Literature · Cookbooks

Process Cookbooks.

Open methods for substrate sterilization, inoculation, growth-chamber operation, heat-treatment, and finishing. Each cookbook is a versioned, reproducible recipe with full energy accounting in joules. Permissive license. Anyone with a workshop and an inoculation hood can build a regional grower from these recipes alone.

PCB-001

v0.1 · published

Hemp hurd × G. lucidum

21-day colonization, low-temperature finish. Reference recipe for packaging-grade mycelium composite on industrial hemp hurd, inoculated with Ganoderma lucidum grain spawn. Target density 180–280 kg/m³, compressive 200–500 kPa.

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PCB-002

drafting

Bagasse × P. ostreatus

Fast-colonization tropical recipe. Sugarcane bagasse + oyster spawn, 10–14 day grow. Target: low-temperature acoustic panel substrate.

PCB-003

drafting

Sawdust × T. versicolor

High-density structural grade. Hardwood sawdust + turkey-tail spawn, 18–26 day grow, target compressive 240–650 kPa. For Mycelium-Biocement Infill (H2-A).

PCB-004

drafting

Substrate sterilization · variants

Steam at 121 °C × 90 min · pasteurization at 65 °C × 6 h · cold lime bath. Cookbook covering the three viable sterilization paths with energy and contamination-rate comparisons.

Cookbooks are versioned and signed.
Disputes resolve to "show the fixture, show the joules."

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Cookbooks accept community contributions under the same permissive license. Send a draft to [email protected] with substrate, species, full protocol, fixture descriptions, and energy accounting. We co-publish under your name.