Category: food dessicators
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Do you want a life time supply of high quality protein?
When you work out you need to repair your muscles for growth with quality protein. Quality protein comes from meat 🍖 but you aren’t always near a stove to cook a steak 🥩 or eggs or have refrigeration cooling for cottage cheeses, etc right? We have an answer to the problem!! Making preserved meat is…
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Dried Banana – make your own!
You may no doubt have been following all the food desiccator evolutions on this blog! We started by putting a incandescent heat lamp and a desk fan in a plastic box with some holes drilled therein for ventilation, this was revision 1. The latest unit uses a bathroom venting fan and complimentary vent plus Arlec…
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The next iteration (revision 9) for making Jerky, Biltong or Dried Fruit at home
Many folks are intimidated by the electrical aspect of making their own machine, rightly so it is a silent killer. This post is for such people. Get the fellows at the hardware store to fit a lamp holder with a plug socket as well as to the fan. All you need to do is cut…
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Do I need to use vinegar when making biltong?
Biltong can be made at home and now with IoT technology one no longer needs to have a vinegar residue on the end product.
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Variation with two fans and display (revision 8) of the Beef Jerky Maker
2 February 2020 There are many ways to make a food desiccator. My preferred way is to use my fan with heater mounted on it as, shown in this post: http://ianboake.com/index.php/2020/01/12/food-desiccator I have also made one using two microwave oven fans and a microwave oven lamp, for the heat source. This one uses the Wemos…
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Food Desiccator using Positive Thermal Coefficient heaters (revision 7)
28 December 2019 This is one of the best ways that one can start to make a difference to the planet, almost immediately!!! This is about focussing on living more sustainably. We have to eat, but we often buy much more than we can consume and throw away what begins to turn in our refrigerators.…