Dehydrated food

[Hummer]

We haven't used the dehydrator for some time but ran it a lot when we had large gardens and backpack camped. We've done countless bushels of apples, peaches and apricots from the orchard. Also, bananas, onions and zucchinis. A favorite were sweet-100 tomatoes. Smaller and much sweeter than cherry tomatoes, they dry and reconstitute well and add to stir fry or soups. Sliced in half and dried inside up. We would vacuum pack, double bag in freezer ziplocs and store in a deep freezer. I still keep some dehydrated foods in the vehicles for use in emergency.

I usually buy a bushel of peaches and roasted chilis every year but now freeze them instead of drying. We run three deep freezers and three or four refrigerators, and regularly get admonishing e-mails from Xcel Energy.

[Wulf202]

It was longer than that, but I'm thinking the water simply wasn't hot enough.

I've only had success with simmering them in fajitas. Cant help much otherwise.