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That is an excellent idea, to dehydrate. I hope you were able to do it back when prices were more reasonable. But seriously, who could imagine $7.70 for celery hearts? I just hope and pray we aren't sometime soon looking back at $7.70 as a 'good price.'
No I dd my dehydrating last summer. I by no means thing $7.50 is an appropriate price for celery! I'm just saying that dehydration can help going forward. Idk about you but inwated a bunch of celery prior to learning about dehydration. At $ 7.50 I'm not willing to have limp celery when incan dehydrate and save it. Of course I still have to buy celery for fresh when I don't have any in my garden. Dehydration is a good tool to combat high prices.
Thanks. That's what I thought. Do you have a particular dehydrator that you recommend? I know some are essentially just plastic trays with holes, stacked on top of each other. But I think there are also electric dehydrators that are probably far more expensive. Maybe you could give me some hints as to the best type?
No, I'm sorry I can't. My ancient dehydrator is a Ronco or something. I don't even know the brand. It was a garage sale special I bought probably 25 years ago. Now that's old! Oh and yes, mine is electric. I can't image what features you might need to spend a great deal of money on. Basic entry level should be fine. I would make sure to get a solid tray that holds liquid so you can make things like fruit leather, or powders if you want. I make a tomato powder that I use like tomato paste by just dehydrating tomatoe slices then grinding them in my food processor. Works great! One irritating thing with mine is that I have to manually rotate my trays bottom to top about once an hour or so because otherwise the bottom tray finishes before those above it, the second from the bottom finishes next and so on. I would also get a tight screen because things tend to fall through the grid on mine. Sometimes I wish my trays were square but that honestly doesn't matter. I do occasionally use my oven on the lowest possible settings though so you have that option anytime too. I like doing that for jerky. The trick isn't just the dehydrating but also rehydrating them. It takes some practice. I find boiling water works better than say room temp or cold. Check out videos on food preservation and I'm sure you'll be able to find a reasonable priced machine that fits your needs.
Best wishes fren!
Thank you so much!