Stop using these fruit leather trays - Better Options and Making Fruit Leather from the Pantry
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- I love repurposing food from the pantry to use other ways. Today, we'll make salsa chips (and taste testing rehydrated), make the easiest fruit leather ever, and preserve the last tomato paste. All canned goods from my food storage pantry. I'll also rant about the plastic fruit leather trays I dislike so much!
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Peeping toms
0:20 Why Best By Dates are a Scam
2:05 Making Three Leathers
5:30 Creating Salsa Leather for Chips
8:38 Easiest Fruit Leather Ever
12:27 Dehydrating & Results
22:46 Salsa/Picante Chips
24:43 Why I hate Plastic Fruit Leather Trays
26:13 Rehydrating & Taste Testing Salsa
I wish I found you when my dear Mother was alive. I can hear her now “what’s Darcy making today Connie?” You remind me of her so much Darcy. She was well ahead of herself in food preservation and taught me how to dehydrate and garden. I bought myself my own dehydrator back then and we’d have so much fun coming up with foods to dehydrate. When she and Dad retired, they were blessed with the ability to travel the entire United States…twice , in their 5th wheel. She’d take her dehydrator with her and never stopped doing it. She made jam/jelly, and dehydrate foods from all across the States. Their favorite place for music and food was Louisiana, cajun country. I even have Spoons to play brought back from them as a gift that were homemade from a man they fell in love with their. How I miss her. But you bring her back to me when I watch you. I thank you in so many ways dear for that. I love to dehydrate too…..♥️. I stopped doing it for years until I found you three years ago. You brought that back to me too….👍😄
Awww - what a great memory for you! And while I may have encouraged you, YOU are the one bringing those memories alive by continuing to do what you loved doing with her!
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I found fruit leather turns out better if I put in blender and blend really well. Blend strawberries in applesauce makes the best fruit leathers!!
Thanks Darcy your videos are so incredibly instructive and easy to understand, I appreciate the time you take to make them for us. You are the one who got me started on dehydrating, and after a year I'm pretty confident that I can dehydrate about anything. I've found that fresh veggies don't keep as well anymore, but I have several jars of them available to grab as I need them. Thanks again much love 💓
That's the way to do it!!
I agree with you 100%!!!
I could just kick myself for not finding your channel sooner. I am learning so much from you about how to not waste my pantry items. My dehydrator is going to get a work out in the next few days. Thank you again for taking time out of your busy day to share all your knowledge with us. Have a blessed day.
You can do it!
I'm with you! Ever since finding this channel I have been reevaluating everything!! And dehydrating like crazy. LOL
I agree she is my genius!!!
That sped up speech when you're spreading out the tomato paste is exactly what my kids hear when I talk. ha ha ha
Oh how I had seen this video last summer when I was making fruit leather. Your method of using scissors is so easy, logical and BRILLIANT. Thank you!
That's ironic because I just bought a Cosori dehydrator and not been able to utilize it because I didn't buy the accessories, aka, fruit leather trays, which is why I came here in the 1st place 😂 You're so awesome, and thank you for the video 🥰❤
I appreciate your honesty on some of the products. I was just about to hit the buy now button before I watched this. Thank you. If you don’t mind me adding another option for tomato paste, ice cube trays work well also. Each slot hold 1-2 Tblsps. Freeze, pop out and bag. Have a great day.
I just recently got a Cosori and I love it! I tried that white tray once, and it ended up after that being used in the bottom as a drip tray as well. Thank you for the instructions and information. I've gotten adventurous with dehydrating thanks to your videos.
I also have a Cosori which I ordered after seeing one of Darcy's videos. It actually came with extra white trays (not just one).
So far, I've found that grated zucchini dries well on the trays. I use a metal spatula and they come off easily.
🤣🤣 Loved the intro!!! And "Speed Darcy", when you rev up the video, always makes me smile. Wish I could be that fast, lol. Well, my weekend plans are changing up a bit now. I already have things in one dehydrator, but it would be LOVELY to dry down some salsa, etc. as well. If I want it chunky later, I can always toss in some of my bigger chunks of peppers, onions and/or tomatoes (either dehydrated or freeze dried) when rehydrating. These days, I'm all about being more efficient with my pantry space. Not even remotely into fruit leathers. To each his/her own on that, lol. Thanks so much for all the tips and inspiration! 🙌😄 💖
I wish I was that fast, too!!!
