dehydrating puree food
Can I dehydrate chicken cooked in water, purreed and mixed with purreed vegetables and mashed potatoes. Like a stew. Something that would be crisp like a chips then dissolve easily when eaten. All precooked. Blended then dehydrated. This is for someone that struggles with swallowing and it needs to be tender and soft. Can you mix things like that?
Best Answer
1 - Get the paste flat and very thin
Use what's available: pastry machine; wide, flat icing tip; jerky "gun"
Make sure the paste has as little water as possible when preparing, different methods will require different amounts of water
2 - Dehydrate it
Use a home dehydrator or look up home oven dehydrating articles on jerky or fruit leather
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Can you dehydrate pureed food?
It's as easy as opening a can, smearing it on a dehydrator sheet, throwing it on your dehydrator and letting it go! And bonus that this works on your home pureed pumpkin as well! Pour your can of pumpkin puree on a dehydrator sheet.What are the best foods to dehydrate?
The best foods to dehydrate include:- Fruits (home garden or store-bought)
- Vegetables (home garden or store-bought)
- Meats (Jerky, Beef, Chicken, and Fish)
- Jams/Applesauce (Fruit leather)
- Yogurt.
- Sauces (Pizza, Spaghetti, BBQ, and more)
- Herbs.
- Syrup & Honey.
Can you dehydrate baby food?
Fresh herbs and seasonings can be dehydrated to prolong their shelf life, as well as fruit and veg \u2013 plus baby purees! The foods that don't work well dehydrated are avocados, olives, butter, milk, egg and nuts.What are the disadvantages of dehydrating food?
Dehydrated foods have a higher calorie content by weight and can be high in sodium and sugars, depending on the food. In excess, these nutrients can cause weight gain and increase your risk of obesity, heart problems, and diabetes.7 BEGINNER TIPS FOR FOOD DEHYDRATING | What I Wish I Knew Before I Started Dehydrating
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Answer 2
You can just dehydrate baby food. That's what we did when taking babies canoe camping (no electricity, no ice, and jars/bottles/cans are not allowed, and even if you brought them, the weight would kill you, and partial jars can't be refrigerated.)
We own a home dehydrator and some teflex sheets for making fruit leather. We just spread a jar of pureed baby food onto the teflex and dried it. We didn't trying handing it to a baby to eat - we reconstituted it with a little boiling water and let it cool - but you could certainly try it.
I think doing this with one jar would let you know if it's a viable technique or not without investing a whole lot of effort and mental energy into the process. If you're going to be doing it for a while (because you know it works) then making the puree yourself would become a useful plan.
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