It would be a brave man to pull the wool over my wife's eyes! Anyhow,I found a good commonsense link.
http://anoregoncottage.com/drying-tomat ... ng-in-oil/
What are you dehydrating?
Re: What are you dehydrating?
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
Me.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
Me.
Re: What are you dehydrating?
Finally decided to have a go at dehydrating eggs, I made square bowls out of the teflon sheets for the Excalibur with 4 bulldog clips, it's working but it is taking nearly a whole day, I did about 7 bell peppers and some red onion and spring onion in the 3 spare shelves... note turn the bloody thing off whilst checking, or be prepared to be feathered with spring onion I had gotten used to drying my brass in it and that doesn't blow around much, it does however roll around off and all over, keeping stuff on those trays is like playing "operation"
I have a strategy, it's not written in stone, nor can it be, this scenario has too many variables, everything about it depends on those variables, being specific is not possible.
Re: What are you dehydrating?
Photos of the results vac packed Peppers in a vac sealed mason jar 15 eggs in a vac bag dried and wazzed in the vitamix for a few seconds, 2 tins of Full Monty ready meal partly for scale partly to say they were on at Tesco for a quid a pop again, i got a load last time but couldn't resist a couple more.
I have a strategy, it's not written in stone, nor can it be, this scenario has too many variables, everything about it depends on those variables, being specific is not possible.
Re: What are you dehydrating?
Just put some eggs on and a tube of tomato puree as an experiment.
Will post the results either way.....
Will post the results either way.....
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
Re: What are you dehydrating?
The tomato puree is a good idea too, eggs take ages though good luck!pseudonym wrote:Just put some eggs on and a tube of tomato puree as an experiment.
Will post the results either way.....
I have a strategy, it's not written in stone, nor can it be, this scenario has too many variables, everything about it depends on those variables, being specific is not possible.
Re: What are you dehydrating?
3.5 hours in at 145 F:Plymtom wrote:The tomato puree is a good idea too, eggs take ages though good luck!pseudonym wrote:Just put some eggs on and a tube of tomato puree as an experiment.
Will post the results either way.....
Turned 1 tube of tomato puree over - fruit leather in texture.
Broke 3 eggs up - brittle almost dried.
Will give them another couple of hours....
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
Re: What are you dehydrating?
I did 15 eggs between 2 trays, clearly mine must have been too thick, the sheets turned into a sort of shallow bowl, I figure I'd be better off using small baking trays lined with grease proof? As with everything it was an experiment but it was on for 24 hours, if I could cut that by two thirds by using a more suited tray I'd be on a winner
I'm going to try a meal one of these days like a chilli.
I'm going to try a meal one of these days like a chilli.
I have a strategy, it's not written in stone, nor can it be, this scenario has too many variables, everything about it depends on those variables, being specific is not possible.
Re: What are you dehydrating?
If you're doing a chilli or bolognese cut up the veg quite small so it dries quicker mate.Plymtom wrote:I did 15 eggs between 2 trays, clearly mine must have been too thick, the sheets turned into a sort of shallow bowl, I figure I'd be better off using small baking trays lined with grease proof? As with everything it was an experiment but it was on for 24 hours, if I could cut that by two thirds by using a more suited tray I'd be on a winner
I'm going to try a meal one of these days like a chilli.
Re: What are you dehydrating?
Good tip what about them kidney beans, cut em, squash, em?Deeps wrote:If you're doing a chilli or bolognese cut up the veg quite small so it dries quicker mate.Plymtom wrote:I did 15 eggs between 2 trays, clearly mine must have been too thick, the sheets turned into a sort of shallow bowl, I figure I'd be better off using small baking trays lined with grease proof? As with everything it was an experiment but it was on for 24 hours, if I could cut that by two thirds by using a more suited tray I'd be on a winner
I'm going to try a meal one of these days like a chilli.
I have a strategy, it's not written in stone, nor can it be, this scenario has too many variables, everything about it depends on those variables, being specific is not possible.
Re: What are you dehydrating?
So Results:
Eggs - on the left
Puree - on the right
Eggs took 5 hours.
The puree leather was on for 12 hours, it was broken down into the two bags, fine powder in one and the bits I couldn't grind any further in the other.
The glass has some of those bits rehydrating in it.
Very happy overall.
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.