How I Dehydrate my own Food for Ultralight Camping
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
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TIPS:
1. To make rehydrating more efficient, make sure to use small chunks of food, cut down meats and veggies as small as possible, and if using beans pick smaller varieties like pinto beans and black beans rather than big kidney beans.
2. REHYDRATING: put dehydrated meal in a pot, fill only to the top of the food with water and let it soak for 30mins or more (best to do while you're setting up camp if you plan to have dinner right after). It won't be completely rehydrated but it kickstarts the process. Then boil it up and simmer until the biggest pieces of food are fully rehydrated. Add water as you go but be sure not to add too much or your meal will be very bland.
3. Some of my friend keep food-safe silica packages and put them into their dehydrated meals to be extra sure no moisture ruins your meals. I just keep mine in the freezer right up until the night before my trips just to be sure.
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My kids dehydrate pizza by leaving it in their room 😂
🤣 oh that's gold. Actually I do that too but in the fridge and then I take it camping.
Hahaha prime way to do it :P
@@CanadianSledDog that’s actually a brilliant idea!
😂😂😂
many of us know the feeling!
I dehydrate veggies and make jerky but I never thought of dehydrating complete meals like spaghetti,great idea! Thank you for sharing!
I really enjoy the addition of these types of videos on your channel! Short, informative, and fun! Also I was going to start researching how/what to dehydrate for backpacking/hiking trips so this video came at the perfect time. Enjoy your guy's new house, you both deserve it!
Haha awesome! Thanks so much for the feedback and so glad you enjoyed this! Thanks girl
I am loving !! Your new channel 😊 keep up the great videos of whatever makes you happy !! ❤
Thank you!! :)
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How long does it last?
Can I dehydrate for prepping?
Hi Alexis! I've experimented different methods of dehydrating for shelf life. If you want a meat based meal to last for say one of your longer camping trips, it's a good idea to rinse the fat from and pat dry the cooked meat then continue with the recipe. While the fat adds flavor, it also goes rancid and it doesn't lose that much flavor. Promise. Especially if the food is going to be traveling in a backpack on a warm sun beating down day. I really enjoy your content, Congratulations! Happy house building! Thank you so much for sharing glimpses of your beautiful wedding and bits of your life 🥰
Love the new videos. Your videography gets a chance to shine and it is great! Looking forward to where this goes.
YES butter & garlic makes everything better!! LOL it looked really good too!!! glad to see you got moved in too!! thanks for sharing & be safe!!
Thank you for sharing this great way to store food safely for camping trip’s! Love the channel, be safe, stay healthy, & God Bless everyone!
If you "under yeast" a bread dough, you can let it go for a lot longer and it will slowly rise (and end up tasting more complex and delicious!) - the no knead technique is done that way.
Careena that bread looked so yummy like you said butter makes everything better great video as always the new house looks amazing from yesterday's video congratulations to you and Brandon on the move in you look so happy stay safe
Hello. Wonderful videos. Hope the dog is good. We camp in Coachhouse van.
Forgot one thing... How much hot water to add then eating it later.. Besides that, great to see that it is so easy to do!!
I put that info in the description :)
@@careenaalexis Yeah, I noticed that much later. Still a good idea for a video showing the use of it .. :D
Hi Careena, I already made this dish three years ago and dehydrated it. But you should use twice the amount of herbs and spices when preparing it, perhaps adding a few pickled capers. Because after rehydrating, the spices have lost a lot of their intensity. Warm greetings from the German Eifel.
Looks absolutely delicious Careena! Can't beat dehydrating your own meals, eh 👍
100% agree by the way... butter does fix everything, haha :)
Nice program submissions Katrina... Love the Outdoors
Love this new kind of content! Will try for sure, premade portion of dehydrated food are kinda pricy in outdoor store or army surplus!
Thanks for watching! For sure, the cost of the dehydrator saves you money in the long run if you do a lot of lightweight camping trips/meals!
Your Bread looked yummy , Have never had a Dehydrated meal . I probably would grow to like it . Great Job
Just an FYI on the bread. If you have treated water "most public water" it could have high amounts of chlorine in it which will kill the yeast. I learned that while homebrewing beer. I had two batches fail to ferment and later found out my city had double dosed the water because of an issue they where having. So something to think about. Normally if its "too little" yeast it will still work just take longer to rise.
