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My Cosori Dehydrator: What I Like and Dislike

Dehydrating Food with a Cosori Dehydrator

Cosori dehydrator pros & cons, photos & features, and test results dehydrating rice, potatoes, fruits, fruit leathers, stews, chili, and tomato sauce.

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Dehydrating Cantaloupe & Cantaloupe Fruit Leather

Dehydrating Cantaloupe & Cantaloupe Fruit Leather

Guide to Dehydrating Cantaloupe: How to dehydrate cantaloupe in pieces or strips. Instructions & recipes for making cantaloupe fruit leather.

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Dehydrating Watermelon & Watermelon Fruit Leather

Dehydrating Watermelon & Watermelon Fruit Leather

Dehydrating watermelon into watermelon jerky, plus tips & recipes for making watermelon fruit leather with a dehydrator. Tastes like candy with no sugar added.

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Guide to Dehydrating Potatoes: French Fries for the Trail

Guide to Dehydrating Potatoes

The Guide to Dehydrating Potatoes shows how to select, cut, cook, and dehydrate potatoes with recipes including French Fries & Gravy and Potatoes au Gratin.

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40+ Fantastic Fruit Leather Recipes | Backpacking Chef

Fruit Leather Recipe Collection from Backpacking Chef

Explore the fruit leather recipe collection from Backpacking Chef. Learn how to make fruit leather for healthy snacks or rehydrate it into fruit smoothies.

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Vegetarian Backpacking Recipes with Lentils

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Backpacking Recipes: Lentils & Vegetables, Green Lentil Stew, Red Lentil Curry, Indian Dal, and Lentil Chili. Instructions for cooking & dehydrating lentils.

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Dehydrating Rice: Safety Update (June 2023)

The recommended temperature for dehydrating cooked rice has been increased to 145° (63°C).

Rice may contain spores from a spore-forming bacterium called Bacillus cereus.

The US FDA recommends keepng hot foods, such as cooked rice, above 135°F (57°C) during the holding period between cooking and serving. This applies to the process of home dehydration of rice.

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Dehydrating Fish: 4 Ways to Cook & Dry It

Dehydrating Fish: 4 Ways to Cook & Dry It

Dehydrating fish to use in meals like fish casserole, fish-a-roni, fish stew and chowder. Recipes also include meals with dehydrated tuna, shrimp, and crab.

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How to Make Granola Bars | Backpacking Chef Recipes

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How to make granola bars with fruit and granola. These homemade granola bars are chewy. Granola bar recipes: Apple-Lemon, Banana-Pineapple, and Berry-Chocolate

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How to Make Granola | Backpacking Chef Recipes

Learn how to make granola and granola clusters

How to make granola and granola clusters. These easy granola recipes include oats, maple syrup or honey, and ground flax & sesame seeds. Bake for 25 minutes.

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