Food Dehydrators
Food Dehydrator Basics
Food De-Hydrators In A NutShell
Most fruits dehydrate well and vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers, bell peppers, carrots and most other vegetables. Most herbs can also be dried with a dehydrator.
The nice thing with dehydrating food is that most of the nutrients are retained. It is not uncommon for people who have large gardens and lots of fruit trees and put up a lot of food to have more than one dehydrator they are very affordable and inexpensive for what they do.
The Best Food Dehydrator
Picking The Best One For Your Needs
I like the fan units that have a thermostat control. They dry more uniformly and dry much quicker allowing you to process more food in the de-hydrator in a much shorter time. The other issue the quicker the drying of some meats the less issue you have with bacteria. The fan type unit will cost much more but if you are using the unit several times a month or have a garden where you have a lot of produce to dry it will be well worth the purchase price.
A passive unit is generally under 50 dollars a fan unit with thermostat control is over 100.
If you are one who will use one on occasion with not as much product to process say every month or so a cheaper unit may suffice.
A secret or tip I can share is if you are a hunter or like to make a lot of jerky then a fan unit with thermostat control is probably the unit to chose.
Beef Jerky Recipe
Making Beef Jerky
Sometimes I'll add a little red pepper to the soy marinade to give the jerky a little kick.
It really is that simple to make beef jerky.
Other Practical Uses Of Food Dehydrators
Potpourris and Herbs
There are many methods for making potpourris and drying herbs but the food dehydrator can help you in there areas. Drying flower petals for making potpourris is not that difficult it does rely on some experimentation depending on the flower. Some dehydrators come with basic guides that help you get started in these areas and give you some guidelines but it is all about experimentation on drying each individual product.
Excalibur Food Dehydrators
Ronco Food Dehydrators
Nesco Food Dehydrators
Food Dehydrator Recipe Books on Amazon
Trail Food: Drying and Cooking Food for Backpacking and Paddling
Contains a chart of protein and calorie content of many foods. The focus of this book is dehydrating individual foods allowing more freedom when recombining ingredients out on the trail to make different meals.
Mary Bell's Complete Dehydrator Cookbook
So you want to learn how to dehydrate food? This is a complete reference on dehydrating foods.
Jerky: Make Your Own Delicious Jerky and Jerky Dishes Using Beef, Venison, Fish, or Fowl
Making beef jerky is not that difficult when you know how. This book covers many meats including venison, fish and fowl. Loaded with dehydrated beef jerky recipes and more.
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- HenryE HenryE May 27, 2009 @ 11:43 am
- My mom has a food dehydrator and we always used it to make beef jerky growing up. It was our favorite! I'm sure she still has it, I'll have to get it out and use it!
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- starsam starsam Feb 16, 2009 @ 9:46 am
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- karmasherbs karmasherbs Sep 29, 2008 @ 8:18 pm
- Thanks for the tips...5*s
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- watkins-lady watkins-lady Jan 14, 2008 @ 9:40 am
- Welcome to the Home Cooking and Baking group. I love my dehydrator, and you inspired me to make some jerky!
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- tdove tdove Jan 5, 2008 @ 10:36 am
- We have one of these and use it quite often to make jerky, now with this lens I think we can make it better. 5*
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