How to Dehydrate Tomatoes and Make Tomato Powder 

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You are so welcome! Hope you enjoy it!

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Thanks! With an upcoming cross country move and limited space regarding what I'm going to take, I'll have to see if I can manage to fit my dehydrator in. Keeping my fingers crossed! Since it's so hard to buy canning stuff, that is my priority, since it's still fairly easy to buy dehydrators.

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My apologies for the delayed response. Were you able to try it? How did it work out for you?

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I hope you do! I find dehydrating to be one of the easier things. A bit time consuming to cut everything up, and the dehydrator has to run awhile, but it's pretty hands off while running. If you have any questions, let me know!

Wow, that is a lot of tomatoes! I love the idea of adding spices to the tomato powder. I'd love to hear how this goes for you.

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katt, glad to hear you're working on getting a dehydrator! I hope to publish more videos in the new year, so stay tuned.

If you have an abundance of tomatoes, it's a great way to preserve some.

Hi Tikki, thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. Yes, you can indeed dehydrate garlic and make your own garlic powder. This is easy to do if your local Costco or other store carries large bags or tubs or peeled garlic. Otherwise, if you have the patience for it, you can buy garlic and peel it yourself. No need to chop up the garlic before dehydrating. Dehydrate until it's completely dry, then powder it in a coffee grinder. NOTE: When dehydrating garlic and onions, you might want to put the dehydrator outside or in the garage as the smell can be pretty overwhelming. After a few hours you can move the dehydrator back inside and while you may smell garlic, it will be more at the level as if you were cooking garlic, and won't knock you out. ;)

@@StockingMyPantry it didn't occur to me that the smell of dehydrating garlic would be that powerful! Thanks for the tip!

I'd advise checking your manual for your dehydrator. Some say not to use outside. I'm not sure it would make a big difference. I do know that if the environment is warm and/or dry, things dehydrate faster compared to if it's cold and/or humid.

Hi Rozanna, great question! I didn't have any problem with the skin dissolving to make paste. I think the reason is that it's not just skin, and of course it's powdered well. Interestingly enough, I've known people that have dehydrated JUST the skin and made powder from it. This was when people did something like skinned tomatoes for canning, and then dehydrated the skins.

@@StockingMyPantry Thank you so much for your reply. It eases my mind alot!!!

You're very welcome! BTW, whenever I dehydrate or can something new, I start with a small batch to see how I like it. I recommend doing that the first time you try this, so you can see if you like the results before doing a ton.

@@StockingMyPantry Thats a good idea, I'll do that first. Thank You

Hi Joe John, my apologies for the delayed response. No, they weren't rubbery after 24 hours. I'm not sure about the taste of ground peppers, because I haven't tried that. (But now I want to, lol.) The sauce made from the tomato powder had a good flavor. However, considering the huge amount of tomatoes required for the small yield, I probably wouldn't make tomato powder unless I had a huge number of tomatoes I needed to preserve.