Friday, February 28, 2020

Food Flip - a Kitchen Shortcut

My husband and I teamed up in the kitchen yet again, this time to cure some beef jerky. I did all the knife work for starters while he made the marinade, then together we laid out the pieces on our dehydrator. After drying for several hours, it was baked a short time for food safety. He removed the two baking trays and found the meat too hot to lay out for the excess grease to drain.

Lime and liquid smoke infused, this tastes better than it looks.
Since our friend Phoenix arrived with his computer, I took over that final step. And at this point I discovered a new trick, preferable over painstakingly placing each individual piece. I placed paper towels on top.

Probably used more than I needed. Heh...
I patted them down well.

All tucked in...

Next comes foil...

Almost done.

Over that I inverted a clean baking sheet. Holding the trays together with a firm grip, I flipped them both over.


Sorry for the glare...
This is likely something other folks already knew from either personal experience or perhaps some cooking show, but I was tickled by my discover.

Do you own a dehydrator? Are you familiar with the many foods this process helps preserve?



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10 comments:

  1. That is a clever trick. I don't own a dehydrator, nor do I have need of one. Alton Brown on Good Eats did an episode where he "created" one with a box fan and some air filters, if memory serves. Probably easier to use the gadget if you do it enough.

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  2. Good idea. The jerky looks good. I have a dehydrator, but it is a cheap one that I can only dry herbs in.

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    1. But that's awesome. ~grin~ That saves lots of money.

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  3. No dehydrator, but I often oven dry fruits or vegees, at lowest setting for hours. Have you ever made pemmican? I used to make it before going to Alaska. It's an old Indian way to carry food that lasts forever and in its basic form is just rendered fat and dried meat, usually buffalo or beef, dried to a powder and mixed into the rendered fat, usually bacon fat nowadays, equal parts. Some people now make vegan pemmican I hear, with coconut oil and nut powder and dried powdered berries. High calorie stuff that lasts forever.

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    2. Pemmican is not something we've tried but should. Thanks for the tip!

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  4. Dad wanted me to ask you to send him some of that jerky, though he says mom would not allow it. He knows that trick well from many years in the foodservice industry. Hope that tastes good!

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    1. Awww... I feel bad for him, though your humans will probably outlive Jezebel's mom and dad. ~shakes head~ Be well!

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  5. No I do not have one of those...I am not sure I would even use one if I had one.

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