How to make dried shitake mushrooms and process steps?

  Mushrooms are widely distributed throughout the earth and are abundant in forest deciduous areas. Edible mushrooms are ideal natural foods or multifunctional foods. So far, the most edible mushroom in the world, the scientific name is Agaricus bisporus, commonly known as shitake mushroom. There are many kinds of shitake mushrooms but most shitake mushrooms have a very short fresh-keeping time.

The traditional ways to dry shitake mushrooms?

  Because fresh shiitake mushrooms are not conducive to preservation, when shiitake mushrooms are mature, mushroom farmers will make shiitake mushrooms into dried shiitake mushrooms. In the past, there were two main methods of making dried shiitake mushrooms: first, drying in the sun; second, drying with equipment, such as coal-fired hot-blast stoves. The former is affected by the weather seriously. When it comes to rainy days, the mushrooms will not be dried in the sun, but the mushrooms may become moldy and deteriorated. The fragrance of natural drying is not very strong, and the gills are whitish. The latter has serious environmental pollution and still has certain safety hazards, which may cause accidents such as fires and explosions.
  Under such circumstances, more and more mushroom farmers hope to have more efficient, energy-saving, safe, and stable drying equipment that can replace the original old drying equipment. In response to this demand from mushroom farmers, Henan Baixin drying equipment manufacturer produces an air-energy dryer after several years of research and development and repeated field tests. 

What is shitake mushrooms drying machine?

  The air energy dryer is a new type of dryer that uses an air energy heat pump as the host. During the drying process, only a small amount of electricity is needed to absorb a large amount of free heat from the surrounding environment, and then the free heat is heated. It is compressed into high-temperature heat energy and transported to the drying room to dry the mushrooms. The dried gills are beige and have a strong fragrance.
  Baixin Food Dehydrator has a compact structure, great energy-saving, wide application, high drying quality, easy operation, simple installation and removable. it is the best drying equipment for small firms, drying experiment and scientific research. The users only connect the power to use, is the easiest operation heat pump dryer.

The process steps for drying shitake mushrooms 

In the process of mushroom drying, there are usually the following steps:

• Preparation of fresh shitake mushrooms, preferably fresh mushrooms that have just been picked. The mushrooms must be dried within 6 hours after harvest. If refrigerated conditions are available, the storage time can be extended appropriately. If it mushrooms in the freezer, it is best to first Leave it in the open air for 1-2 hours to let the temperature of the mushrooms approach the air temperature gradually, which also saves the heat of warming up after the mushrooms enter the drying room in the early stage.
• The mushrooms should be placed on the material basket or trays. The material can be made of bamboo or 304 material or Food-grade PVC. Place the mushrooms according to the category of mushrooms. Pay attention to the number not too large, too dense, and need to have appropriate gaps, so that the hot air of the axial flow fan can blow across the surface of all materials smoothly. The greater the surface area of the hot air blowing through the mushrooms and the faster the wind speed, the higher the drying efficiency of the material, and the relative drying time will be reduced. On the contrary, if the material to be dried is too much, too dense, and the wind cannot be blown through, the overall drying time and effect will be reduced.
• During the drying process, pay attention to observe the humidity in the drying room during the first few hours. Mushrooms are high-humidity materials. Once the moisture is evaporated, the humidity in the drying room will increase rapidly. The period is the stage of constant temperature and color fixing of the shitake mushrooms. The moisture in the drying room must be drained in time, otherwise, the shitake mushrooms will be blistered and discolored in such an environment for a long time, which will ultimately affect the quality of the dried shitake mushrooms.
• The drying time for a shitake mushroom dryer to dry a batch of mushrooms is usually a combination of several aspects, such as the drying capacity of the mushrooms, the moisture content, the drying dehydration capacity, the heat of the main mechanism, the number of fans, the power, and the volume of the drying room. So we usually say that it takes 20 hours to dry a batch of mushrooms, which is inaccurate actually because the result of the drying time is the result of a combination of the above factors. Once the above variables change, the final result is different definitely.

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