Dehydrators?

[21TonyK]

Anyone played with these? Not sure what I could come up with other than dehydrated soft fruits etc although apparently dehydrated chocolate is all the rage?!

[Slink]

jerky/biltong you can do in them aswell, as they are just dried meat.

umm, not too sure on what else you could do in it, but the justification for jerky and biltong is there, and thats all you need it for.

right?

[21TonyK]

Thinking more of fruit leathers, semi-solids etc

(nothing wrong with Biltong though!)

[Piglet]

I've got an Excalibur dehydrator and it's great. I dehydrate veg - leeks, peppers, mushrooms and similar. It saves having to buy fresh veg and having to have a freezer full of veg. I also dehydrate apples to eat as snack food.

[21TonyK]

Piglet said:

I've got an Excalibur dehydrator and it's great. I dehydrate veg - leeks, peppers, mushrooms and similar. It saves having to buy fresh veg and having to have a freezer full of veg. I also dehydrate apples to eat as snack food.

Thats the sort of thing I am thinking of. Have you tried dehydrating thin slices of fruit etc? Do they deform equally, ie. a slice of apple dehydrates to a smaller slice or does it wrap up into a ball of dried apple?

[Piglet]

The fruit just dries in its shape, so a slice of apple looks like a smaller dried slide of apple. I do some with cinnamon on them as well and they are lovely.

We are relatively rural so it means I don't have to worry about buying lots of veg - I chuck the dried veg in stews etc. when I'm cooking and it works well and saves having loads in the freezer.

[21TonyK]

Piglet said:

The fruit just dries in its shape, so a slice of apple looks like a smaller dried slide of apple. I do some with cinnamon on them as well and they are lovely.

We are relatively rural so it means I don't have to worry about buying lots of veg - I chuck the dried veg in stews etc. when I'm cooking and it works well and saves having loads in the freezer.

Cool, sounds like a worthy kitchen toy.