Oh man I knew I heard the word boof
lemme grab my capsule stash. High and dry, what about you?
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my ass hurts 
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On another note, this may be a good way to preserve your compounds long term and lessen storage space. Ground mushrooms will degrade fairly quickly, so maybe just smashing them into chips (no heat on the press) might get u a whole lb in what would have only fit 2 oz.
Dry to 20% rh so theres still alittle bit of a squishiness to it, then press it into chips, dry those chips down to 0-5% rh, then vac seal with silica beads.
Extra points if u get them actually chip shaped and throw some maltodextrin/flavoring mix on them
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The vitamin c from orange juice is 
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BRAVO!
yeah, that sounds like something with a reasonable expectation on success.
Not to discourage anyone wishing to attempt squeezing alkaloids from sclerotia…
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Hehe sclerotia.
But, yeah, not to just drop a bomb and act like a goober.
Soak your fungal fruits in citric acid, regardless of source, then brew a tea, you’ll get better results kids.
And that’s what it’s all about. 
But seriously, I need that five bucks
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maybe fresh mushrooms would work, than you could put that liquid into the freeze dryer? If going dry you could make a tea first than after filtering put it in the freeze dryer ? Not sure ive seen this yet
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One squish
Two squish
Red squish
Blue squish!!
Any bets on percent extraction efficiency from fresh specimens?
and bets on half life of “blue squish”?
Suggestions for halting degradation?!?
recall now that the suggestion of “built in degradation” came from the data showing lyophilization was NOT the best approach… New Mushroom Lab in Oregon - #53 by TheLastHashbender
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My suggestion, less heat my dude, the compounds you’re targeting don’t like heat.
Why old fungus doesn’t lead to good chungus.
I’d suggest leaning more on pressure than heat, and ever so slightly soak with a water/citric acid solution. Temperature rangea and percentage loss is in the chart down low, scan it over, then consider the temperature ranges of your plates. Then, I can send you my cash app 
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I think this is where we get spoiled working with cannabis. With some of the active yields etc it’s unlike any other plant or compounds you could be working with. And then on the other hand mushrooms are basically water soluble.
But I think we are looking at a basic scale issue here. If mushrooms are say 1% dry weight active material your going to need a whole fuck load of feedstock to make it even close to efficient. 10g in - 100mg out is just going to be hard to collect and all that.
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How many times and in how many threads must I say “anything Aqueous is a big no no”?
pleeeease stop suggesting water for psilocybes
All of my lowest testing samples were aqueous extractions. It degrades fast. Even faster when Aqueous and applying heat
It leads to people only talking about lemon Tek on extraction panels 
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TBO this is what came to my mind , after reading the title.
Technically, its still concentrating the goods…
Just need die plates to match the press plates size.
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My mind went to the same thing, surface printed designs for pressing mushies into 3.5g chunks.
Just weight out 3.5g, put it in the mold and wallah a mario shaped mushroom that weighs 3.5g every mario
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Just like coffee you want to drink that shit when you make it. Of course for extraction and stability purposes water isn’t the best choice but basic math tells me I’m gonna need to do some liquid titration to know my dose.
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Only suggesting water/citric acid, because if pressing dry, you ain’t gonna get much of anything out of the fungus, something is gonna have to be a carrier.
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I just don’t really see how your going to extract a compound that isn’t an oil with pressing.
I’m assuming it’s not fat soluble either So your really only left with a couple other basic choices.
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Citric acid is a complexor (kind of like partial chelation) that can assist molecules it attaches to into cells. That’s why citric acid goes so well with psilocybin.
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Citric + other stuff seems to be magic too
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Thank you for the clarification, and the humble reminder, I have lots to do before my lump of fat stops making sparks between my ears. 
(I know a gross oversimplification)
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If citric acid is a complexor to assist ingestion by attaching to part of the psilocybin molecule, there are also other substances that assist delivery of chemicals more thoroughly into cells.
DMSO and MAOI inhibitors do this (But may be dangerous without following correct application guidelines) OBLIGATORY- I must add fulvic acid as a chelator surrounding the molecule and delivering it directly into animal or other organism cells.
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