− Meat must be sliced very thinly to be dried. Partially freeze
meat for up to 1 hour. Remove and slice thinly across the grain.
Place on the drying trays
− Seafood fillets should also be thinly sliced. If needed, partially
freeze the fish first for up to 1 hour. Remove any bones, even
small ones, for best results.
− Create a great lowfat Teriyaki Chicken Jerky by thinly slicing
chicken breasts and marinating in Teriyaki sauce for 1 hour
prior to drying.
Pat dry and arrange on drying trays. When done, add crushed
red pepper, chili powder or other spices to kick up the flavor.
The dehydration process
Filling the dehydrator
NOTICE!
Risk of damage!
Liquid may infiltrate electrified parts of the device and damage
them.
− Never fill the dehydrator with liquid.
− Place fruits or vegetables on the drying trays
able to circulate properly.
− If you use food with different dehydration times, place the food with the
longest dehydration time on the bottom drying tray as the temperature
is the highest there (see Fig. C).
− To the extent possible, use the same kind of food on all drying trays.
− Place the pieces of fruit on the drying trays upright and close together.
− In general, you should place the unpeeled fruit on the drying trays with
the cutting surface up unless a recipe instructs otherwise.
− Arrange the sliced fruit on the drying trays in a scale-like pattern.
− Only arrange the vegetables on the drying trays in one layer.
− Stack the drying trays on top of one another so that the teeth on the drying
tray extend into the designated holders on the bottom of the drying trays
(see Fig. D).
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right away.
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so that the warm air is still
The dehydration process
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