{"id":3873,"date":"2014-08-04T15:54:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T19:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=3873"},"modified":"2014-08-13T10:46:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T14:46:43","slug":"making-mycelium-material-some-loose-protocols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2014\/08\/04\/making-mycelium-material-some-loose-protocols\/","title":{"rendered":"making mycelium material &#8211; some loose protocols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Supplies<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>grain spawn (many are fast growing; Pleurotus (oyster muchroom) is probably the fastest species, and is hardy,\u00a0in terms of resistance to competition, \u00a0but it will depend on\u00a0the density you desire). You can purchase from <a href=\"http:\/\/mycosensemushrooms.com\/\">mycosense<\/a>,\u00a0fungi.com, etc. I recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/mycosensemushrooms.com\/\">mycosense<\/a>\u00a0because they are a small attentive\u00a0company, and they are really into this process and work.<\/p>\n<p>100 cup coffeemaker with a thermometer is convenient<br \/>\nbut a large canning pot on a stove\u00a0would do<\/p>\n<p>nut\u00a0bags (or other mesh bags) to pasteurize substrate (easy to squeeze water out)<\/p>\n<p>a press to squeeze substrate would be nice, esp if you are making a lot of it<\/p>\n<p>substrate: coffee chaff, oat straw, rice husks &#8211; depends on texture you want<\/p>\n<p>molds to\u00a0form substrate (I&#8217;ve been making test bricks in hinged polyethylene containers)<br \/>\nwill need to provide\u00a0an air hole<\/p>\n<p>polyfill or cotton bags to make an air filter fo the hole &#8211; keep contaminants out<\/p>\n<p>zip locks (if you are using a very porous mold\u00a0(i like perforated molds for texture) you will want to place porous mold in a zip lock to keep moisture in<\/p>\n<p>freezer tape and sharpie to label molds<\/p>\n<p>spray bottle with 70% alcohol (should be 70% &#8211; you don&#8217;t want to kill everything)<\/p>\n<p>paper towels or alcohol wipes<\/p>\n<p>vinyl disposable gloves<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>heat water to 160\u00ba<\/p>\n<p>pasteurize substrate for 10-15 minutes<\/p>\n<p>clean all work surfaces and mold interior and exterior with alcohol and dry<\/p>\n<p>wash hands and arms with\u00a0soap, wear gloves for the next steps:<\/p>\n<p>cool substrate until you can handle it<\/p>\n<p>squeeze all excess water from substrate (you want it moist but not dripping at all)<\/p>\n<p>put air filter into hole in mold<\/p>\n<p>mix grain spawn with substrate; there are 2 ways to do this:<br \/>\n&#8220;lasagna&#8221; method of layering substrate then spawn, or<br \/>\npremix 1:5 spawn:substrate<br \/>\neither way, the ratio is about 20%, might be less needed<\/p>\n<p>pack mold with spawn<\/p>\n<p>keep somewhere between 70\u00ba &#8211; 80\u00ba<br \/>\n(I keep my molds\u00a0in a loosely closed cardboard box to prevent contaminants drifting\u00a0in the air or falling from the ceiling)<\/p>\n<p>You should have a pretty solid material after 6-12 days<br \/>\nIt will look very white and fuzzy<br \/>\nRemove from mold<br \/>\nDry in open air (it should no longer risk contamination at this point) for 3 days or until dry to touch<\/p>\n<p>Bake in over at 150\u2022 &#8211; 200\u00ba for 60 minutes to render\u00a0mycelium inert.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supplies: grain spawn (many are fast growing; Pleurotus (oyster muchroom) is probably the fastest species, and is hardy,\u00a0in terms of resistance to competition, \u00a0but it will depend on\u00a0the density you desire). You can purchase from mycosense,\u00a0fungi.com, etc. I recommend mycosense\u00a0because they are a small attentive\u00a0company, and they are really into this process and work. 100 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2014\/08\/04\/making-mycelium-material-some-loose-protocols\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;making mycelium material &#8211; some loose protocols&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59,31],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3888,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions\/3888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}