Indeed you can! Lots of our grocery store purchases can be planted and will grow. Onion roots, celery stumps, head lettuce butts and all other veggies sold with a root portion attached can be re-grown. Veggies that you EAT the root, like carrots and beets will not regrow the root section, but they WILL grow well enough to produce SEED the following year. It goes without saying that a wrinkly sprouted grocery store potato ... if planted... WILL grow more potatoes and even those dried whole soup beans and pintos or whole kernel pop corn can be planted and will usually grow a fine crop. So those of you that are not being "allowed" to go to the garden centers for seeds, can STILL get a garden started.
Will you get green onions, scallions for salads if you plant the root of a yellow onion? Where can I get more info on planting vegetable roots? Thanks so much for your reply!
@@photofreak21 Yes. Basically any onion variety can be used as green onions. All that means is that the onion is not mature when used. Green onions are a really easy thing to grow in a pot in the kitchen window. You can start them from seeds or like suggested by planting the root end of an onion you already used. Just plant it shallow in the soil and keep moist until it sprouts. They might not all grow, but many will. It is an easy free way to get started growing food for your own table.
Love dehydrating onions when I find them on sale. Shriner's is an absolute awesome organization!!! I can't say enough good things about them. I have a son who was born 2.5 months early & has Cerebral palsy. Shriner's has done so many great things for him at no cost.
I have known several children that have greatly benefited from Shriner's Hospitals. I am glad that your son was able to receive the help he needed because of them. I hope your son continues to grow ever stronger. May God bless him.
@@FarmFreshIB thanks so much. He is full care & in a wheelchair. He recently turned 22 & we are so blessed to have him in our lives. He has touched so many people who say they have learned so much from just being around him.
Cool video 👍 I'm using a chop wizard from Vidalia to cut my onions into tiny cube things and my Excalibur dehydrator I got for Christmas. I was blessed with a food box and want to store my onions for my mom and I for our supplies 😁 Praise the Lord 💯📖🙌
I loved the comments posted during looking at the empty flower container. That was fun. Great tips along the way. I feel as though it might take me a bit longer to do, but then I have not been doing this for years. GREAT WAY TO STORE THOSE AMAZING VIDALIA ONIONS. Easier than slicing for sure. I imagine a mandolin would speed up slices. THANK YOU very much for all the effort you put into sharing your process. How we used to learn things when life did not move so fast. Sit by grandma and work along aside, many hands make light work, and you just might learn a thing or two along the way.
Thank you very kindly for all the process you are sharing with us! I know you have a busy life, but your sharing is helping me greatly. You also inspired me to try this (with a smaller quantity) right now! God bless all your hard work and kindness! :)
My grandmother used to sit in her rocking chair while she meticulously hand sliced her cole slaw in tiny little perfectly uniform pieces with a little paring knife and a big bowl in her lap. And that was the best cole slaw in the world.
My mother did the same thing, she peeled potatoes so thin and particularly! I use to say, if you don't peel them right, she will make you peel the peelings. We had 9 kids, so mother didn't believe in wasting a bit of food! I miss her so much! xox 💖💖
Born and raised in Vidalia. I couldn't stand onions when I was a kid. The whole county smelled like a huge bag of sour cream and onion potato chips. Now I try to always have some on hand... Oh also, for those that haven't every been to the area.. we pronounce it Vie-day-ya (no L's are used.). Thank you for this tutorial.
Super cool! Thanks for commenting and teaching us the proper pronunciation! Coming from Missouri (or Mizurah) I do appreciate the special pronunciations of locations. We have a lot of unusual city pronunciations in these parts. A couple that come to mind immediately are Nevada (Ne-VAY-dah), Versailles (Ver-SAIL-s) and Lebanon (lebuh-nun). All here in Misery - and all nice towns by the way. (Wave if you are from there!)
@@FarmFreshIB I LOVE learning about new places! When I was about 11 it so, I would sit with an Atlas map and just read the names of cities in other states.. I was an odd child. Ha ha ha
Very good job teaching us about dehydrating onions. I just got my dehydrator down off the shelf and dusted it off. I bought a new FoodSaver vacuum sealer and ready to get busy and store some onions now.
Very interesting, thank you. Nice to know (not nice that you have it) that I'm not the only one battling arthritis and trying to deal with kitchen things.
Lots of us out here. I think a lot of what I try to do on my channel... especially with the more farming aspects of it... is to try to encourage people that live with disabilities like the arthritis. By making a few modifications (like the handle cover on my knife) and doing better planning (like having a handicap accessible chicken coop) can make a lot possible that they might not think possible.
great video. I started dehydrating a lot of garlic indoors and I love the smell. Cannot say my 'kidlets' were as enthusiastic, but I left it in the dehydrator for a bit longer than recommended and now have lovely toasted garlic chips. Picked up a 10 lb bag of yellow onions and a commercial dicer to make small bits and will be trying to make toasted onion bits.
Baked Vidalia : peel an onion and core-out the root end cone. Put a chicken bullion cube in the core hole and follow with a pat of (real) butter. Wrap in foil and bake it like you would a potato. No salt needed - there is plenty in the bullion cube. You will either thank me later or curse me for quadrupling your onion intake. Black pepper is a nice addition at serving time.
