Just discovered you. *The BEST food preservation channel on UA-cam!* Such a refreshing blend of clarity, integrity and intelligence. You are a lovely lady and a natural teacher. Just subscribed and fell in love with this channel. I will thoroughly enjoy watching all your older videos.
Miss Pam, I just loved this video!!! So much information!!!! You really are loving powdering everything, and I love seeing what you do with your powders!!! I just Love this channel!! Thank you for sticking with UA-cam and continuing to inform us how to prepare, preserve, and powder!!! ❤️
I love that you take advice from your community and actually use it as a learning experience. Many UA-camrs get upset when people comment advice and tips. You are a rare soul.
I don’t have the freeze dryer but I have definitely found that the dehydrator is a huge blessing. I can dehydrate a couple tomatoes and a few green peppers or 3 mangoes. I don’t have to have a huge amount to put it up for later. Anything that you can save is good.
Thank you. I grew up in a big family with not a lot of money and to this day am sensitive about the broad range of individual circumstances out there. I think we all need to be more mindful of the situations others may be in instead of living only within our own bubble! I will now get down from my soap box! LOL.
Never thought of dehydrating or powdering peaches - I have only canned them. This is definitely my next project. Thank you for sharing all your ideas and tips.
After watching some of your other videos, I've been drying and powdering more of my vegetables to save room. One of these days I hope to afford a freeze dryer. Thank you for your videos!
@Probably 2021 Thank you for the link. I grow our vegetables and either can, freeze or dehydrate the harvest. Powdering is a game changer for saving space and keeping the nutrition. Have a great day!
I just thought of a good use for powdered fruits: stir a bit into plain yogurt! (Ha! Mentioned in the video!) I won’t mention how I use powdered fruit in cheesecakes. Peach cheesecake with raspberry sauce: peach melba cheesecake!
Tried dehydrating peaches for the first time…love it! So much less work than canning. Thank you Pam, love your channel. Have been a subscriber for several years. I’d love to see your whole kitchen, turn the camera around one time 🙂
Oh, my! My mouth was watering at the sight of those peaches 🍑😋 Great job putting them up in so many different ways. Thanks again for letting us follow along. And a shout out to Jim for finding those gorgeous peaches and for the great camera work.
As to your comment on powders...I buy a raspberry powder at our spice store. Add it to softened cream cheese with some powder sugar and you have a tasty fruit dip. I would prefer your beautiful peaches! Thank you and Jim for the best channel on the Tube! Blessings all!
I'm not a big cream cheese eater, but at my job they used to make really good tasting cinnamon and raisin flavored cream cheese, sometimes they added in walnuts.
I had a couple of tablespoons to my peaches as the boiling before I slip the skins off keeps them from going brown teaching my eight and five-year-old granddaughter how to water bath and Dee. hydrate I find they eat things a lot better when they are involved in the process I to teach a lot of home skills and so excited to see this channel I absolutely love everything that you and Jim do please please please keep up the good work thank you for all your hard work God has blessed us with your knowledge and ability so you may share it with us
I just freeze dryed my meatballs first time with my FDer its so fun and relatively fast! I feel so much better after your videos. I am part of your"community "!
That is awesome! And yes, you absolutely are part of our community! Anyone who watches our videos and is working toward more preparedness and food security is part of our community. One of the great things is how members help other members and give encouragement. It is terrific!
And a nice way to store them. A great big bag of ready-to-use meatballs from the store, takes up a lot of room in your freezer. Then you have to worry about not having your electricity go out on your freezer or having an issue with your freezer, like I did. The repair person said 'the earliest we can come out is Wednesday - the day I called was like Thursday. They came by on Saturday, and some things were saved, but I still threw out 3 huge garbage bags worth of food. If that had been freeze dried, I would have saved a lot of money.
I started with powdered tomato skins that were left over after canning. They dry crispy and powder well. I use it much like other seasoning, especially when I want a tomato flavor without the added liquid. Thanks for giving me all the new ideas of powders. I bet they would work well in baking.
That is a great way to do tomato skins! Thanks for sharing that. I am experimenting more with powders and have used them a bit in baking. We will see what I come up with!
we have 2 peach trees and I have never considered dehydrating them. we slice and freeze them but I will now put them in my dehydrator next fall. so much good information.
I made my own vacuum machine and it works really well. I had a Seal-A-Meal that went bad so I already had the jar attachments. I bought a fairly inexpensive rotary-vane vacuum pump (
I’m going through chemotherapy and I think the powders will work perfect for me. One of the worst side effects of chemo, is that it alters your taste buds so most foods taste terrible. I just set up my new dehydrator today. Your videos are going to be a great help. I am definitely going to make the peach powder as well as green veggies and beets.
Am getting a few bushels of peaches this week. Will make peach jam with them and also dehydrate slices to make compote along with dehydrated apple slices. The dehydrated fruit is so refreshing when cooked in water with a cinnamon stick (no sugar). Thank you for your precise and valuable information. I’m very close to your age, but nowhere as youthful and energetic as you are - have been forwarding your podcasts on to my children as someday this might be very helpful in staying nourished.
