Re: [MittleiderMethodGardening] Dehydrating Foods
On 8/15/2010 11:07 PM, Tina wrote:
> Two questions - 1) how does one dehydrate SOUP?!
It needs to be fairly thick, and you need to spread a sheet of plastic
or alum. foil on your dehydrator tray. The Excalibur has available
"paraflex" sheets, plastic sheets that fit the dryer trays.
Spoon the thick soup, spaghetti sauce, etc., onto the tray, and dry.
When dray, scrape off into a jar and vac-seal. Will keep for
weeks/months and is very handy for "cup-of-soup" meals on the go.
> 2) what recommendations do you have for vac-sealing apparatus? What works?
> What does not?
I have a Food Saver that I got at Tuesday Morning when the model was
discontinued. They are expensive, but you can get them on ebay,
sometimes thrift stores. You can still get their jar-sealers on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/2-FoodSaver-Mason-Jar-Sealers-one-Large-and-one-Small-/260504313938?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0
These let you seal in mason jars, rather than having to buy the
expensive bags. You can do this with used canning-jar lids; I re-use the
lids and jars over and over, it saves a bunch of money.
I would avoid the new Fresh Sealer and the one for vertical storage;
I've heard negative things about both. For lots more information, think
about joining the Preserving-Foods group -- they are masters at
dehydrating and the files are a wealth of information:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/preserving-food/
- Kathrynne
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