I love how you can store so much in one jar, and you cant put foods in it that you cant do with canning. Watching 2020 covid. Great to have on shelves! Ty for your excellent videos!!
This series is so informative. I just purchased my dehydrator and you've given me plenty of ideas of what I want to use it for. My question is how do you rehydrate the foods?
You can also vacuum seal ball jars with your vacuum sealer and the appropriate attachment (for wide or regular mouth jars). That would save you using the oxygen absorbers. GREAT video series. You have convinced me to upgrade my dehydrator to an across-the-food blower type. THANKS for taking the time to do these. Much appreciated.
Preserving food in the jars is great, thanks for all the tips. As for the bags, that's an insane amount of waste. Anything but environmentally friendly.
+Konrad Dobson That might be true that plastic is not so environmentally friendly, on the other hand storing things in plastic and cans for emergency times is recommendable. If there is a war or other catastrophies, vibrations from deternations, bombs etc can cause glas to brake.
I put them in mason jars and use the mason jar sealer attachment on my food saver to vacuum pack. Advantage of jars is rodents won't chew through glass like they will plastic tub sand mylar/plastic bags.
If you are concerned about the the jars shaking, use old socks to protect them. But with a beautiful shelf like that I would take the chance just so I could look at them.
WoW! You have introduced a new concept of food storage and dehydrating.... because by doing so, one might think all those jars sticking in the pantry. But the shelves idea!!!! wow! Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!!!!
I love that you are taking your time to educate people as to why food storage is so very important. I was trying to learn about food preservation for the same reason. Thank you for your effort.
Wow! you have the best channel when it come to the dehydrating foods information. I am now a subscriber of your channel. You are more professional than the whole lot of them. Your channel is soooo informative. Thank you so much.
Unbelievable!!! You are my Goddess in dehydrating, lol I am seriously working on getting a store of dried foods like you have. I have watched, subscribed and saved all your videos, I watch them over and over til I remember all the info you have given. Thank you so much for your efforts, please keep up the great work!!!
Go Concuur! I appreciate your honesty and smart thinking. And thanks to a lady who just thought me so much. I think nowadays everyone who worries about family, must think about future and prepare foods
Thank you for showing me how to dehydrate stuff!!! Here in Hawaii everything is really expensive, and you have shown me how I can bye stuff which is in season and dehydrate them so I can use them all year round!! Thank you!!,
Thank you , I just started getting back to my roots, and using my dehydrated again ,very healthy and helps extend life of many foods and saves on waste,I love your videos full of great recipes and because you truly care ,makes watching and using your ideas a great honor.
Hi Tammy I have joined your website. These are absolutely Excellent videos ! Thank you for sharing your expertise, it is really appreciated. I do think that people like you have been inspired to educate us in these last days. God bless you.
Thank you so much for your videos. A few months ago I started getting this uneasy feeling about our world and the price of food, so I started researching and bought my a dehydrator. I love being prepared and I sure am saving money.
The reasons you give about Hyper Inflation...are the exact same ones that I have been drawn to dehydration...gardening etc... Thanks! Joel Rosenberg is awesome as well!
Your wall of goods is inspiring. Thank you for the time you put into making these videos, I have gleaned so much wisdom at a time when I have been REALLY trying to get food away from the freezers and have longer term storage. I appreciate so much your message (it's one that NEEDS to get out...and soon!) and those people you recommend and must say~ I knew lots of those guys! Thanks again!
3:44 This is a great series, and this is a SURE way to AFFORDABLY store up food for what's coming, rather than 75-90$ a case for MREs. 12-24 meals a case. We are so concerned about the coming crisis, we're getting a second dehydrator to double up on the time it takes to dehydrate and get everything stored. And this series is my "how-to" manual! 5*****
I'm new to dehydrating foods and i mostly looked into it because of the economy and the GSM that is starting. This channel just earn a new sub,tank you for all the good info,tips and tricks for succesfully dehydrate food. Best wishes to you and your family.
You use a lot of high-quality products. For those of us who don't have a lot of extra money to throw around, could you explain exactly how much it generally costs to buy the various slicing machines, vacuum sealers, mylar bags, O2 absorbers, jars, and even the dehydrator? Can you make a video about how to do effective dehydrating and storing with just the most basic equipment, or the bare minimum stuff you need for effective dry food storage?
