Dehydrating Frozen Vegetables to Save Freezer Space & Money (Closed Captioned)
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- Опубликовано: 3 мар 2014
- Link to my dehydrator on Amazon: amzn.to/3u9K4Ok
You don't have to freeze frozen vegetables that you purchase at the store! In this video I show you how I dehydrate them to store for long term use.
*Towards the end I even show you how they look once they are reconstituted - just like if they'd been cooked from frozen!*
Ok, I'm jumping in.😁👍🏻
I just put some frozen peas and carrots in my American Harvest Snackmaster.
I'm still new at this, but I can see that the 'dehydrating thing' can be a bit addictive. I find myself looking around my kitchen and the grocery store....hmmm, I wonder if I can dehydrate THAT?
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I'm doing the same thing, I just dried some mushrooms and figs.
Wonder if you can do meat?
Onions, mushrooms, garlic? Guess all frozen vegs...like squash.?
This is a wonderful video…maybe 7 years old but “RIGHT ON THE MARK” maybe even more so today with the price of everything going up on a daily basis. And now with shortages everywhere including canning jars and lids…now is the time to start doing this! THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR WONDERFUL INFO 👍🙏❤️
Dehydrating tomatoes is awesome too. I run dehydrated tomatoes and spices through my spice grinder and I have instant tomato sauce.
I have no idea how you'd get tomato sauce from that? Just add water?
@@ltcajh Just add water and cook it to make a sauce, or just sprinkle it on a hamburger, burrito, whatever like a condiment. It works for other veggies too, peppers, zuccini.
Can you please pm me... W how to make the tomato sauce???? I make my own from our garden but it takes up do much room in our freezer. HELP
@@juliaset751 can you please help me w dehydrating tomatoes.?????? I make sauce from our garden tomatoes... But it takes up so much room in freezer
@@loriworkman5127 Just slice them up and dehydrate. I have the Nesco round dehydrator, but it’s too small for larger amounts from a garden crop. I will build a large one from scratch when I can. Dehydration takes almost a day for me because I use a low temperature to retain nutrients. Once things are crispy, you can store them using a vacuum sealer and oxygen absorbers. If you chop dehydrated things up before storage they take less space. I use an old steel file cabinet for storage because it’s heavy steel all sides and easy access. Just sprinkle the dehydrated veg in soups, etc. or sprinkle on a sandwich as-is.
Vacuum packing seems like a good idea after drying, if canning jars aren't a preference.
Yes!
Storage of food without electricity. It works beautifully. I have a large 1/2 gallon jar with dehydrated carrots, onions, corn, green peppers, green beans from frozen ready for stew. Thanks
Wow this is an necessity! With the current Covid 19 pandemic, we really need to know ways of storing food that will last longer without electricity and frozen food get freezer burn. This is need to know information.
Me too good shortage on it's way.
Qvc has this dehydrator on easy pay this week. They go fast.
Thank you! I’ve just started dehydrating and had no idea I could do this! I’ve ordered a jar vacuum sealer kit for mason jars and brake bleeder kit too so they can last longer on shelf. I needed more freezer space! Thank you again and God bless!
I’m an urbanite, living in suburbia and I can tell you that all of this dehydrating, canning and even freeze drying stuff is nothing I never knew anything about, until a few months ago.
I did my first batch of dehydrated fruits in my Breville Oven Air over the weekend. I now have 2 canners and I have mason jars everywhere.
I don’t have much freezer space so, as soon as I part from dehydrating fruit, I’m moving onto dehydrating vegetables and canning meat and vegetables.
A harvest fresh freeze dryer works a lot better than a dehydrator. You can vacuum seal them with a chamber vacuum sealer and you end up with a lot better product.
My grandkids do not want to eat vegies so I powdered dehydrated vegies in my food processor and simply add the powder to foods the DO eat and they don't notice the difference! And they get their vegetable intake every day.
Awesome trick!
You can add it into your baking goodies eg : Cookies , great way to hide veggies
I just did the same thing- I plan to add it to my meatloaf ( which I also add flaxseed flour). And in sauces
What happens when they are adults? Just curious I was just thinking if they don’t know they’re are eating vegetables now, when they can choose what they eat ,will they choose to eat vegetables? We need to eat healthy for life
My mother taught me to use a grinder and chop up veggies to put in meatloaf, pasta sauce and almost anything. Now my grandkids love my cooking but can't figure out why store bought or restaurant stuff doesn't taste as good.
