Ive never used a digital scale for mushies... Drive to a mates place, hike to the circle (all downhill) have the first couple you find..fill ya back pack (30 minutes) and hike back to the car (all up hill..bloody hard slog). Give ya mate a handful and drive home.
Ive had em in coffee (using some pantyhose as a tea bag)..I find its easier to just eat em rather than suffer through a really horrible cuppa
Ive had dried ones only once before (in 1992), from some German backpackers i met in Ireland. Me and a GF just had 1/2 the film container each much later on in the Kimberly of WA Australia. (just ate em)