Nice tutorial on dehydrating onions. Now let me share some info on onions. There are basically two primary types of onions (at least this is how I categorize them), storage onions (white, yelliw, and red/purple) and "eating" onions (sweet onions). Of course you can use them interchangeably, but let me explain why you might not want to. Sweet onions have a short shelf life and taste sweeter than storage I onions when eaten raw. Storage onions store better (duh). Storage onions actually work better in cooked dishes than do sweet let me explain why. It is not the sugar content I the onion - storage onions have as much (and usually more) sugar than do sweet onions. What sweet onions are missing are the sulphurous compounds that make storage onions "hot" and give them their "bite". If you do not believe that, chop half a sweet onion and half a storage onion and carmelize each in a separate pan. The storage onion will carmelize more quickly and the finished product will taste sweeter (you have cooked the sulphur out of the storage onion). Most sweet onions are a type of granex onion - but more important than that is the fact that the soil they are grown in has very little sulphur. If you grew a granex type onion in regular soil, you would end up with a hot onion with a very short shelf life. Vidalias can only be labeled as such if they come from one of 13 Georgia counties (out of a total of 159 countries in the state) but good sweet onions can be grown anywhere with proper weather and low sulphur. (Walla Wallas, Maui Sweets, etc). I grew up on Vidalia onions (having been born in South Georgia) and I love them - but I won't waste them by cooking them (except for baked onions and onion pie). In short, eat your Vidalias in salads, on burgers and sandwiches, and for other raw uses - and eat as many as you can - the onion farmers like that. Cook with storage onions. Red/purple onions can be used either way (unless the particular onion is too hot to eat raw - it happens). Yes, I'm kinda an onion geek
I am glad this popped up on my feed today. I love to learn things and I feel good that I have learned so much from the video, the replies and of course this reply. I love Vidalia's for any eating use, but I am a north Floridian, only 20 miles from Ga and we love our Vidalia's here as well. I haven't looked yet, but I hope you are still making videos, I was able to follow your instructions well. I get lost when some assume that we know ANY thing about what we are doing...LOL.
@@samanthastimpson1968 Yes, I am still making videos. Thankfully the new ones have a lot better camera work too. LOL. I am an old teacher. I learned years ago to assume that my students start out a blank slate. Never fear either, because we ALL are in this life continually learning. I am quite certain that you too have skills that I would be able to learn if you only made the video.
Thank you so much, You sure did a awesome job, and you're a great teacher I enjoyed every minute. Going to save this as long as I can, I sure we'll down lord For my daughter. ONETS again thank you so much.
Thanks for making this video! Lots of good tips can’t wait to try it I just bought a bag of onions. Glad you used the juice in ice cube trays and didn’t waste it, I had seen on another video they said to cook skins down to make an onion stock.
Waving from TN. Great video!! I have a Bestek 9 tray dehydrator (I'd like another, but can't find one.) and it's running as I type. Never thought about the onion juice in ice trays!! Great idea! So glad I found your video!!!
@@lindafox7822 Beef jerky is why I originally bought my dehydrator and now it is the thing I make the least. I start with a good lean beef roast. If you buy it at a grocery store with an in house butcher they will often slice it for you. You want thin (1/8 inch) strips cut across the grain. If you need to slice the roast yourself then partially freeze it for easiest slicing. You also want to remove any fat and any gristle. Fat will go rancid in long dry storage. Next is the marinade. For every 2 pounds of beef I mix up a marinade of : 2 teaspoons of salt, 2 teaspoons of minced garlic, 1 teaspoon of black pepper and 1 teaspoon of onion powder. Add the dry ingredients to 1/2 cup of soy sauce. I am gluten free so I use Tamari soy that is 100% soy. Then I add an additional 1/4 cup of Louisiana brand Hot Sauce. Put the meat in the marinade and mix it well. A ziplock bag works for this. Refrigerate overnight. The marinade is important because that is what helps to preserve the meat - not just add the flavor. DO NOT reduce the salt amounts. After the meat is finished marinading - pull out the strips and let them drip on a wire rack for a bit, then arrange them on your dehydrator trays. Set your dehydrator on the hottest setting. (160 F) and let the strips dry thoroughly. When you are done they are ready to eat. Jerky is shelf stable for a while, but if I am going to keep it a long time I still like to refrigerate or even freeze it. It just keeps better and tastes fresher.
I freeze the juice from all manner of vegetables, even stock from veggies that we eat for dinner. I also freeze into cubes any leftover pan juices and stocks from cooking meat. Add all of those random cubes of stock into a big pan and you have the start of a very delicious soup base.
@@MySonsMother contact your local Shriner's organization. They do the onion sales all across the country - so no need to travel. I believe I paid $10 for a 10 pound sack of the onions.
What I do with onion skins and other vegetable scraps is put in gallon zip lock bags and put in freezer until I have a couple of big bags at least of scraps and make a delicious veggie broth. Don't put them in your garbage, save them and then make you a veggie broth with them. I would love to have all those onion skins... yum
Excellent instructional. A great way to be frugal multiple times. This is wonderful. I will try to dehydrate them using solar energy :). Thanks for the ideas!
Putting your diced produced into a car parked in the sun with the windows rolled down a notch is a great "hillbilly dehydrator" but the onions might make your next car journey ... shall we say interesting! LOL There are several good videos out there on solar dehydrating and making solar dehydrators. Some day I WILL build one, but I highly encourage everyone to make the investment in a for real dehydrator. Look at those local charity shops. They are often found there because people either buy them or get them as a gift, make a batch or two of jerky and then get rid of them in the name of saving space. To a homesteader they are as valuable as diamonds in my view. Producing a great consistent product that saves space and stores well.
@@FarmFreshIB the value of a dehydrator: Someone robbed my storage. The cases of vegetables were untouched. All my dehydrated and freeze- dried food taken. My dehydrator untouched. Thank God!
I figured that out , putting the fan in the window when i was making hard tack cinnamon candy.i was doing double batches, like anise, and real strong flavors
I do my onions like this plus I put a great big fan behind me while I run the food processor. It exhausts the onion smell out the window. I also run my dehydrator on a covered porch while drying onions to keep the smell outside.
For a few moments of work once or twice a year, you will reap the benefits of handy delicious onions to cook with all year long ... as well as saving a bundle of money in the process. Happy dehydrating and welcome to my channel!
Glad that you enjoyed the video! I got my first dehydrator for $10 at a garage sale about 30 years ago. I have been dehydrating ever since. It is a great way to preserve food... especially those sweet onions!