Thank you for the wonderful video. I agree with you about not storing food for “30 years”. It never made sense to me because I would dread the idea of eating something that old. I believe it’s wise to have at least a years worth of food stored for your family and to continually “rotate and replenish”. TFS
I think properly prepared freeze dried food, that is well sealed is dine after a few years. I would not wait 30 years to eat it, but it is nice to know if a disaster happened, and you came across a 30 year old container of freeze dried food, you could eat it and remain healthy.
If the grid goes down you won’t be using your vacuum sealer, so I went and got a break bleeder at harbor freight. No electric needed just hand power and I feel it gives a stronger seal than my vacuum sealer does.
I had the same problem with dehydrated sweet potatoes! Sealed them in the jar, and over time became hard as a rock! Will use your technique of dehydrating the powder! Wonderful suggestion!
Peaches!! Impossible to hv to many peaches!! Great idea to powder some. I’m waiting and hoping peaches will soon go on sale as this is their season. Appreciate all your tips. Thanks.
Excellent video and gee are those peaches beautiful. It will be interesting to see what you will be creating with the powdered peaches. Thanks, you are so fun.
I just found you and LOVE your videos...you are such a great teacher! So excited to get started...by the way...fruit powders will be great for my baking of macarons and cookies!
My neighbour just canned some peaches and saved her skins and i told her about your powders, so she tried it. I think she mixed it with a little sugar after it was powdered. We talked about sprinkling on scones or on top of pies and also on ice cream. Great video Pam.
Loving your videos 😍 After watching you powder things and harvesting four large zucchini in one day, I dehydrated and powdered them. Now I can slip zucchini into all kinds of things that my family won't know about 🤣!
It may sound strange, adding a couple of spoons of that peach powder to my morning oatmeal sounds tasty to me. Love that freeze dryer y'all have. Another great video. Good Morning and have a great day !
I LOVE your videos, Pam. You are always sooooo informative!!! I can’t thank you enough!!! Love, happiness, and good health to you and your hubby!!! 💕🌸💕
I bought a spam slicer in Hawaii( it looks like a giant egg slicer)a few years ago and it works perfectly for slicing peaches evenly and completely! Just slip the skins off cut in half take out the pit and place flat side down. Slice perfectly!!!
I have to start by thanking you for all your wonderful videos. I have been trying to find a new hobby and I would like to start with dehydrating fruit to turn to powder. I hope that the powder can be used to flavor water and teas. I drink a lot of water, but trying to get my husband to drink more is a chore in itself, lol. I would like to try it on blueberries and grapes, along with raspberries, those are some of his favorite flavors although I can't get him to eat fresh fruit. Hoping this will help. Thank you for all your wonderful ideas.
You are so welcome and thanks for sharing your comments. Powdering fruits and veggies is a good way to slip them into other recipes for added nutrition.
I found on Amazon, small packs, that are like packs of sugar, called 'True Lemon' and 'True grapefruit'. They are sugar free and you only need 2 or 3 packs for a big glass of water. They flavor your water very nicely and I think are all natural. They are not too expensive and come in a box of like 300 or something so a box lasts a long time.
I am a big fan of yours! Thank you- we're getting a peach truck delivery and I will both dehydrate , FD and powder- hoping to make peach tea with the powder! :)
Another great video! Peach powder in oatmeal, on yogurt, in iced or hot tea, infused in water, in gelatin, in cupcakes, dusted on muffins, dusted on pancakes (whole grain, of course).
A small amount of heat is produced when blending foods. So there will normally be a bit of clumping. I spread powder over a tray and put back in dehydrator for 2-3 hours, OR just use oven set at around 200 for about an hour, with door cracked open for ventilation. If I had a Vitamix! blender, I would be without so many darn small hard pieces that just don't get to the blade on my old blender. So, I end up pouring the powder through a screen before entering mason jar. The rough stuff, I will keep for whatever or might even try blending again. What model blender do you have if I may ask?
Yummmm. That peach powder would be yummy in oatmeal. I live in Colorado so the Pallisade peaches are in season. Thank you for all the tips! New subscriber!
I just bought a dehydrator and I can't wait to use it. It's very humid in my area right now, even with the air conditioning on, so I'm hesitant to use it right now. One use for fruit and vegetable powders could be for baby food. Even if you don't have a baby in your family, you could give it to someone who does. It would make a great bartering item, too. Lightweight. Transports easily. Keeps well. Add to your water bottle on the go. Etc.
Ty Pam. When I have to put my powder back in my DH I put a dollar store grease splatter screen on the top. I bought one just for DH. I also use my air fryer as a dryer. Works great. Now I must DH peaches. And make powder 👍👏🙏
Get the splatter screen with the knob on top. Not the handle, take the plastic knob off then put on top of the powder. I also put the powder in my air fryer on bake lowest setting to dry before jarring because my 2 DH are always going. 😂🤣🙏
I love your videos because you are very thorough and have hard data to back up what you are doing. Which leads me to a question. I know you don't usually repackage food, but I have some bulk dried fruit that needs to be repacked. I have seen to not use oxygen absorbers because it is not totally dry and therefore could grow botulism. But I also know that the fruit is acidic which should keep botulism from forming. So, the million dollar question is what is safest? Should I just put them in air tight jars/bags, or should I vacuum seal/use oxygen absorbers? I wish you could clone yourself and teach all of these science and survival principles to every student. This is such important information.
