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Thanks for posting this.
You can even dry yogurt (results in plastic-like chips). Plans abound for solar units built with plywood capable of drying 50+ pounds per load. The book ‘Dry It - You’ll Like It’ by Deana DeLong(?) is a fine primer and gives tips on special processes like sulphuring apricots and glazing. A clean, simple and potentially free energy method of food preservation. Every American interested in security and liberty ought to investigate it.
Good info for folks.
We dehydrate LOTS of stuff to add to our SHTF storage. Easy, cheap, and there when you need it.
Great for camping, and for keeping a supply of those things you don’t use often.
Pineapple is pretty good, cut it into thin rings.
Beef jerky is easy but leave your house smelling like it. Never seems to last long enough to store.
Bananas don’t usually turn out so well.
>>One of my camping-crazy friends dehydrates sheets of spaghetti sauce, rehydrates them with water over a campstove<<
Instead of sheets that still have the moisture, continue to dry until hard and grind them in a coffee grinder.
Now you have a powder. You can add as much as you like to get the sauce as think as you like.
BTW, why would you dry canned food? Why not fresh?
I’d be happy with the perfect pepperdill pickle recipe...
I “think” I’ve got a PDF collection on dehydrating food. IF I do...and IF I can locate it, I’ll put it up where it can be browsed and downloaded. I’ll let you know! :-)
This is so interesting, I would never have thought about drying yogurt. I’ve been giving this whole survival strategy a lot of thought lately & here are some of my thoughts:
Dried foods definitely keep a long time, don’t cost energy to store & don’t take up as much room in storage - but what I’m concerned about is that there might be a shortage of water during the time of crisis/emergency/etc. All of these dehydrated foods would take quite a bit of water to reconstitute. If a person has an unlimited supply of water, that’s not a problem, but I’m thinking that in addition to a good variety of dried foods, I’m going to stock up on a good bit of canned foods as well - since they are canned in liquid & we won’t have to use precious water for them.
I don’t plan to store a lot of foods in the freezer for the same reason - what if the power goes out?
I’m thinking about getting some rainwater barrels to harvest our rainwater - mostly for the garden, but to use for drinking, etc if the water goes out. Does anyone have any experience with this?
Wouldn’t want you to miss this thread, m’Lady.
Take it one step further. Get yourself a vacuum sealer, put the dried food in the bag and seal it so it doesn’t oxidize further. Keeps it fresh for a long time.
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I recommend finding a dehydrator on Craigs list. You can find them
used once because they were a Christmas gift, and some people don't have room
to store them or only used them one time.
Kinda like Rifles that are being sold as "only dropped once"..
After posting I reread this article. MOTHER EARTH NEWS. OMG. I remember that mag in the 70s. Great articles. But I never wanted to go back to the land. LOL I did however want to build one of those Russian fireplaces though. Thanks for the post. Dehydration is one of those “work a little wait a lot” types of jobs like making beer or wine. I like that. I have a way to make coconut that will knock you socks off.
Dehydrating ping! I never thought about drying ‘shrooms before, but it makes sense. They are very expensive dried. Next $.99 sale, I’m doing this!
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