Last week I acquired a food dehydrator for the first time. On the way home, my head was swimming with the possibilities of different foods that I could preserve for later consumption. Excited about the potential to rescue some of the forgotten food in the freezer and begin my long awaited, long-term food storage.
The next week was wrought with attempt after somewhat unsuccessful attempt at drying various food items, most of which have now been relegated to: "future soup ingredient".
I believe the most successful attempt was the sliced bananas and the least successful was the juice concentrate, which was supposed to turn into fruit leather (says me), but just became very gooey and sticky. The most interesting was the bison jerky because the dehydrator came with a jerky gun, however I accidentally made it ridiculously spicy, so that too, may become a future soup or chili ingredient.
Overall, I've had fun, and will continue to experiment, after I take a little dehydration break. I'm also curious to see if/how the dehydrator responds to the high elevation (6000ft) of Colorado.
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