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  1. 11-06-2011, 04:29 PM #1
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    Default Question about Dehydrating Food

    I've been reading the thread from HappyMamma and others about dehydrating food. I have a dehydrator that I got at a yard sale and have never used it because I don't know what to do with it. (No instructions). Can someone give me a lesson on how to do this and what do you do with the food that you dehydrate? How do you store it? Any help will be appreciated.
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    Depending on your model , there might be a instruction book online you can download. I store all my dehydrated in glass jars, so the pests don't get to them ( the pantry moths can and do eat through plastic bags). I also store vacuum sealed in food grade plastic 5 gallon containers.

    There are some fantastic links for dehydrating on the web and youtube let me see if I can find some for you.

    How to Dehydrate Vegetables, Instructions for Dehydrating Vegetables from the Garden

    How to Dehydrate Fruit

    Drying or Dehydrating Apples - Simple Instructions with Pictures

    I don't pretreat apples or peaches and they turn out fine.

    I will add more later. Hope that helps.
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    Thank you so much. Why didn't I think of that? LOL.... I get on this site and suddenly can't think for myself.....duh!

    I will go look those up... Thank you, HappyMamma.
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    Quote Originally Posted by acabin42 View Post
    Thank you so much. Why didn't I think of that? LOL.... I get on this site and suddenly can't think for myself.....duh!

    I will go look those up... Thank you, HappyMamma.
    You are very welcome, I just meant I wanted you to have a few resources that would give different procedures for different fruits and veggies for you as each are different.

    When you do cranberries, parboil until you hear a pop, then dehydrate otherwise you will have a moldy mess. Don't ask how I know....I didn't find much anywhere on cranberries so had to figure that one out
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    Reminds me of the first time DD and I dried blueberries, years ago. A friend just told me you either have to dip them in boiling water a couple of seconds to remove the whitish coating or cut them in half and lay them on the trays cut side down. Well....I thought it would be easier to halve them and lay them cut side down. Don't ask me why I thought that! I still can't believe I was so naive! It took DD and me exactly 9 HOURS to do those 9 trays. Now I dip in boiling water!
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    Another resource you might want to look into regarding dehydrating is any of the various backpacking/ultralight camping/canoing forums. Lots of good information from these groups as additional weight is almost a sin. One place I've gotten a few good recipes from is freezerbagcooking.com (also known as trailcooking.com). Other than that, experiment. You find some things will work better than others.

    Our dehydrator runs quite a bit in preparation for hunting and winter camping seasons. I'm not going to haul all that water if I don't have to.
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