I'm 64 ,live alone but I bought both a 22 qt pressure canner( I really wanted a smaller one but ) and a dehydrator.Them I just bought a lil vacuum sealer thing, but didn't realize, I need a Food Saver type thing to hook it up too. So guess that's next. All I need is a good farmer man to make me so veggies lol
I just got a 4 tray Excalibur at a yard sales for $7!
You got a bargain! Congratulations!
Omgosh!, SCORED!
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I see that a couple of people have asked about using dehydrated foods in an instant pot and no-one has replied to those questions. I am actually just guessing here but I think looking at the instructions and reasoning for cooking dried beans would help. The thing to remember is that dried foods, whether beans or anything else, swell up when they rehydrate. so leave room for the size and add enough liquid for the steam AND the rehydrating process. I hope this helps.
The texture is a little better to rehydrate in cold water first. Then you can throw the extra liquid in the pot
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That's a very good point!
Yes. Go for it
Can you share what the expected shelf life would be? Thank you!
If you don't have a vacuum sealer and want to seal your jar, try dry canning in the oven. I fill jars with wheat flour place in a 250 degree oven for 1 hour, have sterilized lids ready, clean jar rim, seal with lid and ring and let cool. Any eggs that may have been in the flour from insects are killed, the heated flour causes a vaccume in the jar as it cools and contracts. The flour keeps at least a year. With only one downside, it may cake together/ form clumps. Just run it through a sifter to make fluffy pancakes etc.
Can I put flour in myler bags with bay leaves?
Can you seal anything that needs a dry canning or vacuum seal in the oven? I ask bc everyone seems to be out of stock on vacuum sealers for mason lids for my food saver
Up until now I’ve only done jerky and apples in my dehydrator so I’m thinking about expanding to the frozen veggies so thanks for the tips 👍
Try watermelon! It wont make it into the jar! Way too good to pass up! Absolute natural candy!
@@willowsverge3046yummy, gotta try the watermelon... how long and what temperature
I started out with the Ron Popiel dehydrator. I dried garden veg and beef (on sale) and made terrific beef stew from it later on. I made fruit leather that my kids loved. Just use what equipment you can afford and dry whatever produce or meat products you have to hand that you cannot use up soon enough. If you're afraid of a pressure canner or can't afford a deep freezer, dehydration works great.
Loved the video. I plan to use Foodsaver jar sealers to make the dehydrated food last even longer.
Thanks for the demonstration. I just got one like yours, and am experimenting with what I can do with it. I was hoping to be able to buy vegetables cheap at our local flea/produce market and dehydrate, nutrient realize I could also take advantage of frozen sales. I am older, cannot do the lifting entailed with canning, and our apartment size sort of restricts big freezers. So knowing this, is GREAT!
note that this video was published in 2014, when she talks about 59% price rise in the past 4 years.
I do mine on the living foods/herbs setting at 105 with my Excalibur. Takes a bit longer, but it helps retain more vitamins and nutrients I have heard with the lower heat setting 🙂 If I'm doing apples, bananas or potatoes I slice them thinner than before so they dry faster with the lower setting and all the way through for sure. It has been working pretty good. Awesome video! I'm going to buy in bulk some frozen veggies and do this 💯
I have pet rats and I feed them veggies nearly every day. This takes a lotta money and freezer space. I never thought about buying in bulk and dehydrating! Also, I wouldn't even have to really rehydrate them, considering the rats would crunch on em dry just fine.
Also, I never thought about just straight up eating dehydrated corn! That sounds so tasty!
What a great treat for the ratties! Have a mouse and am looking for a way to expand my food storage.
Lady Day? You are spot on. I've been dehydrating for years but never have done frozen veggies until this morning. I do lots of carrots, onions and garlic on their own but am so glad for this video on frozen.
This is wonderful and much cheaper than buying dehydrated foods in cans👍🏽!
I love dehydrating !!!! I have 9 trays of fresh basil in my machine.
Bought my middle of the road dehydrator a couple of weeks ago, have done tomatoes and apple rings so far but tomorrow I’m doing this! I’ve been noticing food prices creep up during lockdown and next week we have the double whammy of Brexit which is going to be horrendous. All this canning and dehydrating will really help. Great video, thanks from across the Pond!
