okay so mark decided he was more than willing to do the drive to the large costco
business center and i said sure let's go if there was something that he specifically wanted so
but i decided that i definitely wanted to get um
bulk bag of carrots and i do have a 25 pound bag i'm gonna see how that goes before i get any more
but that is going to be all dehydrated so that's quite the job and i have tested using my
potato chip cutter with it and it is a little bit on the hard side so i think we're just going to do
carrot coins and i mean that's what they look like but it is quite the job to do that and i
was thinking of just getting little um squares but by the time you dehydrate them they'd be
probably too tiny anyway so i'm just going to do carrot coins and dehydrate this whole bag and
see where it goes from there i'd also like to do this quantity and celery and perhaps
a few other things now i understand there is going to be a shortage of all kinds of things
and sugar was one of them and costco did have a limit on the larger bags of sugar not this size
but i thought i had enough sugar but considering that there is going to be a potential shortage
i picked up another two bags and this is the larger size
so and i am going to put them in vacuum sealed bags but i'm not going to
vacuum it i'm just going to put it in the bag so that the loose sugar bits don't
fall out of these bags they're sealed but you always get a few grains that fall out
anyway so yeah and i'm not going to open these bags i'm just going to put the whole
thing in a vacuum bag and just seal the bag itself but not vacuum it is what i was saying
so um also did get a number of other things like eggs and cream and some risotto which is
it's an italian rice and it's extremely expensive and i've never bought it just
because it is a labor-intensive rice to cook up i believe you have to
stir it up the whole time you can't just leave it and let it cook and i picked up some extra
oil and quite a bit of oil actually because i was using the oil i had in stock to make
soap and it looks like i still have to use some more of my stock for soap and i have no idea
what the price of oil is doing but i know those bottles i bought for just under
six dollars and the last time i saw them they were close to 10. so i wanted to be able to
pick up some oil while i was at costco as well so that's my job and we'll see where it goes
okay well i have started the process of cutting my carrots and yes they do have to be blanched
so i've got some water on and i'm going to put this as soon as that comes to a boil
i'm going to put this lot in there and we are going to start the process of dehydrating
a huge amount of carrots and i have no idea how long this is going to take but
that is my current occupation at this point and yes i keep hearing that apparently now
the world is becoming aware that there could be issues with food and yeah you see how hard
these carrots are they're just a little bit too hard to even put through that potato chipper
so much as i would have liked the slices i think that carrot coins will actually work and
more and more people are becoming aware whether or not they're doing anything about it is another
story you know we don't know so anyway i think i've got enough there for the first batch to
process at least to blanch and yes all root crops have to be blanched if you're going to dehydrate
for a number of reasons it helps to keep the color and it also will help when you go
to rehydrate them they'll rehydrate a whole lot better so um yeah there is my water now boiling
okay so the first batch is completed being blanched and i put them under cold water to
stop the cooking process and now i'm just going to put the first batch on the dehydrator trays i
don't know how many i'm going to be able to make per tray so this is my first attempt here and
looking good and i because these are fairly thick they're not really tiny i
did blanch them for approximately six to seven minutes if you were going to cut them thinner
perhaps you don't need to blanch as long but i'm not unhappy with the size
okay train number one is full yahoo getting there okay so this is going to take about
a tray and a half i think and okay now that's the right way all right
and just spread them one layer evenly
yep so about a tree and a half for this lot now i could
blanch in larger batches and i may do that in the future but this one i wanted to get an idea how
many i could do so all right here we are second one is all cut up and ready to be blanched and
i suspect that these are going to be taking about 8 to 12 hours to dry maybe a little
longer so i will check on them after that amount of time and considering it's two in the afternoon
at least 10 o'clock midnight and probably overnight okay the second batch is uh
been blanched and it's ready to go on the trays and here i've got my sticks
my carrot sticks so i've got a third batch on the go or they're already ready to be
blanched and i don't know if i'll make a fourth one just now i want to wait and see if i have
enough trays i suspect that the three will be more than adequate for the trays that i have
so just get these ready and then we'll put them on the dehydrator and then tonight or tomorrow
probably tomorrow we will take a look and see how they performed how well they dried
i suspect there shouldn't be an issue and then it would be just a matter of sealing them in jars
and putting them in storage this is
storage food this is not meant to be eating beaten right away it is meant to store so
that is my plan anyway we'll see how it goes i'll always try to eat fresh when i can
and i believe if these are stored properly they'll last at least
15 years 10 years so we'll store them in a way that they should last
and they can certainly be used in soups and stews all the time and we'll just have to see what
the future brings but this is my emergency stash not my everyday food prep
so
may have too many on this tray
and yes i guess if you have a freeze dryer you can freeze dry them as well um
it is apparent though that the world is becoming aware of the fact that there could
be food shortages and probably because of that even becoming more apparent that
if you understand that that you should be doing something to prepare now while there's still
plenty available
okay i think that's it for that tray and yes it's more than likely that we will not
be able to do i have two trays left and i suspect that batch is a little larger than
the other ones so i suspect that that should be all i can do for today and
i certainly will not peel or prepare anymore until these are done great okay
well i still got a lot of carrots to go and i expect i'm gonna do at least another
two or three or maybe even more than that
dehydrating trays but if i stay on top of it i should get it done fairly quickly and the
carrots look good right now and we don't want to let them deteriorate at all before we get to them
okay so this is the end result of my carrots the first batch
little dried pellets here so i'm going to continue doing all these carrots until they are done
and the strips came out looking like this so i think i prefer the carrot coins for storage anyway
okay that's it lots of work ahead of me again and actually it's going a lot
quicker than the 50 pounds of potatoes but then it's only 25 pounds of carrots
this is tony from her homestead skills i hope you enjoyed this little video
and we will catch you in the next one bye for now
you