Drying Ceps

[lavendersun]

Has anyone done this successfully? We have found lots of them and other Boletus in the woods this year.

I have a ton from yesterday and probably won't get through them this week so intend to try to dry them.

Have googled it and it looks like hanging near a radiator on strings is the thing to do only the radiators aren't really on, the aga hasn't been going much either yet ... haven't got an airing cupboard.

Any tips?

[BaldHedgehog]

Food dehydrator. Bought the same day I arrived home with shitloads of mushrooms, arrived the day there was no mushrooms so it's still unpacked in the shed.

[ppeatfruit]

Surely if you put you fan oven on it's lowest setting then you can dry your ceps.? I dried some of my walnut harvest like this. (But didn't turn the oven right down )

or make soup and freeze it?

[ppeatfruit]

Lucky you BTW I LOVE ceps.

[antimatter]

A bit to late with my answer....
Have look at photos in this article.

Remember that if you want to dry them in the oven - they need to ne spread on a piece of paper!

[ppeatfruit]

Thanks antimatter I'll do that!