On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Micki Fraser wrote:
> My dehydrator which I purchased 5 years ago for about 60 american dollars has
> paid for itself over and over again. They're even less expensive now.
I recently decided to get a dehyrdator and my first web searches
turned up beasts going $150 and up. Ouch. Happily I was able
to later find the cheaper ones ($40). I can't wait till it
arrives :)
> I encourage this route instead of buying readymade which is hugely overpriced
> and excessively seasoned.
I took a look at the ingredients in grocery store jerky.
The first ingredient was beef. So far, so good. Next was
water. WTF? I thought the idea was to dehyrate this
stuff. Now things really go downhill - third on the list
was brown sugar. Next was corn syrup, followed by
preservatives and dyes. Yech. It was actually labelled
"natural".
Julie