I love the videos you have posted about all the different foods. I use my Food Saver can attachment to seal my jars of dehydrated peppers. But I love learning about the oxygen packs. I ordered some already! :)
Wow I was watching and then you hit all of the people I read & listen to about the coming Hyper-Inflation. That's the reason I was looking at your videos....I'm trying to teach the younger women in my family the lost arts of canning & dehydrated foods so they'll be prepared to survive. Your doing a wonderful service with these videos & Americans are waking up.Thank god we have youtube that we can get the info. and pass it on.....will check out your web site need to know what & where to buy Stuff
I've used the vacuum seal bags, and they do fail. So to seal them in the mylar bags that will keep things fresh. Also the oxygen pks work great, just remember to keep the ones you don't use in a small jar with a tight lid or they will be no good in just a short while.
I have really enjoyed this series and I thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos. I agree with you regarding the oncoming hyperinflation. I love your shelves! Those are so incredible!
Hi Mercedes, thank you for the question! It should say on the can in what substance the fruits are stored. If the fruits are stored in water or fruit juice, you do not need to rinse them. If the fruits are stored in oil or syrup, you will want to rinse them as the excess oil will hinder the drying process. Have fun!
Maybe in 2009 mylar bags were of good quality. In 2015 I bought some from 2 different sources, and when I went into a closet, closed the door and shined a flashlight inside them, I saw they had many small holes that you can't see unless you use this method. It explained why none of them worked very long for me. I also had a problem with oxygen pouches. They did not get hard like they're supposed to (which indicated they've absorbed the oxygen. ) Both were a waste of money.
Very informative. Easily the best vids I've seen on this subject to date. Wall street's loss is our gain. Thanks so much for sharing such valuable info.
I watch your video's all the time. You are awesome. I wish I had a wall of dehydrated food like that, how nice to have when cooking. Thanks and keep making the video's. Would like to have some video's on cooking with all dehydrated food. love ya bye
Soap making is a great way to use natural ingredients! While watching your videos I kept thinking of all the things i could dehydrate and use in my soaps!! I need a dehydrator! Perhaps I could send you a sample of my Blueberry Tea Cake Soap!
I've got a citrus question-since citrus fruits have essential oils in the peel, and since fats/oils get rancid, does the dehydrating curtail the rancidity or do you cut the peels off prior to using them?
I didn't understand what the packs were for and people were just saying to use it. Thank you for explaining it. I noticed you all of you jars are almost completely full, where are the containers that are already opened?
getting a food saver or the like with an extention and lid to pull the air of of the bottles (mason jars) along with the oxegeon packs works even better
@3:19 Im envious of that shelf...I need to build that instead of sotring it on the floor in the game room...glad I saw it before the wife...now it's "my idea" --love the knowledge, keep 'em coming.
Fabulous series. Those excaliber's are nice. I have an american harvester dehydrator and tried to dehydrate some plum tomatoes not long ago. I sliced them in half and dryed them for over 24 hours but they were still pretty flexible. I didn't trust they were dry enough so I wound up putting them in ziplock bags in my freezer. Is there a trick I don't know about? Or is it my kind of dehydrator?
love your vids. keep watching them over and over lol. You are way better than a book. Appartently you can seal the mylar bags with a hair straightener too :) That is if your vacuum machine wont seal them. Thanks for all you do. Peace :)
Hi! I've been wanting to get into dehydrating foods for a long time now, but I've never known anyone who did it and it seemed too daunting to try. But your videos really encourage me to give it a shot. I did have a question though. My goals with dehydrating are to save money and become self sufficient so as to lead a more eco friendly lifestyle. I noticed you use both canning jars and the system with the mylar bags. I'd rather avoid plastic and the like altogether. What kind of shelf life do the
I put the flesh side down. I don't remember what temp but probably put it at the highest. Course we all kept snacking on them all day so we probably ate more than wound up dried. just like candy! lol I'm really enjoying your videos. lol triple redundancy, vacuum packed, saran wrapped, mylar and sealed containers. maybe you go over this in a later vid but do you use the mason jar sealer attachment with your vacuum sealer?
