[Nfb-krafters-korner] {Disarmed} dehydrating listmightbeinteresting to some

[Henrietta Brewer]

Hi Joyce,
A dehydrator has a low heat. Veggies and fruits dry at about a hundred and fifteen degrees. Herbs dry at a lower heat and meats at a higher heat.  An oven usually only goes down to a hundred and seventy so is rather hot for dehydrating and keeping the vitamins in the food.  

Some dehydrators are as cheep as thirty to fifty dollars. The important thing is that it has a fan to blow the heat around evenly.  

You can grate the veggies like I did the zucchini today or slice them. If you are making a powder you do that after the food is dry.  I powder small batches and pour them through a strainer and put the large chunks back in the blender.  

I like to cut corn off the cob and dehydrate that. If you have great sweet corn in the fall you can have it all year long.  I often cut up celery and dehydrate it to put in soups and such. If I want to use it in a salad I will pour boiling water over the dried celery and it will soon be back to the celery I bought.  There is a lot of things you can do with dehydrating foods. Things you would never dream of doing. People on the list are amazing with their knowledge.
Henrietta
On Sep 1, 2011, at 8:13 PM, Blindhands at aol.com wrote:

> The light is starting to go on.  One question first...  So you  must grind 
> this stuff up into powder.  Do you dry it out first or put in  the oven, I 
> know, I know you have this dehydrator .  Does it get warm or  how does it get 
> the moisture out of these things.
> 
> Joyce  Kane
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
> Blindhands at AOL.com   
> 
> 
> In a message dated 9/1/2011 8:03:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> gary.brewer at comcast.net writes:
> 
> Then I  said i use a good blender.  After the veggies are dehydrated I take 
> some  and put them in the blender and powder them. I use them to add 
> vitamins to  soups stews meatloaf or other things like that. I powder mushrooms 
> and add  salt and powder again to make yummy mushroom salt. 
> 
> You can add boiling  water to the zucchini that is grated or powdered and 
> use it to make bread or  chocolate zucchini cake. lol 
> 
> Henrietta
> On Sep 1, 2011, at 6:37 PM,  Blindhands at aol.com wrote:
> 
>> You lost me here.  It sounded like  you powder the fruits or  veggies.  I 
>> was wondering what  you powder it with.  Then you said you  don't have a 
> food 
>> processor.  I have to be missing something.
>> 
>> Joyce   Kane
>> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)  
>> Blindhands at AOL.com   
>> 
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