Dehydrating Kale and Tofu-FOOD VIDEO-1st video of 2025

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I discovered food dehydration when I moved into my first apartment years ago. This method of food prep was one of the many things I was excited to try with this newfound freedom of living alone. Kayaking, buying a solar panel for my window, and building a bicycle trailer were several other goals at the time. Why dehydration? It's a method of preserving food so it does not go bad in the fridge, and helps save money.

During that time I'd come to use two different dehydrators, but I wasn't crazy about them. Once, I tried making jerky in an Excalibur machine and got sick. My fault, no doubt. I gave the appliance to a friend thereafter. The second Nesco dehydrator worked fine, but I found it took up too much space and wasn't using it much, so I sold it on eBay. This happened 10-15 years ago.

The interest popped up again in 2024. This time, I bought a nicer dehydrator. Since then, it's been getting plenty of use. I dehydrate lots of kale. I mix it with lemon juice and nutritional yeast, and it comes out as this crispy, delicious, savory treat I eat in one sitting. The leftover crumbs on the parchment paper(which sat on the dehydrator grill) are used as seasoning for my dinner. My favorite is to bunch these kale 'crisps' between two slices of Ezekiel bread, with a little tahini spread, and enjoy it as a sandwich. Yum.

After juicing, I take the leftover pulp and make them into sweet crackers in the dehydrator. It's the same when I make my veggie stock in the Crockpot. Mixing the pulp and/or veggies with some flaxseed meal(in a food processor) and putting them in the dehydrator for 10 hours at 140 degrees, these tasty crackers are ready to be eaten. This heat level may be too hot and kill some of the nutrients in the crackers, but you still get that fiber. Conversely, I put kale at 110 degrees for 15 hours, keeping the nutrients. I've also dehydrated extra firm tofu cut into slim rectangles, apple and pear cores, and eggplant.

In this video, I'm dehydrating kale and tofu. I look forward to doing more food recipe videos, hoping to inspire others to get into food dehydration themselves. I'm still learning how to do this myself.

Here's an affiliate link to the Corsi dehydrator I use in the video..https://amzn.to/4jbuewS

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