Preserving Your Harvest

[Sueby]

I like to dehydrate squash or zucchini chips when the garden is producing. They are so good, sliced thin like lays potato chips but healthy!

 

[tripletfeb]

Try apple slices! Absolutely delicious. And you can sprinkle cinamon on them!

That will be my next experiment! Do you put your apples in lemon first?

 

[tripletfeb]

I like to dehydrate squash or zucchini chips when the garden is producing. They are so good, sliced thin like lays potato chips but healthy!

Oh, good idea!

 

[Sally PB]

Well, my bananas and strawberries are done dehydrating. They are pretty yummy!

Dried bananas =

Try apple slices! Absolutely delicious. And you can sprinkle cinamon on them!

DH wanted to try cinnamon once. It was overpowering because he put on too much. Never tried it again, but I'd like to.

That will be my next experiment! Do you put your apples in lemon first?

I do a lot of apples. I don't do any lemon juice or other anti-oxidizing agents. I like to slice them THICK. They take longer to dry, but oh, so good!

Honeycrisp are great, but expensive to buy. Empire are really good, because they have that tangy taste. I usually buy a couple of half bushels at the very end of the season when they go on sale.

 

[SheaLoner]

I do. I like the extra acid bite from the added lemon.

That will be my next experiment! Do you put your apples in lemon first?

 

[ssferret]

I've been making distilled water all day.
My husband needs it for his CPAP breathing machine, and I need it for incubators & plants.
I've been having a heck of a time finding distilled water at the store, so my husband let me buy a distilled water machine for $100.

I was wondering if anyone else was having difficulty finding distilled water. I was looking all over the place too. I would have ordered it online (unless online stores had run out also) but I already ran out at home and I needed it for my incubator. I was afraid I was going to have to make my own if I couldn't find it.

I finally found some in the last place I thought it would be: a grocery store in my small town. They were still running low but I guess being a small town there was less demand than in the city.

 

[SheaLoner]

If you just need a small amount of distilled water it is really not hard to make at home. Put a kettle or narrow pan on the stove to boil, place a metal bowl or a pot upside down over the top angled so the drips will land in another container to catch it. If you have some way to cool the top it will collect faster.
A simple still.

 

[wyoDreamer]

I believe there are instructions on-line for using your insta=pot to make distilled water also. Something about attaching a plastic tubing onto the steam vent and then running that into another container.
Not having any problems finding distilled water in the stores around here, yet.
There are weird short-term shortages of odd thing now and then though.

 

[WthrLady]

weird. The ONLY thing we've had a shortage/absence of since March of 2020 is, oddly enough, Chinese Chow Noodles. No idea why or where they were from June 2021- March 2022, but they're back now. (Oh and canning lids)

 

[Sally PB]

I am seeing regular and wide mouth Ball lids in the grocery store now. $3.20 for 12 regular, and $4.20 for wide mouth. Lids only. I picked up a few boxes of the regulars to have on hand. Most of my canning is in wide mouth jars, but I wanted some regular lids too.