@@whosoever316 I just slice and dehydrate the oranges, break the orange off the peels and pulverize them (first in the food processor then in a coffee bean grinder), then put about a tablespoon of orange powder (and a bit of stevia because I’m a total sweet tooth), add water and stir. It’s good hot or cold. Sometime I add cinnamon too!
Thank you for not being paranoid about shelf life. The FDA site even says that store bought canned goods if properly stored last indefinitely! Home canned done properly should be the same. People throw away food the day it expires like the food has a shut off date. What a waste.
I discovered dehydrating cabbage last year and use it in minestrone along with zucchini (which tastes even better dehydrated.) I would love to hear more about the best veggies to dehydrate.
As far as the best, I think that will depend upon the person, everyone's tastes will vary. I know what I like and have videos on what I do including the one I believe I linked to in the description box on how to use dehydrated goods
Thank you so much for the detailed information in this video. It is information I have been looking for. I never know what to do with dehydrated vegetables. This summer, I am going to spend time binge watching your videos to learn more about using dehydrated foods, fermented foods, herbs for healing, and learning how to make wine, vinegar, tinctures, and so much more.
Drying the dreaded Kale and powering it is a good way to get it eaten. Powered lemon, carrots, whatever takes up even less space. I peel (with a potato peeler) carrots and zucchini, to dry them. Thats quicker to dry too.
I personally do not prefer to powder up everything and certain things need special consideration when powdering for storage as I discussed here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3nsu-hK-Mak.html I like my dried mixed greens like this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w2oeewjIKsQ.html But I will powder a few things for certain uses like I do with _some_ of my zucchini, pumpkin, and apples, but I would say pumpkin is my favorite to powder up: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w2d35tLsolE.html
Hi Heidi, it’s June 2024 I was looking for info on dehydrating limes and your channel came up. I’m so glad it did. You have given me renewed confidence that I can dehydrate anything. I love cabbage and what a wonderful way to always have some on hand for soups. Etc And when you said your red cabbage was a few years old I knew you were the right fit for me. Thank you for the tutorial. I look forward to watching more of your videos. Have a great summer. Liked and subscribed 🦋
I repeatedly use your kimchi recipe and use red cabbage. I love it. I also use cabbage to make my husband your recipe with sausage and cabbage. I have not yet tried using dehydrated cabbage but will the next time I make it. Since my precious man is Polish, I use kielbasa in the dish. He loves it and always says "Thanks Heidi for the recipe." He is one of your biggest fans. Wishing you a wonderful day and know that you are dearly appreciated. xo
You have no idea how many answers you just gave me to questions I have had for years! 🥰👏 You are just wonderful! Thank you! Look forward to watching your videos every morning!
One thing that we do is grind up the cabbage into a powder and then put it in a shaker. Makes an excellent nutritional resource. Thanks for the video. God is great.
Nice! Congrats on your first batch! It's so satisfying to make bone broth at home. Not even joking, every time one of us in my house gets sick, I start a batch of bone broth and we sip that throughout the symptoms. When it's done right, it makes you feel better almost by the time you're done sipping the first mug. If I have to fast, I'll actually do nothing but bone broth for a few days to a week.
I have a decent supply of dehydrated veggies-largely due to your teaching. They come in so handy! This week I had leftover chicken but none of the fresh veggies go make soup-all of them were in my cabinet 👏🏻👏🏻 as well as bone broth! Yummy soup!
I planted celery and boy, did it explode with all the rain we got in California. I’m cutting all but 1/4 of the stalks and it’s growing back. I’m storing some of it as fresh and dehydrating the rest and vacuum sealing them. You have been my inspiration for storing them this way😊
Love dried celery. I have grown celery in Montana. I put an empty paper milk carton over it while it grew to keep it from turning bitter. It was like the store bought celery. Nice and pale, light green.
This is my first time watching your video, but it will NOT be my last. You have enough good points about dehydrated foods to convince be that it is the way to save and store for me! I'm 68 and just learning this stuff, including gardening. Praise God from whom all of our blessings flow. Baton Rouge Louisiana is where I live! Glory to the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world!❤😊
I very much appreciate your videos. I am 71 and have very little energy but when i do, i watch your videos and would love to dehydrate and make kimchi. Thank you very very much 😊👍
We love dehydrated cabbage, I'm making egg roll in a bowl tonight for dinner and I'll be dehydrating the rest. We also use it to make coleslaw and it's Very tasty 😋🙏 Kendra
I love cabbage and enjoy dehydrating cabbage. Cabbage rehydrates well. You are appreciated Heidi. Using cloth in the dehydrator is a great idea. Thank you so much. You are an encyclopedia of information.😃
I love my dehydrated vegetables. I use them pretty much every day. Parsnip, carrots, beets, potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, celery, bok choy, zucchini, yellow squash, tomatoes. I use my $40 dehydrator as well as the hot SW sun. Note: I do not care for dehydrated green beans & just freeze or can those.
