how to dehydrated cabbage green onions broccoli Excalibur Dehydrator food saver hi
it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper if you have a dehydrator something to remember is you don't
have to have a whole basket or bushel of fruits or vegetables to want to use it you can actually
use it to dehydrate any leftovers you have in your refrigerator or just extra produce that
you have on hand you don't want to waste any of the food that you have available to you so today
i'm going in my refrigerator and i'm taking a few of the extra things i have a cabbage carrot greens
little extra salad i have some extra green onions and i have an extra bag of broccoli
and because they're all very strong smelling vegetables it's okay to dehydrate them all
together you wouldn't want to dehydrate something sweet with something stinky
but when you have several stinky vegetables things it's fine to dehydrate them together
so yes it is going to be a stinky job but once it's done dehydrating the smell is gone out of
your home you don't need to worry about it that's one reason i like to dehydrate outside or even in
the garage when the weather is bad because stinky foods stuff can really smell up your house it's
extremely rainy right now it's very humid so i need to make sure that i'm dehydrating doing it
in the house where it's warm and dry enough that the dehydrator can work to the best of its ability
first i have a container of a cabbage slaw and i'm just going to spread cabbage out onto
the non-stick Excalibur dehydrator flex sheet there's a easy release sheet that comes with your
Excalibur dehydrator and i love to use that with things that are tiny because then when they're
dried they're not stuck on the little grates or they don't get so small that they fall between and
it's easy to just slide them right off it doesn't matter if they're lumped on top of each other
just make sure that they're spread evenly they're going to dehydrate fine so it doesn't matter if
they're touching each other next i have some green onions i'm just going to give them a rough chop
and onto another one of the Excalibur dehydrator easy release sheets these green onions are also
going to dehydrate you just want to spread them around a little bit so that they're even on your
sheet next i have some broccoli and you can see that the broccoli is very large and so I'm going
to need to cut it up some you also want to take a look at your sizes of your fruits or
vegetables you want to dehydrate for example because the broccoli is bulky it would need
more than one shelf space so i'm going to remove some of the extra trays in Excalibur dehydrator to
leave enough room for the broccoli florets to fit in there nicely so i'm cutting broccoli into
more bite-sized pieces and i'm spreading them onto the regular excalibur dehydrator tray and
in they go so you can see i have the cabbage carrot slaw i have the chopped green onions
and i have the broccoli and these are all going into the Excalibur dehydrator at 125 degrees and
because they're different sizes they're going to take a different amount of time so i'm going to go
ahead and set the dehydrator on about 14 hours but i expect that the chopped up small vegetables will
be done in about six hours but the broccoli is much larger so it's probably going to need closer
to 12 hours to dehydrate. so it's been about six hours you can see the finely shredded veggies are
nice and crispy i can take the sheet and just pour it directly into a small canning jar now i
can take the green onion and the same thing it's crispy crunchy so is also completely dehydrated
and that's what's nice about the Excalibur easy release sheets you can just fold them
over and food will all slide right into a jar i always leave the dehydrated fruits and veggies
in a jar open for a few days to allow them to sort of condition make sure they're completely dry and
i'll shake them and stir them around once or twice a day just to make sure that all of the moisture
has been removed if for any reason you decide that they're not crunchy enough or you think there's
any moisture put them back into the dehydrator for a few more hours it's been about 12 hours
you can see that the broccoli is completely dried dehydrated when you touch dehydrated foods they
should crumble and be crunchy and that's how you know that they're completely done so i can also
put the broccoli directly into a jar add them to my collection of my dehydrated veggies that are
in the jars open to be conditioned and allow them to sit there for a few days now if you plan to use
the dehydrated vegetables anytime soon it's simple enough to just close the jar keep them airtight
and then you can pour them out and use them when you want if you want dehydrated veggies to last
longer you should use the foodsaver vacuum attachment that you put the lid on the jar
suck out all of the air and then they're ready to go and sit in your pantry for a much longer time
it's so simple to get more life out of your extra veggies just go ahead and dehydrate
them put them away then you can toss them in when you're cooking noodles you can toss
them in when you're cooking rice put them into soup sauces and casseroles and they're going to
completely rehydrate and be extra nice and ready to go so if you have a Excalibur dehydrator make
sure that you're getting the most use out of it by using it when you have extra fruits and vegetables
even if you don't have a whole big barrel or bushel even if you have a small amount
of leftover fruits or vegetables go ahead and put them in your Excalibur dehydrator and get
the full value out of your grocery dollars and you're helping your food last longer
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