Dehydrating.

[Durgan]

Dehydrating
Posted on August 25, 2018 by Durgan
Over the next few weeks the plan is to dehydrate various plant material. The purpose is food preservation for long term storage meaning a year or less at essentially room temperature.

The material will be in liquid form and placed on cookie sheets and placed in an Excalibur 9 tray dehydrator to remove all the moisture. The temperature will be set at ~50C. The dried material will be powdered in the blender and stored in jars or vacuum packed. To ingest the material will be re-hydrated with water in a ratio of two parts water to one part plant material.

I have about 400 Pressure Canned liter jars and all that is necessary is to pour contents of a jar on a tray and dehydrate. Sticking to the trays is solved by lightly greasing the tray with cooking oil and removing the dehydrated skin using a spatula.

http://durgan.org/2018/August 2018/25 August 2018 Sample/HTML/ 25 August 2018 Sample

 

[DirtMechanic]

Dehydrating
Posted on August 25, 2018 by Durgan
Over the next few weeks the plan is to dehydrate various plant material. The purpose is food preservation for long term storage meaning a year or less at essentially room temperature.

The material will be in liquid form and placed on cookie sheets and placed in an Excalibur 9 tray dehydrator to remove all the moisture. The temperature will be set at ~50C. The dried material will be powdered in the blender and stored in jars or vacuum packed. To ingest the material will be re-hydrated with water in a ratio of two parts water to one part plant material.

I have about 400 Pressure Canned liter jars and all that is necessary is to pour contents of a jar on a tray and dehydrate. Sticking to the trays is solved by lightly greasing the tray with cooking oil and removing the dehydrated skin using a spatula.

http://durgan.org/2018/August 2018/25 August 2018 Sample/HTML/ 25 August 2018 Sample

I think a mold like they use for animal crackers could could be useful and fun in this situation.

 

[Durgan]

http://durgan.org/2018/August 2018/25 August 2018 Dehydrating Vegtables./HTML/25 August 2018 Dehydrating Vegetables
A batch of vegetables was finished dehydrating. The product was reduced in the blender and placed in a storage container. Time was about ten hours. A new batch taken from some opened Pressure canned juice was mixed and placed in a dehydration tray. The tray was lightly oiled to prevent sticking.

 

[skinyea]

man that just doesn't look good

 

[zigs]

man that just doesn't look good

Neither does chocolate, but people still eat it

It's a raw ingredient...

 

[skinyea]

Neither does chocolate, but people still eat it

It's a raw ingredient...

chocolate looks pretty awesome from start to finish. sugar butter and chocolate. nothing wrong there