r/dehydrating

New to the jerky making world I wanted to try wasabi and soy sauce, jerky and marinated overnight threw it in the dehydrator. It has a great soy sauce flavor, but no wasabi kick.

I'm dehydrating apples in a tray dehydrator and i want to make apple chips which are crispy but it turns out soggy i have tried various phases of temperature,thinly sliced but still they turn out soggy what i can do i just want crispy apple chips!!!

Hello, I'm brand new to dehydrating food. I'm trying to prepare my meals for backpacking adventures and I tried my first meal tonight, at home, to see how well it would rehydrate with cold soaking. It stayed quite crunchy...

For context, I'm going ultralight and I'm aiming to hike with no stove this summer so all my rehydrating will be done with cold-soaking (covering the food with water and waiting).

Do any of you have tips for ingredients / recipes / techniques that will yield best results for cold-soaking food?

So I dehydrated my beef jerky for 9 hours at the wrong temp. 95F instead of 165F. I cranked it up to the proper temp and I’m thinking I’ll let it go another 4 hours? Should it be fine?

Never done a sauce before, my guess is more brittle if it is to be added into other dried ingredients in the storage package no? Thanks in advance. Love this Sub.

I've heard that mixing the scrambled eggs to something like mashed potatoes will make them rehydrate better is that true? Do you all do eggs with anything added to them?

hey everyone I am planning on going on a hiking trip with my husband and some friends and I m looking for ideas and opinions about dehydrating food.

last time we went hiking we only took some store bought dehydrated soups and purées and some self rising couscous which only requires some hot water to cook, we also took granola bars and some store bought dried meat and some cheese and it took way too much space in our bags.

I just discovered my air fryer has a dehydrating setting and I m planning on experimenting with it.

if you have ever used an air fryer for such things could you please tell my about it and maybe give some advice

thx !!

I recently discovered freeze dried cheese, so, so good. It is out of stock and the manufacturer told me he had to wait till the dehydrator was free to do more....hmmm..so, can I dehydrate cheese?

I am steering away from traditional jerky for now as its too time consuming and there is just too much loss (fat, water, marinade, etc), plus its hard for my toddler to eat the tougher pieces.

So my idea is to just throw chunks of lean meat, vegetables, fruits, cheeses and seasonings into a processor, transfer that mix into a meat gun and dehydrate the sticks...boom done everyone's happy haha

anyone have advice n doing this or good recipes I should try?

My kid is heading out on a backpacking trip and I need lots of fun and fueling snacks. I inherited an Excalibur that I've experimented with some. I'm also curious if it's okay to make several different things at the same time. I normally do a giant batch of one thing, but I'm strapped for time and money. Can I do a couple drawers of beef jerkey and then also sweet things, or will it all taste like beef? I've overdone the jerkey in her life so that's not exciting to her, but I think it's a good idea in this scenario for her to have some but I'm not attached to the idea. I feel like if I'm gonna run this thing all night, I'd like to fill it up and I'm willing to spend time on prep if there's a big savings, but I might just buy her some trail mix, jerkey, and gummy snacks and call it good if the savings are negligible. I appreciate any advice!

Edit here: You guys have been awesome at adding ideas to my library. What I'm looking for in this moment are snacks (meals will be provided) that a preteen would find fun and tasty (and that I will find inexpensive) and opinions on dehydrating multiple things at the same time, specifically fruit based sweet things on one tray while I'm doing jerkey on other trays. Thank you so much!

Hi folks, I’m making fruit leather as I usually do, but was curious if anyone had experience adding in (cooked? roasted?) flour to help bulk it out and make it more filling. Can’t seem to find anything online about doing this and I don’t want to waste a bunch of time and resources making it for it to fail, so I’m curious if anyone else has done something similar.

I am looking into making my own pot meals like pot noodles (curries, chili con carne, pastas - NOT noodles) that I can just add hot water to, specifically a kettle that is extremely easy to reheat. I'm aware on how to dehydrate individual ingredients but specifically what's the process for making something like that? Any tips for rice, grains & pastas? Everything I look online for is related to hiking foods, which is as much as brilliant and guided me into the right direction, isn't what I feel I am after. I would like to make my own dehydrated pot meals, heated by a kettle exactly how pot noodle brand works (but healthier and to my own taste) i can batch and keep for the future

I dry a lot of wild mushrooms, but not as many plants. Spicebush, bee balm, and sweetbay magnolia leaves have gone well though. Curious what you think is worth dehydrating in the world of wild plants.