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Food dehydrators and vacuum sealers

Anonymous Wed 25 Nov 2020 17:32:58 No.1941744 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1941748 >>1942658 >>1942781 >>1943245 >>1943248

Sup sc/out/s

Thinking about possibly getting a food dehydrator and a vacuum sealer to make my own trail meals. Not really interested in continuing to pay $$$ for pre made meals and I wanna eat something better than ramen/rice sides with tuna or summer sausage.

Any tips, reviews or things to look out for?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Nov 2020 17:38:05 No.1941747 Report

Quoted By: >>1941764 >>1943218

You sound retarded quit buying chinese memes

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Nov 2020 17:41:43 No.1941748 Report

Quoted By: >>1941765

>>1941744
Check out andrew skurka’s recipes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Nov 2020 18:03:05 No.1941764 Report

Quoted By: >>1942852

>>1941747

htf are vacuum sealers and dehydrators chinese memes?

Pretty much every single culture that ever existed has had some sort of dehydrated food.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Nov 2020 18:04:08 No.1941765 Report

Quoted By: >>1941772

>>1941748

Will be trying his beans/rice/fritos recipe on my next overnight

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 25 Nov 2020 18:14:18 No.1941772 Report

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>>1941765
I’m a huge shill for that meal. I’ve eaten it in every overnight hike I’ve gone in since discovering it. It hits every mark of good hiking food: taste, calorie density, shelf life, packed size, ease of preparation, and macro nutrient balance. Everything else will be lacking in one of those categories. Skurka’s beans and rice is literally the best food you can bring.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Nov 2020 19:10:39 No.1941803 Report

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I have an Excalibur dehydrator. It's mid/high end and costs around $250 but it's the Martha Stewart standard for legit dehydrating. The next step up is going into commercial grade. I got it on a black Friday Amazon sale a few years back, and I have no complaints with it at all.

I also have a foodsaver game&field vacuum sealer, and it's alright. The biggest issue I have is the cheap bags I bought for it don't seal 100%, and the fix is double sealing, which takes time. I bought so many rolls of these cheap bags, I haven't bothered buying better bags, and likely won't until I go through them all.

Reviews for the dehydrator I have are okay, and it's a middle tier brand/product. I paid like $100 for it. One of the cool things it does is you can get an attachment for Mason jars, and vacuum seal things like rice, spices, or other grains in a reusable jar.

I dgaf how homosexual it is. Food preservation is a good skill to have. The next step after you get these two is to get a pressure canner.

Best combos I've made with dehydrator+vacuum sealer are

>apple slices with cinnamon sprinkled before the dehydration
>beef jerky (super easy and goes great in ramen for a cheap backpacking meal)
>Cooked rice dishes for instant rice meals
>garlic cloves (which I ground up once dehydrated and use for seasoning)
>Onions (these taste so good by themselves, it's like a chip almost. Goes great on burgers, salads, or in a soup like top ramen with your dehydrated jerky)

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Nov 2020 20:15:09 No.1941870 Report

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Bump. Also interested in this but I don't know whether or not I should invest in something more expensive or if a cheapo (£40) one would do fine for my solo meals.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Nov 2020 19:16:21 No.1942658 Report

Quoted By: >>1942742 >>1942744 >>1942778

>>1941744
Don't buy cheap. I have a $50 food dehydrator.
Drying herbs works like a charm. Anything else, like slices of pepper, take an eternity. I've never finished drying anything like that in the dehydrator and just used the oven on a low temperature setting. I've had some mushroom slices for 48 hours and they still weren't completely dry. In the oven for a few hours at 75°C and everything is bone dry.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Nov 2020 21:48:37 No.1942742 Report

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>>1942658
this anon speaks the truth
know how everyone is always trying to counteract dryness in their oven recipes?
it's for a reason. use your oven to dehydrate

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Nov 2020 21:51:25 No.1942744 Report

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>>1942658
True. Dehydrators are a mossad psyop. Return to tradition and just lay it in the sun all day.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Nov 2020 22:34:02 No.1942778 Report

Quoted By: >>1942783 >>1942949

>>1942658
>>1942742
>>1942744
Dehydrators are stupid even if they work, it makes no sense to buy food at top prices and pay money to dehydrate it. You end up paying 10 times more than buying dehydrated food. Now I'm sure some moron with a tiny garden is going to claim his produce is all free blah blah blah fiuck off

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Nov 2020 22:37:20 No.1942781 Report

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>>1941744
Your oven is a food dehydrator, just use it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Nov 2020 22:42:11 No.1942783 Report

