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For the section on growing your own "special" mushrooms, they have a young guy in a baja hoodie watching the "magic" happen and winking at the camera. Pretty su

For the section on growing your own "special" mushrooms, they have a young guy in a baja hoodie watching the "magic" happen and winking at the camera. Pretty sure they're targeting a very specific audience here. Solid marketing.

WaitWaitWha 4y ago
:) The three-picture sequence on the front page, under the heading "Easier than You think; 3 easy steps", the last picture shows the grown mushrooms in a round container, while the device is cuboid throughout the other pictures.
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PartiallyTyped 4y ago
It is certainly working.
Alex3917 4y ago
> Pretty sure they're targeting a very specific audience here. Probably accurate. Growing edible mushrooms on such a small scale doesn't make any sense given that they are 90% water, and so shrink ~90% when you cook them. This would be like buying an AeroGarden that can grow only a single leaf of parsley. E.g. it takes at least 10 lbs of lions mane to make crab cakes for two people, whereas I doubt this thing is going to produce more than half a pound.
- scoot 4y ago
  That would be dried mushrooms. No thanks!
- skyyler 4y ago
  What makes you think it takes 10lbs of lions mane to make two servings of crab cakes? This recipe uses 6oz and claims to make four: https://steamykitchen.com/192632-lions-mane-crab-cake-recipe.html https://steamykitchen.com/192632-lions-mane-crab-cake-recipe...
  - Alex3917 4y ago
    Because that's a fake recipe that was written just to rack up page views, that wouldn't actually work at all if you tried it. Making crab cakes isn't going to work at all unless you sweat the mushrooms to get the water out -- you cook them for 20+ min on low with a lot of sea salt, and then you rinse off the salt and squeeze out as much water as you can before forming them into crab cakes and pan frying.
    - skyyler 4y ago
      https://foragerchef.com/hericium-crabcakes/ https://foragerchef.com/hericium-crabcakes/ Okay, is this one better? It still only calls for 16oz of mushrooms to make 4-6 cakes. I can't find a single recipe that calls for anywhere near 10lbs of fungus. Could you link one?
      - Alex3917 4y ago
        If you look at the different photos in that recipe, you can see that the one on the tree has several times more water than the one purchased from the store. So which '16 oz' is it even referring to?
        skyyler 4y ago
        This still isn't addressing your hyperbolic statement. And now I feel you don't wish to address that. And that's okay.
        Alex3917 4y ago
        I'm just going from memory. The last time I found them I harvested an entire tree worth, and that was enough to feed two people for two nights. I think I filled up a Baggu and a half worth, and each of those holds at least 15 lbs of mushrooms.
- bluedino 4y ago
  Good thing it only takes about 1/8th of an ounce (dried) to trip balls.
- idiotsecant 4y ago
  10lb of lions mane would make an absolutely enormous amount of crab cake meat. Even if you figure you can sweat 60% of the moisture out of your mushrooms (which you probably won't, but let's assume that) that's still 4lb of 'crab' for 2 people. Most crab cake recipes call for 1 lb of crab for about 6-8 patties. Mushrooms might be a little bit less dense, but not that much less dense.
labrador 4y ago
> For the section on growing your own "special" mushrooms The county where I'm from in California has decriminalized growing psilocybin mushrooms for personal use so I can just come right out and say that I plan on growing hallucinogenic mushrooms
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- upupandup 4y ago
  There are psilocybin mushroom sold in marijuana dispensaries online and offline. To be honest I don't like the come up. I no longer like being "scolded" by it.
  - labrador 4y ago
    I get people selling psilocybin mushrooms following me on Twitter all the time since I follow MAPS and other research groups. I've been afraid to order because I have to give a real address to mail to and it's still illegal at the federal level
    - upupandup 4y ago
      oh im talking about canada btw but yeah not sure how US works
    - everforward 4y ago
      Viable spores are still federally legal, and they're legal in most states.
    - goatsi 4y ago
      Those people are generally scammers unfortunately.
  - namlem 4y ago
    If you don't like the come up being too slow, then I suggest mushroom tea with citrus. Makes it hit all at once. One moment you're normal and the next moment you're tripping.
dalbasal 4y ago
Only sensible. Growing mushrooms is cool, and the idea of making it an ornamental object like and aquarium is good. It's kind if expensive though, and pretty small for culinary mushrooms. Personally I kinda want one to try growing some flamboyantly ornamental fungus. But... a desire to pay $300 in order to grow a cool mushroom... these two "very specific" audiences overlap a lot. Exactly the kind of tolerant niche customers that makes for a good crowdfund.
agency 4y ago
Apropos of nothing you can easily buy Psilocybe cubensis spores by mail as they do not contain any psilocybin. Of course they’re only intended for you to look at under a microscope ;) https://sporeworks.com/ https://sporeworks.com/
- _aavaa_ 4y ago
  > Strain Origin: Cross of B+ and Penis Envy
  - throwatrip 4y ago
    Here you go. Reason for the name should be obvious. https://sporeworks.com/Psilocybe-cubensis-Penis-Envy-Spore-Syringe-Microscopy-Kit.html https://sporeworks.com/Psilocybe-cubensis-Penis-Envy-Spore-S...
- bocuma64 4y ago
  "There is an exception to magic mushroom spores being legal though, and it’s in California, Georgia, and Idaho. In these states, magic mushroom spores are illegal as the legislators are trying to prevent the purposeful cultivation of magic mushrooms." From https://healingmaps.com/mushroom-spores-psilocybin-legality/ https://healingmaps.com/mushroom-spores-psilocybin-legality/ Just FYI.
chasebank 4y ago
Indeed it is. As someone who’s been encapsulating magic mushrooms for 10+ years, what I’d really love to see is an easy way to extract psilocybin for a more accurate measurement of the compound. Encapsulated mushrooms work ok but sometimes it can be orders of magnitude different in potency. Like you think you’re drinking a beer and accidentally drank 3 margaritas. I’ve read that people are working on deriving psilocybin from yeast but haven’t heard much as of late. Fwiw, I think mushrooms at low quantities might be the best drug of all time, even better than caffeine. Happy pills, I tell ya!
- nibbleshifter 4y ago
  Soxhlet extraction into ethanol might be promising for this (higher efficiency compared to soak and strain). Just need to see if the elevated temp over a period of a couple of hours negatively impacts potency I guess.
- s1artibartfast 4y ago
  The best I can think of for consistency short of measurement is homogenization to make an average. This goes for many products. Blend the individual items, batches, ect. The larger the quantity, the more consistent the output.
- retrac 4y ago
  > I’ve read that people are working on deriving psilocybin from yeast but haven’t heard much as of late. They were successful. A team at the Technical University of Denmark inserted the genes to synthesize psilocybin into Saccharomyces cerevisiae (brewer's yeast) [1] and they had excellent yields: > a final production strain producing 627 ± 140 mg/L of psilocybin and 580 ± 276 mg/L of the dephosphorylated degradation product psilocin in triplicate controlled fed-batch fermentations It's likely the means it will be produced commercially if it becomes a widely-approved drug. Not sure the average person will be able to get their hands on that strain easily anytime soon though. I imagine it'll be guarded as a trade secret as strictly as those modified E. coli that pump out human insulin. [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109671761930401X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109671761...
hn_throwaway_99 4y ago
As the top comment says, this seems like the Juicero of mushroom growing. There are already much simpler, cheaper, and more straightforward ways to grow your own mushrooms: https://magicbag.co/ https://magicbag.co/
blueprint 4y ago
Wow is that why the scene of the family in the kitchen has what appear to be psilocybes growing in the device? lollll