Hi! Thanks for the detailed info! I have an arthritic thumb and understand the swelling and pain. One suggestion that I find to be helpful is to use a funnel to transfer your goods. I have a variety of sizes and scoops. Hope you are well! 🌻
Thanks for your comment! Yeah, at this point whatever I can do to make the job smoother and easier is what I am all about. I have a lot of different sized funnels (even some I made from bottle tops) as well. Great suggestion for everyone and thanks for sharing!
Put your waste (brown rinds, ends tops) in a pot, cover with water, put in some peppercorns, any other spices you might choose. Simmer for about 6 to 8 hours, drain the juice from the waste and pressure can the juice. Makes wonderful broth. Check out Wilheim's Kitchen for her recipe also. There you go
I did 50 lbs the first time and the first batch I did in the House. 2 days later we went,to donate to operation Santa and the guy there got a funny look and said, “I smell onions!” We explained and we all laughed. Never did the rest in the the House!
We use the skins to flavor broth, waterbath baking eggs for color and flavoring, paper & woodcrafts, dying things, cut more of the onion with the root to plant in soil which gives green tops to eat or dry, and can let some seed for planting
Couldn't you use a spice grinder to make onion powder out of the flakes as needed? That way you wouldn't have to worry about the onion powder caking in storage.
Bet some wish they had those during the pandemic. For me, I'm looking at this to preserve the harvest. I have so many in the freezer...but dried is another option.
@@FarmFreshIB thank you so much for the warm welcome!:-). Yes it is really about how you live not where you live. I am disabled but my kitchen is packed to the rafters with canned and dried foods as is my bedroom. I'm going to be purchasing a house soon which will be a handicapped adapted house and I will have two more rooms to fill up with my food then maybe we can get around my kitchen! If I suddenly died people would think I was a hoarder but a very clean one! Hahaha!
@@elizabethshaw734 I am disabled with arthritis myself. We moved back to this old house... I lived here when I was 12 to 17 (my parents house) ... mostly because it is all on one level and already fitted to be handicap accessible. I am ALL about adaptability. My hubby has encouraged me (probably a dangerous thing to do LOL) that I can do almost anything I want to, IF I can figure out the right adaptations to make. My arthritis varies daily in severity, but there have been times when it has been so flared up even a simple task like cutting up my food or holding a fork was challenging. Thank God those episodes are the exception and not the rule. But adaptations, like my raised container garden out of old stock water tanks (yes there is a video) and my City Biddy chicken coop which I can clean out even from a wheelchair, have kept me in the homesteading game. I hope that your new home and it's adaptations make your life and living your dreams easier for you as well.
Yes you can. I never bother because I save the juice from the food processor after I chop them for that purpose. I freeze the onion juice in an ice cube tray and it works great.
I have to have onions to cook. Can't (wont) cook without onions! Why bother? When store had NO onions I freaked! Panicked! I can do without a lot of things, but gotta have my onions! I'll be dehydrating onions now. Thanks!
i save those little packets that come in prescriptions to keep them fresh, i bet they would be a great addition for these bottles of onions. just a thought.
You are talking about oxygen absorbers. Yes they will work to keep things fresh. You can even buy new ones online, but honestly if I had them... I would use them on another project. The onions stay in great shape for years as long as they are kept air tight and even better if you keep them in a darkened place.
I notice that the bags say Easterling Farm my Grandfather was a Hensarling which is part of the Easterling Family is this in Mississippi? That’s where their farm and homestead was 🥰!
I wore contacts for years and never had any trouble with tearing. I no longer wear contacts but have found wearing SWIM GOGGLES works great to stop the tearing!
I LOVE it. This is my second Nesco dehydrator. I bought my first one at a garage sale second hand and used it until it died. It ONLY lasted 25 years. LOL
Thanks. I enjoyed that. I've only done a little bit of onions. Id love to do Vidalias. I hope v to travel next year and when I find good c deals on produce stop st a campground for electricity and do canning and dehydrating. I need to make a list of when to be where.
That's the first food processor I've seen with the spout on the side for dumping the product in another container. Can you tell me the brand? Could really use.
Now could ya blanch em first to avoid the browning as with regular onions. I blanch em. But I am gonna explore steaming as I feel blanching, ya lose some of the flavor in the water. Thanks for another option on dehydrating onions
I want flavor. I am not terribly concerned about the color they turn as most of the time they are incorporated into recipes anyway. Blanching them causes flavor loss as does even steaming. You lose flavor in the water. I don't blanch my regular onions for dehydrating either. I am such a flavor hog I even keep the juice that remains after I run them through the food processor. I pour that juice into a designated ice cube tray and freeze it into juice cubes. They make a great addition to soups and other recipes and I save that flavor.
Thank you so much for this, I love your accent. My question is do you have a measurement for dry onions. As in if I need 1 fresh onion how much dehydrated would I use?
LOL I have an accent! Who knew?! In answer to your question ... it depends on how fine you grind the onion up after it is dehydrated. If you grind the flakes into onion powder 1 Tablespoon of onion powder is equal to 1 medium sized onion. If it is just kept as flakes 1 Tablespoon is equal to about 1/4 of fresh minced.
Oh my golly I have never laughed so hard during an onion topic video. Why is your porch so messy? I really like dehydrating my veggies, this is a great instructional vid.
I don't have that kind of dehydrator, but if you wash the racks it should take care of any odors. Mine does. If you are worried... use some parchment paper on top of your racks.
I dont own a dehydrator, so I dice and freeze. But may have to look into one. My mom was raised very close to Vidalia, GA. and we have always pronounced it VI-dalia not VA-dalia. Janice
Can you make a vidio how to DEHYDRATE WHOLE EGGS some way? & how to make the eggs POWDERED for storage for cooking or baking as needed later. Do you KNOW you know HOW?? Please? May 20, 2020. 👌👌👌
I use breast milk storage bags to store eggs. Crack, whisk, poor in bags, mark the bag with how many eggs in the bag, lay flat in the freezer. When frozen you can then store upright. After using the bag you can wash and reuse the bag.
As long as the temperature outside is about room temperature. That is the temperature that the unit is set to work at. Temperatures hotter or colder will burn out your dehydrator.