Quoted By: >>1942807

>>1942778
>Now I'm sure some moron with a tiny garden is going to claim his produce is all free blah blah blah fiuck off
That's literally the main reason people by dehydrators.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Nov 2020 22:56:17 No.1942807 Report

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>>1942783
Maybe in your imagination

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Nov 2020 23:47:19 No.1942852 Report

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>>1941764
Yes, sure, even ancient Maya set out their produce to dry inside chink made electronics.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 01:06:14 No.1942949 Report

Quoted By: >>1942955

>>1942778
>pay & $4.99 for 5lbs of apples
>dehydrate down into 2 lbs of apple chips
>pay $12.99 forfor 2lbs of apple chips
Also
>pay $3.49/lb for raw beef
>pay $14.99/lb of beef jerky

You're not even trying.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 01:11:21 No.1942955 Report

Quoted By: >>1943122

>>1942949
Pay $50 for dehydrator
Pay $25 for misc supplies
Pay $10 for 5 pounds of apples
Pay $5 electric trying to dehydrate apples
Give up 3 days later after you lose your hearing and they don't dehydrate
Throw everything in the trash
Brag about how much you saved on the apples you never ate as you consoooome more Chinese memes

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 06:00:03 No.1943122 Report

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>>1942955
>misc supplies
such as?
>$10 for 5 lbs of apples
shoo newyorker
>$5 electric
sure

you're trying to make a case standing on nothing, people have them, use them, and it's worth it. mushrooms, blackberries etc come a few weeks a year, and when it rains it pours. I gathered 5 kgs (~10lbs) of balckberries in one day in august, dehydrated them to 2kg which i am still using for hiking . same for mushrooms.
even if you're buying, produce is not "top price" which you would know if you ate anything besides poptarts and tendies. produce in season is cheap as fuck, they have loads of it and it'll go bad in days, but your retarded ass looks at the price of strawberries in December and thinks it's expensive

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Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 06:15:25 No.1943130 Report

Quoted By: >>1943147

Used all homemade dehydrated foods on 3 backpacking trips this past summer. Made food for both me and the gf. Cost significantly less than buying freeze dried meals. Some of our recipes tasted better than others. Some didn’t dehydrate well at all and were scrapped altogether. Big plus is the control of ingredients and caloric content, protein, fats and macronutrients. I’d highly recommend reheating a portion at home before you go /out just to make sure it rehydrates into something edible.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 06:28:39 No.1943147 Report

Quoted By: >>1943151

>>1943130
Or you could just save the hassle and buy regular foods for less but you choose to justify your purchase like you are required to buy mountain house as an alternative

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 06:35:26 No.1943151 Report

Quoted By: >>1943156

>>1943147
Everything is regular food. Also the dehydrator was a gift.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 06:46:27 No.1943156 Report

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>>1943151
You dehydrate peanut butter and snickers bars?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 06:49:47 No.1943159 Report

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No, but I also don’t want to eat only peanut butter and snickers when I’m out for more than 6 hours. Why would anyone do that?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 10:39:45 No.1943218 Report

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>>1941747
>you fucking retard don't hoard food just go to the shops and CONSOOM
fpwp

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Nov 2020 12:57:36 No.1943245 Report

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>>1941744
consider just air drying stuff in a straw basket covered by a mosquito screen if all you're trying to do is pack light and make the food resistant to being tossed around in your pack.
Get in the habit of drying large batches of fruits, veggies and mushrooms when the season is hot.
Food dehydrator is nice to handle meat but then it needs to be beefy enough to handle it. If you're just gonna mildly dry the meat instead of completely mummifying it, might as well just cure it in dry salt. Other than that I don't really see why you need it unless you're trying to make a substantial amount of rations.

Necromancer

Necromancer Fri 27 Nov 2020 13:02:07 No.1943248 Report

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>>1941744
I have a Hendi dehydrator. Mostly use it to dehydrate fruit, but fruit leather is actually calorie dense (at least compared to normal dried fruit) especially if you add in some sugar.

I recommend getting something professional that you can set the temperature on (high temperatures will slightly cook whatever you're drying). I've always been doubtful of the stackable plastic ones, the ventilation seems sketch, though I've not actually used one.

https://www.hendi.eu/en/food-dehydrator-profi-line-6-trays-6754.html

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Nov 2020 08:27:58 No.1944048 Report

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9183p7iJ5E0

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 28 Nov 2020 11:51:07 No.1944137 Report

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>>1942852
>chink made electronics
he says while posting on a Chinese anime forum

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