Comments on: Dehydration: The Basics http://sharonastyk.com/2008/07/10/dehydration-the-basics/ Finding the keys to the future…and trying not to lose them in the mess. Wed, 23 May 2012 17:55:26 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: strony www http://sharonastyk.com/2008/07/10/dehydration-the-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-55322 strony www Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:04:58 +0000 http://sharonastyk.com/2008/07/10/dehydration-the-basics/#comment-55322 21. Pretty section of content. I just stumbled upon your site and in accession capital to assert that I acquire in fact enjoyed account your blog posts. Anyway I’ll be subscribing to your augment and even I achievement you access consistently rapidly. 21. Pretty section of content. I just stumbled upon your site and in accession capital to assert that I acquire in fact enjoyed account your blog posts. Anyway I’ll be subscribing to your augment and even I achievement you access consistently rapidly.

]]> By: Ashlea Armesto http://sharonastyk.com/2008/07/10/dehydration-the-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-28192 Ashlea Armesto Sat, 09 Oct 2010 05:37:18 +0000 http://sharonastyk.com/2008/07/10/dehydration-the-basics/#comment-28192 Thanks and keep post such a informative blogs. Thanks and keep post such a informative blogs.

]]> By: Hugh Dyment http://sharonastyk.com/2008/07/10/dehydration-the-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-6737 Hugh Dyment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:25:43 +0000 http://sharonastyk.com/2008/07/10/dehydration-the-basics/#comment-6737 I live in rural Alaska where we preserve foods as a matter of course. My wife is Native Alaskan (Yupik Eskimo), and we live 400 miles west of the Anchorage-Fairbanks road system. In the past month we've preserved about 250 pounds of salmon. Most of this was dried and smoked in the same way my wife's ancestors have done for millennia, and some was kept by packing in salt in 5 gallon buckets. Stumbling across your website was a pleasure. Preserving the land's abundance has been, and is, a necessity in rural Alaska. I'll follow the website and comment where apporpriate. Hugh I live in rural Alaska where we preserve foods as a matter of course. My wife is Native Alaskan (Yupik Eskimo), and we live 400 miles west of the Anchorage-Fairbanks road system. In the past month we’ve preserved about 250 pounds of salmon. Most of this was dried and smoked in the same way my wife’s ancestors have done for millennia, and some was kept by packing in salt in 5 gallon buckets.
Stumbling across your website was a pleasure. Preserving the land’s abundance has been, and is, a necessity in rural Alaska. I’ll follow the website and comment where apporpriate.

Hugh

]]> By: Sharon http://sharonastyk.com/2008/07/10/dehydration-the-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-6736 Sharon Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:02:58 +0000 http://sharonastyk.com/2008/07/10/dehydration-the-basics/#comment-6736 Ginny, I'm sorry - I don't know if they are airtight. You might call the company that makes them and ask them - I've never used them. Sharon Ginny, I’m sorry – I don’t know if they are airtight. You might call the company that makes them and ask them – I’ve never used them.

Sharon

]]> By: emeeathome http://sharonastyk.com/2008/07/10/dehydration-the-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-6735 emeeathome Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:46:38 +0000 http://sharonastyk.com/2008/07/10/dehydration-the-basics/#comment-6735 One of my best dehydrated flavourings happened the year we collected 200 litres of mushrooms. We lived up the bush with no electricity, so I dried them on sheets of galvanised iron and in the slow combustion oven with its door open. The 200 litres went down to 1 litre of powdered mushroom. A teaspoonful was delicious in soups and casseroles. I also did apricots the same way - the most successful apricots I have ever done. One of my best dehydrated flavourings happened the year we collected 200 litres of mushrooms. We lived up the bush with no electricity, so I dried them on sheets of galvanised iron and in the slow combustion oven with its door open. The 200 litres went down to 1 litre of powdered mushroom. A teaspoonful was delicious in soups and casseroles.

I also did apricots the same way – the most successful apricots I have ever done.

]]> By: Ginny in WI http://sharonastyk.com/2008/07/10/dehydration-the-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-6734 Ginny in WI Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:33:30 +0000 http://sharonastyk.com/2008/07/10/dehydration-the-basics/#comment-6734 Ooh, DH is addicted to jerky, I bet he'd get into making his own! Are the plastic (non-sealing) caps that you can buy for canning jars airtight? Ooh, DH is addicted to jerky, I bet he’d get into making his own!

Are the plastic (non-sealing) caps that you can buy for canning jars airtight?

]]> By: Sharon http://sharonastyk.com/2008/07/10/dehydration-the-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-6733 Sharon Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:53:39 +0000 http://sharonastyk.com/2008/07/10/dehydration-the-basics/#comment-6733 I think slow cookers get to much too high a temperature, and there is no way of circulating air, so the heating would be uneven. Sharon I think slow cookers get to much too high a temperature, and there is no way of circulating air, so the heating would be uneven.

Sharon

]]> By: Cynthia http://sharonastyk.com/2008/07/10/dehydration-the-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-6732 Cynthia Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:47:26 +0000 http://sharonastyk.com/2008/07/10/dehydration-the-basics/#comment-6732 Perhaps this is naive, but I wonder if a slow cooker set on low, with a rack ro something to keep the food off the bottom, could pinch hit as a dehydrator? I suppose the lid would need to be off, or maybe half off? I may try this, unless someone knows already that it won't work. Anybody done this? Perhaps this is naive, but I wonder if a slow cooker set on low, with a rack ro something to keep the food off the bottom, could pinch hit as a dehydrator? I suppose the lid would need to be off, or maybe half off? I may try this, unless someone knows already that it won’t work. Anybody done this?

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