The powders are great with ice and hot tea, powdered protein shakes. Add to cookies, custard pies, cakes and even breads give you a delicious addition to flavor. You can also add to powdered sugar to make icing.
I bet some peach powder would be good in iced tea - perhaps with a splash of booze too ! I read you can add in a bit of corn starch to your powder to help the sugars in the powder not be so sticky, when they powder. I wonder if you could dehydrate your powders in the oven, if the powder blows around in your dehydrator. Perhaps leave the oven door cracked for ventilation and for the moisture to escape.
I find freeze dried fruit on clearance occasionally. I never though to try powdering it and I feel so silly now. If I come across similar deals, I will make use of your tips! I convinced my husband a dehydrator would be a good investment since I used to oven dehydrate before I got sick. Especially since we have our own space for gardening next year! Maybe even keep chickens if we get feeling better...
Hi Pam, i know this is an older video but just found you!! I heard you mention you used to live in Houston but now you are in the desert. I am also from Texas, Tyler area, my daughter lives in the Woodlands… anyway i also now live in the dessert in New Mexico. Just curious where you are in the dessert? Thank you for all the knowledge you share!!!
Pam, I was thinking while you were powdering the peaches. If it were me, I’d do the FD first, because any moisture left in there from the dehydrated peaches may affect your FD peaches? What say you?
What equipment do you use to dehydrate and grind your food? I've been looking at different ones, what do you recommend. Thanks for all the great information.
We have a Magic Mill dehydrator and I use my VitaMix blender to powder various dried foods. Other people have reported they use coffee grinders, Ninja, or others, so there are options out there.
I love my Excalibur 9 tray dehydrator. I'd love a Harvest Right freeze dryer but that is way out of my league. So dehydrating and pressure canning it is for me. But I can't afford an All American 921 or 941 pressure canner either. So I have a cheapy Barton, but it works. Lol
That vacuum pump will suck out some air but there's still a lot of O2 left. If you really want to vacuum seal, use your freeze dryer. The rack comes out easily and you can put the jars in the chamber with lids on finger tight. You can pull a vacuum on the chamber with the FD pump by running it independently of the FD (in fact, the FD can be switched off and the pump plugged into a standard outlet). If you're doing a lot of jars, you can use a cookie sheet as a shelf in the chamber. Once the sound of the vacuum pump stops changing (or the gauge drops below 29 inHg), you can vent the chamber by opening the valve about 1/2 way and turning off the pump.
Thanks. I have done that. Since not everyone has a freeze dryer, I still like to show a regular vacuum sealer. I have also heard you can use a brake bleeder and am looking into that one as well.
Thank you so much for all your wonderful, helpful videos. Every time I am wondering about a specific item, it turns out that you've made a video about it. I have a question. I've ordered a freeze dryer, and it should come in another month or so. Someone I know said that in addition to the oxygen absorbers, I should also use the dessicants in every bag, because we live in a humid region of the country. But I've also read that you're not supposed to use a dessicant with an O2 absorber, because the O2 absorber needs a small amount of moisture in order to work. I can see that you might want a dessicant in regular dehydrated food, but can you explain whether the dessicant would or would not work in addition to the O2 absorber?
Love this. I have a bushel of beautiful peaches in my kitchen now. I think I will do both dehydrating and water bath canning. I do like to leave the skins on some because they make such pretty color when blending or using for sorbet. I noticed that you do not put any citric acid to preserve color. I usually dip them in a bath of citric acid before drying or making a pie. I wish I had a freeze dryer.
Thank you for your comments and enjoy those peaches! I did not use a color preservative in this video, but I use ascorbic acid in our peach pie filling video.
Some, but not enough for me to be overly concerned about it. Freeze drying preserves more food value, but dehydration is also reasonable high. Great question!
Yay! Those peaches look delicious! I know you mentioned this in your other peach canning video, but how do you keep your peaches from turning brown as they lay on the tray waiting to go in your dehydrator? Our Colorado peaches have not ripened very evenly, so I’m thinking they might be a little over ripe in some areas. Guess we shall see later this evening when I decide to slice them up for dehydrating and pie filling.
i was given over ripe peaches.. so I made jam. If you use the small jars just keep them hot and when you fill all of them turn them upside down for about 2 minutes then turn them back over and they will seal without a water bath. Just make sure the rim is clean and dry.
I'm new to dehydrating but we do seal foods in jars like you did. I am in humid Illinois so could you tell me what a desacant (not sure this is spelled correctly) is? I love your videos. I love gardening and canning so learning lots of new things from you.
I m new here! Love all your videos. I repackage rice, pasta, and put a bay leaf inside the jar. I also put bay leaves around my kitchen to keep bugs away. I put them in dry dog food and dry cat food. It’s an old thing my great Aunt did. Do you have an opinion on this?
