How to Dry Foods: The Most Complete Guide to Drying Foods at Home

This book was very helpful about how to dry many foods and explained the reasons for doing it a certain way. I found it extremely helpful in preparing dehydrated foods and was informative about rehydrating food as well. One of the best on dehydrating that I have seen.

The book was in pretty good shape for a used item. The info it contained was quite useful for the most part. My only issue was that sulfur was used in some of the processes and not every one would want to use sulfur: no alternate suggestion was given. Other than that it's pretty informative

I was looking for help in drying different foods in a commercial dehydrator I purchased and found this book. I bought 4 books in all and found them to contain most the same information. This book I would recommend highly as it had most everything I was looking for. If you want food dehydration info I would recommend this one.

Don't get too many books on drying foods. Once you have done a few items it comes to the fore quickly what works and what does not. I like this book as it assumes you know nothing on drying foods.

I have several dehydrator books, but this is by far the most comprehensive and easy to use. Highly recommend this as one to have on your bookshelf.

This book is a good reference for my general learning of dehydrating and the equipment involved. I felt it left me still asking a lot of questions and got almost as much info from the insert in the new dehydrator. Its good for a starter book, but I'm ready for intermediate level already.

This is the absolute bible for drying foods. Read through it and you will discover you can dry foods you never thought you could dry. You may need some specialized prep equipment first.

I bought a food dehydrator to make my own fruit leather and yogurt. I purchased this book so I would understand how to dry particular fruits, vegetables, etc. The book does DEEPLY cover historical information about many vegetables and fruits. For example, carrots were originally white, purple and yellow. Thanks for the information. But, I knew this and its not relevant to dehydrating. I would have appreciated a table of information: storage, prep, drying temp etc. More importantly, I was expecting recipes for dehydrating. Not a recipe using dehydrating ingredients in another recipe. I think listing recipes that use dried tomato (devilled eggs)is not a recipe for dehydrating. I was looking for something unique, like say: zucchini pineapple chips, peanutbutter banana leather or apple pie cheddar roll-ups. So if you are looking for recipes this book is weak in this regard. I love my dehydrator. Best investment! Book-useful but not the best.

very useful.

Always good to know how to dehydrate food that is plentiful so that you'll have it for the leaner times. This book delivers solid, helpful direcitons.

I bought a 20-year old dehydrator and Deanna's book (publ. 1979) came with it. So why did I need another? Because it was so well-used that it was falling apart and no amount of tape could save it. Ironically, I read the reviews on her book and, based on them, I ordered it, not realizing I had the earlier version so it appears it is still a definitive guide on dehydrating. The info has been updated to reflect subtle changes in the last 30 years and now includes websites. The only thing missing are the dozens of colour pictures from the earlier version -- so I guess I'll be keeping it anyway.

Use it frequently for preparing back country hiking meals

This book is helping me a lot as I learn to dehydrate foods to prevent waste and save money.