Complete Dehydrator Cookbook: How to Dehydrate Fruit, Vegetables, Meat & More
Complete Dehydrator Cookbook: How to Dehydrate Fruit, Vegetables, Meat & More book cover

Complete Dehydrator Cookbook: How to Dehydrate Fruit, Vegetables, Meat & More

Paperback – April 28, 2020

Price
$16.19
Format
Paperback
Pages
226
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1646117017
Dimensions
7.5 x 0.61 x 9.25 inches
Weight
1.17 pounds

Description

About the Author Carole Cancler has decades of practice in food preservation, specializing in the anthropology of food―how indigenous foods and methods of preparation have been integrated throughout the world. She is the author of The Home Preserving Bible and holds degrees in food science and nutrition and computer programming. Carole previously developed a Food Preservation Expo and currently writes for Mother Earth News.

Features & Highlights

  • The Complete Dehydrator Cookbook
  • : the definitive guide to deliciously easy meals
  • From sun-dried produce in ancient Egypt to salty air-dried fish aboard Viking ships, dehydration is one of the oldest, most versatile methods of preservation—creating foods that are compact, perfect for traveling, and great for a quick snack or backup meal.
  • The Complete Dehydrator Cookbook
  • is your all-in-one guide to easy, affordable home drying, pairing delicious dehydrated foods with easy-to-navigate guidance to get you drying in no time. Whether you're preserving seasonal crops or making protein-packed camping snacks, this dehydrator cookbook takes you through the ins and outs of dehydrating, storing, and rehydrating a wide variety of foods.
  • The Complete Dehydrator Cookbook
  • is also brimming with 125 simple dehydrator recipes for everything from stews and curries to herbal teas and spice blends to ready-to-eat breads, crackers, and cookies.
  • The Complete Dehydrator Cookbook
  • includes:
  • A to Z drying—Explore the essential equipment you'll need, troubleshooting tips, and detailed directions on how to dehydrate more than 75 different kinds of food, including fruits, vegetables, herbs, nuts, yogurt, tofu, meat, pasta, rice, and more.
  • A to Z drying
  • —Explore the essential equipment you'll need, troubleshooting tips, and detailed directions on how to dehydrate more than 75 different kinds of food, including fruits, vegetables, herbs, nuts, yogurt, tofu, meat, pasta, rice, and more.
  • Dehydrated dishes—Enjoy a variety of deliciously healthy recipes in this dehydrator cookbook, including just-add-water instant meals, and snacks like fruit leathers, chips, and jerky.
  • Dehydrated dishes
  • —Enjoy a variety of deliciously healthy recipes in this dehydrator cookbook, including just-add-water instant meals, and snacks like fruit leathers, chips, and jerky.
  • Low temp, big flavors—Raw foodists will find plenty of low-temp, plant-based foods to make, like Mixed Vegetable Bread, Sweet and Salty Dried Almonds, and Double-Chocolate Biscotti.
  • Low temp, big flavors
  • —Raw foodists will find plenty of low-temp, plant-based foods to make, like Mixed Vegetable Bread, Sweet and Salty Dried Almonds, and Double-Chocolate Biscotti.
  • Whether you're on the go or snacking at home, the portable dishes in this dehydrator cookbook will add some deliciousness to your pantry.

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Very easy to use, this book will change your life!

Perfect for any dehydrator or drying project!!
Gives you the temps for everything from meat to jerky to herbs, vegetables, fruits, and even how to put together seasonings and dehydrated soups!!
Very easy to use.
70 people found this helpful
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Exotic recipes

If you are looking for exotic recipes and not the traditional long time favorite recipes, then this is your book. Otherwise, find another one.
58 people found this helpful
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Lacking a lot of information.

There are very few photos. I'm not sure if there was even one showing the final product. So you're left wondering if you made it properly. Also the recipes seem to be incomplete, they left me guessing how do you actually make this. For instance I looked at one of the fruit leather recipes. It did not say to pour it into a mold or anything to that equivalent. My dehydrator does not have a mold for making fruit leather. Another recipe I looked at was the goulash one. I make authentic goulash recipes from my travels to Hungary. Nowhere in the recipe did it explain how you're supposed to dehydrate something with so much liquid in it. Now I'm sure the books recipe does not have as much liquid to start. But it still left me wondering and confused after reading the recipe a couple of times. A lot of the recipes did not specify what it was talking about. For instance one recipe said to add the chili packet. But it never said what kind of chili packet. Ground chili, chili seasoning for chili beans or some homemade concoction. It didn't specify at all. So a lot of the recipes you're left guessing what is this person talking about who wrote the book.

It was nothing like the description made it out to be. So I'm returning it. I'm sure if you read the whole book from start to finish it will provide at least some good information. But it is not something that will work for me as a quick reference guide and recipe book.
33 people found this helpful
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Good intro

Bought as how to for our new dehydrater. Lots of information and recipes for the beginner.
26 people found this helpful
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Overall, very happy with this book

When I purchased my Ninja Foodie Grill, I had absolutely no idea of how to use it. This book was indispensable! It has a few yummy recipes, but the gem of the book is in the back, where it tells you times for cooking different food items using the different ways to cook with the grill. I find them very accurate.
16 people found this helpful
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Excellent Resource

A must read before you even touch that dehydrated!! Best resource. Tells you how, why, when and where when dehydrating. The who is You. This book is an excellent resource that I will continue to open through the years. It's full of useful knowledge. I cannot say how much I learned just from reading it. There's so much more to dehydrating than you think, and this book brings it all to light. It also tells you why, which is critical to learning. You'll sound like an expert to your friends. I'm serious!
15 people found this helpful
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If you like pictures.....skip this book or if looking by type of food item..... move one

Let's start that if you like pictures of the item you are dehydrating....... there are NONE. PERIOD!!!!!!
Use it like a reference book. But you will have to add your own tabs or post its. Put the book knowledge into your brain and then keep it handy. This is general info book. No long storage info in great details only other means of storing your food in general like in glass jars or use of oxygen absorbers not not in exact detail e.g. 5 cups of peas will dehydrate to 1 cup. Store in mason jar, vacuum seal, will last 5 years on a temp stable environment. Just an example. Most items here 1yr or less. The whole point to dehyrdrating is not to store for longer duration in freezer. anyway. looking for other sources.
14 people found this helpful
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HARD to read

Very confusing Cookbook. Doesn't have short simple sentences or directions. Each sentence almost, every one has a long, long explanation about if it's this or if it's that and by the time your done reading all the this and thats you forget what you were even reading about. "Very Clouded" instructions.

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10 people found this helpful
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A lot of information

Full of ideas I'd never thought of
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I don’t want a cookbook

I don’t want a cookbook or recipes. I just want a how-to dehydrate book! Can anyone recommend a good how-to book without the recipes?
9 people found this helpful