I started using my egg slicer to slice strawberries. Works like a charm!

I have a Fullstar vegetable chopper and I use the wide squares to chop my strawberries. It takes almost no time at all that way. I put my strawberries in my overnight oats, so I don't care if the pieces aren't pretty. 😁

Yum! I love how crispy they come out.

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Welcome!!! Can’t wait to watch all your content!

Awesome job Crystal!

Yum!! Thank you for sharing!

I love this Crystal!! I want to try this!

This looks so yummy!

Thank you for your efforts

Excited to try this out! Strawberries are one fruit I've never dried. I always freeze them for smoothies. These look amazing, though.

I really enjoyed and learned so much from this concise video. Thanks so much!!

@wholefedhomestead

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad!

These look delicious

Great video thank you for posting

Great video and thank you for sharing your method. I have a rigid round dehydrator and find that I get a bunch of broken strawberries!! Considering a new dehydrator as I type. Also, you might want to try using the vacuum sealer to suck the air from the jar for longer storage! ~M

Oh my gosh! Something I have always wanted to do! Just came over from Life Goes North channel and look at that! So excited to try this and looking forward to your channel 😍

@wholefedhomestead

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!

wonderful ty

I like dropping them in my green or white teas and then eat them when they get soft again lol

Cool video!

Those look delicious! I'm experimenting with dehydrating offgrid. I may try the car as you did with the sun jam.

@wholefedhomestead

3 жыл бұрын

I bet that will work great! I know herbs dry very quickly in the car!

Beautiful berries! What variety? Thanks, Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

So funny that you should post this today. I did the exact same thing. I dehydrated a whole whack of strawberries in my Excalibur dehydrator as well. Aren’t they the best?

@wholefedhomestead

3 жыл бұрын

Yes!! So good!

What is the temperature setting that you recommend for strawberries

Are ur dehydrated strawberries 🍓 crispy or chewy? My grandkids loves the crunchy ones I buy for them at the store. But those get expensive when buying for 8 or 9 kids. So I want to start dehydrating them myself. Thanks dg

@wholefedhomestead

Ай бұрын

They're kind of in between... crisp but with a chewy texture. They are not crunchy like freeze dried ones.

i dont have dehydrator :(

How long do they last in the mason jar and do you have to seal it or add oxygen absorber?

@wholefedhomestead

5 күн бұрын

No special sealing or anything needed. They last a good year.

Do you vacuum seal the mason jars or just hand tighten the lid?

@wholefedhomestead

3 жыл бұрын

Just hand tighten, though if I had a jar vacuum I’d probably use it here!

Can I use the strawberries for fruit leather? And how would I do this?

@wholefedhomestead

11 ай бұрын

Once they are dried? No

I went 11.5 hours on 122 I have a cheaper dehydrator....do you have any tips for me because mine were still not chips they are gummy in the middle and I sliced mine half as thick as you did

@wholefedhomestead

5 ай бұрын

They might take a couple days with a less powerful dehydrator… just let them dehydrate until they are crisp. 👍🏻

Can you put a light coating of oil on the tray to keep them from sticking?

@wholefedhomestead

10 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t do that, no.

@debbiejeanpeabody9756

8 күн бұрын

I'm using round parchment paper on my round trays and they stick to the paper just like in this video, just bend the paper and they fall off, there is no paper stuck to the berries when they fall off, you may need to give a few a soft push or tug with your fingers if it is really stuck, but, even those come right off when they're loosened. No mess to clean.

How much time does strawberry take from frozen?

@wholefedhomestead

5 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t do this with frozen strawberries

Is the DIGITAL Excalibur best dehydrator on the market in order to keep the vitamins, nutriments intact? I saw that Excalibur has a digital ones now. Pricy however, since you have expérience, I need your opinion on that. 👉Does it have a BPA free trays? Your answer Thank you

@wholefedhomestead

Жыл бұрын

The fact that it’s digital has nothing to do with nutrient retention in dehydrated foods. I wouldn’t personally recommend the digital one- not necessary in my opinion. BPA-free doesn’t really mean anything anyways, kind of a green washing term. But if you don’t want plastic trays they make stainless steel ones too.

