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09-10-2011, 04:23 PM | #1 |
Rose Trellis
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Dehydrating food
Does anyone dehydrate food? If so, how do you store it after you remove the moisture? I have dehydrated a bunch of food this summer-blueberries, zucchini, bananas, pineapple, peaches, peppers, onions, tomatoes, etc. I put some of them in mason jars and some of them in plastic bags that I squeezed as much air out of as possible. I have them in the basement which stays fairly cool and dark. I'm wondering if they will last through the winter. Does anyone have any idea?
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09-10-2011, 04:38 PM | #2 |
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Re: Dehydrating food
Sounds like you have dehydrated far more than me this year.
So far, I have ours in jars in my pantry. It's sort of an experiment. I do recommend jars instead of bags: we had a miller moth infestation in the pantry, and they got into my dried tomatoes from last year.
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09-10-2011, 05:30 PM | #3 |
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Re: Dehydrating food
I mostly dehydrate things we want to eat as snacks (peaches, bananas, apples . . . ), and I usually store them in ziplocks in the freezer as long as I have room. If I ran out of room in the freezer I'd store them in mason jars in as cool/dark a place as possible, so the basement would be good.
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09-10-2011, 06:14 PM | #5 |
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Re: Dehydrating food
As long as you've dried them completely, they will keep FINE in the pantry in glass jars (or ziplocks, unless you have the moth issue, I have no idea on that) for a few months, probably much longer. I find that if you're keeping things a long time, they taste "fresher" (for snacking on, I would guess it would matter less for things you were reconstituting things, but don't know for sure. Regardless, you will certainly be fine (again, assuming you've dehydrated things completely) storing them on the pantry until you've emptied up some room in the freezer this winter, then as you have room, maybe transfer things that you aren't eating through as quickly, just to keep them tasting fresher. But again, that's probably not necessary, just what I do when I have room (but when I cleaned out a shelf in the kitchen that I hadn't gotten to for awhile I found a big bag of dried peaches, not even "ziplocked", just closed with a twisty tie, that had probably been there for a couple of years, and they'd discolored but tasted fine, my children made short work of them, as they do with any dried peaches they find LOL.
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I would assume that the bags used with the food sealers would be a lot more resistant--the ones I have seen are quite a bit thicker than a Ziplock.
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09-13-2011, 01:56 PM | #7 |
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Re: Dehydrating food
Moths....ewwww! Now I have to go check my pantry.
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09-18-2011, 06:59 PM | #8 |
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Re: Dehydrating food
I just found a moth in a bag of popcorn today. Ugh! Will freezing kill them? Should I just throw out the food? I can't believe we have a moth issue. It's the first time I've ever seen one! I guess I'll be sticking to glass!
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