
Sun-dried mushrooms
Sun-dried mushrooms are mushrooms spread in open sunlight and left to lose their water to solar heat and moving air, a method recorded in Nigeria, Tanzania, Mexico and among Algerian desert truffle gatherers.
1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.
Fermented, enzyme-ripened and mixed seasonings328
Fruit preserves10
Legume, seed and plant-protein ferments10
Garum and fish sauces8
Adjacent and excluded7
Koji, mold starters and mold-ripened ferments4
Acid and oil pickles3
Fermented fruit and fruit-derived foods3
Vegetable lactic3
Dairy ferments2
Smoked salted and dried foods2
Cheese1
Not yet classified1
Sun-dried mushrooms are mushrooms spread in open sunlight and left to lose their water to solar heat and moving air, a method recorded in Nigeria, Tanzania, Mexico and among Algerian desert truffle gatherers.

Mushroom powder is dried mushroom tissue ground to a fine powder and added to gravies and sauces. Victorian cooks made it from fresh cultivated mushrooms when fresh ones were not to hand.

Protected solar-dried mushrooms are slices of wild Suillus luteus dried under a shade cover, a fitotoldo, rather than in open sun, as tested in an experimental study from Apurímac, Peru.

Hearth-dried mushrooms are dried on shelves above a cooking fire, so heat and smoke reach them. Tanzanian records describe the method; a Vietnamese study tested smoke-dried shiitake for fuel-dependent contaminants.

Hot-air dehydrated mushrooms are sliced mushrooms dried in a dehydrator or dryer with heated, moving air; a 2011 study dried button mushroom slices at 60 °C and compared them with microwave-vacuum and freeze-drying.