How to dehydrate yellow summer squash Excalibur food dehydrator how to use foodsaver vacuum
sealer jar attachment dehydrated foods hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper it's time to teach
the newest generation how to prepare foods for long-term food storage dehydrate prepper
pantry stockpile so we're out in the garden we have a bumper crop of yellow summer squash
so I'm going to show you how I dehydrate them in the Excalibur food dehydrator sometimes
yellow summer squash zucchini get lost and they get completely out of control grow too large and
these will probably be nice for decorations in the fall but these are not going to be enjoyable
for eating so once you pick your yellow summer squash you want to slice up any of the narrow
part and then cut apart the wide bulb part of squash with a spoon scrape out the seeds
and you can shred up the bigger parts of yellow summer squash the shredded squash
has a little bit of green because I did some zucchini earlier
so now I'm going to lay yellow summer squash slices and shreds on the easy release sheets that
go into the Excalibur food dehydrator I'm going to spread out the yellow summer squash slices and
then also spread out the shreds and dry yellow summer squash for about 12 hours at 125 degrees
the Excalibur is easy to use it has a little fan motor inside you turn on to the temperature you
want and you set the timer for how long you want and that activates the fan then your
trays of food just slide right in your food is already on the trays and then you put the
cover back on Excalibur dehydrator and allow it to dehydrate the yellow summer squash I'm doing today
I'm going to dehydrate at 125 degrees for about 12 hours my dehydrator has five trays even if you're
not dehydrating a lot of food you want to keep all of the trays in there even if they don't have
products on them because it helps the air to flow more correctly if you have them all in there plus
then you don't need to worry where did I put those dehydrator trays you can store them right inside
I like to dehydrate squash in chunks and as shreds because I use it in different recipes different
styles I also like Excalibur easy release sheets because food slides right off in fact I'm thinking
about buying more of those and dehydrating all of the foods on the easy release or paraflex
sheets I don't remember exactly what they're called once you're satisfied that your food is
completely dehydrated then you can remove it from the dehydrator it's easy to fold up this sheet and
just pour your food right into a ziploc bag and from there I place it into a clean dry canning jar
I let it sit out for several days to with the top open so that dehydrated yellow summer squash can
condition the food and I'll shake it around a few times and make sure everything is completely
dehydrated if your food is not as dry as you think it should be it's easy to place it back into the
dehydrator here for a few hours to get it to the consistency that you want next I seal my
jars with the Food Saver vacuum seal with the jar attachment you put a clean canning lid on your jar
then the FoodSaver has a hose and a jar attachment you can get them with a regular mouth size
and the wide mouth jar whichever size you need you put one end of the hose into the food saver
the other end into the top of the jar and then the jar lid attachment goes onto your jar my
machine has a lever on the side that you turn it down and that's how you activate it then when you
put the lid onto the jar you press the button turn it on it will vacuum out all of the oxygen
and seal your container you want to listen for the click at the end to know that it's done
remove the hose and then remove the lid and then check your jar to make sure that
it's sealed correctly and now it's ready to go into your prepper pantry with all of your other
food storage prepping supplies stockpile store food cool dark dry and know that you provided
healthy nutritious fresh foods into your prepper pantry if you enjoyed my video I hope you'll share
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