you guys are somewhat mis-informed (though not completely).
i used to grow mushrooms, and i am a shroomery.org addict. i've learned a thing or two
yes, mushrooms are ~90% water. so 35g fresh is about = to 3.5 dry (though it varies based on substrain, cultivation technique, substrate material, etc)
yes, the active chemicals psilocybin, psilocin, and baeyestoin (or whatever the fuck) DO break down with heat. however, the heat required to break down these chemicals is nowhere near the boiling temperature of water.
None of the above explains why you can cook them on a BBQ grill at 1000 degrees and they're still potent as hell. In addition, people have boiled them into tea for years, and if anything, it hits harder than eating them when they've never been exposed to heat. There's entirely too much opinion and no facts being presented.
Long term heat 'may' have an effect, but short term heat seems not to cause noticeable degradation. People with actual experience using food dehydrators report little to no loss in potency from drying that way.
RR
This is taken from a post by RogerRabbit, a well-respected member of the Shroomery, and who is known for having successfully hybridized two strains of mushroom into one (Penis Envy + Texas =
Penis Envy 6) They were probably just bunk shrooms, sorry bud.
A normal trip usually is 3.5 grams. A 5g dose is not that huge. There are people who often trip usually only on 7g+ doses, and I just read one today that took 14g!
The first harvest of mushrooms I got was 6 grams (fresh obviously). I ate them and had one of my best and hardest trips to date.