Thanks for the tip. We actually have really clean, untreated well water so I think I just messed up my yeast lol
Good morning from Minnesota USA! Great episode!
Many thanks for this video. This is a great thing to know how to do. Plus dehydrated food bought at the outdoors/sports shops is very expensive.
Screwing up the bread the first time is of course a learning experience.
You seem to be living your dream lifestyle. More power to you! 😀
Love your well worn cutting board.Lots of good information thank you.
Congrats to you both on your new home. Ty for sharing the tips on dehydrating. My wife's wants to try some meals before we head out camping for the summer. We volunteer to camp host for the USFS.
Love the Bread making, same at our house, rarely turns out the way we want. Butter always makes it better!
I like the changes to your format!
Awesome vid Careena, love the quality and style 👊
Thanks so much DJ! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Research a vacuum sealer if you do not already own one. They are life changing and money saving. Add silicone molds for soups and pasta with sauce and a large freezer. Poached chicken, taco meat, roasted turkey, bacon, shaved steak, steak, roast beef, and cooked boneless pork chops can all be portioned to fit anyone or any size family when sealed and frozen. So many other possibilities. We use ours and have saved so much money over the last decade of using it. Mom loves her soups so she prepares the veggies and vacuum seals enough for a pot of soup and freezes. One time washing and cutting for the next 3-4 pots of soup. Well worth the investment IMO.
Edit: Works really well on raw meat as well.
Pasta is a go to for me as well. I also like to do a quick risotto with basmati rice, mushroom, onion, frozen peas and condensed mushroom soup
Wish I knew the portion,and how much do you put in the bag per person,also do you add spices
Oh man yum! Probably top 3 camping meals for sure.😃🙌
Thanks. ✌🏻👊
Great ideas. Will use the parchment paper and give it a try❤❤
They say if your relationship can last through building a house it will last forever! Short but good video. I was looking at the bread and thought to myself slap some butter on that and it will be awesome, then you did. The only bad thing about the video is no Griz!
Have only made jerky for canoe trips in the past but your spaghetti looks great . Thanks for the vid .
When making bread from scratch it works best if you activate the yeast is some of the warm water and the sugar of the recipe
For a bag of spaghetti. Like u put together. How much hot water would u use to rehydrate it on your trip. Bout the only thing I have ever dehydrated was jerky and fruit roll ups
That's a really smart idea. I'll have to do this soon. Thanks again for the awesome video..!
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I dehydrate lasagna in my oven all the time. Cut it into little even bits, 170° with a wooden spoon cracking the door for about 10-12 hours. Comes back like homemade Chef Boyardee 😂
Haha amazing!!
That bread was perfect, it would make awesome French toast
Good job, more people need to be hands on
wow awesome video
Now I want spaghetti. I make a killer spaghetti too!
Spagetti & Tomato Sauce. It’s my all time favourite dried food. I can eat it for days 😂
Your bread looked really good to me.
Thanks for the video
If you're interested in trying more bread recipes I have a great brown bread recipe (is my great grandfather's recipe), and it makes about 4-5 loaves. The extra loaves freeze really well once they cool off. I will share if you'd like. Love the content especially the house building series!
Hi 3:30 your homemade bread look so good! (french viewer x)
I didn’t see all the comments to see if this was mentioned before, but if you weigh it before and after, you’ll know approx. how much water to add when re hydrating
Great video Careena! love the new vibe. Exciting to have built your own home and enjoy your space that you own. Looking forward to all of the new content!
Thanks so much!!
Nice! 👍😃✌️
Thanks for sharing you just gave me lots of ideas!! LOL
I just finished a back country paddle in Algonquin Provincial Park with 5 buddies. We ate very well but nearly broke our backs carrying food (and maybe a bevvie or two). Prior to the trip, I had tried a couple of packages of different, commercially produced dehydrated meals I picked up at Sail. I wouldn't call them awful but they weren't particularly good tasting, were quite expensive, and not nearly enough for a meal. Hence, we decided take food and prepare meals over the fire (we had a chef in the group.) Have you done a side by side comparison of a commercially produced meal compared to one of yours? If so, how does it compare? (I need to upgrade my dehydrator. I have the round type with 8 trays but it is very slow.) Thanks for your video, cheers.
