Getting your Jerky on with a food dehydrator (pic heavy)

[Goatboy]

Can't see the pics today, but I think it's the signal here rather than what you've popped up. So saying words are better and that sounds very tasty. I know you like it hot butbhave you thought of something like caraway or fennel seeds in your fruit leather? Good for the tummy and breath and tasty with fruit like that. I quite often chew them on their own but nice added to something tartly sweet too.
Liking the experiments, keep them coming.


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[British Red]

The addition of the chilli sauce made all the difference, without it the flavour would just be sweetness

Thats why I like sharp fruit in the mix (gooseberry, rhubarb etc.)

 

[GGTBod]

Over the next few months i will be trying hundreds of combos, fennels seeds and caraway on the list, i was thinking crushed nuts would go well in the fruit leather too

 

[Macaroon]

Watch it with the nuts, 'Bod, they're mostly very oily and will go rancid.................Although if you continue to eat it as soon as you've made it, that may not be a problem for you!

 

[Robson Valley]

I'd leave the nuts out. Probably curry and roast them all for a dry snack to compliment the fruit leather.
To avoid rancid, I buy approx $100 pecan halves and keep them in the freezer until it's curry time.

Of course, acidic fruits drop the pH like lemon juice does. Important. This alters the flavor molecules in the food such
that them are more intensely noticed.

 

[Goatboy]

I'd leave the nuts out. Probably curry and roast them all for a dry snack to compliment the fruit leather.
To avoid rancid, I buy approx $100 pecan halves and keep them in the freezer until it's curry time.

Of course, acidic fruits drop the pH like lemon juice does. Important. This alters the flavor molecules in the food such
that them are more intensely noticed.

Yup bad experiance once making a quick raw salad. The grapefruit segments put the finely chopped chilli go through the roof power wise. Made it inedible.

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[sausage100uk]

Look what arrived today!

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[GGTBod]

Awesome and now the madness begins, is that straight off the bat getting some banana chips made?

I just finished blitzing up 7 kiwi (skins and all) and 5 bananas and set them off to leather up

 

[British Red]

Great value machine that one

 

[GGTBod]

That was my thoughts too as most the ones i looked at under £30 didn't have adjustable temp control

 

[sausage100uk]

I couldnt help myself....

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[GGTBod]

Much healthier than the crunchy ones you buy in shops, they have been deep fried, done in the dehydrator they end up little leathery discs packed with flavour

 

[sausage100uk]

Next will be some chilli con carne and maybe some jerky..... Its got me hooked

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[British Red]

Fill that machine with jerky once and its paid for itself

 

[GGTBod]

I've got a plan for a spag bol including pasta so i can just take a jar of it dried on camping trips and just rehydrate and heat up when needed

 

[British Red]

...don't do it! Pasta rehydrates differently to the sauce. I would make the sauce (no meat), some "hamburger rocks" separately and keep the pasta on its own. Rehydrate the sauce, add the hamburger rocks and cook the pasta separately.

 

[GGTBod]

Sounds like a good plan, what about chilli con carne style dishes with the rice included?

 

[British Red]

Same problem. I think the problem is that pasta and rice have already been dried. Rehydrating, dehydrating and rehydrating again does weird things to them. Best to leave them dry and cook them in camp.

Mince beef is fatty and dehydrating doesn't work well (goes rancid). The process of making "hamburger rocks" melts, drains and washes away the fat. You get really dry, concentrated meat without fat done right. Looks like gravel.

 

[GGTBod]

Thanks for the advice, plenty experimenting to be done, like you said easy enough to take dried pasta and rice along

 

[Dave]

My jerky ended up as snacks for the dog. Tasted awful. I must have got the seasoning wrong. I like Chili sauce, but the supermarket chili beef jerky isnt very nice either.
I bought some liquid smoke, which I keep meaning to try. Might give it a go again next week.