Adventures in dehydrating

“Hell, I did it for my daughter when she was little.

Oooo! another story to gross her friends out with when she's 13! Yay!”

“The "pre-chewing her food" story that is.

Not anything to do with a Bond girl.

Or anything like that...”

“you know, they make these newfangled things called blenders now, bitpusher! they're pretty nifty.”

“I tried one of those but her head wouldn't fit into it, even then...”

“hmmm. you haven't been banned yet? the mind reels.
;-P”

“A wonder, isn't it?

ah well...”

“This whole thread has convinced all the more to stick with Ramen.”

“oh c'mon, live on the edge! rock 'n roll, man.

and by the way, Aero, do you have a projectile vomiting story you'd like to get off your chest?”

“I guess I should try Ramen, but I just haven't yet. I even bought some, but I'm afraid of it, somehow. I wonder if there's a phobia for that...”

“I must have been subconsciously avoiding this thread... and for good reason!”

“So how the hell do ya know when sour cream goes bad, anyhoo? I mean, before it turns green and stuff. Seems to me it's kinda like kimchee...”

“Lyra probably has the best solution, but I often substitute plain yoghurt for sour cream in recipes. You could probably make it last a couple of day in the original container. One day burritos, next day desert with some wild berries.”

“Or mushrooms. What do they do, go good?”

“Well actually I was trying to keep it off my chest, lyra. Back in my college days I could hit the bowl at 5 paces.

New barfing euphemism: He's in the bathroom "running the blender with the lid off."”

“Mushrooms will work. I've gotten dried ones in the grocery store.”

“LMAO @ everybody! you people are too funny.

we definitely needed a new one, Aero...the more vomiting euphemisms, the better, is what i always say.

once, i saw my friend Cara spew red jello shots all over a floor-length mirror from a couple feet away. just call me lucky!”

“Cool! Jello Hockey!”

“King Arthur Flour sells powdered sour cream. I use it with stroganoff and to make dried eggs creamier. I don't think it would taste too good by itself.

kingarthurflour.com”

“I think that's where my friend got hers. She didn't like it. She's got a bunch left if you'd like to try it, she's willing to ship you some. E-mail me at amy5053@yahoo.com.”

“OK thanks...I might give it a try...”

“sour cream in mexican food??..you pple are freaking SICK!!! sick sick sick sick sick sick sick

and bitpusher..if you can beat mine/my mom's spanish recipe at the cookoff i'll eat some of your dehydrated sour cream!!

I'm going to call my country's embassy and have you all arrested and extradited due to crimes against the federal government of mexico”

“lol, OPIE, I'm just trying to bring along something my wife will eat...she's, uh, kinda picky....”

“- steam leeks and portabella mushrooms (both sliced thin), dehydrate.

- make non-buttered caremlized onions: slice onions and simmer in water for a long time. If you cook them slow enough, they will kind of brown up and some chemical thing makes them sweet. dehydrate.

- package the leeks,portabellas, tomatos, carmelized onions with about 1/2 Tb of brown sugar, and a coupel pinches of onion powder, noodles.

- at camp, cook and top with goat cheese (sold at grocery stores in nice little sealed packages, also good on tortillas for lunch the next day!”

“don;'t worry about your wife eating any of you crappola food at the tc2. Once she gets a look at the stuff Im gonna whip up, she won't even know your name!

mmmmmmmmooooooooowwwwwwwhhhhhhaaaaa”

“Does your stuff have vegetables, stikmon? If so, she's not interested...”

“I swear I got powdered sour cream from enerta trail foods, but can't find it on the site. I haven't tried it anyway.”

“According to this foul site, you can get powdered sour cream from AlpineAire and The Baker's Catalogue.”

“"My dehydrated stuff is better than yours!"”

“who has got good full meal recipes to dehydrate?”

“BTW, green chile can be dehydrated or bought that way. ;-)”

“I have dehydrated scallops, mushrooms, shrimp, steak, chicken, beans, ham...I can cook anything out in the backcountry, that can be had in a resturant. soups...I'm gonna try to dehydrate some wine and then rehydrate it, just to see what happens. still lasagna is my favorite,,,the beans and ham is real good too...spread that on pita bread with some rehydrated tomatos...yummy...im gettin hungry right now.”

“A while ago, perhaps on this very thread(?) I listed a number of books that I've used with complete meals. If you can't find 'em, e-mail me and I'll send you the list.”

“I got some more strawberries in the dehydrator. I cut them a lot thinner this time, so I suppose they might stick to the trays more, but last time I followed the directions that came with the dehydrator which is basically to cut everything that goes in there 1/4" thick, everything I did turned out pretty good but it all took longer to dry than I expected and I thought everything (pineapple, strawberries, jerky) was still a tad chewy. So we'll see how it goes.

Roam - I finally found the A1 cajun marinade, I'm going to try that out next.
Also how did you go about salting the meat? I think I salted it way too much last time.”

“I dried a huge 2 gallon bag of pears recently, very good stuff...”

“Yeah, pears are one of my favorites to dehydrate!”

“we had a 5 gal bucket and 3 huge grocery bags of em. I filled the dehydrator everyday for a week and hardly made a dent, sass canned 14 qts of pear sauce. They are sooooo yummy.”

“hmmmm.... I guess I'll have to try pears then, but they'll have to wait. I've got two loads of beef jerky, a pineapple, and some kiwi in the dehydrating queue.”

“tell sass i'm going up there for some desert!”

“There's a desert in Michigan?”

“DESSERT. Sorry :P What are you the typing police bit?”

“Just ask maple...”

“1/4" is ok. they are supposed to be chewy. If they're crunchy, you screwed up”

“um...if your turkey jerky is so dry and crunch that it tastes like ashes, youve dehydreated it too long and even the dog wont eat it... :(”

“Yeah, but not too chewy, when I cut 1/4 inch the jerky just didn't turn out right (of course it could have been because I salted it too much). And the fruit was difficult at that cut because you'd have pockets of moisture in pieces when the rest was already well dry. I cut the strawberries about 1/8 inch this time, which I think was just a bit small, although they came out ok, so next time I'll try to cut somewhere in between.”

“If you marinate the meat you shouldn't have to salt it. There should be enough salt in the marinade to start with.”

“hehehehe Ewker said "Marrinate the meet"! lol”

“I might try that Ewker, but I think salting it still is probably a good idea, I just used less this time. It'll go in the dryer tommorow so we'll see how it goes.”

“of course don't listen to me. I never ever use salt on anything. I hate the stuff.”

“Actually I'm not a big salt fan either, I never put extra salt on my food. Which may have been why I didn't much like the first batch of jerky.
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“Say, are you using electric powered dehydrators or the home made kind, like mesh screens?

I borrowed a friend's electric one for a while. I liked the results but the noise of the motor was distracting.
Any advice?

(besides buy your own!)

Trek Lightly
http://www.mytrekkingpoles.com”