Hi and welcome to our community! Being a scientist I rely on data and research. The research on bay leaves says it doesn't really do anything. I am also very pragmatic and if it has worked for you, you could keep doing it along with some of the research-based practices as well. I remember when my parents went on a foreign trip and Mother brought back a small brass elephant bell that she said was supposed to keep elephants away. I scoffed at the idea and asked her if she really believed that would work. She said, "Well, you don't see any elephants around here, do you?"
Our neighbors ruined their first freeze dryer, because they used it on a hot Texas day! They had a nice set up in a room in their well house, but no a/c. So with the new dehydrator ... They installed a window unit a/c.
![Learn to CAN [Preserving PEACHES!]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3RpyTwDoAJ0/mqdefault.jpg)
Just discovered you. *The BEST food preservation channel on UA-cam!* Such a refreshing blend of clarity, integrity and intelligence. You are a lovely lady and a natural teacher. Just subscribed and fell in love with this channel. I will thoroughly enjoy watching all your older videos.
My goodness--thank you so much for your kind words. Thanks for subbing, and welcome!
One of my absolute favourite channels right now. This lady is so clear and concise.
Thank you--I really appreciate that.
Absolutely
Peach powder great in ice tea yum
great idea!
Now THAT’S a great idea!
Thanks for sharing.
Wow! You really enlightened me with vacuum sealing and many ways to make of preserving food!
Glad it was helpful!
You made me laugh. I am 72 and Freeze drying peaches. Love the idea of powder
Miss Pam, I just loved this video!!! So much information!!!! You really are loving powdering everything, and I love seeing what you do with your powders!!! I just Love this channel!! Thank you for sticking with UA-cam and continuing to inform us how to prepare, preserve, and powder!!! ❤️
You are so welcome! Thanks for you always positive encouragement!
I love that you take advice from your community and actually use it as a learning experience. Many UA-camrs get upset when people comment advice and tips. You are a rare soul.
I appreciate that! We are a community and hopefully we all learn from each other! Thank you.
I don’t have the freeze dryer but I have definitely found that the dehydrator is a huge blessing. I can dehydrate a couple tomatoes and a few green peppers or 3 mangoes. I don’t have to have a huge amount to put it up for later. Anything that you can save is good.
You are absolutely correct. Thanks for sharing your comments.
I'm so glad you do different ways of drying the food for ones who don't have a freeze dryer
Thank you. I grew up in a big family with not a lot of money and to this day am sensitive about the broad range of individual circumstances out there. I think we all need to be more mindful of the situations others may be in instead of living only within our own bubble! I will now get down from my soap box! LOL.
Never thought of dehydrating or powdering peaches - I have only canned them. This is definitely my next project. Thank you for sharing all your ideas and tips.
You are so welcome! Glad it gave you some new ideas. thanks for your comments.
After watching some of your other videos, I've been drying and powdering more of my vegetables to save room. One of these days I hope to afford a freeze dryer.
Thank you for your videos!
@Probably 2021 Thank you for the link. I grow our vegetables and either can, freeze or dehydrate the harvest. Powdering is a game changer for saving space and keeping the nutrition. Have a great day!
Harvest right offers payment plans.
You are very welcome. A freeze dryer is great, but so is a dehydrator!
Just discovered your channel on the Mennonite Farmhouse channel. Im so glad i did! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
I just thought of a good use for powdered fruits: stir a bit into plain yogurt! (Ha! Mentioned in the video!)
I won’t mention how I use powdered fruit in cheesecakes. Peach cheesecake with raspberry sauce: peach melba cheesecake!
What a great idea! Sounds yummy!
You made my mouth water!
Tried dehydrating peaches for the first time…love it! So much less work than canning. Thank you Pam, love your channel. Have been a subscriber for several years.
I’d love to see your whole kitchen, turn the camera around one time 🙂
Oh, my! My mouth was watering at the sight of those peaches 🍑😋 Great job putting them up in so many different ways. Thanks again for letting us follow along. And a shout out to Jim for finding those gorgeous peaches and for the great camera work.
Thanks, Dannie. I will pass that along to him. You are so sweet to remember him!
As to your comment on powders...I buy a raspberry powder at our spice store. Add it to softened cream cheese with some powder sugar and you have a tasty fruit dip. I would prefer your beautiful peaches! Thank you and Jim for the best channel on the Tube! Blessings all!
I'm not a big cream cheese eater, but at my job they used to make really good tasting cinnamon and raisin flavored cream cheese, sometimes they added in walnuts.
thank you, just what I needed to see. I am just getting a dehydrator. Love your instructions
I had a couple of tablespoons to my peaches as the boiling before I slip the skins off keeps them from going brown teaching my eight and five-year-old granddaughter how to water bath and Dee. hydrate I find they eat things a lot better when they are involved in the process I to teach a lot of home skills and so excited to see this channel I absolutely love everything that you and Jim do please please please keep up the good work thank you for all your hard work God has blessed us with your knowledge and ability so you may share it with us
Thank you for your comments and for sharing what you do. It is great you are teaching your granddaughters!
What do you add to the boiling water?
I just freeze dryed my meatballs first time with my FDer its so fun and relatively fast! I feel so much better after your videos. I am part of your"community "!