As long as they are kept in a cool dry place they last for years and years. I have used onions three years old before and they taste just great. But honestly... they seldom last that long. They are too yummy.
Glad that you enjoyed it! The paring knife is made in the USA by Rada Cutlery www.radacutlery.com/ It is available on Amazon via this link. www.amazon.com/Rada-Cutlery-Regular-Paring-Knife/dp/B000FZXB6U/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1469347450&sr=8-9&keywords=Rada+knives These are wonderful knives and really keep their edge. The tubing used on the knife handle is also on Amazon. Ableware closed cell tubing. www.amazon.com/Ableware-766900182-Closed-Cell-Tubing-Standard/dp/B00U7BU8DQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469348679&sr=8-1&keywords=closed+cell+foam+tubing It has made a lot of difference enabling me to work still with my arthritis.
No. You can cover your ice cube trays if you are concerned. Once it is bagged up it is fine. It WILL make your ice cube tray stink however, so I have some of those I use just for freezing onion juices and meat broths. The ones for water ice are never used for freezing other things.
Not at all! I just pitch them in what I am fixing and head on with the recipe. As a matter of a fact... the Vidalias dehydrated in this way are SO sweet and good my family will just pour some straight into their hand and into their mouths. They are delicious! Even my 7 year old grandson likes them like that!
Most definitely! That is one of the best things about dehydration. No need for chill space and things will last for years and years if need be. Like all pantry storage, the cooler and darker it can be kept (as well as dry) the longer you will maintain great quality. But I have kept these dehydrated Vidalia onions, stored in a Gatorade bottle, for three years before (a bottle got stuck in the back and forgotten or it wouldn't have been there that long) with little change in flavor. However that old bottle did darken in color with the passage of that much time.
You could cut off the root area and replant it and grow more onions.
Indeed you can! Lots of our grocery store purchases can be planted and will grow. Onion roots, celery stumps, head lettuce butts and all other veggies sold with a root portion attached can be re-grown. Veggies that you EAT the root, like carrots and beets will not regrow the root section, but they WILL grow well enough to produce SEED the following year. It goes without saying that a wrinkly sprouted grocery store potato ... if planted... WILL grow more potatoes and even those dried whole soup beans and pintos or whole kernel pop corn can be planted and will usually grow a fine crop. So those of you that are not being "allowed" to go to the garden centers for seeds, can STILL get a garden started.
Will you get green onions, scallions for salads if you plant the root of a yellow onion? Where can I get more info on planting vegetable roots?
Thanks so much for your reply!
@@photofreak21 Yes. Basically any onion variety can be used as green onions. All that means is that the onion is not mature when used. Green onions are a really easy thing to grow in a pot in the kitchen window. You can start them from seeds or like suggested by planting the root end of an onion you already used. Just plant it shallow in the soil and keep moist until it sprouts. They might not all grow, but many will. It is an easy free way to get started growing food for your own table.
This is a great video! Very informative and not a lot of wasted time like a lot of videos but just good info! Thank you and please keep posting them!
In order for it to be labeled/called a VY-DEL-YUH (correct pronunciation, mind you), it has ti be grown in the soil of Southern GA.
Love dehydrating onions when I find them on sale.
Shriner's is an absolute awesome organization!!! I can't say enough good things about them. I have a son who was born 2.5 months early & has Cerebral palsy. Shriner's has done so many great things for him at no cost.
I have known several children that have greatly benefited from Shriner's Hospitals. I am glad that your son was able to receive the help he needed because of them. I hope your son continues to grow ever stronger. May God bless him.
@@FarmFreshIB thanks so much. He is full care & in a wheelchair. He recently turned 22 & we are so blessed to have him in our lives. He has touched so many people who say they have learned so much from just being around him.
Cool video 👍 I'm using a chop wizard from Vidalia to cut my onions into tiny cube things and my Excalibur dehydrator I got for Christmas. I was blessed with a food box and want to store my onions for my mom and I for our supplies 😁 Praise the Lord 💯📖🙌
Excellent!
I loved the comments posted during looking at the empty flower container. That was fun. Great tips along the way. I feel as though it might take me a bit longer to do, but then I have not been doing this for years. GREAT WAY TO STORE THOSE AMAZING VIDALIA ONIONS. Easier than slicing for sure. I imagine a mandolin would speed up slices. THANK YOU very much for all the effort you put into sharing your process. How we used to learn things when life did not move so fast. Sit by grandma and work along aside, many hands make light work, and you just might learn a thing or two along the way.
Thank you very kindly for all the process you are sharing with us! I know you have a busy life, but your sharing is helping me greatly. You also inspired me to try this (with a smaller quantity) right now! God bless all your hard work and kindness! :)
Thanks SO much for your kind words. I am glad that my videos are helping to inspire you.
My grandmother used to sit in her rocking chair while she meticulously hand sliced her cole slaw in tiny little perfectly uniform pieces with a little paring knife and a big bowl in her lap. And that was the best cole slaw in the world.
My mother did the same thing, she peeled potatoes so thin and particularly! I use to say, if you don't peel them right, she will make you peel the peelings. We had 9 kids, so mother didn't believe in wasting a bit of food! I miss her so much! xox 💖💖
Born and raised in Vidalia. I couldn't stand onions when I was a kid. The whole county smelled like a huge bag of sour cream and onion potato chips. Now I try to always have some on hand... Oh also, for those that haven't every been to the area.. we pronounce it Vie-day-ya (no L's are used.). Thank you for this tutorial.
Super cool! Thanks for commenting and teaching us the proper pronunciation! Coming from Missouri (or Mizurah) I do appreciate the special pronunciations of locations. We have a lot of unusual city pronunciations in these parts. A couple that come to mind immediately are Nevada (Ne-VAY-dah), Versailles (Ver-SAIL-s) and Lebanon (lebuh-nun). All here in Misery - and all nice towns by the way. (Wave if you are from there!)
