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Far from being a fad, food dyhydrating is one of the most ancient, effective, and nutritous ways of preserving food. Now, at last, there is a book that teaches absolutely everything there is to know about using an electric food dyhydrator to dry foods at home -- and gives more than 100 foolproof recipes for scrumptious snacks and meals made from dried foods.

With this extraordinary book, you can learn how to cross junk food and expensive store-bought snacks off your family's shopping list -- and add to your cupboard homemade, preservative-free fruit leathers, candied apricots, beef (and fish) jerkies, "sun" dried tomotoes, corn chips, banana chips, and so much more!

Mary Bell gives specific techniques and instructions for preparing every kind of fruit (from apples to watermelon) and vegetable (from asparagus to zucchini). She also provides important shopping tips for buying an electric food dehydrator. The recipes for cooked meals (including mushroom soup, sloppy joes, pesto, and moist banana bread) will make this book a kitchen classic. And recipes for lightweight, filling trail snacks mean that the book will travel, too.

Additional chapters explain to how make herb seasonings, granolas, celery powder, cosmetics, dried fruit sugars, potpourri -- and even pet treats!

Food drying is an excellent way for gardeners to preserve their produce. It is a great way to make healthful snacks for the kids. It's perfect for the new wave of thrifty consumers who can't bear to spend dollars at health food stores for treats they cold make for pennies themselves. And food drying doesn't use chemicals or preservatives—so it's great for you and for the planet, too!

Average Customer Rating:

Mary Bell's Complete Dehydrator Cookbook	Customer Rating:
I needed to get more information on how to dehydrate foods, what foods were good to dehydrate and then how do I use them later in a recipe. This book covers all that and I am looking forward to using it very often as my resource.

Comprehensive	Customer Rating:
I appreciated seeing more information all in one place. I also liked the ideas that it generated.

very usefull	Customer Rating:
This book contains all the needed details for how to dry fruits and vegetable and for how to use them for cooking. I haven't used it yet, but I have read it and it is very comprehensible.

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Not That Complete

Customer Rating:

I wasn't terribly impressed with Mary Bell's Complete Dehydrator Cookbook. As a matter of fact, I think the little booklet that came with my Nesco Dehydrator had more detailed information. This book is useful for general information and there are some recipes in the back to help you use your dehydrated items but I found it lacking real information, it's more of a compilation of "tips.". This book does give of an overview of the dehydrating process, choosing the right machine and the basic items you can use. If you're looking for detailed recipes for making more than jerky and what the water content of different fruits and vegetables, I say "keep looking."