I dehydrate, vacuum pack then freeze ahead of time. No worries there with dairy or fat going rancid. A freeze drier cost for the amount I make a year just doesn’t seem cost effective. I like the idea but….
Good article.
For guys out there that are just starting out making some diners, you can dehydrate a lot of what you eat at home for meals in the field.
Rice and pasta based diner options are a great start, cook some extra, portion and then dehydrate them. If you weigh them before and after...
How much time and effort do you like to spend cooking? You can dehydrate lots of meal components like onion, peppers, mushrooms etc and assemble in the field with proteins of choice.
Dehydrate and package my own. There's been many threads here on Rokslide discussing it.
https://rokslide.com/forums/search/10329076/?q=dehydrate&o=relevance
I was going to look into this. If I dehydrate, vacuumed seal and freeze them. And then take them out and put them in my pack for a 3 day hunt, do you think they would be ok?
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...it is basically sacrilegious to waste meat. Great hunt meal and you’d be hard pressed to hate it. In my experience liver is far better if you can eat it before ever transporting/freezing.
For those who haven’t matured enough yet to eat the liver, dehydrate slices for some high class dog treats.
Yeah. They should be. I've tossed frozen bacon and steaks into the bottom of my sleeping quilt in my pack and they have stayed frozen for a surprising length of time even in warm temps. Even longer if it gets cool out at night.
No. Make the entire recipe and dehydrate as a whole. Much better flavor and consistency. You’ll want to dehydrate most of your backpacking meals after they’ve been fully cooked, too.
Meat can vary as far as texture after you rehydrate. You’ll probably be much happier with the end product...
I've seen 2 methods of constructing DIY dehydrated meals:
1) Cook the whole meal together, then dehydrate & package
2) Cook/dehydrate the ingredients separately, then package together
Does one turn out better than the other? Are there some meals that you would do (1) and some that you would do (2)?
I want to start dehydrating my own meals. Was thinking about making a chili verde but can’t find a recipe for this. So you just dehydrate the pork from raw correct? Then separately you would dehydrate your salsa verde? I’m new to this
Two things:
1) While frozen, sliced wafer thin with a Cabelas electric slicer. Then dehydrate and it powders up very nicely without beating the daylights out of the blender.
2) The grandkid loves it. :)
I've made ground meat jerky in a dehydrator using a fruit leather tray. Basically make a large, thin sheet of jerky meat that fits the round trays, dehydrate and then cut into strips with a scissors after dried. Way easier to handle.
...for my backpack hunt but I haven't had the time to try it yet. I eat grass fed/finished ground beef from a rancher so I will attempt to dehydrate the ground beef into strips that I can eat easily and do jerky. I'll make butter patties and tallow to put in all my meals for fat. Somehow, I need...