Patty,

I have dried ground beef and it worked fine. I cooked it first with steak
seasoning then allowed it to dry off on paper towel to remove the grease, then
onto a food dehydrator overnight. Before cooking you will want to pre-soak the
ground beef in water. You can use a Nalgene bottle and do this about an hour
before you stop for dinner. Chicken also precooked, cut into small bite size
pieces, dried and rehydrated before cooking. It will take longer to rehydrate
the chicken. All items were packaged using a vacuum sealer.

Ken




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From: Patricia Rider <prider09@...>
To: johnmuirtrail@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 2:52:49 PM
Subject: [John Muir Trail] (unknown)


Hi all again,
We are starting out from Yosemite on 8/23 and ending probably 9/13 - want to
know if mosquitos will be enough of a problem to bring bug spray.
Also, we are dehydrating our own burger, chicken, etc. and making our own
granola. We are coming from the east coast and so know that our food resupply
will sit for 3 weeks probably somewhere hot. Has anyone dried their own meat
etc. and has their food been okay?
Thanks for all the great info,
Patty

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