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There’s a lot of common challenges that people face when looking to buy shrooms—and to take them. Firstly, a lot of products, such as gummies, chocolates, and microdoses, can’t necessarily be trusted. You don’t know what their potency is (even if it says on the packaging), what strain or species of mushroom was used, when they were made, or if they’ll even work. Plus, you usually pay a premium for getting shrooms in some form other than just the whole mushroom. Once it’s time to trip, many people struggle to get the mushrooms down because they taste terrible—and they suffer from nausea as they start to kick in.
We’ve designed this course to address all of these challenges. From a tincture and capsules for microdosing to desserts and snacks to share with friends, we cover a range of recipes for any occasion. We also get into potency loss, dosage, drying your shrooms, storing your shrooms, and more!
Want to have access to the best mycology experts at your finger tips? Good news! In this course, you’ll be supported by our team of experts, including Dr. K Mandrake, author of The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible. You’ll also get lifetime access to a private online forum with other growers around the globe who you can connect with and support along the way.
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DB 101: Cooking With Mushrooms
Get 50% OFF with free trial- A Free one-month DoubleBlind+ Membership Trial (auto-renews after 30 days for $19/month, cancel anytime)
- Live Access to Expert Mycologists and Chefs, including Dr. K Mandrake and Virginia Haze of “The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible”
- Ten Step-by-Step Video Episodes and Written Guides
- Private Online Forum of Fellow Students
- Proven Recipes for Microdosing, Avoiding Nausea, and More
As Seen in:
- Everytime you trip on shrooms, you struggle to get them down because they taste and smell bad
- Everytime you trip on shrooms, you experience nausea as they start to kick in You’ve bought “microdoses” or other products that have turned out to be way stronger than expected, taste bad, or not be what you thought they were
- You’ve found mushroom chocolates, microdoses, and other products you actually do really like but they’re expensive
- You want to cook with shrooms, but you have basic questions like if they’ll lose potency at a certain temperature or how to get consistent dosing
- Turn your shrooms into tasty treats that are actuallyyy enjoyable to eat
- Incorporate ingredients into your shroom recipes that help you avoid nausea
- Make fancy shroom chocolates, granola bars, honey, and other snacks that you can use to impress friends and family
- Grow your own shrooms for a few hundred dollars and then make microdosing capsules and tinctures to share with loved ones
Get an overview of each key area of the course, from drying and storage to the pros and cons of different consumption methods
Key Takeaways:
- Learn why you might choose one consumption method over another
- Understand how cooking methods change potency and length of your trip
- Intro to basic tips for avoiding nausea
Understand the fundamentals of potency, different species of shrooms, and whether to use fresh or dried shrooms in cooking
Key Takeaways:
- The pros and cons of dry vs. wet shrooms
- An intro to different psilocybin-containing species and varieties
- Best practices for navigating potency and dosage
Find out how to prepare your mushrooms for cooking and long-term storage
Key Takeaways:
- How to dry and store your shrooms
- How to make Blue Honey
- Best practices for heat and psilocybin
Learn how to extract the chemical compounds from mushrooms with a tincture for use in daily dosing or in delicious recipes
Key Takeaways:
- Extraction basics
- Ethanol/everclear extraction
- Avoid fire hazards and work with alcohol safely
Make capsules for microdosing, step-by-step
Key Takeaways:
- The pros and cons of capsules
- How to make capsules, from start to finish
- What we know about stacking, including the Stamets Stack
We share our tried-and-true recipes and walk you through lemon tekking, teas, smoothies, and more
Key Takeaways:
- Why lemon tek? Does it work?
- The pros and cons of drinking your shrooms
- Advanced drinks, such as lightly spiced shroom hot chocolate
Become a pro at our favorite truffle recipe for taste and avoiding nausea
Key Takeaways:
- Dosage with chocolate
- How to make truffles that won’t disappoint!
- Other benefits of combining chocolate and shrooms
Gummies can be a bit fiddly, so we’ve made it easy for the beginner chef with similar, but easier to make, fruit roll ups
Key Takeaways:
- Why confectionery? (there’s a lot of reasons!)
- How to make roll ups, step-by-step
- Turn your roll ups sour!
Impress friends and family with a shroom dinner party!
Key Takeaways:
- Make our favorite entree
- Understand why certain flavors mask the taste of shrooms
- Turn this recipe vegan!
A shroom dinner party wouldn’t be complete without dessert, right? Our final episode is just the cherry on top of one veryyyyy trippy meal.
Key Takeaways:
- Make our favorite trippy sweet
- Learn a dosed snack that’s perfect for camping and festivals
- Turn your trippy sweet vegan or create a no-bake version
We’re incredibly humbled to have Dr. K Mandrake on our team. He wrote the definitive psychedelic mushroom growing book, The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible. He holds a doctorate in mycology and is an expert on every stage of the grow process, whether you’re a beginner or looking for more advanced techniques. You’ll find him in our online forum helping growers troubleshoot, and if you take our 102 course, he’ll walk you through making spore prints, agar, and culture libraries.
