Drying ceps

The technology drying of mushrooms consists of the following stages:

1. Acceptance of mushrooms at purveyors.
2. Clearing mushrooms of extraneous inclusions, scrap rootlets, wiping of mushrooms kapron rag for removal of sand and dirt (is categorically forbidden to wash mushrooms before drying).
3. The whole mushrooms are cut along an axis of a mushroom by plates keeping the form of a mushroom by thickness no more of 5 mm, the rests of caps are cut by hemispheres, the thick legs - by circles, the thin legs - by plates, all by thickness no more than 5 mm, then the slices display for drying whenever possible sorting on the sizes for maintenance of uniformity drying.
4. Drying of mushrooms.
5. Pakcage and storage of mushrooms.

The dry mushrooms should be without mould and extraneous smells, not worm-eaten, not rotten, not burnt, easy, to the touch dry, slightly to bend, at some effort to break. It is not supposed bitter and another not of smack, typical of the given mushroom. The impurity of mushrooms of other kind is not supposed. The humidity of dry mushrooms should be a maximum 12 %. The saved radio-activity should not exceed 600 ÁÊ/KG hour. The contents of the damaged(injured) mushrooms - no more than 2 % broken and crumbs - no more 1 %. The contents of organic impurity of a vegetative origin - no more than 0,1 %, mineral impurity no more than 0,5 %.

Packing

Package of mushrooms in container occurs on demand of the buyer, on container there should be a marks of the goods, which includes the following:

 · the Name of the manufacturer
 · the Name of production (is desirable in Russian and latin language)
 · Term of manufacturing
 · Grade (if not sorted that is underlined "not sorted")
 · of net Weight
 · of gross Weight


Storage

Dried mushrooms are very much fragile, therefore it is necessary to store them in dry, pure, well aired rooms, it is desirable with constant temperature. At sharp fluctuations of temperature the mushrooms can dampen and mould. The storage of dried mushrooms on ground or near to fresh vegetables, fruit, berries, nuts and salty production is not supposed. To store mushrooms it is necessary in paper bags or cardboard container. The storage in polyethylene packages is not supposed.