Fair warning, dehydrating peas smells like a teenage boy's feet after a soccer game. So you might want to do it overnight or leave the house for the first few hours while dehydrating them.
I don't consider it cheating....I call it doing it the smart way. It is sooooo much work to shell the peas from the garden. I have some done but need to do more. Thanks for sharing. Take care
What is the consistency of the peas once dried? Are they crunchy. I dehydrated for 10 hours on vegetable setting and they were chewy so I put them back in for 2 more hours a total of 12 hours at 135 veggie setting. Are they supposed to be crunchy.
Yours looks so green. Mine changed colors. Did I over dry them? I don't know how long it was on for but over night. Or is it because they aren't organic? Yours looked so good like they were freeze dried.
Yeah, if they changed to a greyish green,, you over dried them. It's a learning curve. They are still edible, they just won't be as pretty and will take a longer time to rehydrate.
Only if I'm not going to go through it during the year. I have a vacuum sealer and that is usually enough. We don't eat a ton of peas, I just throw a handful in a gallon of soup, so I'd usually go through how much I made here in a year. If you were making a lot more than that, then yes, I would use it, but I'd put it in mylar bags to protect it from the light, too, as it will degrade the color after some time has passed.
