Food drying - Dehydrators (merged)

jaxxy00

lil_me wrote:

That's how I tried to but think mine is at something like 17.5p, must change as soon as this bills paid off!

Omg yes, change asap.

Thought people might find this interesting reading. Its about someone who went on a 2000+ mile trek and dehydrated masses of food before he went, even cookies. He did 40lb of bananas, 35lbs of rice etc. The 40lbs of bananas yields 4-5lbs after dehydration :eek: You can see why its so good if you have little space or are carrying lots.

I found it by doing a google search for dehydrated rice as i was wondering if its somehow possible to do rice so you could add a bit of seasoning, peppers, peas etc, then for just pennies you would have the same as that packet rice stuff.

http://steve3717.brinkster.net/traildawg/Food.asp

Another here with pics very interesting
http://homepage.mac.com/simon.willis/site/tgo/dryfood.htm

lil_me

Wow, I've seen them advertised on hiking sites aswell, but they usually charge £70+ for them and they looked pretty small. There was a few ideas for the likes of pasta sauce and dehydrated pasta, the girl who wrote about it said she would stop, mix it with water in a flask and put it in her bag then when they stopped few hours later it would be ready, great idea.

Rice you could just make the stuff to mix and cook the rice as normal with it ?

jaxxy00

Take a look at some of these dishes which have been made from dehydrated food on a camping trip, very nice.

http://people.aapt.net.au/marcelle_cameron/

Smiley_Mum

Tchibo have their food dehydrator available again, it's just the same as the QVC one though and roughly the same price.

Tchibo one...

http://www.tchibo.co.uk/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/uk/-/GBP/TdUkDisplayProductInformation-Start;sid=5o_V-w8MtDrV-kqmtpzfnwyYrHI4Z6Jt_uY=?ProductID=bjIKZAOiQtsAAAEPSACytXWe&BackTo=Search

QVC one...

http://www.qvcuk.com/ukqic/qvcapp.aspx/app.detail/params.item.823860/walk.yah.UKHG-UK14

vivw_2

QVC one is out of stock

RacyRed

Oh Darn! I've been waiting for ages for the Tchibo one to come back, and it does when I'm trying to have a "no unnecessary spending" month. :rolleyes:

Can't miss it again at that price though, I wasn't fast enough last time. And I have loads of things I want to do with it., so... it is necessary

allIcouldwishfor

RacyRed wrote:

Oh Darn! I've been waiting for ages for the Tchibo one to come back, and it does when I'm trying to have a "no unnecessary spending" month. :rolleyes:

Can't miss it again at that price though, I wasn't fast enough last time. And I have loads of things I want to do with it., so... it is necessary

That's the spirit!! I too promised myself that I would make no purchases during January, saw the Tchibo catalogue, hesitated for about 15 seconds and then ordered it as fast as I could!!! I missed out on it this time last year so it's not exactly an impulse buy. It arrived yesterday and is now operational on top of my fridge freezer with cherry tomatoes and sliced kohlrabi in it.

lil_me

I used the code for free postage on the Tchibo one, it's on the discount codes forum somewhere, can I knickers find it.

Have done another 5 trays n mine today, the dried grapes lasted all of half an hour, my son ate the lot this morning, can't get that one to eat grapes but he loved these

ethansmum

The free postage code is somewhere on page 5 or 6 of this thread.

I ordered mine yesterday thanks to the op!

ethansmum

Forgive my ignorance please, I am relatively new at this (os that is), But why would you dehydrate mushrooms, onions and garlic etc? Can you add them dried up to stews? Does it really taste better? I'm not very imaginative and can only think off sweet treats to make.

Thanks!