dehydrating

[timmie]

got the strawberries,more okra and the last of our tomatoes off the dehydrator about an hour ago. gat 3 dishpans of onions chopped and ready to blanch in the morning for dehydrating. then will make onion powder.

 

[Amish Heart]

Filled the dehydrator with apple slices.
Also tried the kosher salt water apples slices for the freezer and they seem fine. I'll make apple pie filling out of them later.

 

[timmie]

With all those taters we dehydrated we wound up with 10 gallon jars. WOW!!!!!

 

[timmie]

We have 2 dehydrators going with jalapeno peppers outside, and 1 with bell peppers. I watced some videos that said to blanch first,so I'm going to try it again.

 

[timmie]

Got rosemary and celery on the dehydrator.

 

[timmie]

put 2 dehydrators full of mushrooms yesterday and got them off today.

 

[timmie]

We got 2 quarts of carrots and now we have cabbage and baby spinach on the dehydrator

 

[timmie]

we've got 3 dehydratos going with spinach and the one with 8 trays going with onions.

 

[timmie]

We have one dehydrator [7 trays] going with organic zuchinni marked down to 99 cents. One going with baby spinach{4 trays]. One with banana peels[3 trays]. And one with onions {8 trays]. Finally catching up with all those onions I put in the freezer earlier this year.

 

[Patchouli]

@timmie you mainly put your dehydrated items in the freezer? Is there anything you don't put in the freezer after dehydrating it? Remember, I'm new to a lot of the things some of you prepared folks do and still need pointers.

 

[Amish Heart]

Naw, she took the onions she had in the freezer and put them in the dehydrator. Frozen stuff dehydrates well. Don't even have to thaw it. I bought a large bag of frozen corn and frozen mixed veg from Sams today and put them in the dehydrator. I had organized one aisle of food storage this last week and realized I was low on those items. I use a lot of dehydrated corn and mixed veg in cooking. When I was knee deep in apples, I ran a bunch through the apple peeler/slicer and froze them. They can come out of the freezer when I need to free up some room and I can throw them in the dehydrator for apple chips. I like to run my 9 tray dehydrator full, so sometimes I throw stuff chopped in the freezer until I have enough.

 

[timmie]

No, sorry . I take them out of the freezer and dehydrate them , then vacuum seal them in mason jars.

@timmie you mainly put your dehydrated items in the freezer? Is there anything you don't put in the freezer after dehydrating it? Remember, I'm new to a lot of the things some of you prepared folks do and still need pointers.

 

[Amish Heart]

Me, too!
Except I don't like drying onions in the house. Too stinky. But I dehydrate a lot of shredded cabbage, especially if my sauerkraut crock is in use, and I don't mind that smell. Broccoli drying is nasty.

 

[timmie]

Actually the onions are not that bad if you blanch them first. But I also put them in a room that we don't use very often and opened the window a little.

 

[GrannyG]

Check out this fruit leather recipe...http://www.oneacrevintagehome.com/recipe/banana-bread-fruit-leather/

 

[Amish Heart]

Am tired of buying organic vegetable broth that I use in a lot of recipes that our daughters eat when they eat over and in recipes that husband is eating for his diet. It's expensive. I don't have the freezer space to make my own and freeze it, so decided to take a half gallon mason jar and make it. Found a recipe for the spices used in vegetable bouillon. Am grinding dehydrated vegetables to add to it. Plan is to use a scoopful of this mix to hot water, let it sit a little, then use to replace cans of vegetable broth. I think it'll work out fine, and just for pennies, too.

 

[pam carter]

Am tired of buying organic vegetable broth that I use in a lot of recipes that our daughters eat when they eat over and in recipes that husband is eating for his diet. It's expensive. I don't have the freezer space to make my own and freeze it, so decided to take a half gallon mason jar and make it. Found a recipe for the spices used in vegetable bouillon. Am grinding dehydrated vegetables to add to it. Plan is to use a scoopful of this mix to hot water, let it sit a little, then use to replace cans of vegetable broth. I think it'll work out fine, and just for pennies, too.

I would love this recipe!