Food prices will continue to go up in next year nothing to do with lockdowns keep prepping folk🙏
Brilliant. Im doing this with all those veggies taking up my precious freezer space. Thank you so much.
I’m just amazed. I have a food dehydrator- It’s never been used! It will be getting some use now, thanks to your thoughtful and informative videos.... Thank you.
Southern Plate Made these and LOVE them. A little piece of crusty bread, a bit of olive oil, the slices of dehydrated tomatoes, a bit of the capers that I’m storing the dehydrated mushrooms in and a slice of bocconcini mozarella~delicious.... Thank you!!!
I love using my dehydrator for so many things! Great idea to buy the frozen veggies and dry them to save freezer space.
Thank you for your inspiration. Especially during this time. And I noticed the prices in our country have increased, a lot-lot..
Would love more video's on Dehydrating food and storing food. Thanks so much
A friend years ago gave me one of the round ones. I've gotten so much use out of it. I like making garlic powder.
How do you remove the smell from the garlic afterwards?
I bought that same dehydrator for my Christmas present as well! I love it!
Christy this is an amazing idea! I did not know you could do this! I am gonna get a dehydrator ASAP! Thanks so much for this video!
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This is so awesome, I just got into dehydrating because of our current world situation and thankful to you for this video.
Same with me. I fear world food shortages because things are crazy now. Today was my first day dehydrating. I'm going to dehydrate all that I can from my freezer, so even electricity goes I'm okay.
So glad I found your video, I have been wondering if I could dehydrate frozen veggies. Thank you so much for the great information.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge on the topic of food storage and dehydrating. Very informative. I just purchased a dehydrator and your videos are a great foundation.
I'm starting to dehydrated everything lately lol. Great info! My stove has a dehydrator built in and I'm so grateful 😊
That is awesome!
Love this. I just bought a dehydrator and would love more ideas about the things you can dehydrate. Thanks for video!
Go to the Excalibur web site and look at their "Recipes" section for lots of ideas on what you can do. Even if you have another brand of dehydrator, there's much info that's still relevant 6 years later.
wow!!! learn something new every day. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for the great video. I have a Nesco and love it. I haven't bought frozen veg. before in big bags but will do that for sure. It does save space for sure. Makes great gifts too. I also subscribed to your channel and looking forward in you showing us more and recipes as well.
Never thought of this! Trying!
Great idea!! Thank you so much for sharing! I'm definately going to be doing some dehydrating this weekend! Christy, I'm pretty excited to see how you do your bananas, apples and other fruits!
I love dehydrating! I do fruits and veggies. They don’t keep long in our shelf as we go though a lot of them!
grand garden, grand swing ,grand idea and grand video.
Hi you left out and a Grand Lady cheers
I figured out why mine was so loud. In shipping the trays pressed against the fan protective grate. Trays 4 and 5. I used my tools and pulled that section away from the fan. Now it's like it should sound. I was going to return it. The noise was killing me.
Good morning. Dehydrated peppers & onions are great to make western omelets. I've also dehydrated mushrooms. I recommend Tammy Gangloff's Dehydrator Cookbook. I use my Emeril oven as my dehydrater and works great! Thanks for sharing! Country Blessings!
Love doing this and filling 1/2 gallon jars of awesome veggies, and they don’t get freezer burnt!
Thank you I am going to the market today to try this. 🥰
THANK YOU!! I will start dehydrating in my Excaliber the EXACT same frozen vegetables that I get from Sam's Club. No more taking up space in my upright 25c.f. freezer, refrigerator freezer or chest freezer. It never occurred to me to dehydrate frozen vegetables. 🤯
Have just found your chanel. Great advice on dehydrating. Thank you.
I can't wait to try dehydrated corn!
Thanks for the videos. I just bought one from Lowe's Store. I'm looking forward to receiving more videos with my subscription.
This is exactly what I need to do. My freezers are full. Thank you
I cannot afford a dehydrater but use my oven with pilot light and in the summer use window screens outside with the food between..works great.
I also use my oven light to do my herbs!
@@deborahmartin2337 The oven works very well and so do window screens left out under the sun. We have been dehydrating like crazy lately. A good way to store food.
