[little wing]

wow........... well, i'm making notes here. impressed that your set up could dry them so quickly. it's certainly giving me ideas. has anyone tried drying courgettes this way??? or maybe even butternut squash.... would think drying would make it even sweeter. come winter time rehydrate the butternut squash and make a nice beef stew with lots of garlic and red wine.

[distracted]

I can see you like your food there Martin.... pretty much the same myself can't go into the winter without a good stash of dried ceps.... also got chanterelles yesterday and bilberries or blaeberries as they are known as up here.... I love free food!

I would imagine dryers will dry any food but how they rehydrate would be the question..... chanterelle mushrooms for example don't dry and rehydrate well, they go hard and lose flavour.... If in doubt give it a go

[iamgrowerman]

Very cool design there, I may have to try this myself.

Thanks for posting it!

[CaptainStoner]

nice going, like that one. might be that you need heat for anything harder to dry though - most of the bushcrafters i know who make jerky, dried veg etc (iceland mixed veg, dried) do it in the oven on a low heat. The DIY solar one martin posted would be good. Was it Vince who made a solar heater panel for an outside toilet to stop it freezing in winter? they'd work in summer up north.. his design with tubes of black painted coke cans in the solar collector, on the drier martin posted would heat goodo.

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[Ganjaman17]

I like the idea of this ive got a spare fan and filter just need to get some of them bamboo steamers or something similar, ive already got a bought food drier it does have a variable temp dial on it and a timer but it was about £50 and a it doesnt hold a great deal. I had some great success doing jerky and drying mushrooms(field blewits and normal field) i have done a few strawberries thought theyd make a nice addition to my porridge they did turn quite sharp tasting though.

[distracted]

You can get them cheap at a Chinese supermarket if you have one close... If you eat meat then maybe try the biltong recipe I posted, it is delicious:

http://www.uk420.com...howtopic=215819

[Ganjaman17]

very nice looking biltong you made there, i thought biltong and jerky were the same not sure which i made now. the closest chinese market i know of is in london china town for me altough there could be one closer i dont know of, ive been wanting to go to china town again for a while now. so maybe ive got an excuse now