well i have been toying with the idea for a while, im getting in some mountain time soon and wanted some freeze dried light weight meals to take with me, how ever i do not want to pay the price of them, i dont have a dehydrator, so oven it was to see what i could do...
mince was the meat of choice and i chose to do all the bits separately.
i used about 600-700 grams of mince, cooked it of in a pan then washed it well under the hot tap, i spread it out evenly and thinly on baking sheets placed it in the oven high up. the oven was set to 75-80 c and is fan assisted which helps, i kept the door closed the whole time.
the mince came out very well and only took 4 hours to dry, i took the trays out every 30 mins for the first hour and gave them a stir to aid the drying, after that every hour or so. the mice was a good even small size and dried evenly, mostly.
i also did some red onion and carrot, cut into fine dice and dry fried until slightly soft, this was in the top shelf and again worked very well. i used 1 large red onion and 3 medium size carrots, this took just a little longer at 4.5 hours.
the plan is to mix the ingredients together add some gravy powder and steak seasoning, maybe some stock cubes with a dash of taco spice, add boiling water in a thermal mug leave to soak, hay presto, cheep tasty light weight meal.
the pasta bol is in the oven as i write this, it will take allot longer so when i got to bed will turn the oven down to 60 c ish and see what its like in the morning...
no pics as yet but will take some of the end product tomorrow.
any thought ect welcome.
regards.
chris.
mince was the meat of choice and i chose to do all the bits separately.
i used about 600-700 grams of mince, cooked it of in a pan then washed it well under the hot tap, i spread it out evenly and thinly on baking sheets placed it in the oven high up. the oven was set to 75-80 c and is fan assisted which helps, i kept the door closed the whole time.
the mince came out very well and only took 4 hours to dry, i took the trays out every 30 mins for the first hour and gave them a stir to aid the drying, after that every hour or so. the mice was a good even small size and dried evenly, mostly.
i also did some red onion and carrot, cut into fine dice and dry fried until slightly soft, this was in the top shelf and again worked very well. i used 1 large red onion and 3 medium size carrots, this took just a little longer at 4.5 hours.
the plan is to mix the ingredients together add some gravy powder and steak seasoning, maybe some stock cubes with a dash of taco spice, add boiling water in a thermal mug leave to soak, hay presto, cheep tasty light weight meal.
the pasta bol is in the oven as i write this, it will take allot longer so when i got to bed will turn the oven down to 60 c ish and see what its like in the morning...
no pics as yet but will take some of the end product tomorrow.
any thought ect welcome.
regards.
chris.
