This is a concise, high-powered, no fluff, no stuttering around hemming and hawing, tutorial, chock full of all pertinent info and nothing else, and as a busy person, *I appreciate that!* When I come online looking for instructions that's all I'm looking for, not hanging out listening to all sorts of extraneous small-talk. Thank you so much for your valuable input!

@flatcat101

Жыл бұрын

Goodness yes!

One thing I learned by doing was, if you put the shredded zucchini in a strainer inside a bowl, and put in the fridge for a day or two, it will strain out a lot of the water, thus shorter time in the dehydrator.

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

But you lose a lot more nutrients that way unless you are reusing that liquid elsewhere.

@beautifuldreamer3991

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@deborahcornett3071

Жыл бұрын

I don't have a dehydrator

@cherylreid2964

Жыл бұрын

@@deborahcornett3071 Google it for instructions and use your oven🙌

@kathleenmcgrady682

Жыл бұрын

L pop

Not only in this video, but most of your videos you make it a point to be inclusive. 40 years ago, just starting out I didn't have what most people consider basics today. My holiday gifts were homemade cookies, all mixed with a wooden spoon. Many of the trending things of today, were things done out of necessity in years past and were looked down upon. Everyone deserves to be included. Thank you for your thoughtful intentions. They don't go unnoticed.

Wish I had known about this back in my teens when I was a celiac to wheat & grain related to wheat mon grew LOTS of zucchini! Wheat free ground flours are expendsive

I do this with my black carrots, pumpkin too. I made a pumpkin pie using pumpkin powder that turned out fabulous.

@swanhill772

Жыл бұрын

That’s awesome. I’d love to see something about making pumpkin powder.

I just ordered your spiral book - the basics and journal. I have been dehydrating for years, but I always learn new things from you and can’t wait to get our book!

Very thorough so thanks for taking the time to do this and share. Never thought about the Zucchini flour so now I know 😊

If you really want those flours to store a lot longer, store them in mason jars and vacuum seal them with a Foodsaver or other vacuum sealing device. I made cinnamon apple chips 2 years ago and stored them this way. We just opened them and they are as crisp as the day I processed them.

@CherylLynnColwell

Жыл бұрын

Once you open the jar to use, can you start counting 1-2 years?

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

As always - your mileage may vary :)

@uriahthehittite2148

Жыл бұрын

The apple chips....... Also try carob powder on then. 😶‍🌫️

My cat is so interested in my cell phone, I told him it was your cat that was making the noise. He still thinks there’s a cat somewhere in the cell phone, and it’s so funny to watch him try to find that missing cat!

Game changer for gluten free and low carb diets. Love how you speed it up and show conversion amounts for wet to dry. I'm thinking freeze dried would be similar.

We have a boat load of zucchini here, I'm going to have to make some of this flour. Thank you.

Hahahahaha..."These zucchini gave their lives for this"!

Thank you so very much for this post. I am excited to try this.

Hi Darcy, I have been following your channel for a few months now and have learned so much, but have been wanting more as I am so unorganized in my prepping. The small room off of my kitchen that we turned into a pantry (our kitchen is very small) is just a mess and has become more of a catch-all room than what it is intended to be and I am desperate to fix that. I received my first dehydrator as a gift from my family about four years ago (a 4-tray Excalibur) and very soon realized that 4 trays was just not going to be enough. Because I was saving to purchase an All-American Pressure cooker at the time, I had to place the larger dehydrator on my wish list. Then I got very lucky and the All-American went on sale and I jumped at the chance and spent the next few months teaching myself how to pressure can with the help of several wonderful ladies on KZread. I have canned some really delicious things and some very interesting things, some of which were utter failures, usually due to something I did wrong (like wrong timing) like the time I canned 4 large canners full of quart jars of green beans for 90 minutes and turned them into mush. Then last year my grandchildren and sons gifted me enough in gift cards that I was finally able to purchase a larger nine-tray Excalibur dehydrator. Now along with my little 4-tray, I have a total of 13 trays to dehydrate with. I am slowly learning all the different things I can dehydrate, like the previously mentioned green bean failure that I recently dehydrated and turned into powder. Now we are using the powder as a sprinkle topping for our dogs' food (never let food go to waste, even overcooked green beans...lol). Today I purchased both your "Beginner's Dehydrating Toolbox," & your "30-Day Pantry Challenge" EBooks, and can't wait to look through them. Thank you so much for all the knowledge you have so graciously shared and taught to so many, you are truly a Godsend to all of us. Blessings to you always

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

I feel your pain with the organization. We have no pantry other than a converted coat closet, so have things under the beds, behind the couch, tucked into the bottom of closets, etc. ((HUGS)) You'll get there!!

