Dehydrating meat

I enjoy dehydrating ingredients that I can later use to put together protein-packed meals. I will show you how to dehydrate meat for long-term storage that you can use to make backpacking meals.

Dehydrate ground beef to preserve beef for your pantry, hiking and camping trips, without needing a pressure canner or a freeze-dryer.

Dehydrating meat prolongs its shelf life, allowing you to rehydrate it later or enjoy as a dried food. Cooked bacon works well in a dehydrator and makes a protein-packed snack, salad topping or soup ingredient. Dehydrated bacon is also a good item to pack for extended hikes or camping trips.

Society always progresses upward, right? Think again. Learning how to preserve meat without refrigeration could be invaluable once again.

Four dozen dehydrated eggs in a quart jar A few years ago I started dehydrating my extra eggs over the spring, summer, and fall. The main reason I did this was because from about November until March our chickens don't lay eggs up here in the cold north, with our short winter days. We didn't like having to eat store-bought eggs during the months our chickens got their break from laying. In the summer we gave eggs away to everyone we could push them off onto, and it seemed a shame to give…

Here's how I dehydrate chicken. How to prepare, dehydrating temperature & time, storage, and the expected shelf life.

Learn how to successfully dehydrate ground meat for backpacking and hiking meals or for future prepping needs. Dehydrating ground beef.

Wondering how to use a dehydrator for jerky? A temp of 160° works perfect for about 4 hours using lean meats, but the most important tip is to . . .

Dehydrating meats is a way of preserving used years and years ago by the Indians and other ancient peoples.

Dehydrating chicken that turns out tender is not as cut and dried as you might think. Chef Glenn shares the secrets to drying chicken so it rehydrates well.