THANK U SOOOOOO MUCH FOR SUCH GREAT INFO!!! THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING OF DOING & U HAVE JUST TAUGHT ME HOW!! EXCELLENT VIDEO! I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING MORE! GOD BLESS U!
Newbie question: Can I can dehydrated food without O2 packs? For instance, can I place full jars in my water canner to process and effectively get the airtight seal? All relevant responses are MUCH appreciated!
Hello, I love the way you store the dehydrated food in canning jars. I see you are using oxygen absorbers. My question is, would it work the same to use the vacuumed sealer? I have an attachment to vacuum seal canning jars and I was wondering if that would work the same as an oxygen absorber? Also, what size of oxygen absorbers are you using? Thanks for all the information.
The oxygen pack - Once you OPEN the jar to use it, do you have to replace the oxygen pack? Or is there at least an expiration date on those packs? a couple years until you have to replace it?
Thank you so much for your very informative videos! You have inspired me to get dehydrating! Regarding the dehydrated cucumbers, how would they look and taste after rehydrating?
Very good info..I am new to this and really need to learn how to dehydrate as I have never done it before. I have a question, will the chemicals (whatever is inside them, as I have no idea) in the O2 absorbers leach out into the food or contaminate in later years? Ty for your videos.
Hi if I place a oxigen pack into a jar and it takes six hours to work,How many times will this oxegen pack allow me to open the jar,So how many times could a jar be opened be for the oxygen pack stops working,
Thanks for the help. I have so many questions but I'll watch the next vid and ask them as I go along. OK can't wait, here's one now - have you ever tried solar dehydrating?
oxygen absorbers packets come in differnt sizes -your recomandation as to how many to differnt sized containers or the recomendations of cc ranges to quart sized and 1 gallon sized containers I would find very helpfull...I hope to build a solar dehydration for the fast leafy stuff ,,look out homemade spinch noddles!! Wonderful Channel 5* !!
Thank you for your video, it is VERY good. I have one question, how many times can the oxygen packs be reused? If no longer functional can they be rejuvenated by putting in the dehydrator?
Just started dehydrating. Was wondering how you can tell when oranges are done. They have been in for at least 12 hrs and still taste juice when you bite in. They were cut 1/4” thick. Should you be able to taste juice when done or should they be bone dry.
Hi Tammy, LOVE your vids! I've watched nearly all of 'em! Is it possible to re-use cereal bags for food storage? Thanx, & God bless U for the good work you're doing!
I couldn't keep my apples vacuumed sealed. Any ideas why that might be? I used a 300cc oxygen absorber and had them in a quart sized zipper food saver bag. I have had success using these bags for other items.
@Dehydrate2store Do you double bag only because you are storing different foods in the same Mylar? Couldn't I just use the mylar with O2 absorbers if I'm bagging just one food? I don't have a vaccum sealer nor can I afford to buy one, but I would really like to have some dehydrated fruits and veggies in with the rest of my emergency food storage.Thanks for the videos. Good job.
Took 2 years for you to find out, but I think it's about time! :p It's to prevent spoilage in case of a hole. it can be very annoying to lose food when you put that much work to preserve it. At the price of a oxygen pack, there really is no reason to abstain on the cost to protect 5-20 pounds of apples or what not.
My dehydrated summer squash was not blanched first, but looked good and I vacuum packed it in mason jars. After 4 days, I double checked it and it had turned brown but the vacuum was still good. I had it stored on the back of a shelf in the laundry room where the fluorescent light was on part of the time. Was that enough to turn it brown? I'm storing it in the future in a plastic bin under the bed where it is cool and dark. I will also blanch it first as you recommend. Is the brown squash safe to eat in soup?
i love your videos, I do a lot of canning but lately dehydrating seems like a good alternative to canning after a while you just run out of space. I see some negative remarks on here and don't let them discourage you, I agree with your opinion on hyper inflation is coming or even worse just a complete collapse of the economy that will make the last depression look like the good ole days.
Wonderful videos. Do you think your dehydrated food that’s in those marvelous shelves (wish I had them, too) in glass jars will last 30 years? I’m asking because I wonder if you know if the light they’re exposed to will make a difference. The jars look so beautiful and orderly on the wall.
