What he is saying is, it won’t dry out enough to start with. It is possible he is wrong but he’s usually right, however, he doesn’t live here. I don’t know anyone who has one. Maybe I could look at customer comments on Amazon and some will say where they live. I had even picked the good one I wanted, then dumped the idea when Johnny said that.
Pressure canners are very expensive and if I could dry instead, I would.
Well, if you can get a dehydrator real cheap maybe. I put a lot of faith in Johhny. You probably can’t do it in the sun light like indians did.
Howver, you do have airconditioning which takes up some of the humidity. And using a dehydrator inside, maybe even the oven if you need to. Put it in a bag with dessicant or white rice it might work.
Let me ask you this. Can you make your own croutons? If you can, you ought to be able to dry othere stuff good enough to preserve it for a while especially if it’s packed after it cools with dessicant.
But I am no expert on dehydration either. Maybe a little experiment is just the thing to see how it works in your area?