Excellent info! Thank you!!! So you just put the whole veggies in your dehydrator? I didn't blanch anything, and most of it is inedible. There must be some types of veggies I don't have to blanch though. I can't, for instance, blanch tomato slices. Do you blanch the cherry tomatoes? I have so many questions now!!!
Hey, hivegarden community is adding a prize for best prepper advice to their monthly garden journal contest. I'd love to see you posting for that one. Should I tag you when the contest comes out, on the first of every month, give or take a day? We need more preppers posting with us, if you ask me.
Tomatoes are a fruit, not a vegetable, so they don't need blanching. Short immersion in boiling water (blanching) stops the enzymes on the vegetables, so they don't continue to process the food. Corn and beans are the worst.
https://www.thespruceeats.com/blanching-vegetables-before-freezing-1327660
https://extension.umn.edu/preserving-and-preparing/vegetable-blanching-directions-and-times-home-freezer-storage
Here's a couple of links on blanching...pay attention to the rapid cooling after the boiling water! It says that steam can be used for blanching, I hadn't considered that; so I learned some blanching information today myself.
I agree on the need for prepping posts, knowledge is survival. Let me know, but it's hard to do a good post on 'schedule'; but I'll make the attempt!
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