I've Seen Her Dehydrate, Sir. It's Pretty Great.

[slimshady2357]

Awesome, really looking forward to trying that out

I have some jerky marinading in the fridge now. The best part is that I usually use 7 trays for the 4.5 pounds of jerky, so there is exactly 2 trays free!

I will probably put the whole thing on tomorrow evening or Sat morning. I'll take some pics of the corn chips if I don't get too excited and forget

EDIT:

forgot to say that I didn't know what sriracha was so I thought, damn, we don't have that. Then I looked it up and it's ROOSTER SAUCE! I fucking LIVE off rooster sauce

[livius drusus]

Hoorah! Now you can join the Sriracha Anonymous thread.

[lisarea]

Have you ever had kale chips made in the oven, and if so, are the dehydrated kind much different?

Also, you should try with mustard greens. I haven't tried it yet, but I keep meaning to because it seems like it could be really good.

[livius drusus]

I have not had kale chips before now so I don't know. Mustard greens is a genius idea.

Just because I have all the ingredients, tonight I'm going to make blue cheese and chive beet chips.

[Ymir's blood]

nm

[livius drusus]

Originally Posted by lisarea

Have you ever had kale chips made in the oven, and if so, are the dehydrated kind much different?

I checked my handy dandy how to dry stuff book and it says kale can be dried in the oven at 120 for 16-20 hours or in the full sun for 1-2 days.

[Crumb]

full sun for 1-2 days.

So you can only do it this way at the poles?

[livius drusus]

[Dingfod]

My dad used to make jerky in the oven, setting the temperature at 125ºF or whatever the lowest setting was. He suspended the pieces of meat on the racks with toothpicks, placing a ban on the bottom rack to catch any drippings.

[slimshady2357]

Made the paste:


And spread it out:


Now I'm playing the waiting game...
I used some home made taco seasoning that I made last week, so that's why it's so orange. And NO! It DOESN'T look like puke

[livius drusus]

I made a second attempt today with some variations on the original. They taste great, but I was much more uneven in spreading so bits, mainly edges, are perfectly crispy while the thicker areas are more leathery. I got the salt right this time, though.

[slimshady2357]

Originally Posted by livius drusus

I made a second attempt today with some variations on the original. They taste great, but I was much more uneven in spreading so bits, mainly edges, are perfectly crispy while the thicker areas are more leathery. I got the salt right this time, though.

I didn't add any salt, because the taco mix I made was pretty salty already and the paste tasted nice as it was.

I'm worried I spread it too thin, but I don't think that it will be much of a problem, it'll just be itty-bitty pieces probably.

[livius drusus]

It doesn't look too thin to me, but even if it is, all you'll get is a little cracklure and some gaps when it shrinks. I had tons of them this time and I still had no problem flipping the whole sheet.

[slimshady2357]

Here is the dried tray of corn paste, I may have already eated some



I think I used way too much taco seasoning They are sooooo spicy, like habenaro spicy. And hilariously, they're not salty enough

So next try I'm going to tweak a couple of things. Way less taco seasoning, add some salt and try spreading a little thicker. These were more like thin crisps, so I'm going to try a thicker layer and let them dry longer.

Still very tasty though! I've already munched my way through one tray, with a large glass of milk

[Beth]

Neato! I dry stuff in the oven at very low temp, sometimes.

Has anyone gotten the Breakfast Cub reference? Considering that it has been airing regularly on AMC lately, I have become quite familiar with this scene.

[Ari]

I have a super cheap On or Off dehydrator which I started dehydrating strawberries and other fruits with. Wow is it yummy! I originally started with thin slices but found they can crisp a bit too much, whereas just the right time with chunks and you can get a solid on the outside gooey on the inside candy like texture to them.

[Beth]

My husband wants to get an elcheapo dehydrator. We dry strawberries in the oven when they are in season, but it is usually during much cooler weather. It is too hot to use the oven all day in the current weather. I also like to dry mango slices, bananas, pineapple chunks, and various veggie slices. The only chips that I have ever made are corn tortillas that I have made, sliced into wedges, and then I baked them in the oven after lightly coating them in olive oil.

[livius drusus]

Sun drying is an option too. It takes a really long time, according to my "how to dry things" book, but it won't heat up your house and you could do it right away instead of waiting until you get a dehydrator.

[Crumb]

And you might have to move to get enough sun.

[BrotherMan]

[livius drusus]

I dehydrated some fresh oregano and found myself in herb paradise. I know it's ridiculous that I should be so shocked by the difference between freshly dried and purchased dried, but I seriously had no idea that dried oregano tastes just like fresh oregano when it hasn't been processed in industrial quantities and perched on a shelf for god knows how long. I thought the difference in flavor was just what happens when you dry, that you could get more or less tasty versions depending on age and leaf quality but all of it would taste the way dried oregano tastes. I was so, so wrong.

Therefore this weekend I plan to throw out all my old herbs. I have fresh basil, thyme, rosemary, sage and I will dry it all. Then I will puree several heads of garlic from my parents' garden that are way too mild for fresh use and I will make my own fresh fricking garlic powder. Then I will do the same for some lovely sweet onions I found at the farmers market. Then I will do the same for a bunch of green onions. I've never had green onion powder, but I'm fucking making it anyway.

Then I will sporganize like a lisarea on meth, putting my new cache in jam jars and using my handy vacuum pump system to keep them as fresh as possible. The next time I need to refill my herbs, I will buy them fresh and dry. When I think of the tomato sauces alone that will ensue, or dear God my feta spooge... It will be glorious.

[slimshady2357]

Originally Posted by livius drusus

How could I have forgotten that thrad? It was awesome! I am totally making your jerky, although I think I'll start with a half recipe.

Just re-reading this thread and if you had forgotten about my jerky thread when you made this one, then what are the chances we'd both use Breakfast Club thread titles for dehydrating threads?

I mean, it is one of the greatest movies of all time...

Breakfast Club club

[JoeP]

The glut of apples and pears from the ancestral home, the parents' ancestral allotment, sister's allotment, and numerous fields and farms around sister's stables are being dried in Cyclopean batches at sister's house, and I sampled some yesterday (with a cup of Earl Grey tea).

It's astonishing how the different varieties keep their individual flavours and characters. How can a slice of pear dried to snappable crispness still taste juicy? Wonderful.

Once the produce glut is over, I'll have to get her onto corn chips and other recipes involving blending and actual work like that.

[Qingdai]

A few years ago my friend made a solar dehydrator that looked a lot like This.

It worked really well, and if you weren't at one of the poles or whatever, it had a light bulb in it for when the sun was not cooperative.
I dried cherry tomatoes and strawberries.

[livius drusus]

I made roasted garlic powder and caramelized onion powder. This is some life-changing shit, you guys.