The very clear instructions on the package (from Italy) says (in
English and other languages) that the contents should be soaked in
warm water no less than 1 hour and no longer than 12. I took 4 hours
to be a pretty good clue - and I could cut them up fine.

I use the soaking water in stews or gravies - never waste a thing.

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:25:56 -0500, Steve Wertz
> wrote:

>On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:23:23 +1200, Tigsnona
> wrote:
>
>
>>I am addicted to Porcini mushrooms. I can only get them dried and
>>have to soak them for about 4 hours in order to render them able to be
>>chopped up.
>
>I never had any kind of mushroom need 4 hours to rehydrate, even whole
>ones. Porcini's almost always come sliced before dried as most are
>too big/dense to endure proper dehydrating. Maybe that's why they
>take so long to rehydrate - they weren't properly dried in the first
>place?
>
>The one time I did get whole dried prorcini's, they took 30min to
>rehydrate. 4 hours?
>
>-sw

TigsNona