That is awesome! And yes, you absolutely are part of our community! Anyone who watches our videos and is working toward more preparedness and food security is part of our community. One of the great things is how members help other members and give encouragement. It is terrific!
And a nice way to store them. A great big bag of ready-to-use meatballs from the store, takes up a lot of room in your freezer. Then you have to worry about not having your electricity go out on your freezer or having an issue with your freezer, like I did. The repair person said 'the earliest we can come out is Wednesday - the day I called was like Thursday. They came by on Saturday, and some things were saved, but I still threw out 3 huge garbage bags worth of food. If that had been freeze dried, I would have saved a lot of money.
I love your videos so much! I always learn so much. Thank you and God Bless!
You are so welcome
Just found your site not long ago but, loving it!!! the best with information. Thank you!!
I started with powdered tomato skins that were left over after canning. They dry crispy and powder well. I use it much like other seasoning, especially when I want a tomato flavor without the added liquid. Thanks for giving me all the new ideas of powders. I bet they would work well in baking.
That is a great way to do tomato skins! Thanks for sharing that. I am experimenting more with powders and have used them a bit in baking. We will see what I come up with!
we have 2 peach trees and I have never considered dehydrating them. we slice and freeze them but I will now put them in my dehydrator next fall. so much good information.
So glad it was useful information for you.
You are the BEST !!!
LIFE SAVER !!
Wishing you 30 more years of making fantastic videos.
Wow--thanks!
Or more than 30 years !
Hello from Luxembourg
Wow another learning lession for us thx Rose! Love ya keep going.
Thank you! Will do!
I made my own vacuum machine and it works really well. I had a Seal-A-Meal that went bad so I already had the jar attachments. I bought a fairly inexpensive rotary-vane vacuum pump (
You smart thing, you! That is fantastic--thanks for sharing. I think you are correct in your final prediction.
And have you checked the prices of ready to use dehydrated vegetables? The store bought ones are sooooooooooooooo expensive.
Absolutely my favorite channel! Looking forward to being able to use some of your preserving techniques.
That is such a compliment and we really appreciate it. Thank you.
I’m going through chemotherapy and I think the powders will work perfect for me. One of the worst side effects of chemo, is that it alters your taste buds so most foods taste terrible. I just set up my new dehydrator today. Your videos are going to be a great help. I am definitely going to make the peach powder as well as green veggies and beets.
Best of success to you and I hope these powders will do the trick! Thanks for sharing.
You absolutely have the best teaching methods of dehydrating. Thank you so much, you are my go-to granny.❤
You are so welcome!
just started getting into canning, and WOW!! You are definitely an amazing teacher and very insightful! THank you so much truly learning so much!
Fedra: You are so welcome! Thanks fr watching our channel. Jim
Am getting a few bushels of peaches this week. Will make peach jam with them and also dehydrate slices to make compote along with dehydrated apple slices. The dehydrated fruit is so refreshing when cooked in water with a cinnamon stick (no sugar). Thank you for your precise and valuable information. I’m very close to your age, but nowhere as youthful and energetic as you are - have been forwarding your podcasts on to my children as someday this might be very helpful in staying nourished.
Thank you so much for your comments and for your support. We appreciate that.
I'm glad that I found your videos I'm learning a lot and you're such a beautiful lady God bless
Thank you so much and it is music to my ears to hear you say you are learning new things. Yay!
Thank you for the wonderful video. I agree with you about not storing food for “30 years”. It never made sense to me because I would dread the idea of eating something that old. I believe it’s wise to have at least a years worth of food stored for your family and to continually “rotate and replenish”. TFS
I am right there with you!
I think properly prepared freeze dried food, that is well sealed is dine after a few years. I would not wait 30 years to eat it, but it is nice to know if a disaster happened, and you came across a 30 year old container of freeze dried food, you could eat it and remain healthy.
If the grid goes down you won’t be using your vacuum sealer, so I went and got a break bleeder at harbor freight. No electric needed just hand power and I feel it gives a stronger seal than my vacuum sealer does.
I have seen those demonstrated. I may have to look into that! Thanks for the tip..
@@RoseRedHomestead Oh yes get you one. Watch That 1870 Homestead. She shows and easy way to use it and not hurt your hands.
that 1870s Homestead I forgot the s. Have fun.
....i love a good multi purpose tool. I'm definitely looking into this. Thanks for the tip!
@Probably 2021 Oh yes your right I got excited and had a moment of fiber fog. lol
I had the same problem with dehydrated sweet potatoes! Sealed them in the jar, and over time became hard as a rock! Will use your technique of dehydrating the powder! Wonderful suggestion!
And sweet potato powder has so many possible uses! That will be fantastic for you!
That's a beautiful pint of fine peach powder! Tfs. Please stay safe and sending hugs to you both 💜🙏😎
Peaches!! Impossible to hv to many peaches!! Great idea to powder some. I’m waiting and hoping peaches will soon go on sale as this is their season. Appreciate all your tips. Thanks.
You do a fabulous job!
Excellent video and gee are those peaches beautiful. It will be interesting to see what you will be creating with the powdered peaches. Thanks, you are so fun.
