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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday July 04 2020, @05:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the for-science dept.

https://uproxx.com/life/diy-magic-mushrooms-uncle-ben/

There's a subreddit for just about everything, but if you're a legit Uncle Ben's fan who is also a serious Redditor (that's a lonely island), you might be disappointed to find that the subreddit r/UncleBens isn't so much a gathering of hardcore pre-cooked rice fans, as it is an online sub-community of DIY psilocybin cultivators who are using Uncle Ben's and other supermarket staples to grow magic mushrooms.

[...] What makes Uncle Bens the perfect vessel for psilocybin, according to the r/UncleBens crew, is that mushroom cultivation "requires a sterile, nutrient-rich environment in which their spores can grow," and since Uncle Ben's rice is pre-cooked, sterilized and vacuum-sealed, it provides the necessary environment for cultivation.


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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday July 04 2020, @10:15PM

    by c0lo (156) on Saturday July 04 2020, @10:15PM (#1016274) Journal

    Afterall, that's how sourdough and many cheeses gets started.

    Those won't eat cellulose (but will gobble starches).
    It's the molds that you need to keep away for the entire lifecycle - from mycellium development stage all the way to fruiting - after all, those are fungi themselves [wikipedia.org]

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