[pct-l] Dehydrating Food

[ryan_christensen at sbcglobal.net (Ryan Christensen)]

I have an important suggestion:
Before my last PCT trip I spent a couple of months
dehydrating food. The most successful was the pounds
of beef jerky. I will be looking for Humboldt County
Grass Feed beef for next year.

What did not work? The fruit. Apparently I had some
moths lay some eggs in some fruit while I was drying
it. For the next 5 months all my re-supply boxes were
full of moths.... They were able to eat their way into
most of my other packages and multiply.

The lesson: cover the fruit with cheese cloth at all
stages of the drying.

Ryan

--- Jon Bellmore <bellmore1975@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>  
> I'm going to rely on at least half of my food supply
> to come from food that I will dehydrate myself. 
> Does anyone have any suggestions for good
> dehydrating equipment?  Maybe plans for homemade
> equipment?  Thanks.
>  
> Jonathon
> 
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