@@FarmFreshIB I LOVE learning about new places! When I was about 11 it so, I would sit with an Atlas map and just read the names of cities in other states.. I was an odd child. Ha ha ha
Very good job teaching us about dehydrating onions. I just got my dehydrator down off the shelf and dusted it off. I bought a new FoodSaver vacuum sealer and ready to get busy and store some onions now.
Look what you can do with the foodsaver.
I love it!
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Very interesting, thank you. Nice to know (not nice that you have it) that I'm not the only one battling arthritis and trying to deal with kitchen things.
Lots of us out here. I think a lot of what I try to do on my channel... especially with the more farming aspects of it... is to try to encourage people that live with disabilities like the arthritis. By making a few modifications (like the handle cover on my knife) and doing better planning (like having a handicap accessible chicken coop) can make a lot possible that they might not think possible.
I was a Shriner. Thank you for your support.
Thank YOU for doing all you do.
great video. I started dehydrating a lot of garlic indoors and I love the smell. Cannot say my 'kidlets' were as enthusiastic, but I left it in the dehydrator for a bit longer than recommended and now have lovely toasted garlic chips. Picked up a 10 lb bag of yellow onions and a commercial dicer to make small bits and will be trying to make toasted onion bits.
Baked Vidalia : peel an onion and core-out the root end cone. Put a chicken bullion cube in the core hole and follow with a pat of (real) butter. Wrap in foil and bake it like you would a potato. No salt needed - there is plenty in the bullion cube. You will either thank me later or curse me for quadrupling your onion intake. Black pepper is a nice addition at serving time.
YUM. That is going to be happening soon!
Ridge Farmer oh that sounds so good I will be trying that thanks for the recipe!
I’m gonna try this
Ridge Farmer that sounds good
That sounds amazing
Oh my gosh, I just love your humor. I genuinely enjoyed your video. Thanks.
Thanks! I have learned in this life either you laugh or you cry... and I much prefer to laugh! Welcome to my channel!
Nice tutorial on dehydrating onions. Now let me share some info on onions. There are basically two primary types of onions (at least this is how I categorize them), storage onions (white, yelliw, and red/purple) and "eating" onions (sweet onions). Of course you can use them interchangeably, but let me explain why you might not want to. Sweet onions have a short shelf life and taste sweeter than storage I onions when eaten raw. Storage onions store better (duh). Storage onions actually work better in cooked dishes than do sweet let me explain why. It is not the sugar content I the onion - storage onions have as much (and usually more) sugar than do sweet onions. What sweet onions are missing are the sulphurous compounds that make storage onions "hot" and give them their "bite". If you do not believe that, chop half a sweet onion and half a storage onion and carmelize each in a separate pan. The storage onion will carmelize more quickly and the finished product will taste sweeter (you have cooked the sulphur out of the storage onion). Most sweet onions are a type of granex onion - but more important than that is the fact that the soil they are grown in has very little sulphur. If you grew a granex type onion in regular soil, you would end up with a hot onion with a very short shelf life. Vidalias can only be labeled as such if they come from one of 13 Georgia counties (out of a total of 159 countries in the state) but good sweet onions can be grown anywhere with proper weather and low sulphur. (Walla Wallas, Maui Sweets, etc).
I grew up on Vidalia onions (having been born in South Georgia) and I love them - but I won't waste them by cooking them (except for baked onions and onion pie). In short, eat your Vidalias in salads, on burgers and sandwiches, and for other raw uses - and eat as many as you can - the onion farmers like that. Cook with storage onions. Red/purple onions can be used either way (unless the particular onion is too hot to eat raw - it happens). Yes, I'm kinda an onion geek
LOVE IT! Thanks for sharing what you know.
Wish we could get eating onions here in the UK. Makes me miss home in the PNW!
I am glad this popped up on my feed today. I love to learn things and I feel good that I have learned so much from the video, the replies and of course this reply. I love Vidalia's for any eating use, but I am a north Floridian, only 20 miles from Ga and we love our Vidalia's here as well. I haven't looked yet, but I hope you are still making videos, I was able to follow your instructions well. I get lost when some assume that we know ANY thing about what we are doing...LOL.
@@samanthastimpson1968 Yes, I am still making videos. Thankfully the new ones have a lot better camera work too. LOL. I am an old teacher. I learned years ago to assume that my students start out a blank slate. Never fear either, because we ALL are in this life continually learning. I am quite certain that you too have skills that I would be able to learn if you only made the video.
Thank you! Great info, I have the idea that small onions taste diferent am I wrong?
Thank you so much, You sure did a awesome job, and you're a great teacher I enjoyed every minute.
Going to save this as long as I can, I sure we'll down lord For my daughter. ONETS again thank you so much.
You are most welcome. I am an old teacher, so your compliment means a lot to me.
Thanks for making this video! Lots of good tips can’t wait to try it I just bought a bag of onions. Glad you used the juice in ice cube trays and didn’t waste it, I had seen on another video they said to cook skins down to make an onion stock.
Thank you for the clear instructions. I want to use my dehydrator more
You are most welcome!
Waving from TN. Great video!! I have a Bestek 9 tray dehydrator (I'd like another, but can't find one.) and it's running as I type. Never thought about the onion juice in ice trays!! Great idea! So glad I found your video!!!
I am glad you found me as well! I love making new friends!
NG B onion juice cubes, great idea.
I appreciate your Tutorial. Thank you. The Onions are a staple in my Home. The sponge tool on the knife is very Senior Friendly.
I adapt as much as possible due to my arthritis. I got the handles on Amazon.
The skins are good for making onion broth also
Carolyn Christmon Kinstle how do you use onion broth.
I loved your video. It was interesting and teaching both. Thank you.
Thank you for your kind comments and welcome to my channel.
I think I’m going to buy a small dehydrator and attempt preserve some things. Do you have a beef jerky recipe? Thank you.
@@lindafox7822 Beef jerky is why I originally bought my dehydrator and now it is the thing I make the least.
