Re: keeping excalibur clean

[Guest guest]

Are you using ground meat or strips of meat? I made some by cutting up a steak

into thin strips, and removed all visible fat. There was no leaking at all. I

had zucchini chips and nuts in the other racks and nothing ended up smelling.

If you are doing ground meat, maybe it's just not lean enough. Any chance you

can find leaner?

Also, is your yogurt sealed? Would it still pick up smells?

This all reminds me that I really do need to clean mine lol. I usually clean the

racks I use, but not the box. Oops..

Kat

http://scdkatfood.blogspot.com

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> I made jerky the other day and all of this fat pooled at the bottom of the

dehydrator. Stuff gets messy in a kitchen. Problem is this pool of seasoned

fat stinks and it permeates all other stuff I put in the dehydrator. I don't

want my yogurt having the aroma of jerky.. same for other things like zucchini

noodles.

> The fat got into a couple of corners and crevices that it is like impossible

to get out (Yes, the smell bothered me so that I used q-tips!)

> Anyway, how do you guys - to the best of your ability- prevent a situation

like this from happening?

>

> Thanks,

> Jodi

>

[Guest guest]

Thank you all for your responses. I will totally try all of these.

I had gotten meat directly from an Amish Farmer so the ground meat was not lean

by any means. It was the first time I made jerky w ground meat as I didn't want

to fuss at all. It came out quite delish if I may say so myself. Next batch I

want to throw in some mutton into the mix. It's a really handy snack for road

trips!

But boy does my Excalibur stink. I was running it with nothing in it to air it

out.

Jodi

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> Hi Jodi,

> When I made my meat snacking sticks out of ground beef, my brother warned me

ahead of me to only use 85% lean or better and to be prepared to do something

 about the grease that would cook out of it.  Based on his suggestion, I put

the meat on parchment paper and used paper towels to blot the standing grease

every hour or so.  I also put a couple of paper towels in the bottom of the

excalibur just in case some grease came off the parchment paper when I was

sliding the trays in and out to blot everything.

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> If you make jerky with slices of lean meat you don't usually have the grease

problem like you do with ground meat, but I still like using ground meat too

>

> HTH

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> Sent: Mon, March 22, 2010 3:12:10 AM

> Subject: keeping excalibur clean

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> I made jerky the other day and all of this fat pooled at the bottom of the

dehydrator. Stuff gets messy in a kitchen. Problem is this pool of seasoned fat

stinks and it permeates all other stuff I put in the dehydrator. I don't want my

yogurt having the aroma of jerky.. same for other things like zucchini noodles.

> The fat got into a couple of corners and crevices that it is like impossible

to get out (Yes, the smell bothered me so that I used q-tips!)

> Anyway, how do you guys - to the best of your ability- prevent a situation

like this from happening?

>

> Thanks,

> Jodi

>

[Guest guest]

Hey Marilyn,

Where do you buy inkblotter these days?

A stationary store? Heh.

Jodi

> >The fat got into a couple of corners and

> >crevices that it is like impossible to get out

> >(Yes, the smell bothered me so that I used q-tips!)

> >Anyway, how do you guys - to the best of your

> >ability- prevent a situation like this from happening?

>

> If you can find it, get, and cut to size, a piece

> of inkblotter. Place it in the bottom, and it

> soaks up the grease and doesn't let it get into

> the corners. You could also just put some paper towels down.

>

> Another possibility is to get, and cut to size

> some terrycloth -- it'll do the same thing, but you'll need to wash it.

>

> One of those things they ought to put in the

> manual, but don't think of, because they don't

> expect they'll be doing like I do, and making 20

> pounds of meat into jerky at a whack.

>

>

> — Marilyn

> New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

> Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

> Darn Good SCD Cook

> No Human Children

> Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

> Babette the Foundling Beagle

>

[Guest guest]

At 02:39 PM 3/24/2010, you wrote:

Where do you buy inkblotter

these days?

A stationary store? Heh.

Y'know, that's a real good question. <g> Maybe that's why I

put a bar towel on the bottom!

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

Babette the Foundling Beagle