Should anyone be interested, I got an email from Aldi with their latest offers the other day, one of which is a dehydrator for 30-40 quid.
Food dehydrator
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Ordered one of those. Comments on another forum suggested getting some silicon mats because the trays looked quite quite open spaced. Will try it out with some dal when it arrived next week.
Will post a review on here. I’ve not used one before it like the idea of dehydrating meals and also seasonal fruits into leathers.
We bought a dehydrator a couple of years back, although not the one in this thread. It’s been really useful for almost anything we have in glut from the garden - fruit and veg. Making things like your own tomato or chilli powder is great and a very space efficient storage solution. We still have a couple of jars of nicely leathery apple rings to eat up from summer 2020 and from this summer just gone. Great lightweight nibbles to have when walking!
We've had a dehydrator for about a year now. Recently we added silicone trays to make fruit leather, from the Complete Idiots Guide to Dehydrated Foods, such as Pina Colada and Strawberry and Merlot which are lovely.
I've made beef jerky, plain, garlic, and also some South African braii salt flavours. Pineapple rings are amazing, Skinned fruit like grapes and blueberries can take a while but are super tasty. Sweet potato slices are good dog treats. We have kale, celery, garlic, ginger, carrots and more ready to chuck into stews etc I want to try potatoes to see if my own smash works.
Back Country Eats by Kevin Ride seems a good read on whole meals for multi day trips, maybe my next purchase
I've made beef jerky, plain, garlic, and also some South African braii salt flavours. Pineapple rings are amazing, Skinned fruit like grapes and blueberries can take a while but are super tasty. Sweet potato slices are good dog treats. We have kale, celery, garlic, ginger, carrots and more ready to chuck into stews etc I want to try potatoes to see if my own smash works.
Back Country Eats by Kevin Ride seems a good read on whole meals for multi day trips, maybe my next purchase
We've had a dehydrator for about a year now. Recently we added silicone trays to make fruit leather, from the Complete Idiots Guide to Dehydrated Foods, such as Pina Colada and Strawberry and Merlot which are lovely.
I've made beef jerky, plain, garlic, and also some South African braii salt flavours. Pineapple rings are amazing, Skinned fruit like grapes and blueberries can take a while but are super tasty. Sweet potato slices are good dog treats. We have kale, celery, garlic, ginger, carrots and more ready to chuck into stews etc I want to try potatoes to see if my own smash works.
Back Country Eats by Kevin Ride seems a good read on whole meals for multi day trips, maybe my next purchase
Sorry for asking - Can you expand on this??
"such as Pina Colada and Strawberry and Merlot"
Just recipes from the Idiots guide I mentioned, Pina Colada is banana, pineapple and coconut milk blended, the other is strawberries, apple sauce a bit of sugar and Merlot blended, spread on a sheet of silicon or greaseproof paper (but trickier) and dried into a fruit leather.
I have an American Harvest unit with 4 trays. The motor and heater are on the top of an internal chimney so fruit juice can't gum up the workings. Takes 2 batches to dry Roma tomato halves overnight (+55C). The smell in the kitchen the next morning is heavenly. Just a hell of a thing to start snacking on, only to realize that I've just eaten a dozen tomatoes.
We bought some of these square metal gauze sheets rather than solid silicone plates for ours. These allow the air to circulate more easily and you can dehydrate some very small items without them falling through between the shelf grid. They fir our model really nicely but you could easily cut them to size or shape if needed.
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I had mine running all night to make venison jerky (teriyaki/garlic). I'm told the shelf life is quite long but I think I'll have scoffed the lot before Wednesday.
Just ordered, thanks for the recommendation.We've had a dehydrator for about a year now. Recently we added silicone trays to make fruit leather, from the Complete Idiots Guide to Dehydrated Foods, such as Pina Colada and Strawberry and Merlot which are lovely.
I've made beef jerky, plain, garlic, and also some South African braii salt flavours. Pineapple rings are amazing, Skinned fruit like grapes and blueberries can take a while but are super tasty. Sweet potato slices are good dog treats. We have kale, celery, garlic, ginger, carrots and more ready to chuck into stews etc I want to try potatoes to see if my own smash works.
Back Country Eats by Kevin Ride seems a good read on whole meals for multi day trips, maybe my next purchase
Ta for the reminder to look for stainless steel mesh sheet.
I've got roasts in my freezer that I will never use by myself. Might just as well shave it up and smoke dry it all. Strong preference for apple wood smoke. I just found that I can connect wit a fish shop much nearer the coast. Might do mussels some day soon.
I've got roasts in my freezer that I will never use by myself. Might just as well shave it up and smoke dry it all. Strong preference for apple wood smoke. I just found that I can connect wit a fish shop much nearer the coast. Might do mussels some day soon.
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