Food Preservation Drying and Dehydrating

• Jerky

• Backwoods Home: Food Drying  - Article discussing solar drying equipment and methods for processing fruits, vegetables, and meat.
• Barlow Scientific: Drying Food  - Features drying methods, recipes, and pretreatments of fruit, vegetables, and legumes.
• Dehydrator Book  - Offers food dehydrator reviews and recipes.
• Dry It: Recipes  - Collection of food dehydrating tips, techniques, and recipes for fruit, vegetables, meats, herbs, nuts, and seeds.
• Drying and Dehydrating Foods  - Expounds on the basics of food dehydrating and drying, presents the equipment and methods used, and provides recipes for dehydrated foods.
• Drying Food  - Relates food drying basics, equipment, methods, as well as details for fruits, vegetables, herbs, and meats. Includes storing and using dried foods.
• Drying Fruits and Vegetables  - Washington State University factsheet with methods, preparation, selection of fruits and vegetables, and equipment.
• Drying Vegetables  - Factsheet from Colorado State University discussing vegetable selection, proper use of drying trays, nutrition, and drying techniques.
• The National Center For Home Food Preservation: Drying Food  - Series of factsheets covering sun drying, jerky making, producing fruit leathers, and drying edible seeds.
• PreserveFood.com: Drying  - Presents the different ways to dry food. Provides information on dehydration, sun drying, smoking, and oven and air drying.