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Is there a guide book out there that's like, a collection of instructions on how to dry and preserve specific plants and/or foods?

Would love to have a book like that for my garden this summer! 👀

#gardening #drying food #drying herbs #preserves #canning #I dunno what else to tag

I got a question about how thin do I slice the zucchinni I'm drying, so here's some examples!

On the second picture, you can see I'm holding a thick slice with my thumb, and other thinner slices with the rest of my hand; that thick slice is the thickest I will go, and I will only do them that thick if it's really hot outside, 33°Celsius or more, in that case zuchinni will dry okay. They will always dry to paper-thin because most of the content inside is water, once it evaporates you're left with thin zucchini. And I'm not too precise otherwise, you can see in the last picture I'm holding bunch of slices of various thickness.

If it's not super hot, I'll make sure to do thinner slices, or even sprinkle some salt on top so they don't go moldy before they get to dry.

This is how much drying space it took me for those 2 little zuchinni from the first picture:

After they're dried, I put them in a jar and close it; you can fit 3-4 zuchinni in one jar, which is pretty cool storage-wise! The slices are done drying when they're completely crispy and hard, and they should be taken off the drying rack when they're in the hot sun, so they don't have time to absorb any moisture, otherwise you're risking getting mold inside the jar (happened to me once).

The jar needs to be super dry too, I will usually leave it opened in the sun for half an hour so I'm sure there's no humidity stuck inside.

You can put the dried pieces in stews, soups, on top of pizza, in vegetable stock, if you also have dry tomatoes and dry mushrooms, you can achieve a real good umami flavour with the combo! I made a pasta sauce from dry zuchinni and it tasted like mushroom sauce for some reason; another time I tried again and it tasted completely different, so that is a mystery to me. Whatever you make, dry zuchinni are very sating, I've always felt full after eating them.

I got another question asking how I protect it from bugs, and I don't, they're drying on my balcony which is not super filled with bugs, but there will inevitably be moths and butterflies laying their eggs on them, and I just live with that. I've been reading about it and people will put a fine net around their drying racks to prevent bugs from getting close, that's just too much hassle (and I don't have the net).

Dried goods will be fine for at least few months and you don't have to worry about the eggs, they're not poisonous, if you eat your zuchinni before they activate it's all good, for me it's never before February so I focus on eating the dry goods first!

#drying food #zucchini #preserving food #storing food #food security #dealing with abundance of zucchini #squash

I need lightweight, shelf-stable food for backpacking, and I don't want to eat granola bars for every meal or buy expensive pre-made meals, so I broke my dehydrator out for the first time in over a year! It got put in storage, as a non-essential tool, while we were moving around. I'm psyched to be using it again!

I've got 6 lbs of apples in there, skin on and skin on off, slices and small chunks, with and without cinnamon. I'm not sure which I'll like best, so I did all the variations! The slices are for snacks and the smaller bits for oatmeal.

When I ran out of apples I still had empty trays, so I put in some chunks of yellow squash and zucchini, to put in dinners, and zucchini slices with seasoning on them, for snacks (like chips). I've never done squash before...probably should have blanched them at least, so they'd be more cooked when rehydrated... Oh well, I'll test rehydration before I put the meals together, and if they don't work well for that I'll cook them another time.

#dehydrator #food preservation #home food preservation #dried apples #squash #zucchini #apples #drying food #food #food prep #camping

The fennel ran away from me and started going to seed; I only researched it afterwards. I got the seeds from the plant lady and planted them without thinking, I knew only that it was a soup ingredient. Apparently I planted it at the wrong time! They go to seed as soon as the soil gets dry, so if you plant them in the summer, you can get an autumn harvest that is better. Now we know!

I still got a lot of interesting parts, the leaves and the stem and the roots are all different; I believe that thick part of the stem would normally get thicker, mine is already very tough at the edges. I decided to dry the thick part of the stems, freeze the thin stems and the roots, and dry the leaves! I found out the leaves can be used as a tea, and they're soothing and helpful for headaches. Entire plant is great to use in soups, and I was pleasantly surprised to how much better a soup broth is with fennel inside. I'm going to plant more now so I get some fresh ones in the fall!

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If the COVID-19 panic taught us anything, it is that the food supply chain is fragile. Within minutes of the pandemic being identified as a major health threat, grocery store shelves were stripped bare of essentials such as frozen vegetables, bread and meat. The ability to locate and gather basic ingredients for soup, chili or a meat loaf was severely limited. But there were some households that got through the mayhem with very little disruption. These people weren't necessarily "preppers" but they did have the foresight to can and preserve enough of their home-grown garden staples to get through any rough patches. And today's kitchen technology has made food preservation easier than ever before.

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Prepare to Dehydrate

As you prepare to preserve your harvest, it’s easy to overlook a simple and effective technique: dehydration. The process provides nutritional, flavor, and storage benefits and both preserves and enhances a surprising range of foods. Dried foods are handy not just in your kitchen but also in your child’s lunchbox, the stem bag on your bike, the front pouch on your daypack, and your ski jacket…

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