Cultivating and Contamination in Mushrooms

There are many meticulous preparations and actions needed when you are cultivating mushrooms. There is one very simple rule that everyone should follow, and it would make for a much more effective and safe process for everyone. There are several different ways for your mushroom cultivation to become contaminated. The most important thing to remember when dealing with contamination is to not deal with them. Throw them out immediately like the old saying, "When in doubt, Throw them out!"

First, there is really no sense in keeping a contaminated jar or cake. Even if it could be salvageable, is it worth risking you or your friends health over a questionable product? As easy as it is to just make a new jar, it only makes sense to get rid of the bad ones! The only reason to grow mushrooms is to eat them. People don't grow tomatoes and eat the green moldy tomatoes. It doesn't make sense, and tomatoes are easily ten times harder to grow than mushrooms, besides some of the more gourmet mushrooms like shitake.

There are really a lot of dangers that come from eating contaminated mushrooms. There are several lifelong bacteria and diseases you can attain even from getting a whiff of a contaminated jar. Never open a jar that has contamination to see anything about it. Not always will you get sick, but the one time that you do you will be highly disappointed that you ever did! One such soil contaminate that is found in most of the south-western United States is the Valley Fever fungus, Coccidioides immitis. This bad boy can contamination your cakes and jars easily. Since it's most common way of conception is through inhalation, if you take a look into this jar you will get a huge dose of spores. This amount could give you years of doctors bills. This is only one small example of the possibilities, and the only way for even an expert to tell one type of contamination from another is through microscopic identification.

The fact is that it's just not safe to mess with contamination. I wouldn't ever wanna fall into the hands of my own stupidity just because I wanted to save something so invaluable. There are things worth saving and things that aren't. A contaminated mushroom cultivation is something that's simply not worth it. It can be redone just as meticulously and just as inexpensively as it was the time it got contamination. The old timers are right, "When in doubt, Throw it out!"