How do you dehydrate your potatoes?
Inquiring minds/etc.
I made rice tonight and added a bit of extra water and dehydrated pepper dices, dehydrated mushrooms and dehydrated vidalia onions. If I’d had a clue and more sleep last night I’d have added a clove or two of crushed garlic as well.
I’d LOVE LOVE LOVE to do that with potatoes sometimes rather than rice and if I could do it with potato dices I’d be in heaven!
I have instructions that call for steaming them first and then putting the slices on the dehydrator.
However, I had bought a plastic kit to make micro wave potato chips a few months ago. It included a mandolin that slices the potatoes paper thin, and the plate to cook them on.
So Hubby experimented and used that mandolin and then put the slices on the dehydrator, and it worked. I was skeptical and thought they would probably be discolored, but they weren’t.
So that’s how we do it. Lots less effort.
When I dehydrate potatoes, I slice them raw, into salt water first. The salt water keeps them from turning black in the drying process. I also salt water soak apples and pears before drying, same reason. Does not negatively impact flavor.
Also, I do not pre-cook the spuds. I don’t pre-cook anything I dehydrate (including meat). But that is just me. I’m lazy.