Ahh, okay!

So fresh are pretty disgusting then?  I'm not really a fan of any mushroom flavor (culinary or otherwise) and I was thinking of drying mine mainly for ease of storage. 

Do you think, perhaps, that the dehydrator may have caused a loss in potency due to heat?  Like you said, the tea method may result in overall potency decrease so it stands to reason that a dehydrator could do the same thing?  When I was growing/fruiting cubes I would place the wet mushies at an angle on a screen and have a fan blow on them until they were cracker dry and they were very potent!

I have a dehydrator but I am a little skeptical on using it for drying truffles/mushrooms (it only has one setting and no temperature gauge so I have no idea what temp it operates at....the manual gave a general guideline but... ).

Have you worked with any other truffle producing species besides your Mexicana ATL7?