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Nice. If you have grinding capacity (food processor, spice grinder etc) I highly recommend looking into vegetable powders. You can dry excess vegetables, and often skins - including pumpkin skin & tomato skins - and then grind them to make powder. It's a great way of preventing waste, you can see what is left in the vegetable crisper at the end of the week and dry it if it won't be used. You can then use the powders to add flavour and thickening to stews and add them to baking - dried zucchini can be substituted for normal flour in many things, and zucchini, carrot, pumpkin etc. can all be used in cakes and breads. You can also make your own vegetable stock powders.
The pro tips are always in the comments 🙏
Mmmmm.. The garnish for your Gin drink machine🤤 Blood Orange gang
Are you dehydrating potat now?
Test batch of apples before I risk potat
Word on the street is that you can do chillies in those things too.
I have a tub full of dried chillies that says you're right 🙂
You can do all kinds! This was gifted to me by a friend who knew how much I loved biltong. I expect its main use for me will be drying beef 🤤
What does it do with the moisture, if any? Never used one of these before either.
It doubles as an apple and cinnamon scented humidifier for my apartment
Drools and makes Homer Simpson style gluttony noises
~~w~~beeps in microwave
if you get browning a quick dip in lemon juice / citric acid will prevent.
I like to use an l-ascorbic bath when drying granny smiths because it elevates the bite to near war-head levels. Dear god I'm salivating just describing it.
I read up in advance and gave them all a lemon juice bath before going in! Where do you source the ascorbic?
I've made a mix of granny smith, pink lady, and some other type I can't remember the name of to see what I like 😁
Ebay for bulk and cheaper - it's just vitaminC powder. Do a bit of digging, it's one of those things that stupid "wellness" wanks sell at a wild markup - you can get a poncy little jar of 20g for $20 or half a kilo of the same damned thing for $10 elsewhere.
Those are some oddly coloured spuds. A friend grew her own turmeric in a pot and got a good harvest after one year - dehydrated them in the oven and ground them down for the most mindblowing turmeric powder