Why dry food now?

Affordable food drying DIY!

Why dry food now with a drying oven, also known as a dehydrator?

Drying food is the cheapest way of healthy preservation. Drying food is easy with a food dehydrator. Drying with a food dehydrator has many advantages, which we would like to share with you.

Advantage 1: drying in a food dehydrator ensures that all nutrients in your food or herbs are preserved. Because a food dehydrator can dry at low temperatures. With a food dehydrator you can dry vegetables, fruit, meat, fish, herbs, flowers and even tofu. You can even make bread and croutons in it.

Advantage 2: Drying food at home is healthier . Commercially dried foods contain preservatives.

Advantage 3: Drying food is relatively cheap. Especially compared to current energy prices. A complete drying with a full dryer with 6 drawers currently costs about 1.00 cents. (10 hours of drying is therefore 0.10 cents per hour).

The New 10 layer from Wartmann is double-walled. Power: up to 800 W (depending on equipment and selected temperature) A 24-hour drying cycle at maximum temperature currently costs 1.92 x 0.895 euros = 1.72 euros (price point 11-2022)

Advantage 4 : Dried food can be eaten dried or soaked in water and used again in its original form. It is also a good substitute for candy. Dried fruit becomes sweeter because water is extracted and the sugars in the fruit become more concentrated. Children will also love it!

Advantage 5: Dried fruit, vegetables, fish and meat take up very little space and cost nothing after drying. This is in contrast to storing in the freezer. This makes it easier to keep a larger stock. You can buy food in the summer when fruits and vegetables are cheapest and easy to store. The surplus from the vegetable garden or fruit tree can also be easily stored. Properly dried food has a shelf life of at least one year .

Why does food have a long shelf life if you dry it?

Microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi live in food, which ensure that our food slowly decays. But these microorganisms need water to stay alive – without water they cannot survive. However, they do remain in the food when the moisture is removed from it, in the form of enzymes. However, these enzymes no longer work in a dry environment and remain 'at rest'.

Food dehydrator for your pet?

Dogs and other pets, just like people, can develop allergies to food. Dogs are regularly put on a diet of dried food to combat ailments. But dried meat is also a real treat for dogs without nutritional problems. Buying dried food for dogs or cats is often quite expensive and it may therefore be useful to purchase a food dehydrator for the dog. This does not require a special pet food dehydrator; you can dry food for the dog or cat in 'normal' food dehydrators.

Start drying food and enjoy! Don't forget to order dryer sheets for good results with delicate items.

Vuurbak sells Wartmann food dryers. In contrast to, for example, the Lidl food dehydrator or the action food dehydrator, these are of very high quality, made entirely of stainless steel, without plastics. Wartmann is synonymous with Dutch top quality.

View Wartmann's food dehydrators here

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