![]() Based on the five bullets above, my numbers are “rough” and change with each batch.The degree to which you grind your mushrooms can impact their carrying capacity (how much liquid is left in the marc).Some mushrooms hold more liquid after squeezing (carrying capacity), they are not all the same – the wet mushroom body is called marc.Some mushrooms require more or less liquid to soak, they are not all the same.I am not a measurement stickler, and often round up or down.I measure everything on a scale, solids to the gram and liquids to the milliliters.Read on… Math Breakdownīefore Continuing, here is a bit of a math breakdown and some of the challenges. Fortunately, they provided a solution which really makes sense. If I want to consume 50g of mushrooms, I would have to drink a cup or two of tincture potentially… eek, that is too much! The tincture is 25% alcohol – way too much booze. They did some more math during the class, demonstrating that it just doesn’t make sense. I really trust these two individuals and their opinions on this matter. Mentally, all this came to a head when I was taking a class by the medicinal mushroom duo of Tradd Cotter and Robert Rodgers. But, we still like tincture for easy daily consumption. He has several recipes, techniques and tips to help you do so. Fantastic book! He really advocates for actually consuming the entire fruiting body, even of bitter non-gourmet mushrooms. This desire for more mushrooms per ml is only heightened by Christopher Hobbs and his new book Medicinal Mushrooms. We have erred on the side of caution and tried not to boil our h20, but, who knows? It is a traditional technique and some modern science indicates the boiling is OK too. Our friend Dr Dave ( Carbondale Acupuncture Center) uses this technique which hails from his traditional Chinese medicine background. ![]() This leaves way too much water! But, you can boil the water down until it is the right amount of water. One way to overcome these low mushroom percentages is to soak 1/3ish of your mushrooms in the alcohol and then do the second soak in water (emphasizing the polysaccharides a bit over the terpenes). (I worked the math immediately below if it helps.) Keep in mind there are a lot of factors and this is just an estimate. 50g of mushrooms for 1200ml of tincture is a 1:24 ratio of mushrooms to tincture, or approximately 4%. You just cannot put more mushrooms into the jar and cover them with alcohol. I was able to increase that a bit, but not much. It looks something like this: 50g of mushrooms makes a double extraction tincture that is approximately 1200ml when complete… 300 ml of alcohol and 900 ml of H20. While I have written extensively in our how to make mushroom extracts article about how to make your own tincture, I question my own methods! Why? I did the math. ![]() I try to consume several different species each day. Furthermore, I want to get some variety as different mushrooms bring different benefits. Daily mushroom consumption seems to be an entirely positive thing. ![]() The more we learn, the more we want to get more grams of mushrooms into our bellies, more times a day, more days a week. This desire for more mushrooms is partly a rising-tide sort of thing. These powders really allow us to easily push more medicinal mushrooms right into our bodies. My hands-down favorite brand is Hamilton’s Extracts. But of course, powdered extracts are quite difficult to make, so we buy them. We have definitely started using extract powders a lot more as they are an easy way to add these species to drinks and food and don’t taste too bad. But, for medicinal mushrooms like turkey tail, chaga, reishi, artists conk, red-belted polypore, birch polypore and similar species, this is untenable because they just don’t taste good. We can eat them fresh or dehydrate them and cook them into food later. Maitake, oyster, shiitake, cordyceps and other gourmet mushrooms since we forage them in the wild, cultivate them, or buy them. Ordering a data set from lowest to highest value, Values in a set of data are represented by Basic Statistics Calculations for this Calculatorīelow is a listing of the statistical values calculated and the formulas used by this calculator. See all allowable formats in the table below. You can also copy and paste lines of data from spreadsheets or text documents. Calculate basic summary statistics for a sample or population data set including minimum, maximum, range, sum, count, mean, median, mode, standard deviation and variance.Įnter data separated by commas or spaces.
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