You are brilliant. I am sooooo happy I stumbled onto your page!! Tysm for posting...Looking forward to looking at many more of your posts. All the best to you.

perfect! thank you. never would of thought to make Zucchini flour!!!

Thank you for all you share with us😊

Holy moly. Terrific! Frugal and nutritious.

I love your channel, very useful!!

I will be drying on trays in the barn attic then using a mortar and pestle to grind it coarsely. That way I am well practiced for grid down.

This is exactly what I was looking for. I'm dehydrating zucchini for the first time this year and wanted more ideas on how to use it. I do wish I'd seen this before I bought my dehydrator, I might have gotten the consori. But I'm so glad to see this. Now to go watch some more of your videos.

B vitamins are water-soluble! Yes, use the liquid too!

Great idea about the plastic on top of the blender, thanks!

Great idea! Thanks so much for sharing your testing and work. Now I need to get busy dehydrating, making flour and trying recipes. I am excited to see exactly how you use this!

Such an excellent tip about putting the amount you need for a recipe on one tray to be able to measure after dehydrated. Thank you.

Very informative. Wow, saves so much space!

I am going to do this next weekend. Thanks for the instructional video.

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Hi I just ordered 2 of your basic dehydrating books ,I enjoy watching your videos there very down to earth iv only ever dehydrated apples and oranges and kale now I'm doing alot more ,I need to thank you it's rather enjoyable when you get to the end results, I even invests in a grain slash dehydrated food mill I love it and a manual pump canning jar sealure,

What a great tip, to use a paintbrush to get all of the flour.

Darci you rock girl. I’m thrilled you have a book out in dehydrating. The advantage of having your books will be that I’ll have your hard-earned advice and information as well as your videos to refer to. In the real world it means I can watch the videos without being worried whether I wrote everything down and focus on your tips because things always come up as we talk. Seems to be a human trait. I’ll be ordering at next payday. Thanks kindly. Your videos are wonderful. Prayers and blessings🤗🙏🙏🙏

I've done the same thing using our freezer dryer. I used a half cup in my bread recipe with great results. Thanks for the video.

Awesome idea!

Thank you!! I found a nine tray dehydrator at an estate sale yesterday, and have some zucchini here, going to try it!

@kathykapsner3897

Жыл бұрын

Lucky!

I loved this video!

This video was great. Thank you. Cute kitty 😺 💖

Great idea, thank you! Subscribed!

This has been enlightening. I had 0 idea to make zucchini flour! 😊 personally I never wring out my zucchini + i add more miosture like greek yougurt or applesauce to use as my liquid.

Great job!!!!

Happy New Year! & Thanks!

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

Happy new year!

Great ideas. Thanks.

On the vitamix, put a coffee filter under the lid; it will stop the veggie dust from pouring out, and you can open the lid immediately. Learned this from another site, that learned it from another.

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

If you want - as I said, I think it's a waste ;) give it 40 seconds and it doesn't matter.

@darlenej9393

Жыл бұрын

I like this idea. As an herbalist I am always grinding powdery stuff and usually throw a damp rag over the top to catch what escapes through. I didn't love the plastic idea, but hmmm, a coffee filter. I will try this. THX😁

Another great video, thanks!

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

Thanks again!

I make powder from yellow summer squash also.

See ALL th eways to dehydrate zucchini here>> www.thepurposefulpantry.com/ways-to-dehydrate-zucchini/ And get the muffin recipe here>> www.thepurposefulpantry.com/double-chocolate-zucchini-muffins/ AND GET THE NEW DEHYDRATING BASICS & JOURNAL HERE: shop.thepurposefulpantry.com/

Supers goals super goals!

I'm gluten free and use guar gum to put the consistency of gluten in my flours and it works well, usually I find half a teaspoon to a cup of flour, but you can play around until you get baking that has the stretch and doesn't crumble.

