Freeze Drying and Dehydrating 101

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

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🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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0:00.0	If you've ever had that weird space food ice cream bar as a kid, this is how I first understood
0:20.8	freeze drying. That's what it is.
0:23.0	It's just an ice cream bar that's been freeze dried.
0:25.0	We're going to talk about that today,
0:26.0	but we're also going to talk about dehydrating.
0:29.0	And we have Melissa Norris back on the show,
0:31.0	author of everything worth preserving, the that is out as well as many
0:35.4	other things the world of Melissa Norris is vast so why don't we start maybe with
0:40.5	dehydrating Melissa and then upgrade into freeze drying, because dehydrating
0:45.2	is super accessible.
0:46.2	Yeah, dehydrating is very easy.
0:49.0	I mean, there's a lot that you can dehydrate without really anything.
0:52.2	You don't even need a dehydrator though they can be beneficial. So
0:55.3	dehydrating is simply you're removing the moisture from the food to a certain percentage rate to then
1:01.5	wear bacteria and mold. There's not enough moisture there for it to grow, and it just
1:06.4	makes a shelf stable, lightweight, preserved food.
1:10.4	And dehydrating is probably one of the oldest forms of food preservation right along there with fermentation.
1:17.3	Dehydrating might even be, you know, probably a little bit older quite honestly.
1:21.2	Yeah, yeah, probably I would say it probably is because you can almost discover it by accident by just leaving food out in the sun, you know?
1:28.0	So maybe that's the way that we human beings first figured it out.
1:32.0	Do you tend to go with a more manual method,
1:35.3	like a sun-dried tomatoes, hang-dried pepper
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