Dehydration of fruit, veggies and beef using food dehydration is one of the oldest forms of food preservation systems known to man. Though food preservation is the main reason for dehydration, dehydration of fruits, veggies and meat also lowers the price of storing.
Dehydration is an alternative to canning (called "bottling" in the UK) and freezing fruits and vegetables. If you've got an abundance of fruits or vegetables from your garden, but lack the canning apparatus or freezing space, dehydrating may be the right method for you!
It may be a good method for preparing meat and game that you may have bagged on your latest hunting trip. These may include deer, antelope, elk or moose. Occasionally you can buy a quarter, half or whole side of beef from some stores and dehydration is a remarkable way to prepare these for your family for use in the year.
Dehydrated foods have numerous advantages:
- Dehydration is a cheap way to preserve food that's free from concerns about botulism
- the dehydrated foods require less space for storing than canned goods
- there's no freezer to keep running.
Before Dehydration Pre-drying treatments prepare the raw product for dehydration and include: raw product preparation and color preservation.
Raw product preparation includes:
- selection and sorting
- washing, peeling (some vegetables and fruit)
- cutting into the correct form
- blanching (for some fruits and most vegetables).
Fruits and vegetables are selected; sorted according to size, maturity, and soundness; and then washed to get rid of dust, dirt, insect matter, mold spores, plant parts, and other material that might contaminate or affect the color, aroma, or flavor of the fruit or vegetable. Peeling or removal of any undesirable parts follows washing.
To stop browning: try steaming or coating light-colored fruits and vegetables with lemon juice or ascorbic acid (FruitFresh) before drying. Steaming or blanching also is recommended for veggies to inactivate enzymes that cause the vegetables to mature, or toughen during dehydrating.
Before Dehydration for your Prime Meat Cut or cut the slices into the correct size pieces and prepare with spices or marinade if you decide to use them.
After Dehydration Packing of dehydrated fruits, vegetables and beef is an absolute must to protect the dehydrated food against:
- moisture
- light
- air
- dust
- microflora
- foreign odor
- insects
- rodents
Also packaging:
- provides strength and stability to maintain original food size
- shape
- appearance
through storage and serving to your, your friends friends or putting in lunches.
Package with materials that are accepted for contact with food. Cost is also an important element in packaging.
Package types include:
- cans,
- plastic bags
- bins
- cartons, and rely on how much and what your storage is like.
Now the only other thing you will be doing after dehydration is eating the fruit of your preparation and enjoying doing that. Now and then, deciding on gift giving may be an alternative way to enjoy giving gifts to your relatives and buddies with healthy treats.
Dehydration is an alternative to canning (called "bottling" in the UK) and freezing fruits and vegetables. If you've got an abundance of fruits or vegetables from your garden, but lack the canning apparatus or freezing space, dehydrating may be the right method for you!
It may be a good method for preparing meat and game that you may have bagged on your latest hunting trip. These may include deer, antelope, elk or moose. Occasionally you can buy a quarter, half or whole side of beef from some stores and dehydration is a remarkable way to prepare these for your family for use in the year.
Dehydrated foods have numerous advantages:
- Dehydration is a cheap way to preserve food that's free from concerns about botulism
- the dehydrated foods require less space for storing than canned goods
- there's no freezer to keep running.
Before Dehydration Pre-drying treatments prepare the raw product for dehydration and include: raw product preparation and color preservation.
Raw product preparation includes:
- selection and sorting
- washing, peeling (some vegetables and fruit)
- cutting into the correct form
- blanching (for some fruits and most vegetables).
Fruits and vegetables are selected; sorted according to size, maturity, and soundness; and then washed to get rid of dust, dirt, insect matter, mold spores, plant parts, and other material that might contaminate or affect the color, aroma, or flavor of the fruit or vegetable. Peeling or removal of any undesirable parts follows washing.
To stop browning: try steaming or coating light-colored fruits and vegetables with lemon juice or ascorbic acid (FruitFresh) before drying. Steaming or blanching also is recommended for veggies to inactivate enzymes that cause the vegetables to mature, or toughen during dehydrating.
Before Dehydration for your Prime Meat Cut or cut the slices into the correct size pieces and prepare with spices or marinade if you decide to use them.
After Dehydration Packing of dehydrated fruits, vegetables and beef is an absolute must to protect the dehydrated food against:
- moisture
- light
- air
- dust
- microflora
- foreign odor
- insects
- rodents
Also packaging:
- provides strength and stability to maintain original food size
- shape
- appearance
through storage and serving to your, your friends friends or putting in lunches.
Package with materials that are accepted for contact with food. Cost is also an important element in packaging.
Package types include:
- cans,
- plastic bags
- bins
- cartons, and rely on how much and what your storage is like.
Now the only other thing you will be doing after dehydration is eating the fruit of your preparation and enjoying doing that. Now and then, deciding on gift giving may be an alternative way to enjoy giving gifts to your relatives and buddies with healthy treats.
About the Author:
Marjorie J McDonald experienced growing up in a gardening family. Each and every year a large garden was planted and all extra food was sold, frozen, canned or dehydrated so the extra foods lasted all thru the year. Creating food dehydrator recipes was especially fun for her family to do. Preserving Food Methods were very important to her family.
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