Bought a dehydrator

[Anonymous No.13933289]

Made apple chips and beef jerky. Its pretty great.

So... what else can I make?

[Anonymous No.13933293]

>>13933289
Try putting some deenz in that bad boy.

[Food Scientits No.13933312]

>>13933289
Cheese

[Anonymous No.13933316]

>>13933293
AYO DIS NIGGA EATING DEENZ

[Anonymous No.13933409]

>>13933289
Drying fresh herb

[Anonymous No.13933417]

heh

[Anonymous No.13933423]

>>13933289
more apple chips and more beef jerky
>>13933293
imagine the smell

[Anonymous No.13933425]

>>13933289
put your cock in it and wait

[Anonymous No.13933427]

>>13933289
You can dehydrate certain liquids and then them into seasoning. It's possible with pickle juice I believe. Experiment.

[Anonymous No.13933441]

Dehydrated kimchi

[Anonymous No.13933895]

>>13933289
tomato powder!

[Anonymous No.13933913]

ground beef
pork/chicken (need to cook it first)
zucchini chips
spinach/other greens, break it up and add it to soups/use like dried parsley

[Anonymous No.13933999]

make blacked garlic

[Anonymous No.13934015]

Pastas, sauces, chilies

Great insta meal when camping; just add water and heat

[Anonymous No.13934445]

>>13933289
cow chips

[Anonymous No.13934452]

You could try making some eggplant bacon, shit is pretty good.

[Anonymous No.13934681]

>>13933289
You can make some money at a part time job because the wattage on that thing is like running a hair dryer for hours on end.

[Anonymous No.13934714]

>>13934445
Road apples

[Anonymous No.13934715]

>>13933289
>>13933289
Zucchini becomes tangy when you dehydrate it. Dehydrate it in strips and grind it into a powder use it like an herb to finish sauces.
Smoke sweet onions before dehydrating on low. This makes a delicious crunchy topping for soups. Try dehydrating any regular pepper and grinding into a powder. It gets a concentrated flavor that you can use like the zucchini powder.
Dehydrate old mushrooms and reconstitute later to bring some umami to broths.
Basically anything old and vegetable can be dehydrated with adequate results
If any fruit is getting old just coat it in powdered sugar and a little salt, you now have dry candied fruit toppings for desserts. It's really more of a restaurant item in my opinion though. I've heard about people using it to make koji but that seems a little too sophisticated for a job that can be done by a heatpad and a beer cooler.

[Anonymous No.13934730]

I dehydrate stuff all the time.
Mostly stuff out of my garden to preserve it for the winter just for snacking.
Dehydrated strawberries are legit as fuck, and make the most outstanding smell.
Dehydrating citrus is a bad idea
Pears and plums are good. blueberries are good but take a long time. I do honey berries and loganberries too but those aren't widely available.
I do hot chiles too but they aren't really for snacking, its just easy to use them later.

I always thought it was kind of a pain to do, lots of prepping and slicing involved but its worth it when your garden produces mountains of fruit for like two months straight then stops for 8 months.

[Anonymous No.13934755]

>>13933289
i got that same dehydrator
i make dried kimchi and jerky constantly

[Anonymous No.13934759]

>>13934755
Are those loud when running?

[Anonymous No.13934767]

>>13933293
After all the shit 2020 has provided, the recursion of deenz memes was the least anticipated.

[Anonymous No.13934816]

>>13934759
Kinda. They're not whisper quiet, but not deafening either and you can easily ignore it as long as you're in another room.

[Anonymous No.13934822]

>>13934759
like a fan maybe, its not bad. i put it int he room next to me when i sleep

[Anonymous No.13934855]

>>13934730
Would you say it is not so useful if you don't have such surplus problem?

The list of things you dehydrated sounds really interesting and convenient, but seems too much work and time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyCwgd96dLM
I watched this video and both your arguments sound really good, but I am still not sure if it would be useful for me.

By the posts on this thread, it sounds more like people use it for just one or two types of food they eat all the time.

[Anonymous No.13934942]

what if you dehydrate water

[Anonymous No.13935095]

>>13934942
You get dried water, duh.

[Anonymous No.13935109]

>>13933289
Is it possible to dehydrate without using a single-tasker? I do this in summer when the sun is scorching hot.

[Anonymous No.13935134]

>>13934855
It would still be useful if you had a niche use case for dried foods. for example my dad loves taking dried foods backpacking because they weigh next to nothing and can be rehydrated to make some great camping meals.

If you're buying fruits and veggies just to make your own dried foods to snack on I wouldn't bother getting the dehydrator. It really is a pain to clean and prep/slice fresh food just to make it dry. I'd rather eat a fresh strawberry than a dried one for sure. Produce is kind of expensive and its a bit disappointing to take $20 of produce, spend hours prepping it, spend tens of hours drying it, then storing all your hard earned food into a tiny container that weights just a few ounces.

so yeah, in my opinion store bought produce is too expensive to justify drying it unless you have some special use for dried foods.

Jerky is a different story, some people just hate store bought jerky and you can't even buy raw jerky anymore. Things like that you have to make yourself. If you plan on dehydrating meats or wet pastes (like mashed potatoes) i highly suggest spending some decent money and getting a box style dehydrator instead of these cheapo round stack dehydrators like in OP's pic.

[Anonymous No.13935135]

>>13934942
shits good yo

[Anonymous No.13935154]

>>13935134
This, making your own jerky is way better. You can try any kind of flavor you can figure out how to season, and imo, fatty, "fresh" jerky right off the dehydrator is better than any other kind. I kinda doubt that it stores with fat on it, but it doesn't make it that far in my house anyway.

[Anonymous No.13935186]

>>13935109
I've used a convection oven before it works pretty well.
I've also used the Alton Brown jerky method where he gets home air and places them over a box fan. If its hot and dry this method works really well but humidity will fuck it up. Personally i've always been suspecious of this method for jerky because it involves no heat at all. I've done it many times and the jerky is really interesting, it still tastes raw but I've never gotten sick and it satisfies a primal craving I never knew I had.

The box fan/air filter method works great for fruits and veg's too, biggest downside is its hard to clean and air filters aren't as inexpensive as Alton would have you believe. If you've never seen it he places the food directly on the air filters and sandwiches them together with a box fan blowing ambient air through it all
If your air is dry it dehydrates very well, with no heat involved

[Anonymous No.13935224]

>>13935109
for what its worth I own one of these "single taskers" and use it for more than just food. I dry my gloves out in it when they get wet. I dry filament for my 3d printer out in it. I dry skate bearings out, anything you want to get really truly dry. I've even used it to dry my phone out, it works better than a bag of rice

[Anonymous No.13936142]

>>13933289
Quarter and salt some tomatoes and bang them in.

[Anonymous No.13936853]

dehydrated water

[Anonymous No.13936933]

>>13933289
Eggs

[Anonymous No.13936949]

>>13933289
dehydrate cum and make cum powder

[Anonymous No.13936968]

>>13933289
any caffeinated drink for 5hr energy

[Anonymous No.13937211]

If you have dogs you can dehydrate sliced sweet potato. Dogs love them.

[Anonymous No.13937956]

>>13935109
>Is it possible to dehydrate without using a single-tasker?