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Anonymous Wed Jul 8 22:55:49 2020 No.14370382 [Reply] [Original]

Having a real hard time finding a practical use for a dehydrator I was gifted. Outside of very specific situations where I would want to dehydrate some food I'm not sure what to use it for regularly.

What are some regular and frequent applications I can apply? It's just going to be sitting in a cabinet otherwise.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 22:56:29 2020 No.14370386 >>14370382 cubes and jerky

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 22:57:43 2020 No.14370391 >>14370382 Keep making jerky out of the cheapest beef and lamb or bison cuts you can find.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 22:58:03 2020 No.14370393 >>14370386 Those are infrequent uses. I'm looking for frequent uses so it doesn't just collect dust.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 22:58:26 2020 No.14370394 >>14370382 beef jerky, fruit chips. sorry, you can't dehydrate a mcdouble you fat fuck.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 23:00:22 2020 No.14370404 >>14370393 What do you eat that someone would gift you a dehydrator for?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 23:01:41 2020 No.14370412 >>14370404 Backpacking food, but I really only go out during the winter. 8-9 months out of the year I'm doing other things like fishing, kayaking, etc.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 23:02:43 2020 No.14370416 Buy fruit/herbs and make a shit ton of tea with it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 23:05:15 2020 No.14370425 >>14370382 Boogers and cum

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 01:32:26 2020 No.14370940 >>14370393 You dehydrate for long conservation of excessive amounts of perishable food, not on a daily basis. Would you brew beer every day just to keep your equipment from collecting dust?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 01:33:33 2020 No.14370945 >>14370940 Yes. Absolutely. Who would let a good brewery go to waste?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 01:39:13 2020 No.14370962 >>14370382 buy cheap fruit and dehydrate slices of it. find something you like enough to buy every time you go to the store and so you can keep dehydrating it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 01:43:19 2020 No.14370971 >>14370940 lol. No link between my two sentences. OP seems like he's getting mad his gift has no everyday use but I'm sure he has other stuff 'collecting dust.'

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 01:44:49 2020 No.14370974 >>14370971 Meant to reply to >>14370945

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 02:02:26 2020 No.14371024 >>14370382 Cherry season. Dehydrate cherries when the prices are lowest. Look up guides for pitting and drying. Dried cherries are amazing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 02:05:45 2020 No.14371032 >>14370382 When you see fruit and vegetables on discount because they're about to go bad, buy up big and dehydrate them.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 02:11:26 2020 No.14371042 File: 43 KB, 500x328, 1494246835563.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14370386

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 02:14:24 2020 No.14371050 >>14370382 I just got a dehydrator recently and honestly I’m not sure what I’m ever going to use it for because I’m not sure if it’s actually capable of turning meat into jerky reliably

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 02:16:28 2020 No.14371055 >>14371050 If your dehydrator can't dehydrate, return the piece of shit. There is no way that thing complies with consumer rights.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 03:34:48 2020 No.14371290 >>14371055 It works, if just takes a really long time. It was cheap as fuck from a thrift store. I’m thinking I can use it for small fruits and safer things like that, maybe herbs or plants for teas like other anons suggested.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 06:32:39 2020 No.14371638 >>14371024 >Dried cherries are amazing I have just realized that I am 45 and have never tasted dried cherries.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 06:35:41 2020 No.14371648 >>14371290 dehydrators take a long time, there is no such thing as a super quick dehydrator you fucking dolt. think mcfly

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 06:41:58 2020 No.14371662 Only problem I seen with some dehydrators is operating temperature. My cheap one heats at 65°C, I wish it were a bit less hot.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 11:10:09 2020 No.14372429 you can make some dehydrated fruit rope type stuff, like a better fruit roll up

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 11:13:43 2020 No.14372442 >>14370382 I dehydrate soups and reconstitute them later to save freezer space.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 11:15:00 2020 No.14372445 >>14370971 Like his penis amirite?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 11:17:44 2020 No.14372457 >>14370971 >OP seems like he's getting mad Apathy is a symptom of being a sociopath. Turn yourself in to the nearest mental institution for evaluation immediately.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 13:30:10 2020 No.14372985 >>14370382 unless you consume a high amount of a typical dehydrated product, you will not use yours frequently.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 13:36:41 2020 No.14373014 make kale chips. Fucking delicious. Beef Jerky. Dried strawberries for oatmeal and icecream. Dried mango to snack on. Pork jerky. Fish jerky. Dried squid. If you're a fan of making your own snacks, a dehydrator is gonna be a good tool to have.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 20:11:55 2020 No.14374722 >>14370382 If you get into wild mushroom hunting you can use them frequently on mushroom seasons. I wish had one, it would be very handy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 20:21:20 2020 No.14374747 You could make your own grounded herbs and spices. Dried fruits and/or berries for salads work too. Jerky is another. You can make chips out of any vegetable or kale or whatever.

