Comment by Barbing
1 day ago
Do people ever try to irradiate or fumigate or however they’d treat the woodchips?
Maybe it would cost 10 times as much as the wood chips themselves… small batch spore bakeoffs…
1 day ago
Do people ever try to irradiate or fumigate or however they’d treat the woodchips?
Maybe it would cost 10 times as much as the wood chips themselves… small batch spore bakeoffs…
Adding poisons (fumigation) is definitely not a good idea. In mushroom plants the compost/humus used to grow mushrooms is often steam boiled to sterilize it, to keep the yields high and the production safe from any dangerous contamination. It is seeded with the spores of the desired species afterwards.
Pressure cooking in small batches is the diy standard, I've had good results with a standard insta-pot
you could probably autoclave it with a standard dental/tattooing autoclave (~500 USD and requires a gas stove)