I have some amadou boiling at the moment with some ash, It's been boiling for about 7 1/2 hours now, how much longer should I boil it for?
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Amadou, How long to boil it for?
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Hi Sam, I boiled mine in 1 and 1/2 pints of water, topped up once with another 1/2 pint, with a heaped table spoon of Potassium nitrate (Saltpetre) for 10 hours and it works a treat.I have some amadou boiling at the moment with some ash, It's been boiling for about 7 1/2 hours now, how much longer should I boil it for?
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Let us know how yours turns out.
cheers Danny
Hi Sam, I boiled mine in 1 and 1/2 pints of water, topped up once with another 1/2 pint, with a heaped table spoon of Potassium nitrate (Saltpetre) for 10 hours and it works a treat.
Let us know how yours turns out.
cheers Danny
Cool, After 8 hours the electric hob shut itself off so that's when I stopped, I've been pounding it now for a while but I can't seem to get the chamois leather feel, did yours turn out very soft?
Your striker is in the works
I've been having a bit of forge trouble but all is good now and it should be finished soon!Cheers,
Hi Sam in a word -"No" but then again a wet chamois dries stiff. Have you checked post #16 http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59418
soft when finished bashing, but dries stiff but fluffs up easy with a knife, though lights from 1 spark without
cheers Danny
Ah right, I've left mine soaking for tonight and in the morning I'll bash them up a bit more, yours are sort of droopy as in they don't support themselves, mine are still fairly stiff but can bend a bit, Hopefully tomorrow all will turn out well!
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Ive had mixed experiences, have tried boiling one for a hour and left one simmering all day and a number of others inbetween with mixed results. I dont think there are any hard rules for the time, a lot depends on the quality / state of the fungus, boil it for a couple of hour then take it out and give it a bash, if its not soft enough give it a little longer. I guess looking back one question to keep in mind is how think is the piece of Fomes fungus, maybe the thicker it is the longer you need to cook it At the end its try that some Amadou is better than other, however, all can be scrapped up to catch a spark. Have you considered using it ‘raw’? I found that if you just cut off the hard top surface you can scrap up a nice ball of fluffy fibres that take a spark quite easily.
Ive had mixed experiences, have tried boiling one for a hour and left one simmering all day and a number of others inbetween with mixed results. I dont think there are any hard rules for the time, a lot depends on the quality / state of the fungus, boil it for a couple of hour then take it out and give it a bash, if its not soft enough give it a little longer. I guess looking back one question to keep in mind is how think is the piece of Fomes fungus, maybe the thicker it is the longer you need to cook it
At the end its try that some Amadou is better than other, however, all can be scrapped up to catch a spark. Have you considered using it ‘raw’? I found that if you just cut off the hard top surface you can scrap up a nice ball of fluffy fibres that take a spark quite easily.
Hi
Ive had mixed experiences, have tried boiling one for a hour and left one simmering all day and a number of others inbetween with mixed results. I dont think there are any hard rules for the time, a lot depends on the quality / state of the fungus, boil it for a couple of hour then take it out and give it a bash, if its not soft enough give it a little longer. I guess looking back one question to keep in mind is how think is the piece of Fomes fungus, maybe the thicker it is the longer you need to cook it At the end its try that some Amadou is better than other, however, all can be scrapped up to catch a spark. Have you considered using it raw? I found that if you just cut off the hard top surface you can scrap up a nice ball of fluffy fibres that take a spark quite easily.
Ive had mixed experiences, have tried boiling one for a hour and left one simmering all day and a number of others inbetween with mixed results. I dont think there are any hard rules for the time, a lot depends on the quality / state of the fungus, boil it for a couple of hour then take it out and give it a bash, if its not soft enough give it a little longer. I guess looking back one question to keep in mind is how think is the piece of Fomes fungus, maybe the thicker it is the longer you need to cook it
At the end its try that some Amadou is better than other, however, all can be scrapped up to catch a spark. Have you considered using it raw? I found that if you just cut off the hard top surface you can scrap up a nice ball of fluffy fibres that take a spark quite easily.
