Dehydrating your own camping food?

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David Knopp

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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 15, 2014 - 02:00pm PT

about the miso-i just tried drying fresh yellow miso-it became a fruit leather like thing, lost about 60% of its' weight.

the method- i borrowed a cascade dehydrator from a friend-keep it pretty low temperature, around 120, then cool and vacuum pack...

I'll fess up too: i'm a professional chef, although i now work just a little, for a few families, consulting, catering-but i have a lot of experience doing everything-so i make my own cured meats, smoke my own fish, can fruits and vegetables, so this is just another part of my learning curve
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Oh, yeah, i also bought a vacuum packer from costco-that has made this project even easier and more useful...

Some other ideas-buttery parmesan polenta, dried then pulverised, to rehydrate for breakfast.
Buttermilk mashed potatoes as a dinner base.
umm?

hellroaring

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San Francisco

Apr 15, 2014 - 02:03pm PT

Urizen, I loaned David my dehydrator so I know what he is using to dry stuff, but nothing about his prep method. David is using a dehydrator from a company called Excaliber, and it is a 9 tray unit, and if I remember right they are out of Sacramento.

The nice thing about Excaliber is that they are square shaped, with forced air from the back of the unit, other units are round and blow air from the bottom. By having the fan in the back you have to do a heck of lot less rotating of trays, sometimes none at all.

Also, you used to be able to call the company directly and request a "cosmetically blemished" model, which save quite a bit of money. Maybe they still do that.

Does anybody have a good recipe for some sort of breakfast porridge?? Pretty sick of oatmeal, and I am sure I'm not the only one...