Dehydrated foods

[Kesephist]

Alton Brown... host of GOOD EATS and if memory serves, also one of the judges for IRON CHEF AMERICA.

I DID dig up the episode about jerky via the good offices of youtube.

The box fan dehydrator lashup is an under $30 rig and thus most appealing now... but aside from salt, I disagree with spicing the hell out of jerky. And while the rationale for using flank steak for jerky was sound, I'm minded to be using what cuts are leanest both in fat and $.

But that is just me, trying to play catchup on a shoestring, with that scythe-carrying old fart giggling his ass off over in the corner.

[Vodin]

This has some good info to read

http://extension.missouri.edu/p/GH1562