Anyone have a chart for storage times of foods dehydrated AND vacuum packed?

[actaeon277]

Just started dehydrating.

Getting ready to use the vacuum packer to store some dehydrated stuff.
Is there a chart somewhere?

 

[Creedmoor]

Following.

 

[bwframe]

Not sure about a chart, but my experience tells me that dehydrated vac packed food will last noticably longer than the food will be palatable. That said, less palatable food still has uses. Older tomatoe leathers work great in seasoned soups, stews and the like

"Food" is a pretty broad category also. As is your dehydration method, temp and food handing procedures.

 

[actaeon277]

Well so far I've tried banana, pineapple, yellow apple, cantaloupe.

Sliced thin.
Dehydrator

 

[foszoe]

Just started dehydrating.

Getting ready to use the vacuum packer to store some dehydrated stuff.
Is there a chart somewhere?

I am going with 2-5 years.

 

[2in1evtime]

We use to dehydrate a lot of stuff, but ended up throwing it away after a year or 2, mushrooms, veggies, etc, some vacuum sealed in bags others sealed in mason jars, did not keep very long, wife bought a freeze dryer and things keep a lot longer for us!

 

[bwframe]

Well so far I've tried banana, pineapple, yellow apple, cantaloupe.

Sliced thin.
Dehydrator

Of those, I have only done cantalope. Assuming you know that fruits dehydrate down to basicly "candy?"

I've had cantalope/honeydew after a year +. They seemed the same as when packed. I allow myself the carbs for fruit that I grow myself, but as the years go by I have been trending away from sugars.

Over years of dehydrating, pretty much all of my dehydrating in recent years is to go with items that are relatively simple to process. Often ending in a storage product that will be used for further cooking, rather than a snack to readily eat itself.

I do zuchini for blending into flour. Tomatoes are turned into leathers.

Onions/garlic are for rehydration in cooking, the same as peppers. Both of those can be ground into seasoning powders. Onions and peppers these days mostly get fermented though. I prefer the benefits and usage of fermented foods.

 

[bwframe]

We use to dehydrate a lot of stuff, but ended up throwing it away after a year or 2, mushrooms, veggies, etc, some vacuum sealed in bags others sealed in mason jars, did not keep very long, wife bought a freeze dryer and things keep a lot longer for us!

How did you know your mushrooms were not keeping?

I have a dozen + quarts of dehydrated mitake mushrooms from a couple/three years back. They have been dehydrated and vac packed in ball jars.

 

[2in1evtime]

How did you know your mushrooms were not keeping?

I have a dozen + quarts of dehydrated mitake mushrooms from a couple/three years back. They have been dehydrated and vac packed in ball jars.

My wife said when she tried to rehydrate the mushrooms they would bubble and if you notice any in jars or vacuum bags sticking together not to use them , she is the queen on this stuff been doing it for years and years!!

 

[Leadeye]

Put the dehydrated stuff in a bag/container and remove the air. It improves the shelf life and quality, how long you can stretch that out I don't know as we always eat things before they sit around to that point.

 

[actaeon277]

found this






and this

 

[miguel]

Just started dehydrating.

Getting ready to use the vacuum packer to store some dehydrated stuff.
Is there a chart somewhere?

What dehydrator you buy?

 

[gassprint1]

A bit late here, but i can tell you that the chart about strawberries is wrong. I pulled some outa the freezer from 2 years ago and were just fine. Made milkshakes with some and rest for shortcake.

 

[Sc1873]

Been using an Excalibur dehydrator for a while. Go to there web page have whole section on recipes and time with temps

 

[Mij]

A bit late here, but i can tell you that the chart about strawberries is wrong. I pulled some outa the freezer from 2 years ago and were just fine. Made milkshakes with some and rest for shortcake.

Read it again.

 

[gassprint1]

Read it again.

Good catch. I seen everything saying freezer storage and missed the frigerator storage. I wouldn't wastes a vac bag for a week in the frig. Curious as to why the chart doesn't include freezer.

 

[actaeon277]

What dehydrator you buy?