@msimpson2779

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

I never know what to do with Zucchini & I do not use white flour. Thank you for the Great information. 😊

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

This doesn't replace flour. It is a supplement for it, not fully replacement

Such a healthier choice that using white flour,I've made different things with my abundance of zucchini but never flour,this is something I will be trying out with my fall crop this year so thank you for that.

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

This doesn't do a 100% replacement for flour as I mentioned - it's a supplemental replacement.

The muffins look yummy :-) Thanks for all the great tips about Zucchini "flour". :-)

Great ! Very helpful video. I have Zucchini coming out my ears right now.

We are in a heat wave in California. Sacramento (45 min from me) just broke the record of 116°, so it’s HOT. 🥵 I bought an outside hanger that has 7 zip-open slots and it’s screen material for hang-drying outside. I’m going to give this a try tomorrow. Thanks for sharing.

@joylouise5417

Жыл бұрын

My daughter gave me one of those for Christmas. Sounds silly but it’s true-herbs dry faster here in Texas in that mesh dryer than in my electric dehydrator. It is so wonderful! Hope you enjoy it as much as I do mine.

@kerribarrientos8902

Жыл бұрын

@@joylouise5417 Can you give further info on this mesh drying used outdoors that daughter bought somewhere for your Christmas. LIKE makers brand name..some thing to Google. Trying to visualize. Appreciate and thankyou for input taking zucchini flour subject matter to another level for me.

@Julzsavedandsetapart

Жыл бұрын

An older man made a video about taking old screens and sun drying his vegetables. So im certain that back in the day when there wasn't electricity, they smoked them dry or sun dried them

Great video

I did a late plant of zucchini (and I've never grown them b4), so I haven't had even 1 from the garden yet, but this is great for when I have our harvest :). I'm going to check out your zucchini chips too :). Since I worked for Vitamix for 8 years b4 quarantine, I love that you used yours to do this...and no, you don't have to have a dry blade, especially for zucchini flour. What you will find is that if you run the machine the 2-3 minutes that you did, the flour will heat up (as usual). Not only do you need to let the flour settle, but it needs to cool as well. If it's still warm or hot when you move to a jar, you will get moisture and mold inside. Wish I would have had this great tip to pass along when I was demonstrating. Keep up the great work! (btw, Vitamix makes a blade scraper that you can use on all blenders as well, and it helps get under those blades since they don't come out :) ). Smile and have a blessed day!

As a time saver, you can cut them into disks for dehydration. Takes no time at all and you end up little zucchini chips which can be ground easily. Just a thought

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

Then they aren't useful to me other ways - which is why I shred most because I can have all that storage all year for how I use zucchini. I rarely use disks for anything other than quick snacking. Flour I do as I need it because it stores best as whole as possible - and shreds are most useful to me.

@FishmanEricRussell

Жыл бұрын

@@ThePurposefulPantry The discs do take up more room for sure. Thanks for the reply!

@janiceburns6386

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for letting me know you can do disc. My dehydrator is old and “weird” shaped and can’t use sheets.

Show us Zoë! We need to see who those little meeews are coming from! Seriously though, thanks so much for providing so much information on dry preserving zucchine! Subbed!

Love the cat contributions ❤️. They want what they want when the want it, don't they lol. Thanks for the helpful video. Never thought to try zucchini flour in noodles. Gonna have to try that one day. Thanks!

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

Yes they do

@debbieriebsomer8611

Жыл бұрын

God love them! ❤

I have was a ninja shredder. It is a manual one that vacuum seals to counter and you have 3 cylinder blades to put in. Coarse, fine, and slicer blade. It would take jyst a few seconds to get thru. It also has a pusher so no scraped fingers

If you are wanting flour that is less green you can peel it first and then grate. The peels can be given to chickens or pigs if you have them; go into your compost pile or be fed to soldier flies or if in an apartment can even be given to your guinea pig. This can make it more palatable if using for flour replacement.

Thank you for using a regular grater...

Wow! Very culinary creative. Just wonder if anyone has used this dehydrated zuc-flour along with almond flour in any recipes and if so, how that worked. Thanks for your very helpful video.

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

I don't use it with almond flour, but it works well - the video at the end shows you one way I use it.

