Make Your Food Dollar Go Further: Dry Your Own Fruits and Vegetables at Home!

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July/August 1977
By Lorna Peterson 
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Emerson also feels [2] that the fabrication of the unit is no job for a raw beginner. He says: "This project takes quite a bit of time and expertise and a set of power tools helps."

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Smyers found, too, that the plans [3]omit some important information, particularly in illustrations, and [4] call out some dimensions wrong and change others from one illustration to another. He was also dismayed to discover that the CEC instructions specified "galvanized" and "fiberglass" drying screens for the dehydrator . . . two materials which can contaminate food when exposed to heat and moisture.

Despite these shortcomings, however, everyone here at Mother Earth News who has tested the finished dryer feels that its basic design is a good one and that the CEC deserves a pat on the back for "thinking big". We look forward to seeing a revised set of drawings for this dehydrator distributed far and wide.

For More Information

The following how-to guides contain a wealth of information on the art of drying food. All are available from large bookstores or from Mother's Bookshelf, P.O. Box 70, Hendersonville, N.C. 28739. (Please remember to enclose 754t for postage and handling when ordering books by mail.)

  1. Dry It—You'll Like It! by Gen MacManiman (Living Foods Dehydrators, 1973). 58 pages. Paperback.
  2. Keeping the Harvest: Home Storage of Vegetables & Fruits by Nancy Thurber and Gretchen Mead (Garden Way, 1976). 202 pages. Large paperback.
  3. Home Drying Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs by Phyllis Hobson (Garden Way, 1975). 60 pages. Paperback.
  4. How to Build Food Drying Equipment by John A. Magee (California Wood Plans, 1975).17 pages. Paperback.
  5. Putting Food By by Ruth Hertzberg, Beatrice Vaughan, and Janet Greene (The Stephen Greene Press, 1975). 370 pages. Paperback. 
  6. Stocking Up: How to Preserve the Foods You Grow Naturally by the editors of Organic Gardening and Farming (Rodale Press, 1973). 351 pages. Hard cover.
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