I noticed in some old posts that a lot of hikers seem to have tried dehydrating their own food, vacuum sealing it and have not enjoyed the results. I figured maybe that means there might be a few of you out there with dusty dehydrators and vacuum sealers that you might want to part with? If so, I’ll buy em!
Has anybody tried justtomatoes products and dehydrating fruits/veggies themselves? If so, how did the results compare?
toes
Sorry, didn’t mean for this post to first end up in the AT forum. Started it again in “gear deals” where it belongs.
Cheers,
Toes
toes
That is too weird. I just dropped two gallons of pineapple on the 'ol air buggy and thought, “I wonder I shift 500rpm earlier I could get 2 more miles per gallon.” Nnno, that was the other voice in my head, sorry.
It’s not that we don’t enjoy the food we make and dry, it’s that after several days/weeks on the trail you have to follow your palette. This is to say that the spiffy stroganoff now tastes like butt. What works well for drops and re-supply is a bulk of basic stuff like veggies, dried fruit, jerky etc, not whole dishes. When we hiked the AT, back in the day, we had three meals let out of twenty that we still liked.
That said, most green veggies can be blanched, dunked in boiling water for three minutes before drying, to break down the proteins a little, then dry. Broccoli does well; green beans come out sort of mushy on re-hydrate. Carrots are good. Grab some dehydrator and see what you get.
Bushwhack
I just did 20 lbs of apples, 8 pints of strawberries,bananas(I don’t like those as well). Also did canned peaches and fruit coctail. I dehydrated frozen veggies, some meals like barley caserole, 16 bean soup, red lentils and brown rice, white bean curry and tomatoe sauce. When I tried the sauce, it was watery so I will justy have to thicken it with instant potatoes. Maybe it is a good thing that I just started a couple of weeks ago so I don’t have too much done. I did have a great receipe book for backpacking meals to dehydrate called High Trail Cookery by Linda Frederick Yaffe published by Chicago Review Press.
sleeveless
I just did 20 lbs of apples, 8 pints of strawberries,bananas(I don’t like those as well). Also did canned peaches and fruit coctail. I dehydrated frozen veggies, some meals like barley caserole, 16 bean soup, red lentils and brown rice, white bean curry and tomatoe sauce. When I tried the sauce, it was watery so I will justy have to thicken it with instant potatoes. Maybe it is a good thing that I just started a couple of weeks ago so I don’t have too much done. I did have a great receipe book for backpacking meals to dehydrate called High Trail Cookery by Linda Frederick Yaffe published by Chicago Review Press.
sleeveless