WaitWaitWha 4y ago

:) The three-picture sequence on the front page, under the heading "Easier than You think; 3 easy steps", the last picture shows the grown mushrooms in a round container, while the device is cuboid throughout the other pictures.

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PartiallyTyped 4y ago

It is certainly working.

Alex3917 4y ago

> Pretty sure they're targeting a very specific audience here. Probably accurate. Growing edible mushrooms on such a small scale doesn't make any sense given that they are 90% water, and so shrink ~90% when you cook them. This would be like buying an AeroGarden that can grow only a single leaf of parsley. E.g. it takes at least 10 lbs of lions mane to make crab cakes for two people, whereas I doubt this thing is going to produce more than half a pound.

scoot 4y ago
That would be dried mushrooms. No thanks!
skyyler 4y ago
What makes you think it takes 10lbs of lions mane to make two servings of crab cakes? This recipe uses 6oz and claims to make four: https://steamykitchen.com/192632-lions-mane-crab-cake-recipe.html https://steamykitchen.com/192632-lions-mane-crab-cake-recipe...
- Alex3917 4y ago
  Because that's a fake recipe that was written just to rack up page views, that wouldn't actually work at all if you tried it. Making crab cakes isn't going to work at all unless you sweat the mushrooms to get the water out -- you cook them for 20+ min on low with a lot of sea salt, and then you rinse off the salt and squeeze out as much water as you can before forming them into crab cakes and pan frying.
  - skyyler 4y ago
    https://foragerchef.com/hericium-crabcakes/ https://foragerchef.com/hericium-crabcakes/ Okay, is this one better? It still only calls for 16oz of mushrooms to make 4-6 cakes. I can't find a single recipe that calls for anywhere near 10lbs of fungus. Could you link one?
    - Alex3917 4y ago
      If you look at the different photos in that recipe, you can see that the one on the tree has several times more water than the one purchased from the store. So which '16 oz' is it even referring to?
      - skyyler 4y ago
        This still isn't addressing your hyperbolic statement. And now I feel you don't wish to address that. And that's okay.
        Alex3917 4y ago
        I'm just going from memory. The last time I found them I harvested an entire tree worth, and that was enough to feed two people for two nights. I think I filled up a Baggu and a half worth, and each of those holds at least 15 lbs of mushrooms.
bluedino 4y ago
Good thing it only takes about 1/8th of an ounce (dried) to trip balls.
idiotsecant 4y ago
10lb of lions mane would make an absolutely enormous amount of crab cake meat. Even if you figure you can sweat 60% of the moisture out of your mushrooms (which you probably won't, but let's assume that) that's still 4lb of 'crab' for 2 people. Most crab cake recipes call for 1 lb of crab for about 6-8 patties. Mushrooms might be a little bit less dense, but not that much less dense.