Loved hearing your story time!
As a working mom, secretary, not much $$ - I would eat corn tortilla chips with salsa for breakfast😄
You are always so helpful! Thank you.
Love your videos Darcy! Thanks ❤️ loved your intro
Great demo, thanks Darcy!
Thank you for sharing your videos, getting more great ideas
loving these vids!!!!! had no idea or even think about dehydrating tomato paste or salsa!
Darcy you are a genius this could not come at a better time you have answered my prayer!
I love how you show the pros and cons. Thanks for another great video.
Thank you for your videos and tips. Your wisdom does help my dehydrating adventure easier.
Hi I just recently found your channel and can't thank you enough for all the information contained in them I will be buying a dyhydrator this spring and thanks to the video I have found the one I want so thanks again for your help
Love this!! ALWAYS such handy information!!!
Glad it was helpful!
You have definitely upped my game on dehydrating, I appreciate your ability to show us your take on dehydrating some of the things that get lost in the pantry...just realized that I have a jar of applesauce that won't be eaten in a timely manner that I can dehydrate...thank you
Excellent tips and thank you for the link to silicone trays.
Salsa chip/croutons!! Thanks for the idea Darcy❤️
Thanks for the great tips, Darcy!
Any time!
I love the tomato paste measured out! Clever girl.
Thank you Darcy. This was so much fun. Much appreciation for sharing and showing dehydrating ideas. Nice story (but sad) of your younger days. Hugs, Kate
Thank you Darcy for the valuable knowledge 🌹
Glad it was helpful!
Besides loving and appreciating all the great info and instruction you generously share with us, i really love that you challenge us to think outside the box and be creative. You have such great suggestions for ways to use things-as do so many of your viewers. Thank you and blessings from Alabama❤️
Thank you for reminder to go through pantry and save food from being wasted!!!😬😀
Great info, Darcy! I’m thankful you’re sharing your experiences with us.
Austin? 100 square miles...surrounded by reality! 😊
I make applesauce/puree "leathers" but I put down single portion sized amounts. I also get plain unsweetened applesauce, add apple pie spice boosting the flavor without the stickiness of the flavored by avoiding the sugar/corn syrup they add.
With the tomato paste i use my candy forms and freeze them. Not only are they frozen and ready anytime they are cute. I will definitely dehydrate some as well. Great idea.
Thank you Darcy......what a wealth of information you are..........loved your college days story!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you again Darcy! Nice tricks and great advices… and i will be doing salsa soon… and apple fruit keather this afternoon! 🥰
Enjoy!
Definitely doing the tomato paste, that’s a genius idea. I tend to powder just about everything. Greens, fruit powders for smoothies, onions, garlic, etc. I love wasting nothing and my spices like onions, looks, garlic, and ginger are amazing additions to my spice rack. Celery and onion are also the bomb for celery salt and onion salt.
I thoroughly enjoyed all these great ideas. I have a Cosori fruit leather tray and thought I was a failure at leathers...thanks for letting me know it's the pan!! I usually make my tomato powder out of tomato skins...now, I'm going to try dehydrating paste.
I just found your video and I am so inspired. I never thought to dehyratorate the things in this vidio. Thank you for opening a whole new way to use my dehyrator.
You are so welcome!
I appreciate your effort and time in sharing all this wonderful info with us. I bought a dehydrator last spring because of you and us it all the time. Has really helped my family.
Wonderful!
Hi Darcy! I have loved learning from you about dehydrating! Thank you so much! I decided to pour off the juices from the salsa and I decided to use it as a rice seasoning
I used it to make rice in my Perfect pot.
My family LOVES the fruit leathers I make. They’re great ‘grab & go’ snacks!
