Dehydrator recipes?
FeebRyan
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Anyone else use a dehydrator? I love mine!
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No - but heard of them - is this something I should be adding to my kitchen? We are eyeing up a Vitamix now and a panini maker - YUM!0
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Vitamix are amazing, you know they can make soup in three minutes just by the heat coming off the motor? Amazing
A dehydrator is such a must, we make organic, raw veggie mince in ours
Banana crepes made just from banana and honey
Oat cakes
Crackers
Fruit leathers
Wraps for salad made from peppers, tomatoes and nothing else
Check out raw food cooking for more info, they are the mutts nuts0 -
I use mine more in the summer. If you do get one, make certain it has temperature control, because for one thing, raw is anything kept below 100 degrees. So even when I do fruit leathers, or just dried fruit, I try to keep it low0
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I use mine more in the summer. If you do get one, make certain it has temperature control, because for one thing, raw is anything kept below 100 degrees. So even when I do fruit leathers, or just dried fruit, I try to keep it low
You can go up to 115 for raw and you can cook at 140 for an hour at the start because th food doesn't hear up quick enough to stop it being raw after this time. If you do that it stops the fruit leathers and other foods smelling odd which is great.0 -
Thanks for classifying that.0
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WOW - great info! Gonna research this now!0
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Do it, they are awesome!0
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I bought one a few years back and while I don't use it often I would hate to part with it. My husband had bought me a cheap stacking style one (where the heater is in the base) when i wanted to just dabble and see what I thought. After it died I had found I liked using one so I bought an Excalibur with 5 trays (it's the style where the heater is on the side and it dries more evenly... you don't have to rotate racks or anything). Love that thing.
I use it mostly to make apple chips and jerky, but occasionally I'll do something else. I'm very picky about the level of dehydration on my dried fruit so being able to make my own apple chips is important to me. I just slice them veeeerrrry thin, dip them in lemon juice, then dry them to what I like. I like Granny Smiths.
Jerky, I just google marinades or buy ones from the store and once they tofu is done soaking pop them in there, too. A basic mix of soy sauce, liquid smoke, and olive oil can come out really nice.
I've tried making fruit leather/peelies but so far no luck. Still working on that.
This has got me thinking... Once I'm settled into the new apartment I'll have to bust it back out and go googling.
On the Vitamix, I've been curious. I have a nice Oster blender that beats the heck out of foods and soups, but you have to make quite a bit in it at a time to make it work. Can the Vitamix and similar high pressed blenders handle tiny amounts? Except when making a big batch of soup to last me a few days I only make 2cups or so of stuff at a time preferably. I've had gastric bypass so making a regular few cups of smoothie or such is just a waste for me.0 -
I bought one a few years back and while I don't use it often I would hate to part with it. My husband had bought me a cheap stacking style one (where the heater is in the base) when i wanted to just dabble and see what I thought. After it died I had found I liked using one so I bought an Excalibur with 5 trays (it's the style where the heater is on the side and it dries more evenly... you don't have to rotate racks or anything). Love that thing.
I use it mostly to make apple chips and jerky, but occasionally I'll do something else. I'm very picky about the level of dehydration on my dried fruit so being able to make my own apple chips is important to me. I just slice them veeeerrrry thin, dip them in lemon juice, then dry them to what I like. I like Granny Smiths.
Jerky, I just google marinades or buy ones from the store and once they tofu is done soaking pop them in there, too. A basic mix of soy sauce, liquid smoke, and olive oil can come out really nice.
I've tried making fruit leather/peelies but so far no luck. Still working on that.
This has got me thinking... Once I'm settled into the new apartment I'll have to bust it back out and go googling.
On the Vitamix, I've been curious. I have a nice Oster blender that beats the heck out of foods and soups, but you have to make quite a bit in it at a time to make it work. Can the Vitamix and similar high pressed blenders handle tiny amounts? Except when making a big batch of soup to last me a few days I only make 2cups or so of stuff at a time preferably. I've had gastric bypass so making a regular few cups of smoothie or such is just a waste for me.
My good friend has one, ill pass on your query and get back to you0 -
I bought one a few years back and while I don't use it often I would hate to part with it. My husband had bought me a cheap stacking style one (where the heater is in the base) when i wanted to just dabble and see what I thought. After it died I had found I liked using one so I bought an Excalibur with 5 trays (it's the style where the heater is on the side and it dries more evenly... you don't have to rotate racks or anything). Love that thing.
I use it mostly to make apple chips and jerky, but occasionally I'll do something else. I'm very picky about the level of dehydration on my dried fruit so being able to make my own apple chips is important to me. I just slice them veeeerrrry thin, dip them in lemon juice, then dry them to what I like. I like Granny Smiths.
Jerky, I just google marinades or buy ones from the store and once they tofu is done soaking pop them in there, too. A basic mix of soy sauce, liquid smoke, and olive oil can come out really nice.
I've tried making fruit leather/peelies but so far no luck. Still working on that.
This has got me thinking... Once I'm settled into the new apartment I'll have to bust it back out and go googling.
On the Vitamix, I've been curious. I have a nice Oster blender that beats the heck out of foods and soups, but you have to make quite a bit in it at a time to make it work. Can the Vitamix and similar high pressed blenders handle tiny amounts? Except when making a big batch of soup to last me a few days I only make 2cups or so of stuff at a time preferably. I've had gastric bypass so making a regular few cups of smoothie or such is just a waste for me.
My good friend has one, ill pass on your query and get back to you
He said its fine for small quantities but he reckons 200ml is the lowest you should go.0 -
You can always freeze the rest, for next week.0
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Oh wow, 200ml is definitely small enough, that's a fair bit below the smallest batch of anything I'd make, thanks for the help!
I do just save or freeze stuff like soups, but when making smoothies I really don't like them if they're not brand-new fresh.0 -
I have had the little book, "Of These Ye May Freely Eat" by Joann Ranchor. I just recently found it again in a second hand store and picked it up for a friend. In looking through this "revised" edition, I gave mine to a friend and kept the new one. It has a whole section of foods that you can dehydrate, and rehydrate. So I got ambitious and cooked and dried and cooked and dried. I was going to be living out of a tent with a camp stove for 10 days and did not want to depend on processed foods. Well, everything worked the way she said it would. I had wonderful meals. And because i sealed them in my food saver without any air left in them, I didn't even need to keep them in an ice chest. I had people from other tents over for dinner and they were really impressed.
The book is only $3.95 when new!
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