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 20:24:51 2020 No.14374760

i make jerky and garlic powder in mine

might try concord raisins this year cause i love concord grapes and concord raisins doesn't seem to be a commercial product

but yeah the point of a dehydrator is to use it infrequently
probably 50% of my food is processed in my pressure canner but i only use it a few weekends per year

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 20:28:14 2020 No.14374776 save my vegetable scraps (onions skins and cucumber skins and shit), dehydrate them, and grind them into spices. isn't hard just set it and forget.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 20:30:08 2020 No.14374785 >>14374776 >mmm is that a hint of table scraps i detect?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 20:30:12 2020 No.14374786 >>14370382 This spring I picked lavender and dried it, added it to my italian seasoning I put on pizza

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 22:37:06 2020 No.14375306 >>14371638 Haha you're 45 and on 4chan

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 22:38:47 2020 No.14375310 >>14375306 i'm so glad i didn't use 4chan in my youth what a waste of life

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 22:40:35 2020 No.14375315 >>14375306 I'm 34 and on 4chan. What do zoomers find appealing about its Internet 1.0 format?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 22:56:35 2020 No.14375368 can you do dried food with these? they turn out great and make a terrific snack, I used to buy some very expensive, apples and oranges, but I guess you could get creative trying new stuff

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 23:20:17 2020 No.14375473 >>14375310 >what a waste of life Not really much life to go around when the modern child is prohibited from exiting the household outside of school hours.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 23:38:04 2020 No.14375554 >>14371055 >consumer rights You know, he's probably American.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 00:23:00 2020 No.14375728 >>14375306 you need to be 18 to post here

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 00:23:35 2020 No.14375730 >>14370382 Boogers and cum

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 00:39:18 2020 No.14375788

>>14370382
dehydrate strawberries and put them in oatmeal and stuff. you can make fruit leathers in them if you get a plastic tray
>>14371024
second this. you can also dip them in chocolate. beats the hell out of chocolate raisins
>>14372442
I've seen this online and it looks strange. does anyone really do that? how are the results?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 00:39:49 2020 No.14375792 >>14375306 there will come a day when you are too

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 00:46:31 2020 No.14375812 >>14375792 Some people don't make it to 45. :(

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 03:30:10 2020 No.14376225 >>14370962 >>14371024 Buying fruit to dry, even cheap fruit almost certainly costs a lot more than just buying dried fruit in the first place.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 04:17:16 2020 No.14376327 >>14374785 Ducking lol

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:42:02 2020 No.14377212 >>14370382 Proof bread. Not everyday use, but at least biweekly.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:45:46 2020 No.14377233

>>14370382
Jerky. I make chicken jerky which is pretty good, just gotta make sure it's done all the way. What temperature does your dehydrator get to?
>>14370393
then make more jerky duh.
>but I need frequent uses!
the heat went out in my apartment last winter for like a week so I used my dehydrator as an additional space heater. It wasn't the best but it did help so you can use it for that.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:52:27 2020 No.14377254 >>14375473 not the same anon, but i was prohibited from leaving the house plenty and i did anyway, your parents are pretty much powerless to stop you. go and climb your local high school and fuck your girlfriend on the roof

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 10:21:12 2020 No.14377332 Do up some flavoured salt, do whatever, make some weird shit because why not, you might stumble across something pretty cool

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 10:29:05 2020 No.14377359 >>14371648 mchumans can't mcfly no matter how much they mcthink about it, mctard.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 10:38:52 2020 No.14377384 >>14370382 jerky is usually what i use mine for but you can also dehydrate all sorts of stuff and turn it into powder. like i dont buy garlic powder at the store anymore for example

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 10:43:27 2020 No.14377398 >>14377384 also you can use it to proof dough

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:33:20 2020 No.14377555 >>14370393 nigger do you use all your appliances every day?

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