dehydrating

My home store has 5# of red potatoes for 99c. Since I don't have a dry cool area to keep them, I thot about dehydrating them. Has anyone tried this? I googled how to do it, but really like to know... do they turn out ok? cook ok? taste ok? does the kind of potato make a difference? calculating...

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...

I set up some zucchini in the dehydrator for drying. It is topped with some spices and dried parmesan cheese. It ran for a couple of hours at 130 degrees and then was accidently turned off and left to sit for approx. 8 to 9 hours. Has it spoiled? Will it be safe to eat after it finishes...

I've been wanting to get into dehydrating our own food. For those of you who do this, what is the best brand dehydrator to use? (I need one that will dehydrate alot at one time) How do you store the food afterward so that bugs won't get into it? How long can you store it before it would go bad...

is it possible? I'm hoping that I can dehydrate those suckers and sub them in when a recipe calls for dried cherries (granola, cookies)...I like dried cherries but jeez I just can't afford them!!!

this spring when things started to go green i was out in the fields and woods foraging -what for-morel mushrooms and ramps (wild leek family) in the woods and wild onion/garlic to dehydrate the mushrooms i vacuumed packed for soups and the ramps dried till the crumbled in hand for soups too...

I use this a lot in soups my dh loves celery and it is great to have on hand when you don't have fresth available. How to Dry or Dehydrate Celery | eHow.com

I got a bag of lemons that had been reduced for quick sale. I want to dehydrate them, but I'm not sure how to get good results. I dehydrated some last year and they are brown, and don't really taste that great in tea. I think I may have dried them at too high heat. (Now I dry everything at about...

Nobody started this thread yet? Whats going on? Where is everybody? Give up? I just finished 2 trays of mushrooms and I have 3 trays of apricot halves going now. They were on sale at the store 10 cans for $10. They said unpeeled on the label, so I peeled 4 cans and left 2 to see how they...

I'd like to dehydrate and sprinkle with a little sugar and cinnamon. Do I have to peel them? My RA hands just can't take that!

Any tips? What is a good size to cut them to? I'm thinking maybe strips... though I'd really like 1/4" dice...

I dehydrated zucchini chips, and they appear done, but they all stick to the trays. I sliced them very thin and they tear when I take them off. Now I really have a mess to clean up. Do you spray the trays with cooking spray to avoid things sticking? Or did I just slice them too thin?

I am planning to dehydrate sweet potatoes for the first time, but am not quite sure how to go about it. I have read that after peeling and slicing, they should be placed in gently boiling water, but for how long?

What sort of gifts have you made using your dehydrator? I'm trying to get some "idears" for Christmas this year. My mom gave me a Taste of Home soup special magazine and it had a handful of soup mixes . . . I'm interested to see what some of you frugal dehydrating gurus have done.

I saw a thread by vigilant20 on another forum I'm on and came here to search out the dehydrating threads only to find quite a few of them! But there are so many pages and I recently I haven't been able to be online as much as I used to be. Anyways but I have some pretty specific questions so I...

If you could only own 1 dehydrating book, what one would you pick???? I had 3 in my shopping cart and made myself close the window!!!! I have told myself I can not spend $40 on books, LOL So I want to get your opinions on what is the "BEST" book. Thanks, Bridge

Today I'm doing one tray of parsley and one of chives. They've been growing in the south facing bay window all winter, and I've been using them all winter and now it's time to put them outside. So I cut them way back and now I'm drying them ;)

Frugal friends, meet my friend Tammy, she is also my dehydrating mentor. There are 13 incredible videos she has made to help you enhance your personal pantry. Sara has said she will make this a sticky for all of us. So we can refer back to it often. Thank you Sara...

After watching dehydrate2stores videos on youtube that Penascodragonfly posted about, I got all excited about dehydrating. I was wondering if anyone else here dehydrates for long term storage. What are you dehydrating now? What are you cooking with your dehydrated food?

I have some potatoes that I don't think I will use up before they go bad. I have two food dehydrators that I have used once. Well, I used one of them once. So... How do I dehydrate them? Do I slice them, dice them? What works best? We used diced ones more. Once they are dehydrated, how...