Thanks, caught a 99cent a pound sale so this will help so much. I don't like it so much as a straight vegetable. I, am looking forward to making some lower calorie fudge brownies with some of this produce.

Good idea & great tip on measuring.

Blessings

Well there you go. Thank you

Thank you for this very informative video, best wishes from Austria.

I'm using the electricity while I have it...til they shut the grid down. Then it woulf be the time when sit by candlelight & use a cheesegrater Without power we arecan dry them in the sun. Thank you for great video!

There are Keto recipes that utilize shredded zucchini, eggs, and mozzarella cheese to make tortillas. I bet with a bit of tinkering, there is a way to make that powder function as flour for Keto tortillas...come on Summer! Bring in the zucchini!!!

2:16 lol!

Very good video. I have to do stealth veggie cooking around my house. This flour would fit the bill. PS my poor cat is still looking around trying to find your cat that she heard in your video. Haha

I have a food processer and I think it is more work to clean it than to just do it by hand. I don't like having multiple things to clean up. LOL!

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

Yep - it has to be a pretty big job for me to pull it all out. And since I was doing days and days of this, it wasn't worth it.

great

Just wondered if you tried this in making cornbread? Seems a good match.

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

No - but you could and get back to let us know how it went!

I'm a beginner on dehydrating veggies. Is there any special treatment or technique you use to storing the dried material in the glass ball jars to avoid mold? What is the shelf life? Thanks so much for your video!

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

Here you go: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gqODy7GjisS_oMY.html

Great video Darcy, thank you. When you're rehydrating, do you use cold, warm or hot water. Does it make a difference?

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

Whatever works for you in the time frame you have: kzread.info/dash/bejne/i4FpuceHYsyXd7A.html

Good info ..sadly my sus aren't producing this year

Thank you , a replacement for wheat flour !! ❤

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

This doesn't replace the flour - this is a supplemental replacement - not a 1:1

Love the little Magnet with dehydrate time/temp on it. You don’t have it listed in your store. Do you know where I can get one?

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

It's in my store .. shop.thepurposefulpantry.com/products/dehydrator-temperature-guide-refrigerator-magnet

How about freezing shredded zucchini then thaw in strainer. The liquid seems to separate. Then dry? Haven't done. Just speculating

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

Do whatever works for you

you could mix it with flour to make pasta

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

Yes - and I did mention that and how the equation doesn't work exactly the same.

HI can any vegetable be used to make a vegetable powder for cooking? if so could you do a video on this please... as plant based eater most vegetable powders here in Australia are full of additives and crap.

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

Not to be used to be an supplemental flour replacement like zucchini (but all summer squash will work), but as a general vegetable powder that can be used in anything, yes, any veg will work

Are you using the vitamin special blender for powders or the regular one?

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

Just the regular. I have the most basic of Vitamix.

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argh....wish I woulda seen this video before I've given away all my excess zucchini...for weeks...argh.....

@Spangletiger

Жыл бұрын

Just think of how many meals were possible because of your generosity. 👍🏻

Does anyone know if yellow zucchini can be grated to use to make breads like the green zucchini?

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

As I mentioned - any summer squash ;) So yes.

Darcy, since I found you on dehydrating, I am usually watching your videos, or chopping veggies to dehydrate. Not getting much of anything else done. Thank you for motivating me to do something. Love your videos. Question: when you use your VitaMix for making powder are you using the dry blade or the wet blade? I just got a VitaMix a few months ago but didn't get the dry blade for grains. Is it needed? Keep those videos coming.

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

Mine only is the wet blade. I never invested in more.

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Thanks for the info! I'm wondering if the zucchini powder will turn to a solid brick like tomato 🍅 powder does...? And if so, what's the best way to prevent that?

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

No, it doesn't have the sugar that tomatoes do, and if you treat powders properly, they usually don't clump badly - www.thepurposefulpantry.com/keep-dehydrated-powders-dry/

@chrystallangille1667

Жыл бұрын

i also am wondering if your tomato powder is dry enough. i have some stored in a mason jar that is a year old, and still free flowing powder.

