u/DarkForestTurkey

I work as a licensed mental health professional. All identifying details have been removed or changed for confidentiality. I have a client with severe CPTSD, anger issues, and very poor boundaries and self-awareness who has been accepted into and is progressing towards completion through a very well-known psychedelic facilitator training program. This person should in NO WAY be doing this work. On no planet and in no multidimensional universe is this a good idea. As someone who has worked with CPTSD professionally, it is as obvious to me as sunshine that this person has major trauma. It stuns me that they were accepted into any training program in the first place, and that ZERO protective guardrails have kept this person from working towards completion of the program, that no one screened for this and had the guts to tell this person "you are not ready for this program and until you've done a lot more work you should not be sitting with others". Because all health information is protected, and there is no immediate danger to self or others. I cannot legally disclose anything. I can't contact the program and say anything. If this person earns their certificate, I cannot stop them from practicing legally. There is no consumer protection, there is no board to make a complaint to. This is maddening and indicates how off the rails this whole psychedelic industry has gotten. This person is going to do harm, period, and I'm so angry that all these programs need butts in seats to pay tuition and keep their businesses afloat. The capitalism and dazzling glamour of psychedelics is so, so fucked up. (I am in the US)

I am making reasonably substantial batches of koji and finding getting a good steaming set up challenging. Steaming works well in the instantpot, as long as the grains aren’t too close to the water which can form a gooey mass on the bottom. It’s also pretty low volume, so I have to steam three or four successive small batches rather than do it all in one.

I’ve been playing around with a big pot and a bamboo steamer on my stove, but the grains never quite seem to fully cook, they stay pretty hard in the middle. Instructions always say you should be able to smash a grain easily between your fingers without it being sticky or mushy. Mine are always slightly undercooked, and it works, but I think the penetration to the core of the grain isn’t great. It’s definitely slower, but I can do a larger batch, but I’m not fully happy with the texture.

Who’s got a fantastic steaming set up that works for 1500-2000 grams of dry grains at a time?

Hi, I am searching for something that should be easy to find but isn't. I have an older model of the 6qt, and the steam release valve started leaking. Ordered a replacement kit on amazon, it's a different style of release valve (note that I'm not asking about the sealing valve, which is replaced and just fine). The old release valve had a very particular silicone ring that I can;t find and didn't come with the replacement kit. Is there a diagram including washers for the new style release valve so I can put it on correctly? I can't find one anywhere.