Dehydrating Take 2

Being a lazy oik, I bought some microwave meals at the supermarket specifically to nuke then dehydrate. £2.00 - £2.60 for 800grammes per meal.

DSC03344s Meals Hosted on Zooomr

Wearing my lead apron and goggles, the microwave pinged away one meal after another. I was concerned about the sauces dripping off the edges of the parchment roll that I put on the base of the tray. Forgetting that nuking sauces for 8 minutes makes the sauce fairly stodgy. I pre-loaded trays away from the dehydrator, so that drips were caught on a tea-tray.

DSC03345s Setup Hosted on Zooomr

As the meals were being cooked and stacked on trays with baking parchment roll (from Lakeland) and I cut a hole in the middle. In the foreground is the beef jerky (£2.50 for all that frying beef). I've roughly marinated it in soy sauce, garlic granules and some sugar - just what I had in. Adding parchment to the base of the tray below the jerky stops it dripping onto the cooked meals below.

DSC03346s Ready to roll Hosted on Zooomr

All set up, with the clockwork timer plug counting down, and will switch the unit off after 7 hours. As this is a basic dehydrator, it doesn't come with such advanced features as a timer (link to examples). I'll see what's left tomorrow morning. Maybe it will all be dust?