FINALLY! An intelligent woman who is AWAKE. You know what's coming. I'm just now getting into dehydrating and I so appreciate your videos. Thank you.
Tamila Logan
It's here
I love how you can store so much in one jar, and you cant put foods in it that you cant do with canning. Watching 2020 covid. Great to have on shelves! Ty for your excellent videos!!
Finding your videos was a divine blessing. Thank you for sharing your immense food preservation knowledge.
This series is so informative. I just purchased my dehydrator and you've given me plenty of ideas of what I want to use it for. My question is how do you rehydrate the foods?
You can also vacuum seal ball jars with your vacuum sealer and the appropriate attachment (for wide or regular mouth jars). That would save you using the oxygen absorbers. GREAT video series. You have convinced me to upgrade my dehydrator to an across-the-food blower type. THANKS for taking the time to do these. Much appreciated.
Preserving food in the jars is great, thanks for all the tips. As for the bags, that's an insane amount of waste. Anything but environmentally friendly.
+Konrad Dobson That might be true that plastic is not so environmentally friendly, on the other hand storing things in plastic and cans for emergency times is recommendable. If there is a war or other catastrophies, vibrations from deternations, bombs etc can cause glas to brake.
I put them in mason jars and use the mason jar sealer attachment on my food saver to vacuum pack. Advantage of jars is rodents won't chew through glass like they will plastic tub sand mylar/plastic bags.
If you are concerned about the the jars shaking, use old socks to protect them. But with a beautiful shelf like that I would take the chance just so I could look at them.
WoW! You have introduced a new concept of food storage and dehydrating.... because by doing so, one might think all those jars sticking in the pantry. But the shelves idea!!!! wow! Beautiful!
Thanks for sharing!!!!
I love that you are taking your time to educate people as to why food storage is so very important. I was trying to learn about food preservation for the same reason. Thank you for your effort.
Wow! you have the best channel when it come to the dehydrating foods information. I am now a subscriber of your channel. You are more professional than the whole lot of them. Your channel is soooo informative. Thank you so much.
Unbelievable!!! You are my Goddess in dehydrating, lol I am seriously working on getting a store of dried foods like you have. I have watched, subscribed and saved all your videos, I watch them over and over til I remember all the info you have given. Thank you so much for your efforts, please keep up the great work!!!
Go Concuur! I appreciate your honesty and smart thinking. And thanks to a lady who just thought me so much. I think nowadays everyone who worries about family, must think about future and prepare foods
Thank you for showing me how to dehydrate stuff!!! Here in Hawaii everything is really expensive, and you have shown me how I can bye stuff which is in season and dehydrate them so I can use them all year round!! Thank you!!,
Thank you , I just started getting back to my roots, and using my dehydrated again ,very healthy and helps extend life of many foods and saves on waste,I love your videos full of great recipes and because you truly care ,makes watching and using your ideas a great honor.
Great series on dehydrating. I like all the details in your vids. I'll definitely watch the entire serious,
Hi Tammy I have joined your website. These are absolutely Excellent videos !
Thank you for sharing your expertise, it is really appreciated. I do think that people like you have been inspired to educate us in these last days. God bless you.
We need this info now more than ever...Thank you!!
Thank you so much for your videos. A few months ago I started getting this uneasy feeling about our world and the price of food, so I started researching and bought my a dehydrator. I love being prepared and I sure am saving money.
The reasons you give about Hyper Inflation...are the exact same ones that I have been drawn to dehydration...gardening etc... Thanks! Joel Rosenberg is awesome as well!
Your wall of goods is inspiring. Thank you for the time you put into making these videos, I have gleaned so much wisdom at a time when I have been REALLY trying to get food away from the freezers and have longer term storage. I appreciate so much your message (it's one that NEEDS to get out...and soon!) and those people you recommend and must say~ I knew lots of those guys! Thanks again!
You are so informative, well organized and knowledgeable. I have beeb following through the parts. Thank you for sharing!