@Iamshininglight

Жыл бұрын

@@wholefedhomestead THANK YOU VERY MUCH. How about the BPA free trays. Are they BPA free? ☀️💫

@CrazzyOntarian

Ай бұрын

​@Iamshininglight BPA free is just a green washing term and doesn't trust mean anything unless you're putting hot liquids in something, and even then, it's more of a sales pitch then a real concern

do they taste the same as the freeze dried ones from the store? or does this process make them different?

@wholefedhomestead

10 ай бұрын

Dehydrating and freeze drying are very different- these are more like a fruit leather quality. 👍🏻

@debbiejeanpeabody9756

8 күн бұрын

​@@wholefedhomesteadthank you, I was wondering why mine didn't turn out like the store bought "dried" fruit. After reading the comments here, it sounds like those are freeze dried and then ours are dehydrated which makes them thin and juiceless, but they are still chewy when I am eating them, like a flavor burst.

I saw u put them in a jar. Do u air-seal them or just put a lid on & put them n your pantry? TIA

@wholefedhomestead

10 ай бұрын

Just a regular lid and in the pantry 👍🏻

@SeekChrist82

10 ай бұрын

@@wholefedhomestead How long do they last in a jar stored?

@azanepsilon

9 ай бұрын

​@@SeekChrist821 year

@debbiejeanpeabody9756

8 күн бұрын

​@@SeekChrist82that's not an easy question, the humidity in your house could reduce their freshness when you open the jar to take some out, if the jar gets left open for a period of time like on the counter, whether you put those little dry packs in the jar or not, how often you open the jar, how hot the cupboard gets, how much you fill the jar, and so on. I saw another video that suggests gently shaking the jar ever so often so the dried berries keep seperated in the jar, but I haven't tried that. If you see, smell, or taste any mold of course throw them all out, and that could happen in a few days or weeks or months. There's just not a one size fits all answer. My idea is to store them in smaller jars and open only one at a time until it's used up, therfore, not exposing all of the berries to the air each time the jar is opened.

@SeekChrist82

5 күн бұрын

@@debbiejeanpeabody9756 Thank you

I dehydrated for the first time. Anything i dehydrate has that horrible dehydrated taste i tried to avoid by doing myself. I wanted to try it on store bought strawberries and it just doesnt taste good

@wholefedhomestead

6 ай бұрын

Hmm… I’ve never dehydrated anything and thought it had a bad or off flavor.

@debbiejeanpeabody9756

8 күн бұрын

That sounds awful. Maybe you could sanitize your dehydrator? The instructions that came with my machine said to sanitize before use at 1 hour with 195 degrees F. The fruit I've tried just tastes like the original fruit, there isn't any other smell or flavor.

That stem removal method is awesome. I’ve been trying to find ways to not waste as much as possible. My method was a shallow v cut. I’m going to try your way!

@wholefedhomestead

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@debbiejeanpeabody9756

8 күн бұрын

I agree! Your method is shockingly simple. Sadly, I've cut about a quarter inch off the top of every strawberry my whole life. I learned that from my mom. I didn't realize I was wasting food, it just seemed "normal". I have two containers of strawberries I purchased at the store yesterday and they're already looking ugly in the fridge. So I thought about trying dehydrating for these. First, I'm going to use your method for stem removal, and for slicing. Next, I'm wondering if they will keep in a jar with a lid even though I'll be opening and closing it daily until they're all eaten? I don't have 30lbs like you do, maybe 2 or 3 pounds if they're not moldy already. Storebought fruit just doesn't keep well where I live. I tried growing strawberries this year, and I ended up with a gorgeous 4 raised beds with giant plants (some leaves a big as my hand) but zero fruit. I planted a mixture of different plants/seeds. Some plants I bought as starts, others I ordered seeds online. I figured if one failed, the other might succeed. I don't know what I'm going to do with all these plants now. There's no chance of getting any fruit this year. I have lots of pollinators, 6 - 8 hours of sun, organic compost, daily automatic watering at dawn every day. I can't figure out what these plants needed in order to flower/fruit. Any idea? Well, that is why I buy the fruit at the store, and the quality is so bad, there's never a container without at least one moldy strawberry, or more. I have to sort through containers to find the least moldy, at $4 a pound here. 😮