I start with a good lean beef roast. If you buy it at a grocery store with an in house butcher they will often slice it for you. You want thin (1/8 inch) strips cut across the grain. If you need to slice the roast yourself then partially freeze it for easiest slicing. You also want to remove any fat and any gristle. Fat will go rancid in long dry storage. Next is the marinade. For every 2 pounds of beef I mix up a marinade of : 2 teaspoons of salt, 2 teaspoons of minced garlic, 1 teaspoon of black pepper and 1 teaspoon of onion powder. Add the dry ingredients to 1/2 cup of soy sauce. I am gluten free so I use Tamari soy that is 100% soy. Then I add an additional 1/4 cup of Louisiana brand Hot Sauce. Put the meat in the marinade and mix it well. A ziplock bag works for this. Refrigerate overnight. The marinade is important because that is what helps to preserve the meat - not just add the flavor. DO NOT reduce the salt amounts. After the meat is finished marinading - pull out the strips and let them drip on a wire rack for a bit, then arrange them on your dehydrator trays. Set your dehydrator on the hottest setting. (160 F) and let the strips dry thoroughly. When you are done they are ready to eat. Jerky is shelf stable for a while, but if I am going to keep it a long time I still like to refrigerate or even freeze it. It just keeps better and tastes fresher.
Thank you my new friend for sharing this recipe! I’m going to make it as soon as I can. I am so happy to get this. Many Thanks.
Linda Fox ...Get the largest one you can afford, you will always need more trays as you get going full stem! 😃
I recognize that voice. Very nice! I love sweet onions..
I just got Shriner Vadailia onions. The 10 pound bag. I and for Christmas I got a new dehydrator. What is not to love?! Thank you
Great idea about freezing the juice, I'd never thought I'd that. Thank you and subbed!
I freeze the juice from all manner of vegetables, even stock from veggies that we eat for dinner. I also freeze into cubes any leftover pan juices and stocks from cooking meat. Add all of those random cubes of stock into a big pan and you have the start of a very delicious soup base.
Im dehydrating 50 pounds too. First batch is drying yay! Great video! ❤️
That's my girl!
What month should I travel thru there and where can I purchase and get the best price? What is the price?
@@MySonsMother contact your local Shriner's organization. They do the onion sales all across the country - so no need to travel. I believe I paid $10 for a 10 pound sack of the onions.
Absolutely fantastic! Thank you!
Thank you.
I ran my chopped onions through a salad spinner to get rid of a lot of juice worked very well
What I do with onion skins and other vegetable scraps is put in gallon zip lock bags and put in freezer until I have a couple of big bags at least of scraps and make a delicious veggie broth. Don't put them in your garbage, save them and then make you a veggie broth with them. I would love to have all those onion skins... yum
Love your video! I've always wanted to do that cause I love onions and want them on hand when I need them.
Yes they are WONDERFUL to have on hand. No cutting onions every time you need some. Welcome to my channel. I am glad you enjoyed the video.
Excellent instructional. A great way to be frugal multiple times. This is wonderful. I will try to dehydrate them using solar energy :). Thanks for the ideas!
Putting your diced produced into a car parked in the sun with the windows rolled down a notch is a great "hillbilly dehydrator" but the onions might make your next car journey ... shall we say interesting! LOL There are several good videos out there on solar dehydrating and making solar dehydrators. Some day I WILL build one, but I highly encourage everyone to make the investment in a for real dehydrator. Look at those local charity shops. They are often found there because people either buy them or get them as a gift, make a batch or two of jerky and then get rid of them in the name of saving space. To a homesteader they are as valuable as diamonds in my view. Producing a great consistent product that saves space and stores well.
Haha!! I love your hillbilly idea. I understand the value, and the *real* dehydrator is going on my wish list.
I GOT A DEHYDRATOR!! $2 on Craigslist! I will be making a video and linking you :) Thanks for showing me what's possible. You are terrific!
Thanks it's what I do. Great deal on the dehydrator as well! Score!
@@FarmFreshIB the value of a dehydrator:
Someone robbed my storage. The cases of vegetables were untouched. All my dehydrated and freeze- dried food taken. My dehydrator untouched. Thank God!
I figured that out , putting the fan in the window when i was making hard tack cinnamon candy.i was doing double batches, like anise, and real strong flavors
I do my onions like this plus I put a great big fan behind me while I run the food processor. It exhausts the onion smell out the window. I also run my dehydrator on a covered porch while drying onions to keep the smell outside.
And think, you have onions without going to the store during Covaid :) TY for sharing
Great vid! Dehydrating vidalia at the moment, myself. Great ideas!
Thank you very much now I will dehydrate my own onions instead of bothering
For a few moments of work once or twice a year, you will reap the benefits of handy delicious onions to cook with all year long ... as well as saving a bundle of money in the process. Happy dehydrating and welcome to my channel!
Dude this is a good video. Loads of good information
Glad that you enjoyed the video! I got my first dehydrator for $10 at a garage sale about 30 years ago. I have been dehydrating ever since. It is a great way to preserve food... especially those sweet onions!
Hi! Thanks for the detailed info! I have an arthritic thumb and understand the swelling and pain. One suggestion that I find to be helpful is to use a funnel to transfer your goods. I have a variety of sizes and scoops. Hope you are well! 🌻
Thanks for your comment! Yeah, at this point whatever I can do to make the job smoother and easier is what I am all about. I have a lot of different sized funnels (even some I made from bottle tops) as well. Great suggestion for everyone and thanks for sharing!
Thunder Ridge Homestead You’re very welcome. I admire your attitude and your videos. Thanks! 🌻
Thank you! I enjoyed your informative video and you!
OMG Don't put those onion skins in the compost. Make onion Broth and can it. Delicious!
OK. So now YOU have a recipe that you need to share. I am all ears!
