"Marilyn" > wrote in message
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> "Green Newb" > wrote in message
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>> "Marilyn" > wrote in message
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>>> "Green Newb" > wrote in message
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>>>>I got my Food Dehydrator early and wow what a lot of fun! The smells
>>>>that
>>>>are coming from that unit are amazing! Making me constantly hungry.
>>>>
>>>> My first ever drying: Oregano from my Garden. I had a 14 inch Tray, 3
>>>> inches high of washed Oregano. Dried it and ended up with 15 grams of
>>>> dried Oregano, hahahah. Looked in my cupboard and a sachet of Dried
>>>> Oregano contains 8 grams. Therefore, I made, nearly two little Oregano
>>>> sachets. Will check out the price next time I go shopping, but think
>>>> its
>>>> really cheap. Was it worth it? Probably not, but its a lot of fun.
>>>> Smelt like Spaghettie bolognaise cooking. Could drive a person mad!
>>>>
>>>> I had a tray spare, when prepping the oregano, so I sliced up some
>>>> onion.
>>>> They weren't done when the Oregano was, so I added more trays of onion
>>>> slices. MMMMmmmm French Onion soup smell.
>>>>
>>>> No one ever mentions that little side effect
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>>>
>>> Oh, this brings back memories of when I was first married and living
>>> with
>>> my
>>> in-laws. They grew a lot of onions in their garden and so we had the
>>> fun
>>> of
>>> slicing the onions in the food processor and then dehydrating them. We
>>> took
>>> the dehydrator out to the two-story workshop in the back yard. The
>>> smell
>>> was so strong while the onions were drying that you could smell it all
>>> over
>>> the neighborhood. Ordinarily, we used the dehydrator in the house, but
>>> can
>>> you imagine how long it would take to get the smell out of there if we
>>> had
>>> done that?
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>>> -Marilyn
>> Thats funny . I just posted about the onion smell wafting outside
>> (before reading this post) Maybe I better dry the mint to clear the
>> house
>> and neighbourhood of onion! ha ha.
>
> My teenage sister-in-law put her sweater in the dehydrator to dry it
> (don't
> ask me why) and the onion smellstayed in there and her sweater smelled
> like
> onions. This was an older-style dehydrator with mesh screens like window
> screening, not the plastic dehydrator that I have where you can wash
> everything.
>
> Every time we grow onions, my husband says we should dehydrate them and I
> always convince him they're much better frozen.

> -Marilyn

Having a good laugh .