I had no clue you could dehydrate canned vegetables until watching you! Yeah I did it yesterday 😂 I love Hominy, went and got a 6 LB CAN! almost done, be almost 20 hrs, I have combined the trays, and threw in chopped frozen broccoli
I have a really small dehydrator I use air fryer sheets trimmed down. Works great!
I've also done super easy flavored fruit leather by mixing some frozen juice concentrate into the applesauce. I started having much better luck with fruit leather when I started using an offset spatula to smooth it out and a rimmed silicone tray. (I used some "swiss roll" trays that are much smaller than the Excalibur trays, but we're also much cheaper at the time.)
You have such great ideas!
Glad you think so!
I have to say that this is the best most informative channel I have ever come across. She tells you everything and actually answers your questions. I sure wish there was a canning channel like this. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge, especially without making us newbies feel stupid. God bless!!
There is! @Suttonsdaze is a great channel about dehydrating and she does lots of Q&A videos on canning!
Best dehydrating advice ever! How do you do it?!
I'm experimenting with silicon cup cake cases for the likes of tomato paste.
They are good, just slow down drying time for me (I'm a little impatient), but they are good for powders and for freezing the paste.
Love your channel it’s so informative I’ve just started learning and dehydrating from my oven with the slow cook dehydration mode , keep up the exciting way to conserve food especially since food prices are constantly rising and with a possible food shortage was wondering if you water bath meals !
No - water bath canning any low acid food is not safe. Pressure can them, dehydrate them or freeze-dry them.
What I soooo love about this is a lot of the time we open a jar of Salsa and before you know it we waste the rest and throw it out d cause we don’t know how long it’s been opened and how long is it safe when we opened it !!
So brilliant 👍❤️
Please bring us more videos on beef or deer. How to make jerky. We really need that. Thank you for all the great videos 💐
Sorry - I don't make either of those things - try jerkyholic.com
I already dehydrated salsa and powdered it to add to my cooking.
Thank you for this video!!! It is midnight and I am up waiting for my apricot leather to finish and I knew I was doing something wrong. Where do I get some help? DARCY! Oh My Goodness, I have almost burned it, I had no idea what temp to pick and then you showed me to flip it over (game changer) and how it should look when it’s done. Holy moly! Oh and should I have known what temp to dry leather at? YES, because I have bought your magnets and stickers and your book. Do I have any idea where I put all that? Nope. Not a clue. Thank you for coaching me through fruit leather when I should be in bed.
P.S. It never dawned on me to dehydrate salsa! My husband is going to love that! Thank you!🫶🏼
LOL Love the playful intro!
Love your videos 👍
Thank you!
Awesome intro Darcy!! 🤣😅🤣
Great ideas!
For tomato paste I put the contents of larger can of paste in a 1gal ziplock bag and flatten to the sides and top to bottom. Then I make a Grid with my finger left to right AND up and down and freeze flat. Easy to snap off a serving or two for your recipe.
That's a great idea!
Just an idea for you that's easier to smooth your food than a spoon. Try an small offset spatula that's used in baking. It has a flat surface and doesn't leave the trails in your food that the bowl of a spoon does.
I ran a few different Barnes & Noble in Texas for 20 years!! Small world
Thank you so much for your videos
I need solutions with a round dehydrator that I can't find leather trays for
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I am glad you showed up on my feed. I have the lard Chard dehydrator with 16 trays. I got one of those silicone mats and I was going to contact them to get more! Glad I didn't!
My question for you is: can you make powder from fresh cherries?
You can, but it can be really clumpy because of the natural sugars, so I would only powder as much as you need at any one time.
Those silicon mats (or any brand of silicon mat) are a PITA if you have something thing like broth, which equals glass shards while taking off the tray once dry, if done in a very thin layer. Thank you for mentioning to make the layer thick - a great tip!
That's why I prefer the teflon mats over anything - they are just great.
If you use the can opener to open both ends of the can and then use one end to push the paste out the other end, you can just use a knife to slice off a portion in a nice round circle however thick you want it.
Can’t wait to try fruit leathers! Question - you said to store these in an air-tight container, and I’m assuming that means they can be stored in the pantry. Why do these not need to be brittle in order to store compared to other things that must snap in two and have absolutely no moisture in them? Thanks so much!
