Electric Food Dehydrators: What They Are and How They Work

Reader Contribution by Susan Gast
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Drying Food for Emergency Preparedness

I first became interested in food dehydrators about five years ago quite by accident. I never in a hundred years thought my kitchen cupboard would house one of those space-craft-looking contraptions. I’d shake my head and wonder what all the fuss was about — until I joined forces with those who dehydrate food on a regular basis.

This turnaround came about by realizing I did not have (enough) backup food for any emergency situation that may arise. You see, our family lived through two back-to-back hurricanes in 2004 and we quickly found out how unprepared we were.

As fresh food rotted and the frozen food thawed, a need to have some (any!) emergency food on hand became readily apparent as we sat through more than a few weeks of trying to keep calm, cool and collected — without the household power that we all take for granted.

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