She wanted pasta, shrimp, peas, butter and lemon. I had a pint and half of canned San Marzano to use up. If you don’t put red pepper flakes in something like this then you have messed up.
Did you know that frozen shrimp is just a tiny bit more money than ground beef right now?
Cost per person $4.70
I also noticed that white mushrooms can completely air dry on their own in maybe a couple days, depending. I just put them in a brown paper bag.
Probably the #1 leafy herb I’d want to dry is cilantro, but a lot of the herb is in fact stem, so go figure. I dried some successfully in my oven, once. *shrug*
I think moisture-intensive stuff like apple slices & similar absolutely need some heat to get the moisture out. I wouldn’t want to try air-drying them, because it would take a long time and there’d likely be rot / mold issues.
That’s too bad about your dehydrator. The electronics shouldn’t be too complicated AFAIK, so maybe looking online for solutions might help. I also use GPT sometimes to help diagnose a problem. It’s a crapshoot of course, but it really has helped me with a bunch of stuff.
I cant stand dehydrated cilantro. Probably a result of having lived in formally Mexico controlled territory. It needs to be fresh.
Apples definitely need heat.
I think I need a nerd to map the circuit board and find the component that’s busted. I saved a wand over all the parts and got voltage from the whole cycle. Odda are it’s a busted resister that’s still passing current.
In truth, dried cilantro turns out remarkably like hay. I guess I could try stuff like Goya’s ‘sofrito in a tube,’ but of course, that stuff’s swimming in salt.
Last time I looked in to growing cilantro in a window garden situation, I read that it needs loads of light, which I’d only be able to achieve with some kind of grow-light setup I don’t have. My big issue is of course mobility.
My problem is that it gets so hot here that it bolts before you get anything usable.