Re: Another Food Dehydrator Q

[Guest guest]

Jodi,

Kim M. is the expert at dehydrating things in the oven!

Veggie and / or squash chips can be a good thing to carry with you. You

can also make " salt and pepper " beef sticks, too. I don't make

them completely hard and dry, but they are fine for 8-12 hours. (If you

can stand them being a bit extra salty, that is safer without

refrigeration.)

The reason dried fruits are typically considered advanced is because it

concentrates the natural sugars in the fruits and makes the pieces

smaller. Not only that, the dried fruits are sooo tasty that it's easy to

overeat on them.

For instance, when I'm doing industrial quantity pineapple bits, I can

fit THREE 22 ounce cans on a tray for the 9 tray Excalibur. When it's

dry, I can sweep up in a handful around a quarter of that -- so if I went

ahead and ate it (and I did the first time I made it!) that would be

eating several cups of pineapple, all at once.

Given my sensitivity to fruit, I'm sure you can guess what happened next!

I've not had a problem with zucchini or winter squash chips and eating

too much. They can be, if they've gotten a little humidity into them,

more chewey than crisp, but still edible, and far better than going

hungry. The main thing if you are consuming dried foods, make sure you

consume enough water to rehydrate them!

BTW, no, there isn't teflon in the Excalibur. They're made of a good

grade of plastic that cleans easily (important!) and so far as I know,

does not outgas.

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Marilyn

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

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