At DoubleBlind, we refer to Ophelia Chong as our “mushroom mom.” For four years, she has supported our community, teaching them how to grow mushrooms, make mushroom tinctures, and beyond. In this course, written by Dr. K and Virginia, she shows you how to cook with psilocybin at home. Ophelia is guided by one mission: to advocate for the legalization of cannabis and offer truthful reflections of the multi-cultural faces and communities that embrace cannabis and psilocybin.
Virginia Haze is a nomadic writer and editor with a long history of both writing about and using intoxicants in all their forms, though not always at the same time. She’s written for drug culture magazines, worked on many step-by-step cultivation guides and is the co-author of best-selling books The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible and The Psilocybin Chef Cookbook. She learned to grow mushrooms under the tutelage of Dr. K. Mandrake. Find her cheering you on in our online forum.
Support
Unlike with online forums like Reddit, with our course, you get access to leading psilocybin chefs who will support you every step of the way.
- Expert chefs available online Tuesday-Friday and Sunday
- Share pictures of your recipes and troubleshoot
- Get your questions answered
You’ll get access to an invite-only, private DoubleBlind community to bond with and receive support from other cookers
- The DoubleBlind community is very global—connect with psychonauts around the world
- Get cooking tips and recommendations
- Share new recipes with other cookers!
Affordable
For many recipes in this course, you won’t even have to buy anything new. For other recipes, you may only have to buy a few ingredients. You’d be amazed by how much magic you can make with what you already have in your kitchen!
- All supplies can be found online and in local hardware/garden You can save hundreds of dollars on microdoses and macrodoses by making your own
- What you make will not only be cheaper—in many cases, it’ll be better, too
- You’ll have plenty of extra to gift to loved ones
You don’t need to be a master chef to cook with shrooms. Really, it’s a lot easier than you might think!
- Learn recipes that take less than an hour
- Understand the basics to avoid rookie mistakes
- Have a GREAT time
A top benefit to cooking your own shrooms is knowing that you can trust what you’re taking
- Know your dosage
- Know the strain or species in what you’re making
- Know how fresh what you’re taking is
Check Out What You Can Cook
Kathy, DB 101 Student
Glory Hallelujah I saw that DoubleBlind was offering a class on how to grow mushrooms!
“The entire journey from supplies to harvest was really magical for me. The 9 week class provided step by step instructions by using a written guide and videos which were excellent. I know this sounds like this is too good to be true but it was true and it was amazing how much effort went into this class and how much attention we received. We had a team of highly qualified mycologists.”
Sara, DB 101 Student
Incredible experience and I would highly recommend it. Thank you DoubleBlind!
“I’ve been interested in plant medicines for a while so I thought it would be a cool hands on way for me to explore those topics. I really enjoyed the course, it was super easy to follow. There were helpful experts who were there to answer all my questions”
Fred, DB 101 Student
Thanks to our amazing teachers and our incredible community now I can cultivate my own mushrooms.
“I was already curious about mycology, but DoubleBlind’s How to Grow Mushrooms course came right on time in quarantine. I loved that I could get access to expert knowledge throughout the grow process.”
Let's Get Cooking!
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DB 101: Cooking With Mushrooms
Get 50% OFF with free trial- A Free one-month DoubleBlind+ Membership Trial (auto-renews after 30 days for $19/month, cancel anytime)
- Live Access to Expert Mycologists and Chefs, including Dr. K Mandrake and Virginia Haze of “The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible”
- Ten Step-by-Step Video Episodes and Written Guides
- Private Online Forum of Fellow Students
- Proven Recipes for Microdosing, Avoiding Nausea, and More
Frequently Asked Questions
All of the materials can be accessed online with a username and log-in through our website.
The course is now open and is designed for you to move through at your own pace. The materials, including the episodes and written guide, will be available to you forever.
Yes, you can watch the episodes as many times as you’d like.
Once you subscribe, you will have access to a community of experts who will be available to personally answer your questions.
Yes, we’ve had people from all over the world take the course! Our mushroom community is very global.
It’s important to us that people have access to the resources they need to heal. We have limited scholarship opportunities. Email us at: [email protected]
Email us at [email protected]
From Our Founders
“It’s been so humbling and beautiful to watch our mushroom community grow to thousands of people from around the world, who are supporting each other on their mushroom growing journeys. Some of our students have even gone onto become TAs for the other students, and many have graduated saying the course changed their lives and the relationship they have with their medicine and food. This course is really just a part of a movement to take our health back into our own hands, and we’re grateful to be a part of it at DoubleBlind.”
— Shelby Hartman & Madison Margolin
