Got a food dehydrator for Xmas and curious for suggestions on what to make other than beef jerky. Suggestions?
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Pemmican!
Had to look that up. Interesting… not sure I’ll be trying it in early rounds of use though. Thanks!
Sure! It is less a pleasure food and more of a good survival food—good to have in the home as a shelf stable food for emergencies/disasters or to take on camping trips.
I read up on it real quick, interesting. A bit involved for first runs of the gadget, but something I’ll have to try down the line
Drying out mushrooms to make a mushroom salt
1. Dehydrate sliced Roma or San Marzano tomatoes and vacuum seal them in a jar with oxygen absorbers for long term storage. You can also put the dehydrated slices in a blender and turn them into a powder. You can effectively cram hundreds of tomatoes into a quart jar for use in sauces.
2. Pre-cook and then dehydrate and vac seal all of the ingredients that you would want in a soup. Things like orzo pasta, barley, rice, bowtie pasta, onions, leeks, carrot cubes, anything. Then vacuum seal quarter to half a cup of each in a Mylar bag with a separate packet of beef or chicken bullion. Perfect lightweight backpack meals. An 8 ounce package feeds two adults.
A vacuum sealer that does jars and vac bags is a perfect compliment to having a dehydrator.
Amazing tips. Thank you!
I use mine for any fruit, chilis, mushrooms, and fresh herbs (grown in my old micro green set up) that I can't use immediately.
Then I vac pack it for future use.
For dehydrating voluminous ingredients like rice, cooked pasta etc, a set of silicon trays available on Amazon is really handy. For things like bananas and other fruits that have a tendency to stick to your screens, having a stack precut pieces of parchment paper is also really handy.
Ah, good consideration. Have mesh right now but I’ll be sure to use parchment for sticky things