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Well someone had to do it (hijack our thread). It's not like we didn't give others plenty of opportunity....
So, I have a dehydrator with no instructions that someone gave me and I have yet to try and figure it out. I was going to experiment with apple chips because someone just gave me a ton of apples. But you do tomatoes, onions, etc for cooking?? Do they rehydrate in the cooked food or stay hard? Stupid question maybe, but I've never done it. Do they keep their same nutritional value when dried? I would love to dry a bunch of food but haven't tried yet.
They will rehydrate when cooking in high moisture foods. Example: I wouldn't put dried onion in dressing...may not rehydrate quite enough, but in soup...YES. The dehydration only takes out the water content, so the nutritional value is WAYYY closer to fresh than canning by heat where some of the nutrients are lost, so yeah, it's better! Dehydrators are SOOO easy! Oh and I did apples too
I forgot about those! You can make fruit leathers...AKA fruit roll-up type snacks with a dehydrator. I did that with fresh homemade cinnamon apple sauce and I got 1 tiny piece...those ravenous children devoured the rest in 20 minutes!
Remind me to get a dog next time
Oh, and the tomato...taste like sundried, and is GREAT on pizza, in salad, etc. I like them just to snack on, but I'm weird
Dried foods fit WAY better in the pantry too! 12 pounds of tomatoes...dried and are in 3 pint jars
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