Thank you!
The peaches look so pretty and the powder is lovely! Shifting makes all the difference. Thank you Pam for the great video.
You are so welcome!
Love your thorough informative videos. You are a great teacher. Thanks for sharing 👍😎
I just found you and LOVE your videos...you are such a great teacher! So excited to get started...by the way...fruit powders will be great for my baking of macarons and cookies!
Thank you for finding us and continuing to watch.
My neighbour just canned some peaches and saved her skins and i told her about your powders, so she tried it. I think she mixed it with a little sugar after it was powdered. We talked about sprinkling on scones or on top of pies and also on ice cream. Great video Pam.
Yummy suggestions, Lyn. I will have to try those! Thanks for sharing.
I want peach pancakes with cinnamon syrup!!!!! Like I needed another project LOL Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are so welcome! That sounds delicious!
Loving your videos 😍
After watching you powder things and harvesting four large zucchini in one day, I dehydrated and powdered them. Now I can slip zucchini into all kinds of things that my family won't know about 🤣!
That is fantastic! So glad you like the videos. Thanks.
It may sound strange, adding a couple of spoons of that peach powder to my morning oatmeal sounds tasty to me. Love that freeze dryer y'all have. Another great video. Good Morning and have a great day !
That does sound wonderful. Thanks.
Ms. Pam peach powders oh that sound delicious I cannot wait for the recipes
Coming soon!
I have to try this. I Will put it in some tea and make fried pies🤗 Yum
Sounds yummy! Thanks.
Hi Pam amd Jim. Ive just made the plunge, and ordered a freeze dryer. (Due in June)… I am loving you’re freeze drying videos.. thank you as always xo
Jealous!! I want a FD so bad, one of these days ❤
I LOVE your videos, Pam. You are always sooooo informative!!! I can’t thank you enough!!! Love, happiness, and good health to you and your hubby!!! 💕🌸💕
Thank you so very much. And thanks for always coming back to watch our videos--we appreciate that, Cindy!
@@RoseRedHomestead Thank YOU for all the time you’ve put into your videos to help us all out…I’ve learned sooooo much from them!!!
I bought a spam slicer in Hawaii( it looks like a giant egg slicer)a few years ago and it works perfectly for slicing peaches evenly and completely! Just slip the skins off cut in half take out the pit and place flat side down. Slice perfectly!!!
Sounds fantastic! I want one!
Another great video, full of excellent advice. Thanks Pam :).
You are welcome.
I have to start by thanking you for all your wonderful videos. I have been trying to find a new hobby and I would like to start with dehydrating fruit to turn to powder. I hope that the powder can be used to flavor water and teas. I drink a lot of water, but trying to get my husband to drink more is a chore in itself, lol. I would like to try it on blueberries and grapes, along with raspberries, those are some of his favorite flavors although I can't get him to eat fresh fruit. Hoping this will help. Thank you for all your wonderful ideas.
You are so welcome and thanks for sharing your comments. Powdering fruits and veggies is a good way to slip them into other recipes for added nutrition.
I was wondering if we can dehydrate eggs to make powder with them? Do you have a video on it?
I found on Amazon, small packs, that are like packs of sugar, called 'True Lemon' and 'True grapefruit'. They are sugar free and you only need 2 or 3 packs for a big glass of water. They flavor your water very nicely and I think are all natural. They are not too expensive and come in a box of like 300 or something so a box lasts a long time.
Thankyou
🤔 hmm, I never thought about powdering. Great idea. Thank you for sharing. 😁👍🏻
You’re welcome 😊
I am a big fan of yours! Thank you- we're getting a peach truck delivery and I will both dehydrate , FD and powder- hoping to make peach tea with the powder! :)
Another great video! Peach powder in oatmeal, on yogurt, in iced or hot tea, infused in water, in gelatin, in cupcakes, dusted on muffins, dusted on pancakes (whole grain, of course).
Keep going...keep going....you are on a roll! LOL. Thanks for all these wonderful suggestions!
I love the iced tea idea!
Great video on dehydrating fruits! Thank you for the helpful tips:)
You are so welcome!
A small amount of heat is produced when blending foods. So there will normally be a bit of clumping. I spread powder over a tray and put back in dehydrator for 2-3 hours, OR just use oven set at around 200 for about an hour, with door cracked open for ventilation. If I had a Vitamix! blender, I would be without so many darn small hard pieces that just don't get to the blade on my old blender. So, I end up pouring the powder through a screen before entering mason jar. The rough stuff, I will keep for whatever or might even try blending again. What model blender do you have if I may ask?
Yummmm. That peach powder would be yummy in oatmeal. I live in Colorado so the Pallisade peaches are in season. Thank you for all the tips! New subscriber!
You are so welcome! Thanks for subbing and welcome!f. Love your idea of peach powder in oatmeal--I will be trying that!
The Peach Truck from Georgia delivered our first box today! Looking forward to using them in many ways 😁
Mer: That is great! let us know how preserving goes. Jim
I just bought a dehydrator and I can't wait to use it. It's very humid in my area right now, even with the air conditioning on, so I'm hesitant to use it right now. One use for fruit and vegetable powders could be for baby food. Even if you don't have a baby in your family, you could give it to someone who does. It would make a great bartering item, too. Lightweight. Transports easily. Keeps well. Add to your water bottle on the go. Etc.