Oh, Heidi! I loved your ideas about the Ramen noodles. I had to try it! So I used some of my dehydrated cabbage and mother earths DH vegetable soup mix along with my buckwheat Ramen noodles and broth, and it was so yummy and filling! I totally have a new way of eating those Ramen noodles now! Thank you so much for your wonderful ideas! God bless you.
Thanks for these videos. Another tip for viewers: I understand you can do without O2 absorbers, but I add them and vac seal so that if the seal does decide to loosen, hopefully the O2 absorber will do its job and suck the new entered oxygen out and reseal. Also, the oxygen absorber will remove any additional oxygen you tried but were not able to remove using the vac sealer. The problem with dehydrated veggies is….. if you didn’t remove most all the moisture but thought you did and then you have them in an oxygen free location, if there are botulism spores present, they can grow and you won’t know until you eat it. Be very careful to make sure you are fully removing the water from your veggies before storing them in an oxygen free environment. You necessarily see or taste this bacteria/spores. Always be very careful with food storage.
You're making things much more difficult than they need to be. Just dry until literally brittle and vac-seal. A oxygen absorber cannot cause a re-sealing of lid to jar. It cannot.
@@elizabethjohnson475 If the vac seal method did not seal it firmly (with a strong suck on the lid) it (the O2 absorber then kicks in and can seal it most times unless there is a crack in the jar or something on the rim of the jar between the jar and the lid. Each to their own method. I also like the extra “suck” it seems to give the lid. [Very difficult to remove them if you add the oxygen absorber.]
I use my dehydrated veggies daily keeping them in my cupboard, in mason jars & have never had a problem with rehydration in the jar. Of course I live in the SW desert.
Very interesting!!!! I tend to just make sauerkraut with half a head, the other half we eat as salad or/and cooked. My cabbage never grows well, I will buy one head at a time, locally.
Heidi, I love dehydrating cabbage and been doing this for years. Love it and I am planting 90 cabbages green and red this year. Heidi, you don't use your silicone trays. I also do a lot of fermenting and love my sauerkraut. I make cabbage soup, veggi soup, in my chicken soup. I will have to try this Heidi! with the kimchi how much starter do you use? I also put cabbage in my stews too. I also rehydrate my cabbage or any dry veggies.
wow! NEW SUB! Thanks for this video, just what I was looking for and MORE. I've been neglecting the humble cabbage for years, but it has so much power to make a person feel full and well-fed, we should probably eat some every day. I love cabbage cooked in milk gravy (roux plus whole milk as the liquid), soooooo good! Dried cabbage on hand means I could have this whenever I want, and more importantly, use up the whole gallon before it turns (i live alone) 👍
Just for fun, i bought one of those pre-shredded cole slaw mixes then blanched and dehydrated it. Reconstitued the dried mix, added vinegar, sugar s&p and chopped onion which the mix didn't include. It was surprisingly good. Next time the mix is on sale im buying a bunch!
I never thought of using cloth for tray covers!!!! I feel silly now. 😂 Thank you for all your shared knowledge. I'm starting late in the game of life. I'm pretty good at it tho, my mother is actually shocked because I've refused to learn from her or be like her. I was a bad daughter. Ugh. Anyway, if not for kind people like you, I'd probably never learn!
Thank you Heidi! Your timing is impeccable! I'm making kraut today but now that it's warming up a bit, I might dehydrate some for my sis. We both love cabbage! She makes soups quite a bit so this will be perfect for her!👍Great idea! Blessings 💜
Thank you Heidi. I just planted out 15 heads of various cabbage, so I am sure this will come in handy in a few months. I really appreciate your hard work sharing with us!
I'm in southwest Ontario, and cabbage prices range all over the place from 79 cents a pound to $1.49 a pound, so yes, I dehydrate. I've done shreds, like sauerkraut, I've done cubes of various sizes. And I love the stuff. I make a lot of cabbage\sauerkraut soup (with my home cured bacon), adding the sauerkraut at the end hoping some of it's probiotic properties will be retained. We eat cabbage, or at least something from the cabbage family everyday - cabbage, bok choy, broccoli sprouts, napa, cauliflower. One of the healthiest choices you can make. I haven't tried rehydrating my cabbage shreds to make sauerkraut, but I do have a jar that has been sitting on the shelf for a while, so I just might try it. This was a very informative and entertaining show. Thank you.