Put your waste (brown rinds, ends tops) in a pot, cover with water, put in some peppercorns, any other spices you might choose. Simmer for about 6 to 8 hours, drain the juice from the waste and pressure can the juice. Makes wonderful broth. Check out Wilheim's Kitchen for her recipe also. There you go
Thanks for sharing that. I will sure give it a try the next time I do this.
waste not, want not, Last resort put into compost when finished.
@@thecrazycanner3599 could you make potato soup with that or onion soup I, here it is really good.
Very good video....thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for your kind words.
I blanche my onions after I chop them and the smell was actually mild and pleasant. I dehydrate Vidalia onions, too!
I did 50 lbs the first time and the first batch I did in the House. 2 days later we went,to donate to operation Santa and the guy there got a funny look and said, “I smell onions!” We explained and we all laughed. Never did the rest in the the House!
LOL
Thank you! Excellent video!
So glad that you enjoyed it! Welcome to my channel.
Great video thank you for sharing I plan on trying your tactic.
A great video-thank you!!
We use the skins to flavor broth, waterbath baking eggs for color and flavoring, paper & woodcrafts, dying things, cut more of the onion with the root to plant in soil which gives green tops to eat or dry, and can let some seed for planting
loved the demo. Thanks for sharing
+Self Contained Lifestyle I only wish I could share the way my porch has smelled over the last few days as well. LOL
The Rotary sells them where I live. I got a box of 25#. Used a lot, but just put the last of them in the dehydrator.
Loved this video. You’ll have to put something in that planter now that we’ve all seen tho. Lol
Thanks for the kind comments! As for the planter... It got filled with herbs later in the season.
Just bought Rada knives! Thank you!
You will certainly enjoy them!
Couldn't you use a spice grinder to make onion powder out of the flakes as needed? That way you wouldn't have to worry about the onion powder caking in storage.
Bet some wish they had those during the pandemic. For me, I'm looking at this to preserve the harvest. I have so many in the freezer...but dried is another option.
Shelf stable dried does not require energy either, so unaffected if the lights go out - like in a storm - for emergency storage.
I make the onion skins into onion stock! So delicious to use in a roast.
I don't live on a homestead but I do the same thing! :-)
@@elizabethshaw734 Homesteading is not WHERE you live... it is HOW you live! Welcome to my channel!
@@FarmFreshIB thank you so much for the warm welcome!:-). Yes it is really about how you live not where you live. I am disabled but my kitchen is packed to the rafters with canned and dried foods as is my bedroom. I'm going to be purchasing a house soon which will be a handicapped adapted house and I will have two more rooms to fill up with my food then maybe we can get around my kitchen! If I suddenly died people would think I was a hoarder but a very clean one! Hahaha!
@@elizabethshaw734 I am disabled with arthritis myself. We moved back to this old house... I lived here when I was 12 to 17 (my parents house) ... mostly because it is all on one level and already fitted to be handicap accessible. I am ALL about adaptability. My hubby has encouraged me (probably a dangerous thing to do LOL) that I can do almost anything I want to, IF I can figure out the right adaptations to make. My arthritis varies daily in severity, but there have been times when it has been so flared up even a simple task like cutting up my food or holding a fork was challenging. Thank God those episodes are the exception and not the rule. But adaptations, like my raised container garden out of old stock water tanks (yes there is a video) and my City Biddy chicken coop which I can clean out even from a wheelchair, have kept me in the homesteading game. I hope that your new home and it's adaptations make your life and living your dreams easier for you as well.
great video ty for sharing . hugs from michigan
Glad you enjoyed it. Hugs back from Missouri!
Couldn't you use the skins for vegetable stock?
Yes you can. I never bother because I save the juice from the food processor after I chop them for that purpose. I freeze the onion juice in an ice cube tray and it works great.
You can drink onion tea. It is supposed to have great medicinal properties. It takes a little honey or sugar to get down until your palette adjusts.
I have to have onions to cook. Can't (wont) cook without onions! Why bother? When store had NO onions I freaked! Panicked! I can do without a lot of things, but gotta have my onions!
I'll be dehydrating onions now. Thanks!
My Grandma used to say you think about what to cook for supper while you cut up the onions.
i save those little packets that come in prescriptions to keep them fresh, i bet they would be a great addition for these bottles of onions. just a thought.
You are talking about oxygen absorbers. Yes they will work to keep things fresh. You can even buy new ones online, but honestly if I had them... I would use them on another project. The onions stay in great shape for years as long as they are kept air tight and even better if you keep them in a darkened place.
Thunder Ridge Homestead thanks great input
If you use the pressure of a potato ricer, you can squeeze out a ton more onion juice before you start to dehydrate.
Very cool .. thank you ✌🏼😷🧅🧑🏽🍳💫
A couple drops of onion juice in an ear does wonders for an ear ache!
I notice that the bags say Easterling Farm my Grandfather was a Hensarling which is part of the Easterling Family is this in Mississippi? That’s where their farm and homestead was 🥰!
I live in Missouri. Not sure where the onions come from. I buy them from a local Shriner.
Thunder Ridge Homestead I love that you support that my Grandfather was a Mason and they did a lot for the community. 🥰
Good job. Thanks
Great video! Thanks👍
can you say onion stock? :-)
You could also save them and add other vegetable scraps and make stock.
If you wear eye contacts, it makes it so you don’t have watering eyes! I heard that years ago and it actually works.
I wore contacts for years and never had any trouble with tearing. I no longer wear contacts but have found wearing SWIM GOGGLES works great to stop the tearing!
Do you like your Nesco gardenmaster dehydrator
I LOVE it. This is my second Nesco dehydrator. I bought my first one at a garage sale second hand and used it until it died. It ONLY lasted 25 years. LOL
Mellon baller cuts the core outright quick
Excellent suggestion!
Thanks. I enjoyed that. I've only done a little bit of onions. Id love to do Vidalias. I hope v to travel next year and when I find good c deals on produce stop st a campground for electricity and do canning and dehydrating. I need to make a list of when to be where.
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Charming lady
great info thanks for sharing
Like the video. What type of dehydrator you are using?
