I am seeing all this talk about Dehydrator's. I understand what it does but I don't understand what you would use it for? Do you Dehydrate your food and store it and rehydrate it later? I honestly have no idea here.
I do have a FoodSaver vacuum sealer and absolutely love it. It keeps my frozen meats and stuff from getting freezer burned. I believe it lasts longer but I had a Store bought bag of chicken legs and they were getting iced up and freezer burned in a very short time maybe a month. My chicken breasts I used the vacuum sealer and I would say almost a year later they are still fine!! I read the instruction booklet and if I remember right it says stuff should last for year/s. I just find the bags are kind of expensive.
Thanks in advance for any information.
hey sspencer69......I bought myself a dehydrator this year with plans to make jerky and do some vegetables for packaging. Yes you can rehydrate them later. Cook rice and add the dehydrated veggies and you have yourself a good meal, or soup...or whatever you want to make!!...I have also done fruit as well. Tastes great and keeps very easily!! Check out youtube.com as you can do complete meals like chilli and spaghetti with your dehydrator!!!
Hope that this gives you a start!
Thanks sbasacco!
canadian tire has them on for no more the $70.00....make your own MRE's!!!! and healthy as hell!
We have an Excalibur dehydrator that I regularly use to dehydrate fruits, veggies, leathers, jerkies... it's a dearly loved appliance in our house!
if you slice and dehydrate things like zucchini, tomatoes, mushrooms really thin, you don't even have to rehydrate them... they make really great pizza toppings or throw them in an omelet etc.
We have an Excalibur dehydrator that I regularly use to dehydrate fruits, veggies, leathers, jerkies... it's a dearly loved appliance in our house!
Spencer Excalibur is a name you're going to hear lots about, it's a pricy piece of gear, but it's also one of the best. some feel the need for this, others buy less expensive dehydrators. . . i've only every used this one. i know some really advanced preppers that use the round ones, and have no problems with them. the round ones made 20-30 years ago are still going, spending $50-100 on one these days i'm not sure you'd get 10 years out of it. but i have no personal experience with cheaper ones.
i got my Excalibur last spring, i paid a lot for it. . . but it's drying methods are said to be superior in many ways, it's quality is clearly better then others, but with a $400 price tag, it better be.
i've got a food saver too, but i don't use it very much. my "veggie" burgers, fake chicken breast, and other veggie frozen foods don't get freezer burn in the packs they come in, and i've had some in there for over a year. and if they did, i'm not sure it would change the taste 😕 but it seems to be the one that stands above the rest in the preppers world opinion.
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Good advice all!! Thanks!