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Base ingediants are; Wood chips, sawdust and oat bran (2:1)
When you use smoker chips pick bags that tend to have lots of sawdust settling on the bottom rather than the ones with all chips.
Aspen bedding (for pets) works as well and it does great.
This recipe should also work for shitake and probably oysters if you wanted to grow them on wood.
For a species like Tremetes Versicolor there is know need for the bran. They have such an efficient motabolism straight chips and sawdust is fine (haven't tried it yet but my source is a reliable one)
Getting started;
Basically you need some hydrated wood chips/sawdust. A 24-48 hour soak is usually good enough. Depending on how available wood chips are to you fresh is always better but you can use chips that are meant for smoking foods. Alder or oak is prefered but any hardwood other than cedar and fruit trees will most likely work fine.
After the chips have soaked drain them very well for an hour or so. You don't want them dripping just hydrated.
The you mix your chips and oat bran at 2:1 ratio Chips:Oat bran. Mix them well and they should look like this;
a closer look 
And that about it!
Load you jars about 1/4"+ below the rim;
Make sure to wype the rim clean with a clean paper towel or something just as good. Yo uwant to avoid particles adheard to the rim because it can invite contams.
Fill the remaing space with dry verm
Use your lid of choice and then PC for 45-60.
Once they are done you can noc them with spores or LC. LC is prefered simply to speed up colonization.
Some species will fruit right off these cakes like Shitake and oysters, others like Cyans will need to be spawned to a bigger substrate and then spawned again to an outdoor bed or can be spawned directly to a prepared outdoor bed.
Enjoy!
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