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DH got me a food dehydrator!
We are such dorks. I told DH that I wanted a food dehydrator for my birthday, and he got it for me early! I'm so excited, I'm going to do strawberries this weekend and later in the season I'm going to make all kinds of dried fruits, sun-dried tomatoes, carrots and celery for soups, you can even use it to make yogurt and garlic powder! He got me this one:
If you have a food dehydrator, what do you use it for?
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Re: DH got me a food dehydrator!
We have one and LOVE IT...
we go every year to the farm areas a few hours away from us, fill the car with bushels and bushels of stuff...
last year we dried apricots, peaches, cherries (OMG, like candy they are!), grapes, pears, apples... and I'm sure some other stuff I can't remember
we also use it to dry the herbs we grow in our garden... not as good as fresh, but way better than letting it all go to waste!
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I love mine! We use it to dehydrate whole meals (chili, soup, rice dishes, etc.) for backpacking. It's way cheaper than buying ready-made dehydrated backpacking meals, and you get the benefit of home cooked food on the trail!
I've also used to to dry figs and make fruit leather.
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I use my oven (it has a dehydrate setting).
I've used it to make chipotles, dried jalapenos and other peppers, various herbs from the garden, sun-dried tomatoes.
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Yay! Dehydrators are fun (I'm in the dork boat, too!)!! I got one like yours for $3 at a garage sale last year!!
I like a lot of the previously mentioned items, plus beef jerky!
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Yay! That is so exciting. We got one at a yard sale for only $5 a few years ago and we've had lots of fun with it.
Poster who asks about nutrition--your friend is absolutely wrong. Drying removes moisture and the nutrients remain in a compressed format. Bite for bite, dry food is actually more nutrient dense. Think about astronauts, backpackers, soliders, etc. They use dried food to fuel their intense activities.
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^^^ I have the ronco one. Got it probably 15 years ago and my parents "borrowed" it from me and never gave it back.