Great ideas--thank you so much for sharing. I hope you can start using your dehydrator soon!
Ty Pam. When I have to put my powder back in my DH I put a dollar store grease splatter screen on the top. I bought one just for DH. I also use my air fryer as a dryer. Works great. Now I must DH peaches. And make powder 👍👏🙏
LOL! That is a great tip. I am going to go shopping at the Dollar Store this week! Thank you.
Get the splatter screen with the knob on top. Not the handle, take the plastic knob off then put on top of the powder. I also put the powder in my air fryer on bake lowest setting to dry before jarring because my 2 DH are always going. 😂🤣🙏
I use a small fan pointing at the pump on the freezer dryer, when it’s hot out
We have the oil-less pump and that does not seem to work for us. We are looking at putting an air conditioner in that room. Thanks for your comment.
@@RoseRedHomestead we have an oil less pump too
(And our fd is in our home in air conditioned)
Great info and tips. Thanks for sharing
You are welcome!
Hi, first time seeing your podcast, I'd use the peach powder in either regular tea, or iced tea, or smoothie.
Sounds great! Thanks for watching.
Can you post your vacuum sealing machine and where you got it, please? Maybe brands and which ones you liked better.
Here is the link from our Amazon store:
Weston Vacuum Sealer amzn.to/3RHrqKV
I love your videos because you are very thorough and have hard data to back up what you are doing. Which leads me to a question. I know you don't usually repackage food, but I have some bulk dried fruit that needs to be repacked. I have seen to not use oxygen absorbers because it is not totally dry and therefore could grow botulism. But I also know that the fruit is acidic which should keep botulism from forming. So, the million dollar question is what is safest? Should I just put them in air tight jars/bags, or should I vacuum seal/use oxygen absorbers?
I wish you could clone yourself and teach all of these science and survival principles to every student. This is such important information.
Such a good question. If you could measure the pH of the fruit somehow and verify it is below 4.6, you could vacuum seal.
The powders are great with ice and hot tea, powdered protein shakes. Add to cookies, custard pies, cakes and even breads give you a delicious addition to flavor. You can also add to powdered sugar to make icing.
Thanks for all those tips!
I bet some peach powder would be good in iced tea - perhaps with a splash of booze too ! I read you can add in a bit of corn starch to your powder to help the sugars in the powder not be so sticky, when they powder. I wonder if you could dehydrate your powders in the oven, if the powder blows around in your dehydrator. Perhaps leave the oven door cracked for ventilation and for the moisture to escape.
Thanks for the information. Jim
I love your channel
I find freeze dried fruit on clearance occasionally. I never though to try powdering it and I feel so silly now. If I come across similar deals, I will make use of your tips! I convinced my husband a dehydrator would be a good investment since I used to oven dehydrate before I got sick. Especially since we have our own space for gardening next year! Maybe even keep chickens if we get feeling better...
No need to feel silly--this is a new concept for a lot of us. Sorry you are ill and hope you return to good health soon.
Thank you so much for all your hard work... new subscriber and enjoying your content.
Thank you, and welcome. So glad to have you join our community.
Hi Pam, i know this is an older video but just found you!! I heard you mention you used to live in Houston but now you are in the desert. I am also from Texas, Tyler area, my daughter lives in the Woodlands… anyway i also now live in the dessert in New Mexico. Just curious where you are in the dessert? Thank you for all the knowledge you share!!!
Thank you very much ❤
I'm getting two boxes of peaches tomorrow! I'm excited to make some powder
Yay! So excited for you!
Giri....you look 👀 good for 77! Love your channel.
Thank you so much. Glad you like the channel.
LOL I did the math and said no she must have said it wrong because there's no way she's that old!
I waste so many bananas so I will be making banana powder thank you
so much Love your videos in fact all my fruits will become powder
My pleasure 😊 Banana powder sounds fantastic!
This is excellent. Peach 🍑 power would be a great flavor additive. Thank you.
Indeed! Thanks.
Which is your dehydrayor brand name.
@@jitenderkinna2416 I have to buy a dehydrator, but I haven't decided yet.
Pam, I was thinking while you were powdering the peaches. If it were me, I’d do the FD first, because any moisture left in there from the dehydrated peaches may affect your FD peaches? What say you?
Peach powder - Yum!
Yup!
17:32 This honestly gave me a good laugh. Who cares! I'm sure my grandpa would say the same thing when he was with us. Haha
What equipment do you use to dehydrate and grind your food? I've been looking at different ones, what do you recommend. Thanks for all the great information.
We have a Magic Mill dehydrator and I use my VitaMix blender to powder various dried foods. Other people have reported they use coffee grinders, Ninja, or others, so there are options out there.
I love my Excalibur 9 tray dehydrator. I'd love a Harvest Right freeze dryer but that is way out of my league. So dehydrating and pressure canning it is for me. But I can't afford an All American 921 or 941 pressure canner either. So I have a cheapy Barton, but it works. Lol
Freeze dried or dehydrated, those peaches look delicious!
