Decaff wrote:Going to do apple rings today and a few more peppers.
Tried out the dehydrated onions, celery, carrots, tomato powder and mushrooms in a beef stew yesterday and they were fine! Mr D kept saying "ooh that's not going to work you know...." Such a pessimist but he has been well and truly silenced now
Onwards and upwards
Bet you file 9 miles high now
I feel very pleased with everything so far, can't wait to get lots more fruit, I've heard that if you sprinkle icing sugar over strawberries and leave overnight in the fridge before dehydrating they taste even sweeter, I'm also considering canning up fruit using the water bath/simple syrup method to add further to my stocks so that will be jams, jellies, dehydrated and canned fruit all home preserved with no nasties. I so want a pressure canner to process veg and meat but they are so expensive!
Behind every great man is an even greater woman. She carried you, raised you and made you who you are.
I've made a couple of batches of jerky now, marinated for a couple of days and I didn't wipe them down, there's bits of garlic, chilli and onion bits stuck to them so probably not to everyones taste. I went for a long time at a lower temp which seemed to work. I've got some more frying steak to do after the football's finished, a question of priorities.
Mrs Deeps has just come in and asked if she can use it She wants to dehydrate some pineapple we bought yesterday, I might have to get her that zombie slaying gear after all.
More chilli and onions as well this week, once Her Maj has had a go of course.
Decaff wrote:Going to do apple rings today and a few more peppers.
Tried out the dehydrated onions, celery, carrots, tomato powder and mushrooms in a beef stew yesterday and they were fine! Mr D kept saying "ooh that's not going to work you know...." Such a pessimist but he has been well and truly silenced now
Onwards and upwards
Bet you file 9 miles high now
I feel very pleased with everything so far, can't wait to get lots more fruit, I've heard that if you sprinkle icing sugar over strawberries and leave overnight in the fridge before dehydrating they taste even sweeter, I'm also considering canning up fruit using the water bath/simple syrup method to add further to my stocks so that will be jams, jellies, dehydrated and canned fruit all home preserved with no nasties. I so want a pressure canner to process veg and meat but they are so expensive!
My son imported one of these for me some years ago. It's worth every single penny! In the grand scheme of things, if you shop around, they're not so expensive. Oh and all the hype about All American canners being the ONLY one to get is a load of tosh.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain~anon
For those of you who are thinking of using your car the temperature in my car today was 9 am 20c = 68f, 12.30 40c = 104f, 5.30pm 30c= 86f giving 8 hours of drying time. Thinking of trying to dry a banna in there tomorrow if I can find info on how to prepare it.
AREA's 5-6 and 4 Feet the original All Terrain Vehicle
junmist wrote:For those of you who are thinking of using your car the temperature in my car today was 9 am 20c = 68f, 12.30 40c = 104f, 5.30pm 30c= 86f giving 8 hours of drying time. Thinking of trying to dry a banna in there tomorrow if I can find info on how to prepare it.
In the dehydrator you can slice, dip into lemon juice(to keep from going too brown) or just slice and put into trays, I've found the best tasting are the ones that have a couple of brown spots on the skin, too green and they are bitter tasting, too ripe and they brown more and are very sticky. I would use the brown nonstick oven liner in the car, it will smell amazing!! Good luck please let us know how it works out.
Behind every great man is an even greater woman. She carried you, raised you and made you who you are.
I feel very pleased with everything so far, can't wait to get lots more fruit, I've heard that if you sprinkle icing sugar over strawberries and leave overnight in the fridge before dehydrating they taste even sweeter, I'm also considering canning up fruit using the water bath/simple syrup method to add further to my stocks so that will be jams, jellies, dehydrated and canned fruit all home preserved with no nasties. I so want a pressure canner to process veg and meat but they are so expensive!
My son imported one of these for me some years ago. It's worth every single penny! In the grand scheme of things, if you shop around, they're not so expensive. Oh and all the hype about All American canners being the ONLY one to get is a load of tosh.
That looks a bargain!!! Do you need to get extra seals for it and how do you get he gauge checked out for accuracy??
Behind every great man is an even greater woman. She carried you, raised you and made you who you are.
You do need to replace the gasket and overpressure plug, but I worked out I would be long dead and gone before I'd spent enough on them to get anywhere near the price of an All American! I have not replaced mine yet and it's had a good deal of use for at least 5 years.
I asked a few American friends about getting getting the gauge checked and none of them have bothered, I even spoke to Presto about it, and although they said it was a good idea, the impression I got was it's not important. There are companies over here who would do it no doubt if that's what you wanted.
I have friends who have both an All American and a Presto, and they all use the Presto the most simply because it's easier to use and lighter.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain~anon
Thanks Brambles, I will put this on my birthday wish list then! Very exciting to be able to make meat stock and intrigued at canning bacon, stews, and the like *excited smiley*
Behind every great man is an even greater woman. She carried you, raised you and made you who you are.
junmist wrote:For those of you who are thinking of using your car the temperature in my car today was 9 am 20c = 68f, 12.30 40c = 104f, 5.30pm 30c= 86f giving 8 hours of drying time. Thinking of trying to dry a banna in there tomorrow if I can find info on how to prepare it.
The temperature was ten degrees lower that the above but I went ahead and tried although they were in the car all day they had not dried as much as I thought they should, so I left them in the car the next day, which had nice high temperatures again and this did the trick.
Note to self is to slice them a lot thinner than I did as I think they were to thick. they also made the car smell lovely but I'm not sure what people thought if they looked in the back of the car and saw sliced bananas on the back seat
AREA's 5-6 and 4 Feet the original All Terrain Vehicle
She wants to dehydrate some pineapple we bought yesterday, I might have to get her that zombie slaying gear after all. 