Do you dehydrate your food? If not, you many want to reconsider doing so. The dehydrating of food has been going on since the beginning of time and has been a great safety net against the unpredictability of food availability throughout the world. In the past the basic method of drying your food came about one of three ways. First through the use of salt or also known as salting, you could preserve your meats for extended periods of time. The salt has the ability to draw moisture out of food, thus preventing bacteria from forming and decay setting in. The second method is known as smoking your food. Basically raw meats would be placed over pits or in smoke houses and would then be slowly cooked until almost all of the moisture was baked out of the food. Jerky would be a great example of smoking your food. Lastly there is the solar method of drying your foods. Simply stated you would slice your food into thin pieces and place it in a location that would allow the rays of the sun to slowly evaporate the moisture from the food.....(read the full article here)...
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