How to make your stomach jealous. Buy a food Dehydrator
Green Newb
are coming from that unit are amazing! Making me constantly hungry.
My first ever drying: Oregano from my Garden. I had a 14 inch Tray, 3
inches high of washed Oregano. Dried it and ended up with 15 grams of
dried Oregano, hahahah. Looked in my cupboard and a sachet of Dried Oregano
contains 8 grams. Therefore, I made, nearly two little Oregano sachets.
Will check out the price next time I go shopping, but think its really
cheap. Was it worth it? Probably not, but its a lot of fun. Smelt like
Spaghettie bolognaise cooking. Could drive a person mad!
I had a tray spare, when prepping the oregano, so I sliced up some onion.
They weren't done when the Oregano was, so I added more trays of onion
slices. MMMMmmmm French Onion soup smell.
No one ever mentions that little side effect ;)
George Shirley
> I got my Food Dehydrator early and wow what a lot of fun! The smells
> that are coming from that unit are amazing! Making me constantly hungry.
>
> My first ever drying: Oregano from my Garden. I had a 14 inch Tray, 3
> inches high of washed Oregano. Dried it and ended up with 15 grams of
> dried Oregano, hahahah. Looked in my cupboard and a sachet of Dried
> Oregano contains 8 grams. Therefore, I made, nearly two little Oregano
> sachets. Will check out the price next time I go shopping, but think its
> really cheap. Was it worth it? Probably not, but its a lot of fun.
> Smelt like Spaghettie bolognaise cooking. Could drive a person mad!
If you use dried herbs in cooking be aware that you only use half as
much dried as you would fresh. If the recipe calls for two spoons of
fresh only use one of dried.
>
> I had a tray spare, when prepping the oregano, so I sliced up some
> onion. They weren't done when the Oregano was, so I added more trays of
> onion slices. MMMMmmmm French Onion soup smell.
>
> No one ever mentions that little side effect ;)
I've had my dehydrator for more years than I care to remember. It has
dried many trays of basil, oregano, thyme, rosemary, etc. All of which
get sealed in an air tight container for later use. Today I'm going to
harvest and then dehydrate at least one tray of Mexican Mint Marigold,
an herb that closely approximates the taste of French tarragon. The MMM
grows wild around here so is plentiful. I think there may be one more
tray of basil in the herb garden and I will check my supply of oregano
and maybe put on a tray of that.
Some things need to be dehydrated outside though, you will discover
which ones that turn your stomach while drying but taste good when done. <G>
Marilyn
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Oh, this brings back memories of when I was first married and living with my
in-laws. They grew a lot of onions in their garden and so we had the fun of
slicing the onions in the food processor and then dehydrating them. We took
the dehydrator out to the two-story workshop in the back yard. The smell
was so strong while the onions were drying that you could smell it all over
the neighborhood. Ordinarily, we used the dehydrator in the house, but can
you imagine how long it would take to get the smell out of there if we had
done that?
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-Marilyn
Green Newb
"George Shirley" <gsh...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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Oh, please tell me :). I have basil, just starting to grow, 8 plants of
Thyme, which I plan on dehydrating. I brought a Rosemary plant and took
cuttings of it and made 4 more plants. Recently I stumbled across some
warnings for Rosemary. I need to research that. Is that the one that turns
your stomach?
My husband smelt the onion, wafting outside. He came in and said: Oh my
god where are the sausage rolls? I said um.... Thanks for the tip on how
much to use. I had a little taste of the dried onion and it was lovely.
Does the Basil come out good? I make mint sauce, out of my mint, using
fresh.
I haven't got any vegies, ready yet. I plan on drying Spring Onions next,
when they grow a little more. Going from seed to harvest with all the
vegies, so far has been a little tricky, but so far so good.
Green Newb
"Marilyn" <return.t...@address.unknown.net> wrote in message
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> -Marilyn
Thats funny :). I just posted about the onion smell wafting outside (before
reading this post) Maybe I better dry the mint to clear the house and
neighbourhood of onion! ha ha.
George Shirley
No, wasn't rosemary, but we still had to do rosemary out in the garage,
smelled too much like a pine tree like the ones that people put on their
rear view mirrors. I'm pretty sure it was garlic chives that smelled so
bad. I shut the thing down and threw them out. They grow year around
here anyway so just go out and pick what you need when you need it.
>
> My husband smelt the onion, wafting outside. He came in and said: Oh
> my god where are the sausage rolls? I said um.... Thanks for the tip on
> how much to use. I had a little taste of the dried onion and it was
> lovely. Does the Basil come out good? I make mint sauce, out of my
> mint, using fresh.
Basil drys good but is useless for sauces and pesto when dried. For that
you should freeze some. Do a search on rfp for freezing basil and you
will probably get plenty of hits. I make pesto in large amounts but
without the cheese. I then freeze it for a couple of hours on a large
bun sheet, take a pizza cutter and cut it into squares that will fit
inside a quart vacuum bag, and seal it and put back into the freezer.
Stacks well.
>
> I haven't got any vegies, ready yet. I plan on drying Spring Onions
> next, when they grow a little more. Going from seed to harvest with all
> the vegies, so far has been a little tricky, but so far so good.
Scallions don't do well in the dehydrator for me, they get so dry they
never rehydrate whatever liquid you put them in. I gave up on them and
we have bunching onions growing in every cinder block that makes up the
perimeter of our garden. Planted them ten years ago and just pull a few,
cut the green part off, let them air dry in the shed, then replant them
to start another batch.
Marilyn
My teenage sister-in-law put her sweater in the dehydrator to dry it (don't
ask me why) and the onion smellstayed in there and her sweater smelled like
onions. This was an older-style dehydrator with mesh screens like window
screening, not the plastic dehydrator that I have where you can wash
everything.
Every time we grow onions, my husband says we should dehydrate them and I
always convince him they're much better frozen.
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-Marilyn
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"Green Newb" <no...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Wait 'till you try making jerky. :-)
A food dehydrator is an awesome thing...
I don't have one at the moment (it's on my Christmas list <g>) but have
owned on in the past...
I've wanted to experiment with my smoker for drying meat with smoke. The
ultimate preservative!
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George Shirley
> In article <b6idnV02F9IrO2HX...@giganews.com>, George
> Shirley <gsh...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> Basil drys good but is useless for sauces and pesto when dried.
>
> tried using a dehydrator, but find the heat ruins the flavour. I much
> prefer hanging it in a shaded, cool place for a week or two. That's how
> I handle all my herbs.
I use it in meat sauces when dried but I should have added a word or
two, a basil sauce of some sort made with dried doesn't do well, at
least for me.
Green Newb
Oh thats a very handy tip! Thank you. (onions) Rosemary grows all year
around here too, so I shall just pick it when I need it. My garlic chives
never grew. In a way, phew lol.
Green Newb
> -Marilyn
Having a good laugh :).
Green Newb
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I was reading the recipes about the jerky, but it makes me feel a little
queesy at the thought :). I saw dehdryated strawberries and mine are
growing at the moment. Trouble is I can't think of what I could do with
them after they were dried. Snacks for the grandies? Actually I don't
think I will have enough left to store lol. Dreaming of strawberries and
icecream.
Green Newb
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>
> tried using a dehydrator, but find the heat ruins the flavour. I much
> prefer hanging it in a shaded, cool place for a week or two. That's how
> I handle all my herbs.
Good to know thanks. I'll be using fresh basil for making tomato sauce and
soup for storage. Drying any excess for the winter months.