Prepper's Dehydrator Handbook

Book excerpt: Tips, tricks, and techniques for preparing shelf-stable foods in your dehydrator—from the founder of PreparednessMama. Instead of relying on preservative-filled packaged goods, fill your prepper stockpile with the tastier, healthy alternative—dehydrated foods. Whether you grew it, butchered it or purchased it fresh, it’s going to be more delicious and more nutritious if you personally preserve it in your own dehydrator. Packed with everything you need to know about this power method for creating shelf-stable foods, Prepper’s Dehydrator Handbook includes: Tips for locking in produce’s natural flavor Seasoning recipes for delicious jerkies Drying techniques for delicate herbs Tricks for working in bulk to keep costs down Crucial advice on how to prevent spoilage “Everything you need to know about getting started dehydrating and building up your food supply is in this book. Solar drying, oven drying, dehydrator drying and microwave drying are all covered.” —Country Living in Cariboo Valley “This book will be a very important book in my cookbook collection as well as a great reference book for my food storage. I found this to be one of the most complete books on dehydrating that I have seen or owned. I think you will find this to be a very important part of your food storage books too.” —Living Life in Rural Iowa