They really are! Thank you!
That vacuum pump will suck out some air but there's still a lot of O2 left. If you really want to vacuum seal, use your freeze dryer. The rack comes out easily and you can put the jars in the chamber with lids on finger tight. You can pull a vacuum on the chamber with the FD pump by running it independently of the FD (in fact, the FD can be switched off and the pump plugged into a standard outlet).
If you're doing a lot of jars, you can use a cookie sheet as a shelf in the chamber.
Once the sound of the vacuum pump stops changing (or the gauge drops below 29 inHg), you can vent the chamber by opening the valve about 1/2 way and turning off the pump.
Thanks. I have done that. Since not everyone has a freeze dryer, I still like to show a regular vacuum sealer. I have also heard you can use a brake bleeder and am looking into that one as well.
Thank you so much for all your wonderful, helpful videos. Every time I am wondering about a specific item, it turns out that you've made a video about it. I have a question. I've ordered a freeze dryer, and it should come in another month or so. Someone I know said that in addition to the oxygen absorbers, I should also use the dessicants in every bag, because we live in a humid region of the country. But I've also read that you're not supposed to use a dessicant with an O2 absorber, because the O2 absorber needs a small amount of moisture in order to work. I can see that you might want a dessicant in regular dehydrated food, but can you explain whether the dessicant would or would not work in addition to the O2 absorber?
Can all types of fruit be processed just as you did the peaches. I have pears almost ready to pick and would love to process them in the same way.
Yes you can! Here are the instructions from the USDA nchfp.uga.edu/how/can_02/pear_halved.html
Love this. I have a bushel of beautiful peaches in my kitchen now. I think I will do both dehydrating and water bath canning. I do like to leave the skins on some because they make such pretty color when blending or using for sorbet. I noticed that you do not put any citric acid to preserve color. I usually dip them in a bath of citric acid before drying or making a pie. I wish I had a freeze dryer.
Thank you for your comments and enjoy those peaches! I did not use a color preservative in this video, but I use ascorbic acid in our peach pie filling video.
Is there much of a difference in the nutrition between dehydration and freeze drying?
Some, but not enough for me to be overly concerned about it. Freeze drying preserves more food value, but dehydration is also reasonable high. Great question!
Yay! Those peaches look delicious! I know you mentioned this in your other peach canning video, but how do you keep your peaches from turning brown as they lay on the tray waiting to go in your dehydrator? Our Colorado peaches have not ripened very evenly, so I’m thinking they might be a little over ripe in some areas. Guess we shall see later this evening when I decide to slice them up for dehydrating and pie filling.
i was given over ripe peaches.. so I made jam. If you use the small jars just keep them hot and when you fill all of them turn them upside down for about 2 minutes then turn them back over and they will seal without a water bath. Just make sure the rim is clean and dry.
Rebecca, that procedure is not considered safe by the USDA. I used to do that as well, but now follow the recommended procedure.
You can place cut peaches in a bowl of lemon water or ascorbic acid water, or even dissolve vitamin tablets and that will do the trick as well.
Peach tea would be good. The Lipton peach iced tea has too many chemicals but tastes so good.
Thanks for sharing that!
It is so hot here I can’t get a harvest to preserve, and I can only dream.
Us too! We are still hoping for a late fall harvest, but I am worried. I do finally have a few green tomatoes.
That sounds like it would be good on Icecream.
Can just a sprinkle of cane sugar be added to the dehydrated fruits and powders?
How would that effect storage?
So many options. Thank you
You’re welcome 😊
I'm new to dehydrating but we do seal foods in jars like you did. I am in humid Illinois so could you tell me what a desacant (not sure this is spelled correctly) is? I love your videos. I love gardening and canning so learning lots of new things from you.
Here you go! www.deltaadsorbents.com/what-are-desiccants-2/
I m new here! Love all your videos. I repackage rice, pasta, and put a bay leaf inside the jar. I also put bay leaves around my kitchen to keep bugs away. I put them in dry dog food and dry cat food. It’s an old thing my great Aunt did. Do you have an opinion on this?
Hi and welcome to our community! Being a scientist I rely on data and research. The research on bay leaves says it doesn't really do anything. I am also very pragmatic and if it has worked for you, you could keep doing it along with some of the research-based practices as well. I remember when my parents went on a foreign trip and Mother brought back a small brass elephant bell that she said was supposed to keep elephants away. I scoffed at the idea and asked her if she really believed that would work. She said, "Well, you don't see any elephants around here, do you?"
@@RoseRedHomestead I got a kick out of your reply! Thank you, I will remember now, how to keep elephants at bay. ( no pun intended 🤣)
Instead of using a cut out piece of a coffee filter over your powder, you can use one of those cupcake papers. They fit pretty good.
That is a fantastic idea--love it! Thanks for sharing. I am going to share that in a video sometime and will give you credit!
Our neighbors ruined their first freeze dryer, because they used it on a hot Texas day! They had a nice set up in a room in their well house, but no a/c. So with the new dehydrator ... They installed a window unit a/c.