Hello how are you my name is Hayley and welcome to Set To Hike. This is
a channel that is all about hiking and in today's video we are back in the kitchen.
I am going to show you how you can make your own dehydrated minced beef.
For this recipe you will need 500g of lean minced beef. If you can dehydrate minced beef
you will be covering off one of the fundamentals
about the entire dehydration process and that is
that fat does not do well in the dehydrator. It basically means that your food can spoil,
so there are a few funny things to do in this process because of that reason but the first
thing that you can do is try and find the leanest minced beef that you can.
The supermarkets will usually list how much percent meat
and how much percent fat will be on it, so this one for example
is 95% meat and 5% fat so if you find the leanest that you can you're off to a good start.
Step 1. Heat up your pan and place in your beef.
Because we are sticking to our golden rule of
trying to minimise as much fat as possible we won't be using any oil, so just make sure your
pan is non-stick. As the meat is cooking try and chop down any larger chunks as the smaller
the pieces the faster it can dehydrate. Once your beef is cooked remove it from the heat
Step 2. Place your cooked meat into a strainer, boil a full kettle and pour boiling water over
your meat. You can then rinse the meat under the tap with warm water. Sift through the meat
with your fingers, this is your chance to break down any more larger chunks of meat.
This rinsing process again, will help reduce any of the fats. You can stop rinsing once you
feel that the meat is no longer greasy on your fingers. Now you are ready for the dehydrator.
So obviously dehydrators will have lots of holes in them for airflow
and when you put the mince meat on, it's just going to
fall through the holes so most dehydrators will come with something like
this which is to make fruit roll. Obviously one is not going to be enough
so you can just cut small little strips of aluminium foil
place it on your dehydrator, and put your mince meat onto the foil.
Step 3. Wait for the meat to cool before placing it onto the trays of your dehydrator,
evenly spread the beef onto the trays. Turn your dehydrator on to its highest setting.
Keep checking back every couple of hours to rotate your trays
and make sure there are no larger clumps that have stuck together.
This process usually takes 8 to 12 hours.
You know the beef will be done as it will be quite hard.
So there you have your dehydrated minced beef,
it's obviously a lot lighter and a lot smaller
so now all you have to do is package it ready for hiking. I've obviously made an entire
meal here to put this beef with but i'm just going to divide it into four serves.
Remember that you can also vacuum seal your food if you own a vacuum sealer.
So now i'm going to demonstrate how you can rehydrate your minced beef. So you're going to
boil just enough water so that the water line will cover just to the top of your food. So
once your water is boiled you can then pour in your food and let it sit for about 10 minutes.
It can be tricky at first to judge the right amount of water you need
but you'll soon have the eye for it. Boiling your water first will save on fuel. After your
food has sat for 10 minutes it will come out the other side edible and delicious.
So hopefully you are now a master at dehydrating minced beef,
don't forget to write on the packaging the date that you
made it and what's inside it i'm going to store these in the freezer, but if your trip is close
by you can store them in the fridge.
So thank you for watching and I will see you in the next one!