Drying Porcini Mushrooms in the Food Dehydrator

Mushroom book: Food For Free book: My dehydrator has been one of the best purchases I have made in recent years as I use it for drying mushrooms, tomatoes, chillis, strawberries and any other seasonal produce which is handy to have around in the Winter. Up in North East England the ’Winter’ months sometimes drag on for half a it’s been great to preserve food simply and cheaply (it costs me nothing to run the dehydrator as I use it during the day when the solar system is providing the electricity). Finding all the free food by foraging and preserving it for free is a great opportunity to stock up when times are good. It’s been an incredible year for fungi so far and over the last few days 3 short hunts have yielded well over 20kg of this valuable fungus and I’ve now got all of them dried and stored in mason for the ’Dark Winter’. Wicker foraging basket: Dehydrator I use: On a serious note, it is very important to learn as many ’outdoor’ skills as you can since you never know when you need them. Having knowledge of natural environments, shooting, trapping, fishing and foraging are literally life-saving skills since without them we die when the current system of on-demand food and easy shopping goes it will go away at some point - do you want to be the guy fighting a hungry 300lb man-monster or a bloated blue-haired screamer for the last packet of Super Noodles in a ransacked supermarket or do you want to be prepared? Do you want your pronouns to be Was / Were? ........ nope. It’s a simple choice. Knowledge is power but we’re ’educated’ to exist in the system without being taught what the system is and how to navigate the (obvious) pitfalls. Knowledge costs nothing and can be carried in the mind, given away for free and used to combat ignorance - it’s a great deal but takes time and effort to learn useful skills. Foraging is most definitely one of those useful skills. If you prefer a free speech platform to watch content then please check out my channels on Odysee and Rumble: Odysee: $/invite/@ThousandYardStare:e Rumble: To be honest I’ve not much idea of what Rumble is or does but it seems quite popular among people more tech-savvy than somehow plenty of people have already found the videos judging by the views (and ’Rumbles’?). Both Odysee and Rumble have new videos uploaded to them as soon as they upload on YouTube.