[pct-l] Dehydrating Food

[AaronD at Cadwell.com (Aaron Doss)]

Did you find that eating beef jerky for months is hard on your
teeth/gums?  I like jerky but after a week or two of eating it my gums
get too sore.  Do other people have this problem or am I just weird?

I read in some dehydrating book that you should pasteurize your fruit
after dehydrating by bagging it putting it in your freezer for a week.
This supposedly kills any eggs.  I plan on doing this for any food which
might be exposed to bugs.



-----Original Message-----
From: pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net
[mailto:pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net] On Behalf Of Ryan
Christensen
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 4:50 PM
To: Jon Bellmore; pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Dehydrating Food

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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