labrador 4y ago

> For the section on growing your own "special" mushrooms The county where I'm from in California has decriminalized growing psilocybin mushrooms for personal use so I can just come right out and say that I plan on growing hallucinogenic mushrooms

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upupandup 4y ago
There are psilocybin mushroom sold in marijuana dispensaries online and offline. To be honest I don't like the come up. I no longer like being "scolded" by it.
- labrador 4y ago
  I get people selling psilocybin mushrooms following me on Twitter all the time since I follow MAPS and other research groups. I've been afraid to order because I have to give a real address to mail to and it's still illegal at the federal level
  - upupandup 4y ago
    oh im talking about canada btw but yeah not sure how US works
  - everforward 4y ago
    Viable spores are still federally legal, and they're legal in most states.
  - goatsi 4y ago
    Those people are generally scammers unfortunately.
- namlem 4y ago
  If you don't like the come up being too slow, then I suggest mushroom tea with citrus. Makes it hit all at once. One moment you're normal and the next moment you're tripping.

dalbasal 4y ago

Only sensible. Growing mushrooms is cool, and the idea of making it an ornamental object like and aquarium is good. It's kind if expensive though, and pretty small for culinary mushrooms. Personally I kinda want one to try growing some flamboyantly ornamental fungus. But... a desire to pay $300 in order to grow a cool mushroom... these two "very specific" audiences overlap a lot. Exactly the kind of tolerant niche customers that makes for a good crowdfund.

agency 4y ago

Apropos of nothing you can easily buy Psilocybe cubensis spores by mail as they do not contain any psilocybin. Of course they’re only intended for you to look at under a microscope ;) https://sporeworks.com/ https://sporeworks.com/

_aavaa_ 4y ago
> Strain Origin: Cross of B+ and Penis Envy
- throwatrip 4y ago
  Here you go. Reason for the name should be obvious. https://sporeworks.com/Psilocybe-cubensis-Penis-Envy-Spore-Syringe-Microscopy-Kit.html https://sporeworks.com/Psilocybe-cubensis-Penis-Envy-Spore-S...
bocuma64 4y ago
"There is an exception to magic mushroom spores being legal though, and it’s in California, Georgia, and Idaho. In these states, magic mushroom spores are illegal as the legislators are trying to prevent the purposeful cultivation of magic mushrooms." From https://healingmaps.com/mushroom-spores-psilocybin-legality/ https://healingmaps.com/mushroom-spores-psilocybin-legality/ Just FYI.

chasebank 4y ago

Indeed it is. As someone who’s been encapsulating magic mushrooms for 10+ years, what I’d really love to see is an easy way to extract psilocybin for a more accurate measurement of the compound. Encapsulated mushrooms work ok but sometimes it can be orders of magnitude different in potency. Like you think you’re drinking a beer and accidentally drank 3 margaritas. I’ve read that people are working on deriving psilocybin from yeast but haven’t heard much as of late. Fwiw, I think mushrooms at low quantities might be the best drug of all time, even better than caffeine. Happy pills, I tell ya!

nibbleshifter 4y ago
Soxhlet extraction into ethanol might be promising for this (higher efficiency compared to soak and strain). Just need to see if the elevated temp over a period of a couple of hours negatively impacts potency I guess.
s1artibartfast 4y ago
The best I can think of for consistency short of measurement is homogenization to make an average. This goes for many products. Blend the individual items, batches, ect. The larger the quantity, the more consistent the output.
retrac 4y ago
> I’ve read that people are working on deriving psilocybin from yeast but haven’t heard much as of late. They were successful. A team at the Technical University of Denmark inserted the genes to synthesize psilocybin into Saccharomyces cerevisiae (brewer's yeast) [1] and they had excellent yields: > a final production strain producing 627 ± 140 mg/L of psilocybin and 580 ± 276 mg/L of the dephosphorylated degradation product psilocin in triplicate controlled fed-batch fermentations It's likely the means it will be produced commercially if it becomes a widely-approved drug. Not sure the average person will be able to get their hands on that strain easily anytime soon though. I imagine it'll be guarded as a trade secret as strictly as those modified E. coli that pump out human insulin. [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109671761930401X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109671761...

hn_throwaway_99 4y ago

As the top comment says, this seems like the Juicero of mushroom growing. There are already much simpler, cheaper, and more straightforward ways to grow your own mushrooms: https://magicbag.co/ https://magicbag.co/

blueprint 4y ago

Wow is that why the scene of the family in the kitchen has what appear to be psilocybes growing in the device? lollll