My favorite food dehydrating reference books! Inspiring and educational! Newsletter #46! 🍎🧄🐶💕


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My favorite books on food dehydrating!

Folks I meet at the farmers' market tell me they have a dehydrator. With my limited time per person, I don't get to chat too much but I'm always curious what they like to dry, and generally it's to preserve what they have in the garden, so on The Price is Right, it would be the #1 answer.


You might want to stock up on produce from the farmers market, or have leftovers you'd like to save, or maybe you visited a farm and have a lot of produce, and now it's time to dry it. Or as with The Price is Right, you might want to plan what to plant in your garden and having some dried recipes in advance might help you be ready for preserving your harvest. Whatever the reason, here are two inspiration books on dehydration that you might like. (and let me know if you have any of your own that you'd like to recommend!)

Now a disclaimer, these books aren't perfect (nor are they technical, which I would like: a bit more science would be nice), but these books will definitely get you inspired to dehydrate foods, as well as provide a very useful starting-point when working with new raw foods:

1. "The Dehydration Bible"
Great introduction on utensils. Great starting point for times and temperatures. Nice tips on preparation of foods. I'm yet to extensively use the recipes in the back of the book/"Part 2" of the book, which has lots of recipes utilizing dehydrated ingredients, although there's a lot of great recipes and ideas in here!

Con: In my opinion, too much of the book is dedicated to recipes using dried ingredients in Part 2, and not enough in-depth discussion on dehydrating and ready-to-eat dried foods. (It depends what inspires you.)

Pro: The clearly laid-out section on times and temps as well as preparation is a helpful starting point when you're dehydrating a new food, but it could be more in-depth with more dried snack recipes.
 
https://www.amazon.com/Dehydrator-Bible-over-400-Recipes/dp/0778802132

20% of book is on dehydration (74 pages), while the 80% remaining is recipes using dehydrated ingredients, which is fairly too heavy on the latter, as confirmed by some disgruntled Amazon reviewers.



2. Mary Bell's "Complete Dehydrator Cookbook"
There's more in-depth discussion on recipes for making finished dried 'dishes', and less recipes that use dehydrated ingredients (similar to "The Dehydration Bible" book, Mary Bell's Part 2 is dedicated to cooking with dried foods. 56% of the book is on dehydrating, whereas 44% is on recipes using dehydrated foods. There's a much better discussion on making ready-to-eat dried recipes. I think a lot of folks are curious on how to make a ready-to-eat dried snacks (or at least, that's my interest.)

https://a.co/d/4UyMmHK

 



 

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No sugar added! Slow and low temperature dehydrated to preserve vitamins, antioxidants, and flavors!
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My Food Science "Greatest Hits"

1. Deep Dive: Black Garlic Research Links
2. Garlic Health Benefits
3. "Is black garlic fermented?"
4. Black Garlic Caramelization Chemistry
5. Maillard Reaction
6. Pasteurization, Methanol toxicity in Diet Soda and Alcoholic Spirits
7. I created a FUN FOOD SCIENCE 101 POSTER
8. MICROWAVES!
9. Food Chemistry of a HANGOVER!
10. Food Dehydration teaches us about climate change: Part ONE and Part TWO
11. Vinegar is a DOUBLE fermentation
12. Salt Preservation
13. The Saponification Reaction
14. Food Chemistry BOND ENTHALPY
15. FREEZE DRYING
16. Halloween themed "food chemical SCARIES"
17. Hydrocolloids (Gels)
18. My Ag-Tech Competition Entry Youtube Video
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. Interview of me with videographer and podcaster, Nick Rizzo
20. How to store fruits and vegetables
21. Citric Acid
22. My Solar Electric Motorized Kayak

 

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