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Re: [at-l] more dehydrating
Benjamin wrote:
>
> I keep hearing all this stuff about dehydrating and all so here is another
> question -- can you dehydrate food without an acutal dehydrator? Can you
> use your oven and how would you do so?
Yes you can, but if you get serious about it, the oven doesn't work well at
all. I've seen many people decide that they are not going to dry food any more
because an oven at low with the door cracked open turned them off to the
process. I regularly vary my drying temperature between 95 and 145 degrees.
> On a completely different note -- how bad are the bugs in Vermont and NH
> during late july and early august? DO i need to bring an extra pint of
> blood with me for the transfusions or will some simple bug repelent suffice
> by then?
Almost nonexistant - at least by Maine standards :).
-Paddler
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