Flies will lay their egg on the food
@@Livetoeat171 they cannot get into the drying food.
How long ...w the pilot light in oven... How long outside??? Please
So glad I came across your video
Brilliant idea!
Thank you!
Just found your channel. Love what I have seen I'm just started doing this my sister gave me a small dehydrator so I'm trying to do this to save money and freezer space
Great video & information. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for closed captioning
Love your storage idea
Thank you! 😊
thank you for a great video very helpful, how would you store them after you place in the jars , just as is or like a canning water bath. at a lost to how to store
I have a round dehydrater. I found the dollar tree splatter screen fits the dehydrater. The holes in the dehydrater tray are large
That sounds like a great idea...thanks!
Excellent video! Thanks so much.
My Excalibur is being delivered tomorrow. Can’t wait! Thanks for sharing your info.
So smart! Thank you I’m going to try this
Thank you very much for sharing I plan on trying your food preservation tactic.
Thanks for the video.. I just purchased a 9 tray Excalibur 3900 in new condition for $40(fb marketplace) & can't wait to get started..My freezers are filled and your tips are helpful for a new dehydrator person!!
Terrific insights! Thanks!
I bought one just because all the shut downs. Just bought a ton of food in bulk so I dont have to worry about my kids going hungry. Thanks for showing me how to use it on frozen foods :-)
Very Inspiring!
Thank You.
Great tips! Thanks! Be safe!
Thanks for finally motivating me to get in gear and work on the food storage situation. I hate food waste and no one can afford to do that at the latest store prices and shortages. I have 'the works' to preserve food (huge freezer, large storage pantry room, Excalibur dehydrator, FoodSaver Professional vacuum sealer, and just ordered the accessories to vacuum seal jars with it too) but am finally excited to properly store foods now. That huge bag of frozen veggies into one jar - WOW! Going to start to dehydrate TODAY.
Let me know how it goes!! :)
@@Southernplate I have been so happy with what I have accomplished. The easiest thing was taking frozen veggies then dehydrating them and vacuum sealing them into jars. I've dehydrated frozen peas and corn, cubed and blanched potatoes and carrots from scratch and dehydrated then sealed them into jars, vacuum-sealed powdered milk, flour, and assorted pantry foods to make them last longer and I'm going to have to move storage things to make room for the sealed jars. Thanks again for your information.
Thanks for all the information!😊😇
Wow, thanks. Great video.
I am waiting for my Nesco to crap out so I can get an Excalibur =) I never dehydrate frozen food but you made a lot of sense, much of the time it's cheaper than fresh when you buy in bulk . thanks for the vid!
Moore2Life the pantrylovinprepper save your nesco and reserve it to dehydrate onions and garlic outdoors, away from the house. Hot peppers, too. Do not do any of that in the house.
@@kathyyoung1774 That was an excellent idea. Wish I'd thought about it before giving one away, after I got an Excalibur. Will look for an inexpensive one for that purpose, as I lug mine in and out of the house every time I dehydrate high aroma foods. Have breathing issues and simply can't do those things in the house.
Great Idea you have to dehydrate those veggies. Mine usually have freezer burn by the time I get to the end of the bag.
Cabela's have the same size dehydrator(their own brand) and it comes on sale every few weeks and is half the price of the Excaliber.
I have a small one I just got a nesco I'm so excited to do this
Hi. Thanks for sharing the different types 0f dehydrator s there are
I love dehydrating frozen vegetable!
Talk, Talk, Talk!!! Just DO it, please.
Love this vid
I got my Excalibur from someone selling it on Marketplace for $50. It’s worth every penny. I bought my old one from a thrift store for $5. It worked great till I replaced it and I gifted it to a friend. You can find really good second hand deals They are really worth it. I’m hooked to dehydrating stuff!
Love your channel. I have been wanting an Excalibur so bad! U plan to get one soon. I've got to save my pennies. I just ordered a food saver and I am so excited. I buy my meat in bulk and when it's marked down.
I'm so glad I found your channel via southern bite.
There's a brand new 2900 Excalibur selling for 117.00? on e-bay. I just got one for $130. Mine doesn't have the timer. I got my up-dated food saver at the salvation army for $12.00 after returning a moldy tray one off of e-bay and I even paid more for it!!!! Gave my 15 year old one I paid $100 for to a friend.
