Also it turns out the agar featured on the photo was the most contaminated one 😆 so your intuition was correct!

Second gen are looking good, and I started the LC from that yesterday. Will know if it’s clean in a day or two, so far so good!

What a disgusting sight 🤮

“I’ve got mine, I don’t want anything to change, I’m angry.”

Haha thanks! Maybe one day if I ever find the time to work on it again 😅

Wow 🤩 impressive!

Did you do outdoor logs with plugs for the shiitake?

Definitely dismount around towers winds 😬

These seem all very sensible

I may try both, but already took the sample from our wine barrel planters where it’s growing, so I may focus on growing indoors first. LC > grain spawn > substrate > fruiting chamber

I made a mushroom fruiting chamber a few years back that l I’ll reuse.

The sample is from the mycelium at the bottom of the stipe. If you zoom in you can see some bacterial growth as well, that’s expected.

At the margin it looks clean and that’s what I want.

Just started the next batch w samples from the periphey. Each successive transfer will be cleaner 🤞

Cool! That banana slug is sporting some cool patterns!

The colors are fantastic!

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Cooking was very quick in the pan. When I flip them I pour in a bit of water and put the lid on to steam it a bit as well.

For the dough I used 450g type 80 flour and 280ml boiling water, 50ml olive oil

I used fermented carrots and cabbage, tofu, ginger, shaggy mane and spinach for the filling 🍄📷

Ah looks so good, I’m inspired to try it!

Make sure you really have a shaggy mane first! Though easy to identify they have some lookalikes.

Typically you want to pick it before the edges turn black. I halve them, drizzle oil and salt and satay them in a pan and make sure they’re thoroughly cooked.

Beautiful shaggy mane!

Coincidentally I just had some for dinner yum!