Dear fellow PaddleWisenhiemers; I have been hinting rather strongly to my family that I want a food dehydrator for Christmas. If I don't get one from them I will be buying on myself shortly after that. Does anyone have any favorite recipe's for a dehydrator that they would like to share? Any special tips on dehydrating and re-hydrating? I am planning several multi-day kayak trips in the upcoming year and would like to experiment with the food I intend to bring before I am forced into eating it because it is the only thing I packed. On a side note, how many others are there out there who bring their camp stove and cook set out onto the back porch just so you can field test a new dish? And how does the family react? My daughter thinks that it is normal, I think the rest of the family just humors the slightly warped among them. Thanks for the help, and the humor! Mike. -- Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space. Mark H Hunt *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Mike- I recommend the book "Trail Food" by Alan Kesselheim. It includes preparation instructions and drying times for most every food you would want to dehydrate. It also has a lot of good (tasty and nutritious) recipes and menus for trips of various lengths. It is really the only dehydrating book I like for actual camping food: most of the others offer good drying instructions, but their recipes are surprisingly complicated, often require kitchen ingredients or tools, and aren't suitable for camping without major changes/substitutions. Otherwise, my favorite dehydrated food recipes are pretty much what I make at home. Soups and pasta sauces work really well when put through a blender or processor to even out the consistency. I keep meat out of any soups/sauces, because it needs different drying temps and times than fruits, veggies, or grains. If you want to add meat dry it separately and add it when cooking. Dehydrated fruits seem to have much more flavor than the dried stuff you can buy. Dehydrated ripe nectarines were the best camp snacks I've ever had. As for the dehydrator itself, make sure you get the round kind, not the kind with rectangular trays that don't dry things as evenly... Whether it is dehydrated or not, I always test it out at home before taking it on a trip. I have definitely blown it in the past by bringing things that were so unappealing I couldn't eat them when they were the last thing left in the pack (chocolate maltomeal, eeeuuuwwww). > I have been hinting rather strongly to my family that I want a food > dehydrator for Christmas. If I don't get one from them I will be buying > on myself shortly after that. Does anyone have any favorite recipe's > for a dehydrator that they would like to share? Any special tips on > dehydrating and re-hydrating? I am planning several multi-day kayak > trips in the upcoming year and would like to experiment with the food I > intend to bring before I am forced into eating it because it is the only > thing I packed. > On a side note, how many others are there out there who bring their > camp stove and cook set out onto the back porch just so you can field > test a new dish? And how does the family react? My daughter thinks > that it is normal, I think the rest of the family just humors the > slightly warped among them. > Thanks for the help, and the humor! *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
We got a dehydrator as a wedding present, and it's turned out to be very well used. It's the American Harvester Snack Master model. Jerky works well, as does dried tomatoes and pears. Peaches are ok, pineapple is very good. I can recommend the book Dry It, You'll Like It, by Gen Macmaniman, published by MacManiman inc, PO Box 546 Fall City WA 98024. As far as camp stove outside at home, that's a very normal experience in the summer, though the neighbors have odd reactions to it in winter! At 01:56 PM 12/13/99 -0500, Michael R Noyes wrote: >Dear fellow PaddleWisenhiemers; > I have been hinting rather strongly to my family that I want a food >dehydrator for Christmas. If I don't get one from them I will be buying >on myself shortly after that. Does anyone have any favorite recipe's >for a dehydrator that they would like to share? Any special tips on >dehydrating and re-hydrating? I am planning several multi-day kayak >trips in the upcoming year and would like to experiment with the food I >intend to bring before I am forced into eating it because it is the only >thing I packed. > On a side note, how many others are there out there who bring their >camp stove and cook set out onto the back porch just so you can field >test a new dish? And how does the family react? My daughter thinks >that it is normal, I think the rest of the family just humors the >slightly warped among them. > Thanks for the help, and the humor! > >Mike. > >-- > Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are >visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a >great >blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a >mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your >passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space. >Mark H Hunt > > >*************************************************************************** >PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not >to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission >Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net >Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net >Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ >*************************************************************************** > Greg Welker Current Designs Pisces CLC Cape Charles Modified West Wight Potter P-19 #448 "Good seamanship is using superior judgement to prevent the need to use superior skills." *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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