so everyone this is the dehydrating video that you've all been waiting for
and I'm gonna show you some of the things I D hydrated but first I'm going
to show you some of the things that I got at the food pantry that I actually
just sealed these are chia seeds and chia seeds are really good for your
digestive system and they gave these and I put them in these glass jars so you
can put cheese seeds in muffins and breads you can put him in all kinds of
things in fact some people even put them in their jams when they make them so I'm
gonna be really glad to work on this and to share with you some upcoming recipes
using chia seeds so the zucchini is dehydrated and it looks like this now a
lot of you know what things look like dehydrated but you want to know how do
you use them well these are zucchini and they're just like a chip some people eat
them like chips what I would do is when I'm making spaghetti sauce I will put
some of the zucchini in it when you make lasagna you can throw some of the
zucchini in the lasagna you can put it in soups vegetable soups you can put it
in stews you can actually put it in casseroles
you can crumble it up and put it in salads so dry ingredients are amazing to
have that was the whole bag of zucchini in one little quart jar like this here
is the tops of my onions so these were the spring onions I use this the same as
you would use chives put it on top of baked potatoes add it to some chicken
broth when you want to make chicken add it to soups oh it smells amazing you can
use it for anything that calls for onions also blend it up so it's a fine
powder here is my prized tomatoes now this is by far the best thing I loved
dehydrating these were all those tomatoes and they look like it shipped
like this you know they're done when you can crumble it in your hand
but what do you use it for so many of you had questions well you can put this
in spaghetti sauce you can put it on top of pizza you can put it in bread when
you want to make tomato flavored bread you can crumble it up and put it in
salads you can crumble it up and put it in with sour cream and make your own
chip dip I put some oregano seasonings to these and it's endless you can put it
in anything anything that you want it to meet a flavor you can put it in with
chicken and put it in your crock pot just anything you know it's by trial and
error that you try these things out Tomatoes is my favorite to dehydrate and
this was the third time I've done this and so I hope to be able to do some more
dehydrating so these are the things I got at the food pantry that I dehydrated
I know a whole carload and it goes down to little half gallon jars but I want to
share with you something I never D hydrate it before and that is raisins so
I got all these grapes what do you do with them I mean how do
you eat ten pounds of grapes so I was looking on the internet and I realize
that you can dehydrate them and make raisins so I have a pack here that's
left all you do is you want to cut your rates than half you want to always cut
your grapes and the reason for that is so they dehydrate quicker if you don't
cut your grapes you're gonna have this dehydrator going for days it takes 24
hours to dehydrate grapes in two raises this isn't a quick dehydrating project
Bob long they were shaped different but they are so sweet and let me tell you
they make the best raisins so I put it on the highest setting I put it on 155
and it's gonna be for 24 hours 24 hours later you have this
beautiful raisins crunchy beautiful raisins and let me tell you they taste
nothing like what you buy in the store
beautiful raisins so I'm going to go ahead and put these raisins in a jar and
I am so excited to be able to share with you all these dehydrating projects it's
something so simple so easy you don't have to lug around a lot of water and
canning jars and heavy equipment dehydrating is the way to go it is
thumbs up for me
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all right everyone so this is what I have on hand and this is my herb mix now
I use this for spaghetti we use this for everything that replaces salt there is
no salt in this it's got oregano it's got parsley it's
got thyme it's got garlic it's got just about everything you can imagine so now
what we're going to do is this is all of the herbs that we dried and I put it
through a sieve like this this is the easiest way for me to do it and it works
out great so what we're gonna do is we're gonna take all of the oregano now
we're gonna just scrunch it into this little sieve it's a messy job I like
doing this kind of job outside it's mostly and I'm going to be able to get
all of these trays actually in here
all right so now what we're gonna do is resistance here like this and we're
going to run it through the sieve which as you've seen in hundreds of videos
that I've done I'll get back to you and show you what it looks like when we're
finished all right we're just gonna put it in here just like that probably
harvest about 25 gallon of some herbs and I will have to keep working on that
this week so that's just a little bit of what I'm working on today cutting up
these Tomatoes and I thought what better way is to use the electric knife so
we're gonna slice up these Tomatoes to put on our dehydrator one thing nice
about dehydrating your food is it doesn't take hardly any space so what I
decided to do is sprinkle some of my homemade herb seasonings on these
Tomatoes so as these tomatoes dry they're gonna have some oregano and some
onion this has no salt added to it and I think this is gonna make them so much
more flavorful all right everybody so here are the
spring onion tops and this is what they look like dehydrated so we're gonna go
ahead and put all them into our Bowl
spring Indian tops really dehydrate quickly you can use these in the replace
of any onion you want to just make sure that they are all dried and you don't
want to put it into a jar until it is totally cooled off you don't want to put
it in a jar hot or you'll get moisture
now there's a couple pieces that I see that aren't dried so you want to make
sure you go through them really well
spring onions have a lot of nutrients in them and you can plant the ball part
which I showed you in many videos and they will grow all summer and all spring
you can get so much out of it as you can hear they sound crunchy that's what
you're trying to go for is that sound of the crunch run your hands through it to
make sure there's a little wet piece make sure you have all of it dried
that's why it's very important to cut your vegetables all in the same night
and thickness so there you go all these onions now we're going to go ahead and
put them in our half gallon jar grind this up if you want it real fine
I don't want it real fine this Spach I want it like this
there you go all of those spring onion tops and one
half gallon jar uni so chia seeds and some onion tops the onions I froze so
all of these made some of these I hope you keep dehydrating a try because it's
so we had the tomatoes the raises zucchini so chia seeds and some onion
tops the onions I froze so all of these made some of these