I love love cabbage. My husband doesn't, and he can't deal with the smell, lol. Time to bring my dehydrator outside. I will. It's an awesome idea to have cabbage for when I want some, so dehydrate it is.😊
My husband doesn't like the smell either but I found a recipe for cooking it the oven at 350. I have always cooked it on the stovetop with some onion and bacon drippings. Now I just put everything in a cast iron pan and cover with foil. Check after about 30 minutes and cook until you get the texture you like. No cabbage smell.
Great tips Heidi/ I don't grow my own cabbage but buy it often because it's so cheap and we love it. I never thought of dehydrating it but definitely will start. Blessings, Helen
I had no idea you could dehydrate and vac-seal cabbage. I want to do that. I learned to leave the ring on vac-sealed jars because at first, if a jar lost it's seal, then the mice found and ate it. So keep the ring on.
Great idea 💡 cost effective for food prepping. I actually got a Goirmia air fry oven for $60 around the holidays. It has two trays and works great for dehydrating things and is great for when you are saving up money for a better dehydrator. Thanks for your help Heidi. I would have never thought of some of the things you come up with. Here’s a video that will help all believers so I will leave that link. Again thank you for sharing all of your helpful tips Heidi. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-djTXSesJxaU.html
Do dehydrated food kept in mason jars, need to be stored in a dark pantry away from light like other preserved foods? I am only a few months new on this path and have a lot to learn. I very much appreciate your wholesome practical yet simplicity regarding food preservation.
Thank you Heidi. Some great ideas! Could you use the liquid from rehydrating the vegetable for making soups/stews or flavored gravies? Onions are great in gravy and you can hides some other vegetables in gravy as well.
Another great video! I make kind of a hybrid between kimchi, salsa, and hot sauce creation…. Fermenting is so awesome because the amount of things you can do is endless.!!
Liquid amino - one food that does NOT agree with me, AT ALL! I tried using just a tiny amount, to acclimate my body - NOPE! My stomach goes into full revolt, almost immediately, no idea why.
@@RainCountryHomestead Good thing you wrote that, I think you were talking about it at the same time I was typing my comment, and it didn't stick with me. Now I'll remember. Thanks!
🙏🙏🙏♥️🙂👍 Thank you I love the chicken And the cabbage Pictures. I am going to build my own dehydrator this summer that will be solar power I am using a glass door. I have made some out of wood but this time I will be making it out of stainless steel. I will be putting outside my greenhouse which has a stainless steel sink and table in there. Which is great for processing
I bought a Walmart tire inflator then attached a hose on the intake side to make it work as a vacuum pump. then run it throw a brake bleeder so I can use the gauge to see the vacuum is high like you say. Works great and if you got several jars to vacuum will save your muscles. 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😅
I am so sad i did not know I could dehydrate cabbage last month when I was given more than I could store in my fridge. Four giant heads! I found someone who would take one and put one in my fridge and sadly the other two spoiled before I could use them. I have this info for the future thanks to you.
We have clothesline hanging above our wood stove the we place clean window house screens with our cabbage leaves on them, above the stove.. this takes about 24 hrs depending on how food is cut
Never thought of dehydrating cabbage. I have freeze dryers and I have freeze dried quite a dew different vegetable but never thought of cabbage. Guess what's going in next. I have sauerkraut fermenting now and I'll freeze dry some of that too. Could you tell me how to do the starter ferment also I couldn't find it. I'm glad I found this video. I'll send a link to my nephew he likes stir-fry and he's a freeze dryer also.
I really do not have any set recipe, I just make it based on what I have on hand. Here is an example I did with fish: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-guxPLaIDvQM.html
you beat me to it lol. I was going to make kimchi from dried cabbage to see how it worked. I am also going to try to make cole slaw from the shredded cabbage and kraut.
When rehydrating I would be worried about using too much water and so take out some flavour from the veg. I too am getting more into dehydrating and will soon buy a second dehydrator to cope with volume .
I am so glad I watched this video. I have two small organic cabbages in my fridge that have been there for over a week because I was going to make some more sauerkraut. I already have a batch of sauerkraut in the fridge and I’ve been dragging my feet to make more, so I am going to dehydrate it instead. Thank you for the ideas.