3:44 This is a great series, and this is a SURE way to AFFORDABLY store up food for what's coming, rather than 75-90$ a case for MREs. 12-24 meals a case. We are so concerned about the coming crisis, we're getting a second dehydrator to double up on the time it takes to dehydrate and get everything stored. And this series is my "how-to" manual! 5*****
I'm new to dehydrating foods and i mostly looked into it because of the economy and the GSM that is starting. This channel just earn a new sub,tank you for all the good info,tips and tricks for succesfully dehydrate food. Best wishes to you and your family.
Once again I'm referring to your videos! So glad you are there!
OH! MY! My father would love this storage. I am going to buy dehydrator for him so he will be busy, now. H e is 79 years old and does 90 sits up :)
OMG I am just in aww! what types of cuisines do you prepare?
You use a lot of high-quality products. For those of us who don't have a lot of extra money to throw around, could you explain exactly how much it generally costs to buy the various slicing machines, vacuum sealers, mylar bags, O2 absorbers, jars, and even the dehydrator? Can you make a video about how to do effective dehydrating and storing with just the most basic equipment, or the bare minimum stuff you need for effective dry food storage?
Thank You for teaching me. This will help my family
I love the videos you have posted about all the different foods. I use my Food Saver can attachment to seal my jars of dehydrated peppers. But I love learning about the oxygen packs. I ordered some already! :)
Wow I was watching and then you hit all of the people I read & listen to about the coming Hyper-Inflation. That's the reason I was looking at your videos....I'm trying to teach the younger women in my family the lost arts of canning & dehydrated foods so they'll be prepared to survive. Your doing a wonderful service with these videos & Americans are waking up.Thank god we have youtube that we can get the info. and pass it on.....will check out your web site need to know what & where to buy Stuff
A flat iron ( for your hair ) works great on the mylar bags. I bought one for that sole purpose and I really like it.
I've used the vacuum seal bags, and they do fail. So to seal them in the mylar bags that will keep things fresh. Also the oxygen pks work great, just remember to keep the ones you don't use in a small jar with a tight lid or they will be no good in just a short while.
It's beautiful that you took your time to educate us. Deep thanks.
I have really enjoyed this series and I thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos. I agree with you regarding the oncoming hyperinflation. I love your shelves! Those are so incredible!
I want to dehydrate canned pineapples or peaches should I rinse the fruit first then store in jars. Please advise. Thank you
Hi Mercedes, thank you for the question! It should say on the can in what substance the fruits are stored. If the fruits are stored in water or fruit juice, you do not need to rinse them. If the fruits are stored in oil or syrup, you will want to rinse them as the excess oil will hinder the drying process. Have fun!
I just love your information and tip packed videos thanks so much!
I love how you display your jars. So pretty!
I have enjoyed your videos. Your shelves are beautiful. Wish I had something that lovely on which to store my jars. : )
I’m so glad I found your channel!! A lot of great information-Thank you!!
Maybe in 2009 mylar bags were of good quality. In 2015 I bought some from 2 different sources, and when I went into a closet, closed the door and shined a flashlight inside them, I saw they had many small holes that you can't see unless you use this method. It explained why none of them worked very long for me. I also had a problem with oxygen pouches. They did not get hard like they're supposed to (which indicated they've absorbed the oxygen. ) Both were a waste of money.
I wish I would have found your video's years ago, wow. Great job. Thank you.
Very informative. Easily the best vids I've seen on this subject to date. Wall street's loss is our gain. Thanks so much for sharing such valuable info.
I love your pantry shelf. :)
Thank you, great video, thanks for sharing.
I watch your video's all the time. You are awesome. I wish I had a wall of dehydrated food like that, how nice to have when cooking. Thanks and keep making the video's. Would like to have some video's on cooking with all dehydrated food. love ya bye
Excellent information I just found your channel but will watch every video very well done
Soap making is a great way to use natural ingredients! While watching your videos I kept thinking of all the things i could dehydrate and use in my soaps!! I need a dehydrator! Perhaps I could send you a sample of my Blueberry Tea Cake Soap!
Hi from Mexico, your videos are great and unique!!!! thanks
Love the shelves you designed & built
Wow! Love love love the shelves!!!!! Wish I could PIN a picture of them. Thanks for all the info
thank you so much for taking the time to produce these videos. They are enormously helpful!
good luck to you and yours in the coming collapse.
pamela
New sub from Canada here. Thank you so much for making these wonderful videos.
