I recommend sticking to foods that dehydrate quickly, namely apples and herbs. It can also take a little bit of trial and error, as microwaves vary greatly in strength and heat.Or Build Your Own Dehydrator! If you're really feeling adventurous, you can make your own dehydrator, and it ...
While whole cherries may be fun, we choose to do halves. They dry faster, they are more versatile for our needs, and while it adds a bit of time to the front end to cut them in half, it saves hours on the back end of drying time. 4. Add cherries to dehydrator trays. Here’s ...
Preserve the natural flavor of peak-season fruits and avoid the additives of store-bought dried fruit with our step-by-step guide for how to dehydrate fruit.
I love onions, gadgets, and baking bread. One of the tastiest breads I bake requires onions, and using dried onions is perfect for this. So here’s how I dehydrate onions to use for baking, and other things as well. I’m pretty detailed in my description, but you don’t have to do...
Commercial dehydrators are my preferred method for drying food. They are energy efficient and safe. Most provide stacking trays, temperature controls, and a fan for air circulation. They trays also have feature options such as large grates to improve air circulation and drying of large items. Th...
Once you have decided what vegetable to dehydrate, now it is time to prep them for the dehydrator trays. Preparing your vegetables can be as simple as washing and slicing, but there are other things like pretreatment and cracking that take place during this step. Pretreating Your Vegetables/Fr...
If you'd like to give the beef liver a try and don't have access to any near you, ButcherBox has the option to purchase raw liver. Fry it up with some onions, turn it into pate, or dehydrate it and make your own liver pills. How to Dehydrate Beef Liver You can check out this...
To can vegetables safely VegetablesMUSTbe canned in apressure-canner. Yes, pressure canners are expensive, but if you do not have a pressure canner, youshould not can vegetables.You can freeze or dehydrate your vegetables instead. Meat and seafoodmust also be canned in a pressure-canner, but...
10. Dehydrate Your Potatoes You can also dehydrate your potatoes. This can be done in a commercial-styledehydrator. You will want to cut them into thin slices and process them for at least six hours, or until they are dry and crunchy. They can then be stored in anairtight container, whe...
Don’t believe me? Watch this experiment where a woman tries to freeze dry strawberries in the freezer by leaving them in there uncovered for 3 weeks: It’s possible that if you had a fan or some kind of dehydrator in the freezer that it’d work eventually, but it’s in no way an...