What do you look for in a dried mushroom to tell if it's too dry? We've dried lots of morels in the past, all the way until they wouldn't get any drier. Some were a little crunchy, others quite leathery, but they were always great on pizzas and in soups. Never thought that a mushroom could be too dry!

Jake --- Mark left out some essential details, sounds like. We weren't drying the mushrooms to store them dried; we were drying them because, in our wet climate, mushrooms often come out of the woods waterlogged. While they're edible when cooked wet, the flavor is drastically improved by popping them into the food dehydrator at 135 for an hour or so. At that point, they look just like fresh mushrooms, but perhaps a tiny bit shriveled, and cook up to perfection! But, since I was writing and not paying attention to the dehydrator, this batch instead went past that stage and into fully dried --- not as tasty.