Maelinde
Senior Cook
I love doing pear leather with ours. And of course jerky (beef or deer)
Ooh, Pear Leather sounds delicious, Frank! Which pears would make the best leather? My preference goes to Anjou pears. Would those work?
I love doing pear leather with ours. And of course jerky (beef or deer)
Ooh, Pear Leather sounds delicious, Frank! Which pears would make the best leather? My preference goes to Anjou pears. Would those work?
I use.. umm.. well.. whatever BJ's or Costco has when they have pears. So now you know they secret.
Which is the best dehydrator to buy ? Thought best not to spend too much to start with but yet don't want the kit to be under performing so I am not keen on continuing ? Any advic e?
What is your favorite item to dry in your dehydrator?
DO you just thin-slice the tangelos (forming a thin disk)?Mine is the size of a rather large microwave. Its an Excalibur 9-tray. I'm very fortunate to have counter space for it to live there permanently. I've seen many smaller models that people love, so there is something for everyone.
If you don't mind used, check your local thrift stores and yard sales. They most likely won't still have the manual, but those can often be downloaded online. A friend of mine found one at her local thrift store for $5 and it looked like it had never been used - box and manual with registration card all intact.
Got more tangelos done and I can't stop eating those. They taste just like candy! I wish we still had bananas, I'd make more banana chips. We just keep eating them fresh before getting a chance to dehydrate them.
We're going to freeze, slice and marinate the beef tonight and then dehydrate the jerky tomorrow to have some snacks for the Ren Faire this weekend. Hopefully we'll still have tangelo slices left to bring - that is if I don't eat them all.
This year I dehydrated zucchini, when they are 5-6 inch size, no blanching. They are good rehydrated and put in zucchini bread. We tested out the recipe twice and it worked out well.
We keep our dehydrator outside, (garlic and onions stink) in a cabinet, then cover it with a tarp and bungee cord it closed, all year. Ours has been outside longer than 5 years now, no direct sun on it.
Nope, ha ha, should have mentioned, sliced.Do you dehydrate the zucchinis whole ?
Nope, ha ha, should have mentioned, sliced.
Sorry! Silly me lately.
I really didn't like shredded frozen because half of it or more is water. I'd drain the water and use 2 packages to get enough for zucchini bread, and I thought, why waste the space in the freezer?