We've just used minced beef to make jerky 'cakes' - they're pretty good!
Just got a nice big bag of beef bones, which are destined to end up as dehydrated stock, and after sixty days, the venison pack from the local estate is getting turned into jerky.
Youngest has started raiding the two minute rice, mince, powdered toms & garlic etc for her lunches, so going to have to do a load of those too! I'm also wanting some mushroom powder; it's amazing how much nutrition you can sneak into a picky eater if you use powdered foods
ForgeCorvus wrote:Not exactly.
Quorn is mostly a mycoprotein derived from a fungus, TVP is made from Soya..... I'll stop being such a nerd now
You could probably tell the difference which I'd eaten by the tone and duration of my flatulence, I tried both at some point but can't remember anything spectacular about Quorn or it's effects TBH. Its a shame really I'd like in some ways to eat less ( never no) meat especially beef after watching before the flood, but I cannot use that stuff very often.
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Plymtom wrote:I have to go easy on that soya mince, same with beans and the like these days it gives me trapped wind like you wouldn't believe was a time when it went through and came out a bit like a brass band painlessly... for me, not now though.
That's a beautiful story.
My innards are neither up nor down with the veggie stuff, I do eat a fair bit of Quorn, also paneer which is good stuff.
TVP is OK if you get the flavoured type otherwise it's vile stuff, paneer is lovely stuff
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Plymtom wrote:I have to go easy on that soya mince, same with beans and the like these days it gives me trapped wind like you wouldn't believe was a time when it went through and came out a bit like a brass band painlessly... for me, not now though.
That's a beautiful story.
My innards are neither up nor down with the veggie stuff, I do eat a fair bit of Quorn, also paneer which is good stuff.
TVP is OK if you get the flavoured type otherwise it's vile stuff, paneer is lovely stuff
Had some tonight as it happens. We saw some for a quid a packet, when we make it ourselves we can't do it that cheaply. Although I say it myself I can knock up a pretty decent curry sauce from scratch so we lived like kings, well, Raj's. Got another couple of packets in the fridge so I guess we'll be smashing the curry's in. I can live with that.
Meant to put some old mushrooms on the dehydrator today but as Her Maj is on a week off my routine is all over the place so hopefully tomorrow.
Plymtom wrote:I have to go easy on that soya mince, same with beans and the like these days it gives me trapped wind like you wouldn't believe was a time when it went through and came out a bit like a brass band painlessly... for me, not now though.
Ooh I am the same with soya mince Only tried it the once, tootled like Dizzy Gillespie with every step for days! Am fine with legumes and other soya products (love edamame and tofu!). Am also fine with Quorn though my sister suffers that one. Incidentally I loved the original Quorn adverts, whoever came up with "made from a tiny relative of the mushroom" was a genius as Quorn in grown in vats...like commercial pond slime!
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Plymtom wrote:I have to go easy on that soya mince, same with beans and the like these days it gives me trapped wind like you wouldn't believe was a time when it went through and came out a bit like a brass band painlessly... for me, not now though.
Ooh I am the same with soya mince Only tried it the once, tootled like Dizzy Gillespie with every step for days! Am fine with legumes and other soya products (love edamame and tofu!). Am also fine with Quorn though my sister suffers that one. Incidentally I loved the original Quorn adverts, whoever came up with "made from a tiny relative of the mushroom" was a genius as Quorn in grown in vats...like commercial pond slime!
Just catching up on this giant thread as I'm getting a dehydrator for Christmas!! Very excited!
They're great things, I'm not sure why but I take great pleasure in 'playing' with the dehydrator, you'll need plenty of storage jars if you get into it. Let us know how you get on with it
I dehydrate items separately, store in large kilner jars and just add the ingredients to a ziplock bag before I set off.
I've taken the dehydrated veg away before to add to packet pastas and the like, half a pepperoni chopped up and thrown in too. Partly by your mentioning it I've been having a nose into the DIY ones, I used to grudgingly spend a fortune on them back in the day so out of curiosity as much as practical reasons I thought I'd have a shot at doing them. The one I've got going now looks like its coming along but as I said, the veg is in bigger chunks than I'd have liked but it will give me a better idea. I'll hydrate it fairly soon after it comes out to see how 'good' it is. Because its Quorn too it might be a bit meh, all part of the fun I suppose. I'll report back how I get on.[/quote]
I had my dehydrated Chilli for lunch to see how it went. Flavour wise it was pretty good (needed more chilli but I knew that, it was for Her Maj too) so the Quorn mince wasn't an issue. It was a bit 'crunchy' in places where I could have broken it up a bit more and I'll deliberately cut the veg smaller for the next batch It took about 350ml of hot water to bring it back to life but its all rough measurements. All in all, I'm calling it a win, I'm pleased with how it went. I've made another wok full this week and have another go at doing a couple of portions.
Looks like the vac sealer has leap frogged the radios.
was a time when it went through and came out a bit like a brass band painlessly... for me, not now though.
Although I say it myself I can knock up a pretty decent curry sauce from scratch so we lived like kings, well, Raj's. 