@redeemedvintageseamstress4728

Жыл бұрын

@@ThePurposefulPantry thanks! I'll check out your link. I haven't actually tried powdering tomatoes cause I've heard others had such trouble... I'll have to try it now! 😀 Yay! Thanks for getting back with me. I live in a dry climate anyway, so it should do fine.

@redeemedvintageseamstress4728

Жыл бұрын

@@chrystallangille1667 nice! See my reply to the Purposeful Pantry....thanks!

I weighed my veggies before and after in grams. Mainly to get nutritional value. I didn't think about measuring it:/

I made the mistake of A. Using the wrong vitamix container B. Combing too much powder in the vitamix. The vitamix will boil your food by design. The blade heated up and melted my tomato powder in the middle 🤦‍♀️. Things I didn't think about until afterwards.

Could you make flour with spaghetti squash, too? That’s what I have lots of this year. Sadly, my zucchini aren’t producing well this year.

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

I've never tried it with spaghetti squash, it is a little different, but you can certainly try!

@wendya1250

Жыл бұрын

Same! I usually have so much zucchini for our needs and plenty to give away but not this year.

@randycarstens1100

Жыл бұрын

Same here

@amommalee9105

Жыл бұрын

Spaghetti squash last for-e-ver on the counter over winter though, so you don't need to process them to preserve. Zucchini are only good for a week or less, so it is necessary to process and preserve the somehow.

Can I dry the zucchini in the oven, if I don't have an dehydrator?

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

If you can control getting the temperature down enough not to cook them. I have a video of tips for oven dehydrating on my channel

Question: would you use the fresh to powder conversion if a recipe (Zucchini bread) calls for fresh zucchini? I am thinking about this with carrot cake too, I hate the BITS of carrot...lol.

@ThePurposefulPantry

2 ай бұрын

Powder isn't the bulk that fresh/dried would be, so it's a flavorant only at that point If you use zucchini flour for something, it's meant to be as a replacement for part of the flour - not to replace the bulk of the zucchini

What do you put on the bottom of your dehydrator

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

The hard plastic tray meant for fruit leather for the machine. You can use anything.

Can I use yellow squash instead of zucchini in these processes?

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

yes

has anyone tried this process using a freeze dryer instead of a dehydrator?

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

It will work just fine.

Do you have recipes using zucchini powder?

@ThePurposefulPantry

10 ай бұрын

This one - flour = powder.

Can you use yellow squash the same way?

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@almostoily7541

Жыл бұрын

You can make bread with yellow squash too. I found some recipes online and tried it a few years ago. A little different than zucchini bread but still very good.

Where can we buy your book?

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

As I mentioned - link in the description box always- shop.thepurposefulpantry.com

Why don’t you use a food processor it would be so much faster and easier?

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

I explained it in the video. And this was over the course of 2 weeks, I wasn't going to drag it out every time for a handful of zucchini. And not everyone has a food processor, so I like to show all ways to do all things.

I didn't hear how long the dehydrating took but am assuming that it was overnight, say 10 hours maybe. With a 600watt machine that's 6kw of power at 29p per unit (UK) so nearly £1.80 for that batch. This is substantial and I'm trying to work out the actual weight of flour produced so the unit cost. Electricity is advancing in price so horribly that this has to be taken into account. Thank you for the video and all the work involved. I've just found the timing. 3 batches over 24 hours. W

@ThePurposefulPantry

Жыл бұрын

Yeah - but weigh that against having a stocked, shelf-stable pantry full of food to feed your family when prices for food skyrocket even more. I get that you guys are having an energy crisis and may need to stop doing some things, but food preservation would be very low on my list of things to get rid of. But that's my focus, may not be yours.

@alexisdandrea7576

Жыл бұрын

So how much did you figure everything would be?

@bettypearson5570

Жыл бұрын

You can go old school first and first let it set to remove excess water then use non electric/air drying. Since that doesn't dry as much as an electric you can then transfer for final dry in electric dehydrator for an hour or two. Or better yet, if you have used your oven for some other baking, once you remove your cake, roast or whatever put a tray of fried zucchini in to use up that residual heat while the oven cools back down which would cost you zero in electricity.

@cherylanon5791

Жыл бұрын

can you put them on a screen on top of your roof? use the sun......

@girlnextdoorgrooming

Жыл бұрын

In Texas I could put the trays on the dashboard of my pickup.