I'm very thankful for your videos and think you are right on. Thank you.
Thank you for your hard work and sharing very important knowledge!
Girl, you’re awesome! Great videos and information!
I've got a citrus question-since citrus fruits have essential oils in the peel, and since fats/oils get rancid, does the dehydrating curtail the rancidity or do you cut the peels off prior to using them?
I didn't understand what the packs were for and people were just saying to use it. Thank you for explaining it. I noticed you all of you jars are almost completely full, where are the containers that are already opened?
getting a food saver or the like with an extention and lid to pull the air of of the bottles (mason jars) along with the oxegeon packs works even better
Hi, I have watched all of your video's. Can you share with me how you store your oxygen packs once you open the package they come in? Thanks, Vicki
very thoughtful and love the way u do it
Tammy - love your videos Thanks so much for your hard work and sharing. Question: where do you buy the mylar bags and 3 mil vacuum bags? Thanks again
excellent videos, little too dark to see everything even with bright screen, but info is enormous. Thank you lorries-full for sharing
@3:19 Im envious of that shelf...I need to build that instead of sotring it on the floor in the game room...glad I saw it before the wife...now it's "my idea" --love the knowledge, keep 'em coming.
Fabulous series. Those excaliber's are nice. I have an american harvester dehydrator and tried to dehydrate some plum tomatoes not long ago. I sliced them in half and dryed them for over 24 hours but they were still pretty flexible. I didn't trust they were dry enough so I wound up putting them in ziplock bags in my freezer. Is there a trick I don't know about? Or is it my kind of dehydrator?
oh yeah I saw that, that's an awesome idea! It works with virtually any type of jar as well! :)
Great dehydrating and awareness video. Thanks!
love your vids. keep watching them over and over lol. You are way better than a book. Appartently you can seal the mylar bags with a hair straightener too :) That is if your vacuum machine wont seal them. Thanks for all you do. Peace :)
Great video...also, I love the jar storage shelves you built! Any chance you could post dimensions and what wood was used, ect???
Hi! I've been wanting to get into dehydrating foods for a long time now, but I've never known anyone who did it and it seemed too daunting to try. But your videos really encourage me to give it a shot. I did have a question though. My goals with dehydrating are to save money and become self sufficient so as to lead a more eco friendly lifestyle. I noticed you use both canning jars and the system with the mylar bags. I'd rather avoid plastic and the like altogether. What kind of shelf life do the
I forgot to mention by the way... I LOVE your shelf! :D
excellent work,also market crash savvey ,thankyou
love and blessings.........................Canada
I put the flesh side down. I don't remember what temp but probably put it at the highest. Course we all kept snacking on them all day so we probably ate more than wound up dried. just like candy! lol
I'm really enjoying your videos. lol triple redundancy, vacuum packed, saran wrapped, mylar and sealed containers. maybe you go over this in a later vid but do you use the mason jar sealer attachment with your vacuum sealer?
THANK U SOOOOOO MUCH FOR SUCH GREAT INFO!!! THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING OF DOING & U HAVE JUST TAUGHT ME HOW!! EXCELLENT VIDEO! I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING MORE! GOD BLESS U!
Amazing storage pure health genius!
Newbie question: Can I can dehydrated food without O2 packs? For instance, can I place full jars in my water canner to process and effectively get the airtight seal? All relevant responses are MUCH appreciated!
Thank you for your time. You have taught me so much.
Hello, I love the way you store the dehydrated food in canning jars. I see you are using oxygen absorbers.
My question is, would it work the same to use the vacuumed sealer? I have an attachment to vacuum seal canning jars and I was wondering if that would work the same as an oxygen absorber?
Also, what size of oxygen absorbers are you using?
Thanks for all the information.
Good info in this series of videos. I just ordered a nesco dehydrator and can’t wait to start. Thanks for sharing. :0)
The oxygen pack - Once you OPEN the jar to use it, do you have to replace the oxygen pack? Or is there at least an expiration date on those packs? a couple years until you have to replace it?