Thanks for sharing
Bread looked fine
I was just rehydrating taco meat and cheese sauce. Dehydrated food is awesome for camping
Good stuff. TY!!
Great video and good ideas
Looks delicious and nutritious 🇨🇦 🇳🇿
Wowww me gustó esa deshidratador de cabelas 😃😃😃👍👍
First like comment and view done 👍 alixa...❤❤❤❤ love from India
I have a question. How long will the dehydrated foods last if you vacuum seal it. Have you tried this??Just wondering!!
Great idea thank you for sharing
Yeah there we go we have a new channel...Cooking with Alexis what do we eat for today ??
Thank you
How do you rehydrate? How much is the water to meal ratio?
Perfecto.
Enjoyed!
Thank you for this very useful video
Never seen how to dehydrate a meal before. You’ve explained it perfectly Careena. Looks super easy. You might have said but I didn’t catch how much liquid to use for one rehydrated portion?
Thanks David! I put that information in the description of the video :)
@@careenaalexis Brilliant. Definitely will be having a go👍
Got to try this Thank You.
Cool 😎
Thank you for great vlog!
What was the name of that dehydrator 😊
Awesome 👍👍
Great video Careena as always, QUESTION: how do you know how much water to add when bringing your meal back to life?
I left some tips in the description for that but basically I just add slowly as needed. There's no real science to the way I personally do it :) Thanks for watching!
@@careenaalexis thanks Careena, your the best keep those videos coming
@@careenaalexis Just watched this and was about to ask the same thing ! LOL
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I have the same problem, with my bread. Still good though.
One meal I really like is Beans and Weiners, Beenie Weenie, can this be done on a dehydrator? thanks
Question: Could you do this on a round dehydrator? The ‘hole in the middle’ type? I’ve just got the most basic dehydrator from Walmart. Works great for fruits and veggies but I’ve not tried anything like this before. Getting ready to go on my first backpacking trip and I have several severe food sensitivities so this method will be a lifesaver for me. I need to make sure my food is safe for me to eat, which means I can’t really do a lot of pre-packaged meals. Thanks for sharing.
Yes I used to do it on my old one all the time, doesn't;t matter what kind of dehydrator you have, anything that can be dehydrated will do just fine :) Thanks for watching!
Careena
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so do you just eat the dehydrated food like a snack and drink water afterwards? or do you actually rehydrate the food?
It gets rehydrated into it original format :)
Careena, great video. Would you say that one tray equals one meal for one person?
Yeah I would say that one tray's wort would be pretty close to one persons portion re-hydrated
@@careenaalexis thank you. Enjoy your camping trips this season.
You inadvertently made artisan bread.
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How do you think dried spaghetti would compare to freeze dried spaghetti?
How do you know how much water to use to re-hydrate? just curious. another good video!
Cooking Greetings from Germany from Dietmar
Have you dehydrated scrambled eggs, if so, details please.
Looks good! Can I come over?
Wish I knew your portion per person and do you add spices ?
I thought the bread looked great!I'm sure it tasted delicious.
cool
I was wondering how you did that. Didn’t know if you dehydrated or freeze dried your food.
Do you leave out the garlic on purpose?
If I dehydrate for 6 more hours than the recommended 12 MAX, do i still need to condition? Would you condition?
Maybe using these can be a new video later on , hint-hint 😋
So what do you do with it on the trail? How do you eat it?
Rehydrate it in a pot then eat it
I assumed when you go out with your dehydrated food you add water to it?
correct
garlic butter fixes everything much betterer!
I have never heard of dehydrating spaghetti. Is there another way to store, other than putting it in the freezer?
You can dehydrate just about any meal really, I stay away from dairy and eggs though. And yes I put some more info in the descriptions of the video on how to store it otherwise
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I swear every time I make bread it turns out differently… even using the same recipe and doing everything the same 🤷♀️
Hahah I definitely haven't figured it out yet :P I hear it's a real art!
@@careenaalexis if your recipe says to let your yeast foam up in warm water/milk. That is important!!!!! Lol. If it doesn’t foam up quite a bit, start again before you waste too much time lol. I’m so not a pro but that’s something I’ve noticed. Activating the yeast is critical and then you can try again
Wow, this is original. 🙄
Why so rude? Just move on gosh 🙄
Then don’t watch !