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Welcome - Educating and Helping Those Who Want To Learn About Dehydration. Preserving Apples - How to Make Applesauce, Apple leather and Dried Apple Slices. How to Dehydrate Mushrooms. Have you ever had a recipe ask for mushrooms and you just didn’t have any?

How to Dehydrate Mushrooms

Or have you bought them intending to use them and instead they go slimy and black in the refrigerator drawer. We don’t use a ton of mushrooms here (some family members are not big fans), but when I need some for a recipe I need them NOW. And I don’t want to have to run to the store for some. Thankfully, we can always have mushrooms ready to use by dehydrating them. Dehydrating mushrooms is easy and produces a fantastic end product. 1. 2. 3.

Sliced mushrooms ready to dry Diced mushrooms ready to dry 4. Dehydrated sliced mushrooms Dehydrated diced mushrooms 5. Super easy dehydrating project. Keep preparing! Subscribe to my email newsletter for updates and special deals. Please be sure to follow Food Storage and Survival on Facebook which is updated every time there is a new article. Click Here To Vote For Me at Top Prepper Websites! Click here to reserve your spot for the FREE Summer of Survival Webinar Series! Freeze Dried and Dehydrated Food Shelf Life - Survival Acres. There are many factors that can affect the storable life of your freeze dried and dehydrated bulk food.

Freeze Dried and Dehydrated Food Shelf Life - Survival Acres

Please take the time to read this information page if you are not aware of how foods are packed and how they should be stored. Dehydration and freeze dried techniques have come a long way in recent years. Old technology left as much as 30% moisture in the dehydrated products. These poorly dehydrated foods didn't store very well. Recent advancements in technology have made significant improvements, with moisture levels now at 2% or 3%. Storage Temperature It is important to keep in mind that not only do colder temperatures affect shelf life of food products, temperature fluctuations affect shelf life too. (See also the product chart below ) Foods that will be prepared and consumed rapidly don't need any special storage requirements. We are often asked about food storage in a garage, shed or outside. A Few Comments About Canned Food Moisture Content Oxygen Content Storage Containers.

Dehydrator recipe round-up - The Real Food Guide. 101+ Dehydrating Recipes for Food Storage, Hiking and Paleo Diets. 63K+ Dehydrating or drying of foods is a perfect way to preserve foods that are more easily stored than canned varieties, and lend themselves to be easily integrated into meals or packed for hiking/camping/emergency foods.

101+ Dehydrating Recipes for Food Storage, Hiking and Paleo Diets

You will find a variety of dried and dehydrated recipes here. While most call for a dehydrator, there are other options such as oven or air drying. Want a list of what NOT to dehydrate? Click here. Beef Biltong Chicken Chicken Jerky Fish Fish Jerky Ground Beef Jerky Hamburger Jerky Lamb Meat Pork Jerky Turkey Venison Jerky Vegetables Asparagus Beans Beans (cooked) Beets Broccoli Butternut Squash chips Carrots Carrots (shredded) Celery Chives Cole slaw Corn Cucumbers Edamame Eggplant Frozen Vegetables Green beans Greens Jalapeno Leek Lettuce Mixed veggies Okra Onion Peas Plums (prunes) Potato Potato (Hash Brown) Potato (instant potato flakes) Pumpkin Fruit Herbs & Spices. Dehydration Station. I have taken quite a liking to my Excalibur dehydrator.

Dehydration Station

It is a workhorse and is so much more efficient than those little round models. I don’t think I could have dried anything near the amount that I have this summer. It is so efficient that most things I have dehydrated have been started in the morning or at lunch and by the next morning they have finished the drying cycle. Dried to a crisp and ready for storage. The compact way food can be stored almost indefinitely is a major win for me, too. This week I had tomatoes from the garden and a few pounds of organic broccoli spears that needed to be preserved. The first jar is dried sliced tomatoes. 12lbs of tomatoes. The second jar is broccoli. The pint jar is tomato powder. The kids and Steve have finally slowed down the beef jerky. How did I ever live without it? This dehydrator has become a huge part of my everyday kitchen.

I have dried tons of herbs from my garden – Oregano, Rosemary, Lavender, Basil – to name a few. You can!