Thank you :), I want sure I can dehydrate frozen vegetables, you answered my questions:), definitely need room in my freezer :)
Nice thank you got you a new followers
Great idea
I can’t believe you can just put them on there frozen and go. Awesome tip.
Great idea! Saves a lot of prep and gets the desired result. For those with children, I used to get canned pineapple rings in natural juice and dehydrate them. My daughters used to call them 'pineapple lollies' (sweets).
Great idea!
I'm noticing myself doing dehydrated veggies more each year..I still can, but am finding less and less space...lol. my son built me my first pantry of shelves when we moved out here 10 years ago, since then, my husband ( now retired), has built me two more. I did have 2 of the round dehydrater, but those finally quit and I got one. .kind of like the excalibur but not as wide. 10 shelves, at our local Rual King store for a bit under 100.00. I think the name is "Chard"...I really like it.
Also you can do it the old fashioned way..in the stove...preferably 170 degree or less...I also have a sun oven I can dehydrate in but havent tried that yet...or you can do it the really old fashioned way..on a screen in a warm but yet out of the sun
Beulah Land Homestead Farm my Father in law would use screens and place them in the attic to dehydrate vegetables from the garden. Also just a thought in these hard economic times neighbors could share buy a Cadillac dehydrator , we used to do that in the very hard times in '76 and '81
i can foods. have a dehydrator and was only using it for deer jerky. until a few days ago. I've done 5# of corn and 5# of mix veggies and 5# of pepper/onion mix from the dollar tree. total of 15 bags condensed into 3 jars. love them and they look pretty on the shelf. more on the way...
Good idea!!!
Long before dehydrating interested me, I gave away an older model excaliber to an older couple, one of those things you wish you had hindsight on. I have hopes someday to have another now that I dry anything that will dry...lol. I would love to see a vid on drying pineapple, mine never seems to turn out. Thank you for the vid!!
redscynder
I know this is. SO late, but for anyone else wants to dry pineapple from frozen, quarter the chunks. 12 hours on the fruit setting on an Excalibur.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for the great video. Getting out the dehydrator tomorrow. Did you say that you don’t have to vacuum seal the jars? I can’t find a jar sealer attachment for my food saver. Seems that everyone is vacuum sealing now.
Love your backyard. Very nice video. I bought Nesco 5 tray one a month ago and experimenting a lot. You said no need to vacuum seal the bottles. How long do they lost if its not vacuum sealed? Thx for the video
i did this it works.
excellent
I love your video... I also dehydrate food I love can pineapples .
I've dehydrated out in the sun here in New Mexico, but I want to dehydrate because I have an old fridge and box freezer and I'm afraid of them breaking down in the midst of the corona virus. I have deyhydrated food, but to use organic veggies would be better. I have stockpiled veggies and fruits that I have frozen myself to it would be great to dehydrate all those bags. Thanks for the info!
Thank you
wow thank you
This is very helpful. I am trying to long term storage for a keto diet. There is nothing out there. But, this is a start. These vegetables can be used. So, thank you.
I'm keto also, and found the commercial survival food kits are mostly carbohydrates which would make me sick. Thus, I've started dehydrating ground beef and low carb vegetables. So much cheaper than commercial kits
@@irislewis4711 Is the dehydrated ground beef shelf stable if packed in mylar bags? I know most veggies are if you dehydrate them enough, but, meat I'm not so sure about. I started dehydrating my veggies, but, I plant to purchase the freeze dried meat. It is expensive, but, I know it won't go bad. Thank you for your response.
@@J_Chap Yes, ground beef becomes shelf stable. Once dehydrated, the ground beef turn into pebbles. I learned to do this in this channel (Southern Plate), and Obsessive Prepper AZ . I've only done it once since I wanted to store them in jars, but my Food Saver doesn't have the vacuum cap I need, so I used the Food Saver bags and vacuumed and sealed them. Am waiting for the caps to arrive next week so I can dehydrate a lot more ground beef. For more protein, I bought many cans of salmon and chicken breast at Costco.
Thanks for the video.
Did you blanch the fresh Bell Peppers first? Trying to determine rule of thumb as to when I should do that, but from what I hear, seems like fresh should be blanched but frozen can go straight to the dehydrator. Thoughts?