A few weeks back, Carlos ordered a log online. This wasn't just any old log, it was a special log that had been inoculated with shiitake mushrooms! Once we received the log, we submerged it in a bucket of water, then chilled it overnight in the freezer to break the dormancy of the mushrooms (so the log thought he had just gone through winter and would start producing mushrooms).
For a while, we thought we had a dud log because we didn't see any mushrooms. Until one day about 2 weeks ago we saw signs of fungal life! We watched intently as the mushrooms continued to grow until we finally harvested them last night and ate them with some butter -- they were pretty good!
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