhikov or russula, mushrooms and chanterelles, after drying, become light bitterness, which is enough to get rid of difficult. Very good taste of dried marsupial species, such as white truffles and morels. Note that when substantially dried mushrooms lose weight, so the output is not more than 10% of the original volume.

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Proper preparation

Mushrooms for drying should always be freshly harvested, with no wormholes and rot. Old, dried up with a hat or shriveled mushrooms to collect, and the more dry, do not. It is also not advisable to wash them before drying - it will prolong the drying time and worsen the taste of the finished product. It is enough to remove the leaves from fungi, the remains of the earth and other debris, and damaged areas cut knife. To surface when cutting is not darkened, the knife must be of stainless steel.

Total mushrooms dried only in the air, but for the oven or Electric driers need to be cut into small flat pieces. At boletus stem is not suitable for drying, so it is up to the cut off of the cap; from aspen mushrooms and porcini remove only the bottom of the legs, the rest dry. Small mushrooms can be left whole or cut in half, and large, it is desirable to divide along four or five parts, the thickness of which must not exceed 10 millimeters.

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The drying process

Electric driers - is the best option for the procurement of forest gifts. Thanks to the sophisticated design of mushrooms drying takes a little time, does not require the constant presence and control. Having set the desired temperature and time, you can take care of business while operating machinery. So, each tier is filled with chopped mushrooms Electric driers in a single layer, straighten and align the pieces. Expose the temperature 55 ° C time - 2 to 6 hours.

The thinner the plates are cut, the less time it takes to drying mushrooms in Electric driers. To expedite the process, you can periodically change pallet places. Note that a small amount of cutting dries faster, so if you put in the Electric driers two or three pallet, not five or six, you need to check the readiness in two hours, or you can retain moisture contents.

Determine the readiness of forest products is not difficult if the pieces when bent slightly springy, do not break, look absolutely dry, Electric driers can be switched off. If the plate is very easy to bend and look a little wet, they must still finally dried. Too overexposed mushrooms are very solid, darker, may crumble into pieces. For cooking, they are not suitable, but suitable for the preparation of mushroom powder: pulverized pieces in the mill-dried, was added 10% common salt and mixed thoroughly. The resulting mixture pour in a glass bowl and tightly closed.

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Terms of storage

It is known that mushrooms easily absorb odors, improper storage can completely spoil the product. Thus, after drying the mushrooms to be cooled to room temperature and put into glass jars or cardboard boxes. The room where they are stored must be dry and ventilated necessarily. Permissible relative humidity - 70% in the more humid areas are blank mold.

Instead of cardboard boxes can be used to store and gauze bags, hanging them to the racks or hooks on the wall. Periodically dried mushrooms have to sort out, throwing rotten or moldy pieces. As a rule, they do not keep more than a year, then reduced palatability, aroma disappears.