Thank you so much for your very informative videos! You have inspired me to get dehydrating! Regarding the dehydrated cucumbers, how would they look and taste after rehydrating?
Very good info..I am new to this and really need to learn how to dehydrate as I have never done it before. I have a question, will the chemicals (whatever is inside them, as I have no idea) in the O2 absorbers leach out into the food or contaminate in later years? Ty for your videos.
Hi if I place a oxigen pack into a jar and it takes six hours to work,How many times will this oxegen pack allow me to open the jar,So how many times could a jar be opened be for the oxygen pack stops working,
Thanks for the help. I have so many questions but I'll watch the next vid and ask them as I go along. OK can't wait, here's one now - have you ever tried solar dehydrating?
If you don't empty a jar in one meal, can you re-use the oxygen pack? Or do you have to replace it every time you open the jar?
sooo interesting... Tammy, congratulations i hope to be like you when i grow up! :D
Each Part is as good or better then the others
Ron Paul and Chuck Baldwin are also people "in the know" concerning the economy and believe that we should prepare for the future.
oxygen absorbers packets come in differnt sizes -your recomandation as to how many to differnt sized containers or the recomendations of cc ranges to quart sized and 1 gallon sized containers I would find very helpfull...I hope to build a solar dehydration for the fast leafy stuff ,,look out homemade spinch noddles!! Wonderful Channel 5* !!
Thank you for your video, it is VERY good. I have one question, how many times can the oxygen packs be reused? If no longer functional can they be rejuvenated by putting in the dehydrator?
Just started dehydrating. Was wondering how you can tell when oranges are done. They have been in for at least 12 hrs and still taste juice when you bite in. They were cut 1/4” thick.
Should you be able to taste juice when done or should they be bone dry.
Hi Tammy, LOVE your vids! I've watched nearly all of 'em! Is it possible to re-use cereal bags for food storage? Thanx, & God bless U for the good work you're doing!
I couldn't keep my apples vacuumed sealed. Any ideas why that might be? I used a 300cc oxygen absorber and had them in a quart sized zipper food saver bag. I have had success using these bags for other items.
Hi, so for long term storage you seal them etc, but how long do they last for in just canning jars in the light for every day use?
lots of information like your videos.
@Dehydrate2store
Do you double bag only because you are storing different foods in the same Mylar? Couldn't I just use the mylar with O2 absorbers if I'm bagging just one food? I don't have a vaccum sealer nor can I afford to buy one, but I would really like to have some dehydrated fruits and veggies in with the rest of my emergency food storage.Thanks for the videos. Good job.
when the dollar collapses this will be the norm for food storage since vinagear for canning will be hard to come by thanks for the video!
I don't understand the need for the oxygen pack if we are using a vacuum sealer. What am I missing?
Took 2 years for you to find out, but I think it's about time! :p
It's to prevent spoilage in case of a hole. it can be very annoying to lose food when you put that much work to preserve it. At the price of a oxygen pack, there really is no reason to abstain on the cost to protect 5-20 pounds of apples or what not.
O2 seeps in overtime. The oxygen pack absorbs that seepage.
I was wondering the same thing. 😏
Wished I saw this video earlier. Now with Covid-19, it is a necessity to store foods due to lockdown.
My dehydrated summer squash was not blanched first, but looked good and I vacuum packed it in mason jars. After 4 days, I double checked it and it had turned brown but the vacuum was still good. I had it stored on the back of a shelf in the laundry room where the fluorescent light was on part of the time. Was that enough to turn it brown? I'm storing it in the future in a plastic bin under the bed where it is cool and dark. I will also blanch it first as you recommend. Is the brown squash safe to eat in soup?
i love your videos, I do a lot of canning but lately dehydrating seems like a good alternative to canning after a while you just run out of space. I see some negative remarks on here and don't let them discourage you, I agree with your opinion on hyper inflation is coming or even worse just a complete collapse of the economy that will make the last depression look like the good ole days.
Wonderful videos. Do you think your dehydrated food that’s in those marvelous shelves (wish I had them, too) in glass jars will last 30 years? I’m asking because I wonder if you know if the light they’re exposed to will make a difference. The jars look so beautiful and orderly on the wall.
Thank you for the feedback!