Friday dinner is usually roast or stew cooking in the crock pot while I’m at work---or something easy to prepare after a long day like a nice, tender grilled steak (on my indoor electric grill), jerky salad and fine wine from Stone Hill Winery. I add beef jerky to my salads as it’s my son’s favorite salad and baked potato topper. It’s pretty good. Who does not love beef jerky? It’s salty, sweet, peppery…very addicting … and… it's not cheap!
When Cookware.com contacted me to review one of their products, it was a toss-up between a food dehydrator (aka jerky maker) and a multi-cooker (that can bake, roast, steam and slow cook). I was leaning on getting the counter top multi-cooker. Preparing meals would be a breeze but when I talked with Hubby and my son, the unanimous vote was for the jerky maker. I think they’ve gotten tired of ALL my failed attempts at making beef jerky!!! Then Mr. J said , “If you use a food dehydrator, maybe it might turn out just an itty-bitsy, teeny-weeny better than our latest teriyaki....umm…umm...teriyaki CHARCOAL!?!?! That made me laugh…maybe it was really time to give it a try! I’ll let you know how it works for me.
5 comments:
You're gonna love it.
How does this food dehydrator work for other things e.g fruits or veggies?
I've been using mine for the past three years and it takes care of all the veggies and fruits I want dehydrated. Also makes great leathers, and dries your herbs to perfection. I also ordered the additional trays and mine is now 12 trays high. I simply rotate the trays after two or three hours.
Thanks Sharlene. I'd like to dry blueberries and persimmons in the late summer and fall.
Wow, I always want this dehydrator, it become pretty handy when you have quite plenty of fruit during harvest day.
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