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I dehydrate my garden tamatoes and 3 kind of peppers yesterday. I will powder the pepper.
I added olive oil,salt and vinegar to the dehydrated tomatoes.
Looking for ideas on what can be dehydrtaed.
What have you dehydrated.
Aloha
Wyatt
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Hi Wyatt,
We have dehydrated Pinapple, Papaya, and Bananna with good sucess. We have also done hot peppers and Tomatoes.
Bill
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Mangos are good dehydrated too
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My husband Luckey has made a KILLER batch of jerky with our dehydrator!
hope
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Hopefeather,
I've been making jerky for several years and would very much like to see your husband's recipe. I have two recipes, but have settled onto one that I got from the Food Network about a year ago:
This should be made for ~2.5 pounds of beef:
2\3 Cup Soy sauce
2\3 Cup Worchestershire sauce
1 T Honey
2 t Pepper
2 t Onion powder
2 t Red pepper
2 t Liquid smoke
Place all ingredients in a zip-lock bag with the meat and kneed to distribute everything. Referigerate 4-6 hours, drain, pat dry, dry in a dehydrator on cool temp until dark and chewy. This is the recipe as I copied it, but I have a smoker that gives me that flavor much better than using Liquid Smoke, so I omit that ingredient.
I'm putting this message out to the forum to see if there are any others interested in food preservation. This is a topic that I'd like to explore with others but haven't seen anything like it on PunaWeb. I've been canning and preserving meats and veggies for a long time, anyone else in to food preservation?
A hui hou,
Fishboy
(Brian)
Edited by - fishboy on 10/14/2006 04:27:08
Aloha pumehana,
Brian and Mary
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Another thing to keep in mind is storage after dehydration. It kind of defeats some of the purpose of dehydration to keep the dried items in the freezer. They will oxidize and darken over time. One way to keep them in better shape is to store them in a jar and replace the air with carbon dioxide. An easy(?) way to do this is to get some dry ice pellets or chunks and drop them in the jar before you close it and leave the lid on loosely (to keep the jar from exploding) until the dry ice all 'melts'. The carbon dioxide is heavier than air and will push the air up out of the jar.
Here in Baton Rouge, we get dry ice from a welding supply store. I do not know if it is available on the Big Island, but I would expect it is.
Allen
Baton Rouge, LA & HPP
Allen
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An interesting idea, Allen, but dry ice isn't easily available. I put my jerky in vacume-sealed bags using my Foodsaver vacume machine. I've had this thing since the early 80's and have used it for most everything. You can get these at Costco and they're just great for keeping foods from oxydizing.
A hui hou,
Fishboy
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Aloha pumehana,
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You can get dry ice at Airgas/Gaspro in Hilo.
John Dirgo, RA, ABR, e-PRO
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