[pct-l] Dehydrating Food

[Tortoise73 at charter.net (Tortoise)]

I've fried and then dried ground beef as well as made my own beef 
jerky. I keep my stock frozen in  the freezer (sometimes a couple of 
years) until I actually pack for the trip. I'm not an authority but 
keeping it frozen seems to greatly extend the life.

Aaron Doss wrote:
> Jon,
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> I think I saw you on the yahoo 2006 pct group.  We (wife and I) will
> also be thru hiking next year.
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> We are also planning on dehydrating our food, it's a daunting task. 
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> Our problems are related to 
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> 1.    The amount of food required (how much should we make)
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> 2.    Not knowing which foods will preserve for months while dehydrated.
> We plan on dehydrating over the next few months and some of the food
> will have to last until next fall if we still plan on eating it near the
> end of the hike.  I know that any foods which have any fat or oil in
> them will go rancid after a few weeks.
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> 3.    Not knowing what foods we will still enjoy.  We need to collect
> some more tried and tested recipes so we can have variety.  Any previous
> thru-hikers have any good tasty/high-energy/storable recipes? 
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> It seems that most people use cheap dehydrators and get great results.
> You should get one with a thermostat for temp control and it should also
> have a fan to circulate air, that's pretty much all you need.  We have
> two "American Harvest" units from Walmart, they work fine.
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> Aaron 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net] On Behalf Of Jon Bellmore
> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 3:11 PM
> To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
> Subject: [pct-l] Dehydrating Food
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> Greetings,
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> 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.
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> Jonathon
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