blissful
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I finally sorted out the good from the bad garlic from last year (since this year's crop is curing in the garage).
I ended up with 8-10 cups of cloves.
I wanted to dehydrate garlic and everyone recommends doing that outside because of the concentrated garlic smell (same with onions).
My micro/convection oven that I dehydrate in doesn't seem to do well in the sun. I put it outside last year and it was months before the LCD/LED whatever lights and the panel it is on worked well again. So this year, Trapper built a cabinet for it to keep it out of the sun when it's outside, with a partially open back for ventilation, and the bottom can be used for storage. The top is tiled and can be used to set the food on or any food preparations as needed.
I just popped the 8-10 cups of processed (slightly ground up in the food processor) garlic onto a plastic covered mesh sheet that fits the micro/convection oven. I'm guessing it will take a good 8-9 hours.
Then I'll have to grind it to powder in the spice grinder. Estimates I've read say 5 lbs of garlic yield 1 lb powdered garlic. I'll guess I will get less than that, I doubt it was 5 lbs of garlic. It will be nice to have some garlic powder in the house and maybe some garlic salt for gifts.
I ended up with 8-10 cups of cloves.
I wanted to dehydrate garlic and everyone recommends doing that outside because of the concentrated garlic smell (same with onions).
My micro/convection oven that I dehydrate in doesn't seem to do well in the sun. I put it outside last year and it was months before the LCD/LED whatever lights and the panel it is on worked well again. So this year, Trapper built a cabinet for it to keep it out of the sun when it's outside, with a partially open back for ventilation, and the bottom can be used for storage. The top is tiled and can be used to set the food on or any food preparations as needed.
I just popped the 8-10 cups of processed (slightly ground up in the food processor) garlic onto a plastic covered mesh sheet that fits the micro/convection oven. I'm guessing it will take a good 8-9 hours.
Then I'll have to grind it to powder in the spice grinder. Estimates I've read say 5 lbs of garlic yield 1 lb powdered garlic. I'll guess I will get less than that, I doubt it was 5 lbs of garlic. It will be nice to have some garlic powder in the house and maybe some garlic salt for gifts.