 

[Amish Heart]

I upsized this recipe for a half gallon of it.
4 Tablespoons celery salt
4 Tablespoon dried parsley
2 Tablespoon garlic powder
2 Tablespoons salt (or not)
1 teaspoon oregano
2 teaspoons dried thyme
1 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon dried sage
1 teaspoon ground turmeric
Then I added vegetable powder from my own dehydrated vegetables: onions, carrots, celery, peas, green beans, bell pepper, potato, spinach. I made the vegetable powder by grinding the dehydrated vegetables. Adding all this to the seasonings, I think it'll made a decent vegetable broth. I'll try it out tonight, since I'm cooking potato soup, and it calls for vegetable broth to thin out the potato and to add flavor. Plan to put a tablespoon of it into a mug of hot water and use that instead of the can of vegetable broth it calls for.

 

[pam carter]

upsized this recipe for a half gallon of it.
4 Tablespoons celery salt
4 Tablespoon dried parsley
2 Tablespoon garlic powder
2 Tablespoons salt (or not)
1 teaspoon oregano
2 teaspoons dried thyme
1 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon dried sage
1 teaspoon ground turmeric
Then I added vegetable powder from my own dehydrated vegetables: onions, carrots, celery, peas, green beans, bell pepper, potato, spinach. I made the vegetable powder by grinding the dehydrated vegetables. Adding all this to the seasonings, I think it'll made a decent vegetable broth. I'll try it out tonight, since I'm cooking potato soup, and it calls for vegetable broth to thin out the potato and to add flavor. Plan to put a tablespoon of it into a mug of hot water and use that instead of the can of vegetable broth it calls for.

thanks I am going to try this at home and in my Culinary Arts classroom..

 

[pam carter]

got the strawberries,more okra and the last of our tomatoes off the dehydrator about an hour ago. gat 3 dishpans of onions chopped and ready to blanch in the morning for dehydrating. then will make onion powder.

I have never made onion powder,,, any pointers

 

[Amish Heart]

Dehydrate chopped onions (not in your house)and then powder them. I make pepper powder all the time (jalapeno, serrano, etc)

 

[Tank-Girl]

I'm very low on dehydrated caspicum, chilli and onions so it looks like I'll be there with you in spirit AH next pension when I'll scout around
and see if I can get a good price on 20 kg bags.
I'm kinda over throwing 10 to 20 1 kgs bags of produce into the shopping cart at the supermarket.
There's a large wholesale fruit and veg. seller in the next large town over and they offer free to the door delivery
if you spend over $100.
I'm thinking that next pension might be worth trying their business.

 

[Amish Heart]

I looked in the ugly vegetable section today and got 3 large bags of hot peppers. Just need to get my gloves on and get them chopped up. I like 99 cent bags, but you never know what they have. For the larger stuff, like apples, zucchini, potatoes, it has to have at least 5 good sized ones in it for me to buy it. Otherwise, not worth it. I got asparagus on sale for 88 cents a lb today, but I don't dehydrate that, just eat it fresh. When I have time, been thinking about doing potato slices. Looking on YouTube, the starch has to be cooked out of it first, or it turns black. I have tons of shredded and cubed potatoes that are dehydrated in storage, but they were purchased frozen, then dehydrated. I like the thin slices that I could use for scalloped potatoes, and they sell them at the Mennonite store in bags, but thinking I might try doing it myself.

 

[timmie]

plums , lemons and tomatoes on the dehydrator.

 

[Meerkat]

Today egg plants will go in dehydrator.

 

[Meerkat]

We have 2 dehydrators going with jalapeno peppers outside, and 1 with bell peppers. I watced some videos that said to blanch first,so I'm going to try it again.

Timmie we have one going now too. It has 9 shelves of eggplant in it.

 

[Amish Heart]

Filling mine up again with more white onions.

 

[Tank-Girl]

Yesterday I dragged out the dehydrator out of the store room and washed the trays and mesh tray liners.
This morning I picked 5 trays of sweet basil and one tray of lemon basil.
This lemon basil was a dif type - Mrs Burns lemon basil, and it just doesn't have as much lemony punch as the plain lemon basil so I will be swapping back to plain in the next planting round.

 

[Bishop]

I make a lot of jerky out of ground meat I like to add jams to the mix peach jalapeno jams ghost pepper strawberry jam I mix it in and let it sit in a Ziploc bag in the fridge for about 4 days then run it through a jerky gun they come out really good or just before it the jerky gets done I will paint it with BBQ sauce or sriracha and let it dehydrate in.

 

[LadyLocust]

We have a huge mullein plant that I did not pull this spring. I harvested the leaves, cut them in strips, rolled them and skewered them on toothpicks then dehydrated them. We are seldom sick, but I like to keep some in the pantry just in case.