It is an Nesco American Harvest brand Gardenmaster
What is the name of your food processor? I love your video and am a new subscriber.
Thanks for your kind words and welcome to my channel! It is an older model Black and Decker Quick and Easy.
That's the first food processor I've seen with the spout on the side for dumping the product in another container. Can you tell me the brand? Could really use.
Welcome to my channel! It is an older model Black and Decker Quick and Easy.
Great love it
If you put a fan drawing the air out the window cuts down on smell.
Now could ya blanch em first to avoid the browning as with regular onions. I blanch em. But I am gonna explore steaming as I feel blanching, ya lose some of the flavor in the water. Thanks for another option on dehydrating onions
I want flavor. I am not terribly concerned about the color they turn as most of the time they are incorporated into recipes anyway. Blanching them causes flavor loss as does even steaming. You lose flavor in the water. I don't blanch my regular onions for dehydrating either.
I am such a flavor hog I even keep the juice that remains after I run them through the food processor. I pour that juice into a designated ice cube tray and freeze it into juice cubes. They make a great addition to soups and other recipes and I save that flavor.
do you put an oxygen absorber in the bottles for long tern storage?
I never have. If the onions are dried nice and crisp and kept in a cool dark place, inside of those Gatorade bottles, they stay good for years.
Thank you so much for this, I love your accent. My question is do you have a measurement for dry onions. As in if I need 1 fresh onion how much dehydrated would I use?
LOL I have an accent! Who knew?! In answer to your question ... it depends on how fine you grind the onion up after it is dehydrated. If you grind the flakes into onion powder 1 Tablespoon of onion powder is equal to 1 medium sized onion. If it is just kept as flakes 1 Tablespoon is equal to about 1/4 of fresh minced.
LOL we all have an accent. Thank you so much that makes it so easy to use.
@@FarmFreshIB -- Thanks for this. I was wondering the same thing.
Thank you!
You are most welcome!
Oh my golly I have never laughed so hard during an onion topic video. Why is your porch so messy? I really like dehydrating my veggies, this is a great instructional vid.
Glad I could make you smile.
onion tears: cut under water, really sharp knife wont crush the cell walls releasing the burn. Yep, turn on the fan blow the fumes outside.
I froze 30 lbs of onions, but I did dehydrate 2 pints wirth.
So how do you RE-HYDRATE them for use? Let them just soak in water?
I don't. I just chuck them right into the recipe as I cook. Most everything has enough moisture present to just soften them up perfect as it cooks.
the dry onion skins make a great tea . Google it for the information on them.
I have an Excalibur Dehydrator. Will dehydrating onions leave the smell or affect other fruits or veggies I dehydrate afterwards?
I don't have that kind of dehydrator, but if you wash the racks it should take care of any odors. Mine does. If you are worried... use some parchment paper on top of your racks.
Place the onion skins in your stock pot and boil them down and then use them in the roasting process for potatoes
I dont own a dehydrator, so I dice and freeze. But may have to look into one. My mom was raised very close to Vidalia, GA. and we have always pronounced it VI-dalia not VA-dalia. Janice
Can you make a vidio how to DEHYDRATE WHOLE EGGS some way? & how to make the eggs POWDERED for storage for cooking or baking as needed later. Do you KNOW you know HOW?? Please? May 20, 2020. 👌👌👌
I know how, but typically I just scramble them and mix with a little salt then freeze in an ice cube tray. Easy, peasy.
I use breast milk storage bags to store eggs. Crack, whisk, poor in bags, mark the bag with how many eggs in the bag, lay flat in the freezer. When frozen you can then store upright. After using the bag you can wash and reuse the bag.
The juice is also perfect for adding to guacamole.
Can the dehydrator be taken outside to dehydrate onions?
As long as the temperature outside is about room temperature. That is the temperature that the unit is set to work at. Temperatures hotter or colder will burn out your dehydrator.
New to your channel, what is the shelf life on the dried onions ?
As long as they are kept in a cool dry place they last for years and years. I have used onions three years old before and they taste just great. But honestly... they seldom last that long. They are too yummy.
Good God lady, you sure can talk.
Yep. You should feel for my husband.
Where did you buy your knife the small red handle knife, loved your video. Thank you
Glad that you enjoyed it!
The paring knife is made in the USA by Rada Cutlery www.radacutlery.com/ It is available on Amazon via this link. www.amazon.com/Rada-Cutlery-Regular-Paring-Knife/dp/B000FZXB6U/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1469347450&sr=8-9&keywords=Rada+knives These are wonderful knives and really keep their edge.
The tubing used on the knife handle is also on Amazon. Ableware closed cell tubing. www.amazon.com/Ableware-766900182-Closed-Cell-Tubing-Standard/dp/B00U7BU8DQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469348679&sr=8-1&keywords=closed+cell+foam+tubing It has made a lot of difference enabling me to work still with my arthritis.
When you freeze the juice, doesn't it transfer the smell to the other food in the freezer?
No. You can cover your ice cube trays if you are concerned. Once it is bagged up it is fine. It WILL make your ice cube tray stink however, so I have some of those I use just for freezing onion juices and meat broths. The ones for water ice are never used for freezing other things.
@@FarmFreshIB thank you👌
Do you have to rehydrate upon use?
Not at all! I just pitch them in what I am fixing and head on with the recipe. As a matter of a fact... the Vidalias dehydrated in this way are SO sweet and good my family will just pour some straight into their hand and into their mouths. They are delicious! Even my 7 year old grandson likes them like that!
Can they be stored in the pantry then?
Most definitely! That is one of the best things about dehydration. No need for chill space and things will last for years and years if need be. Like all pantry storage, the cooler and darker it can be kept (as well as dry) the longer you will maintain great quality. But I have kept these dehydrated Vidalia onions, stored in a Gatorade bottle, for three years before (a bottle got stuck in the back and forgotten or it wouldn't have been there that long) with little change in flavor. However that old bottle did darken in color with the passage of that much time.
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