You can store them that way - but concentrated fruit sugars in this format doesn't mean it's moist. I don't like to keep them too long because I don't think they keep quality long enough. This isn't the same as being 'not fully dry'.
Hello Darcy I really enjoy learning so much from.watching your videos. Can you dehydrate feta cheese
Thanks!! And it's not recommended, no.
I just did that with a giant bottle of Franks Original Buffalo Wing Sauce. Powdered it, it is delicious. Also did the tomato paste blobs. Great minds think a like. Lol. Going to try the applesauce. Love your content
Genius! 🥰
Also, I feel you on the saltines & salsa "meals". Mine was scrambled egg sandwiches or macaroni with butter. I just saw a store ad for jalapeño saltines. Who knew?! Anyway, wish I had my dehydrated foods options back then. Thanks again for all you do! 🙏💞
Thanks for sharing!!
Always so helpful! Thank you Darcy!! What are your favorite screens? I will be purchasing the cosori 6 tray. And my grandchildren enjoy fruit leather. Is there a tray for that that works well? ❤
Hard mesh screens are becoming a little harder to find in a good price range as everyone has gone to the silicone (which are fine, but it's a little harder to move around. Bright kitchen has mesh that you can use as well as any of the silicone mesh. amzn.to/414r9FN I keep them all listed in my Amazon store.
@@ThePurposefulPantry Thanks so much Darcy!
One way to make sure the dabs of tomato paste fit in a jar is to use a jar AS kind of a biscuit cutter after you put down the paste
I have metal rings bought for home made English crumpets that are great for portioning, cutting etc.
One day, I'll get one for my garden
They are super cheap at thrift stores!!
dang. your earlier videos said to buy extra fruit leather trays with the cosori, so i already did that :(
Did I actually say the Cosori brand or the off-brand fruit leather sheets?
Great intro - made me laugh!
Good morning from Canada. I do have a big dehydrator. That I keep in the garage but it’s to cool to use right now. I’m wondering what you think would be better to get a round on. Or a cosori. Like yours to keep in the house thanks
I will always say a cabinet model over a stackable - every day :)
You could put a little piece of tape on the outside of the fruit leather wrap
Thanks for the great tips! 🙂 Where can we find that handy temperature magnet/sticker you have on the side of your dehydrator? Thx! 🌡️🙂
Oh, l just noticed the Conversion Chart in your pantry too!
Not only is it in the description box, I am dropping the link for you here shop.thepurposefulpantry.com/products/dehydrator-temperature-guide-refrigerator-magnet
Tyvm! :) I read through your description before asking, but missed it I guess. Thanks again!
Yep - from Hobby Lobby but they don't carry it anymore - it's got my handwriting on it! (I used to create computer fonts, and a company took one of mine to make that sign).
Personally, maybe it is the quilter in me. I would use a pizze cutter. 😆
Darcy, how would you dehydrate frozen fruit chunks to make a fruit leather? I know you would have to purée them, would you add sweeteners to the purée?
Thaw them first enough to puree them, and I don't add sweeteners to much of anything, but you could if you felt the resulting puree was too tart. You also want to make sure it has some kind of agent that helps make it more pliable - and adding applesauce is an easy way to do both. Or you need to cook the sauce for a bit to develop the natural pectins.
@@ThePurposefulPantry thank you so much Darcy I would’ve never thought of adding applesauce to it. 👍🏼
I just finished my strawberry and blueberry powder. It took 3 days to dehydrate and turned out great! Now…what to do with these fruit powders. I did sprinkle some into my plain yogurt, but it wasn’t sweet? I had to add Cane Sugar to it. I’ll check out your videos to see how I can use them. I have strawberries, blueberries and raspberry powders now, but need to find out how to use them. I know I can add to oatmeal, muffins, but they lack flavor?
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One question ? When you rehydrate the salsa how much water to how much chips??
I don't measure :D If too much water, a little more salsa, if too little, add a little more. It's what you want for density.
