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I've always been a lover of offal. Can't beat a good bit of pan fried liver! The only way I've found tripe edible so far is to cut it into strips and fry it in bread crumbs. It ends up a bit like squid then.

Singer 201k from ebay. Type 'singer 201k leather' into YouTube to give you some info.

It's interesting. The reason I asked is because I drove past an old weathered chap with a long grey beard in full army DPM including Bergen who was walking down a suburban street. My instant thought was he was a bush crafter either on his way to the woods or coming back, and he looked really...

It's funny, I saw what might be the start of one of those last week and thought. "Who would bother bringing bright yellow paint into the forest?" :)

Do you love DPM and kit everything you own out in it? Or maybe prefer just plain earthy colours? Or maybe bright hiking colours? What's the reason for your choices?

I've never used any official guides to be honest. I've just been running them until they go rubbery or completely crisp if I want them like that. I have found the rubbery ones firm up even more once they've cooled. Not that I've been dehydrating for very long to really give any professional...

I've got a Swedish Naval officers overcoat which is great for winter, but I've stopped wearing it if I'm doing quite a bit of walking as it just makes me too hot. The only time I truly appreciated it was a couple of years back I was in the city centre watching a band and a snowstorm hit stopping...

Whohoho! Astounding!

Mega bonus!!! Let the dehydrating begin! :D I've just done whole strawberries (big ones halved) and peaches cut into 1/8 as a big fruit dehydrating test. They took 18 hours at 55C so definitely a bit electric heavy. They taste good, though I'll stick to slicing them thin from now on as it's a...

I thought I'd struck gold in a forest I'd not been to before. Big fat golden boletes everywhere! I got a carrier bag full, then brought them home for detailed ID in a far better light than the dusk forest. I was so disappointed to have collected the bitter boletes. I gave them a nibble...

Ah okay. If it ends up being a scrapper Have a look at second hand Stockli dehydrators on eBay. I got one for £33 and it's like new. :)

Is it an old one or a cheap one?

Is it up to heat now?

Yes, it's got quite a strong sweet aniseed flavour in the leaves. It's from the same family as cow parsley and hemlock and the leaves are very similar to hemlock apart from hemlock smells awful, likely an old wet dog or something.

Very interesting. I'll add that to my list of things to have a go at. I guess at the minute they'd taste like dog biscuits. :)

I've just collected a good bunch of sweet cicely this evening to dehydrate, but I'm now having second thoughts about what if it might be hemlock, even though I know it's not, and it smells of aniseed anyway.

I'm going to say it's some kind of half circle wall wardrobe or it could be the top of a wall mounted drape of some kind. The middle hook and wheel in the middle stops it from being a fold out device.

There is some wear around the middle hook which looks like the bracket will go there for wall mounting. Then there's quite a bit of wear around the inside of the ring. Do those pulley wheel looking things where the hooks are spin?

Hm, that's a right pest for you. Worst cas scenario you'll have a dedicated cold air dehydrator. Might take forever to dry stuff though. :s

Yeah that sounds broken. When I set mine even to 30c you can feel the warm air on your hand.