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Today you're going to learn how to dehydrate food ~ Safely! It's not just about fruits and vegetables, see how easy it is to dehydrate cooked meats too! Learn what temperature setting is necessary for meat - and mushrooms! After dehydrating, what you do next is vacuum-seal it to store it for safe long-term food storage.

Click on any of the FRUIT, VEGGIES, or COOKED MEATS images above. On those pages, you'll find specific information related to the fruit, vegetable, or meat you want to dehydrate.

Make Your Own Raisins and Zucchini Chips!

Want to make your own plump, tasty raisins? It's easy, just visit 'grapes.'

How about making zucchini chips? Yep, you guessed it... visit the 'zucchini' page!

Get started today and amaze yourself (and your friends!) with your food dehydrating skills. Create bags of dehydrated foods for backpacking and snacking.

Don't forget to pick up a free copy of my "How to Grow & Dehydrate Herbs" by clicking the link. Simply enter your email address, and in return, you'll receive an important email that takes you to my safe download page!

"How to Grow and Dehydrate Herbs" is a gift from me to you as a way of saying "thanks" for visiting Easy Food Dehydrating today.

Got How to Dehydrate Food Questions?

Do you have a question about how to dehydrate food? I've got your answer. Drop me an email here then continue reading all about my top picks of fruit, vegetables, and meat - and seafood - so you can learn how to dehydrate them safely.

See how easy it is to dehydrate nuts and seeds, too!

Learn the best way to store them all in bags, bins, and buckets!

Is It Just Me? Or is this FUN to Watch!!!

 Watch apples to zucchini dehydrate before your very eyes... Amazing!

Dehydrate Frozen Foods Too!

At Easy Food Dehydrating, I'll show you how to dehydrate frozen foods too. When fresh isn't available seasonally, buy it frozen when it's on sale at your grocery store.

Grab bags of frozen peas and corn—onions too! 

Frozen foods are great—you'll be able to skip step two of the six dehydrating steps—by buying frozen. Some foods need blanching prior to dehydrating. The food manufacturers have already done this step prior to freezing!

Yeah, Susan, but WHY Dehydrate Frozen Food?

OK, so you want to know why would you want to dehydrate frozen food? Aren't they already suitably packaged for long-term storage? Great question... and the answer is in a nutshell: frozen foods thaw when the power goes out, unfortunately.

When you have dried goods stored properly, you don't have to worry about the power going out for extended periods!

Food Dehydrating for Long Term Food Storage

Dehydrate food instead of throwing it down the disposal because you "forgot about it" in the bottom drawer of the refrigerator—or because you had too much left over at the end of the season!

Both are perfectly good reasons to dehydrate food. Use it up to make healthy hiking food and picnic treats.

And for preppers with survival food in mind: all you need to know about food storage containers. Store your dehydrated food safely in Mason jars for daily/weekly use, or vacuum-seal dehydrated food in bags for safe long-term storage. Here's a list of things to read:

Create Storage Space Out of Thin Air!

So you've dehydrated a bunch of food. Where the heck do you put it? I'll show you how to create enough storage space for years' worth of dehydrated food. Perfect for lidded bins and buckets; canned goods too!

click to see
what's BEHIND
the curtain...
plus see how to make better use
of an under-used closet.
I'll show you how!

click to see what's BEHIND the curtain...
plus see how to make better use of an under-used closet.
I'll show you how!

How to Dehydrate Food - Udemy Online Course

Here's Susan's Food Dehydrating Made Easy
Udemy Course online!

From my classic 3-hour course (featured in the video, above) to my timesaving 1-hour course (shown below on the right with blue background), you will learn the ins and outs of dehydrating food safely at home. Both are available on Udemy:

Food Dehydrating Made Easy

classic 3-hour Udemy course.
You'll learn all you need to know about food dehydrating
—and then some!

Food Dehydrating ~ 101

Short on time?
Need to get going right now?
Choose my 1-hour Udemy course.
It's time well spent.

Did you know? You get LIFETIME access to all Udemy courses!

OUT NOW--> Easy Food Dehydrating Audio Book

The audio book is available here:
Easy Food Dehydrating and Safe Food Storage!

Listen and learn at your leisure.

Make Your Own Dog Food! Learn HOW Here...

... And Feed
Your Dog the
Best Meal Ever Tomorrow!

Make your dog a happier dog! ;-)  Feed your best buddy my nutritious and delicious homemade Chicken Chow Chow, or Bow Wow Beefy Chow. It's lip-smacking good. Woof Woof!

Susan Gast began Easy Food Dehydrating in December 2010. Read Susan's story of what sparked her interest in all things related to "food dehydrating."

She is featured on Mother Earth News blog, and on Solo Build It (SBI) who host this site. Read her first SBI interview, and her second SBI interview.

Since 1980, Susan's involvement in publishing - in one form or another - led her to create a "review site" of products related to the publishing industry. Visit ePubTechReviews today, also hosted by Solo Build It. Susan also runs her namesake site SusanGast.com on Solo Build It that showcases the books she has written since 2010.

Do you want to send Susan a quick message? Visit her contact page here. She'd love to hear from you!

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