Could you use parchment paper and do tomatoes sauce or would it leak threw
While parchment paper can work, parchment is not waterproof, so will begin to absorb water, making it susceptible to sticking. Tomato paste would probably be fine, I've used it in the past when I needed an extra, but tomato sauce no.
Would you recommend using Pam to keep the food from sticking to the tray?
Only if you plan on eating it in a few days - don't use oils of any kind for anything you plan to store.
@@ThePurposefulPantry thank you!
i find that parchment paper doesnt work as my mango fruit leather sticks to it.. any suggestions aside from the silicone mats?
That's it. Some folks try plastic wrap, but I don't like it and am not sure of it's heat point so won't use it.
When you put use the fruit leather trays on top of the shelves,do you always then wash the metal trays? I do but think it my be a waste of time/resources if not dehydrating something with a lot of odor like onions or garlic.
I wash the metal trays if food has been on it.
on the fruit leather .. could you not roll it up on the parchment paper and then cut it into the width you want?
Yes - but it's not what I wanted at the time, so didn't. You can do it however you want.
I have a round dehydrated what can I use for that one
The link I give in the description gives options for round machines, too - Bright Kitchen is who you are looking for.
How long does the tomato paste last after dehydrated?
Optimal storage on most dehydrated foods is two years, though you may get longer.
Use a pizza cutter to cut the fruit leather instead of scissors. I’ve found pizza cutting wheels work great for cutting all sorts of flat thing… quesadillas, waffles, pancakes….
Thanks for the tip!
I'm gonna send you some offset spatulas 💖 😂😂😂
I don't need them, thanks LOLOLOL I have them, it just wasn't worth pulling out for this.
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I know.. Just goofin
RE: fruit leather trays: yes, they do...
So.. when you need two tablespoons of tomato paste you just pull out two of the dehydrated slabs? Am I really understanding this?
You put in however much you measured out, yes.
Fyi, the fruit leather tray doesn't stick if you spray a bit of olive oil on it, rub all over the tray.thanka
And then you can't store the fruit leather. For short-term fine. But for storage, oils turn rancid. And when it warms, which mine have all warped, they don't always lay flat to have a level puree. They are still not great trays.
Done Manwich sauce like the salsa, throw chips into burgers and meatloaf.
I JUST LOST 3 quarts of good gelatinous bird bone broth using the cosori fruit leather trays. all of them just warped in the middle spilling all of the bone broth out. now I have to clean the mess up. WHY?? going to order the rimmed silicone ones now. but this is for the birds. ☹😭
Sorry :( Yep - they 'really only good for the machine liner. I'm sorry it happened.
@@ThePurposefulPantry live and learn. I just left a review on them stating that they are crap. never expected them to do that. so I am ordering the silicone ones now. need 6 so I can do bone broth.
Have you ever dipped a salsa chip into salsa?
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Soooo, having not made fruit leather before and having bought the hard trays when I got my cosori, I thought well, I will try them for the first time, maybe my experience with these trays will be different. THEY ARE THE SPAWN OF SATAN lol. Like how can they even be marketed for this purpose when they stick so bad to it?! "Liners only" they will become! I think I even ruined a spatula by scraping and clawing, trying to salvage my 3 quarts of berries. The chips are flying everywhere, sticking on the counter. omg never again. Listen to this lady! LOL Thank you. (in arrears lol)
LOL - That's why I mentioned it lol - I hate 'em . But sorry you had to go through it!
Roll your leathers first, then cut.
Fruit by the foot!
I use a pizza cutter. Easier than scissors.
I tried raw scrambled eggs on those (worthless) plastic trays. I didn't realize the trays were. Humped up in the middle.
Soooo. As I poured the eggs onto the front of the trays, the eggs were running out of the back of my Cosori , down the back of my cabinet . I didn't know it until much later.
On my way to bed, I happened to see my eggs on the under my Cosori, on the floor, and under the baseboard. What a MESS! I had to get my husband's screw driver to pull the baseboard away from the wall and lift enough to clean under it. I was already tired. Now I was tired and fumming.!
Those plastictrays are useless!!!!