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My aunt got me a 'grow your own mushrooms' kit for my birthday and the whole thing turned into a science experiment gone wrong
So my aunt knows I like cooking and she got me this mushroom growing kit for my birthday back in March. The box said I'd have fresh oysters in 10 days. I followed the instructions exactly, misted the bag twice a day like it told me, kept it out of direct sun on my kitchen counter. By day 6 the whole thing smelled like a wet basement in July and there was this white fuzzy stuff creeping up the sides of the plastic. I called the number on the box and the guy just laughed and told me I probably 'introduced contamination' like I was running a lab in my apartment. I ended up tossing the whole bag in the dumpster behind my building and my kitchen smelled weird for like 3 days after. The kicker is she asked me two weeks later how the mushrooms were and I had to stand there and pretend I'd been eating gourmet fungus for a week. Anyone else get one of these kits and actually make it work, or is this just how they all end up?
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clark.robin10d ago
The 'wet basement in July' smell is so real, mine went straight to mold city by day 5 and I never even got one mushroom out of it. You're not alone, those kits are way harder than the box makes them sound.
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