{"id":17773,"date":"2013-08-21T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=17773"},"modified":"2013-08-21T16:46:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T22:46:18","slug":"dehydrate-onions-for-fun-and-easy-winter-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/dehydrate-onions-for-fun-and-easy-winter-eating\/","title":{"rendered":"Dehydrate Onions for Fun and Easy Winter Eating"},"content":{"rendered":"

You haven’t smelled onions\u00a0<\/strong>until you you have chopped enough all at once for 9 trays in the dehydrator – and lived to tell about it. That much onion smell stimulates new dimensions of olfactory confusion.<\/p>\n

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And it’s not over<\/strong> once the chopping is done. After that, there are the hours with the dehydrator running. Onions are juicy, so there is a lot of evaporation. Strangely, none of this was accompanied by tears. Maybe it is like any other crisis, where you can physically hold everything together until you get through it. Of course, by the time I was done, I was too tired to cry, so I had a snack instead.<\/p>\n

It was all worth it<\/strong>, though. The husband has deemed the crunchy bits “sweet”<\/em> and excellent potato and salad toppers. I am still trying to decide if nine \u00bd pint jars of home dehydrated chopped onion is enough for the year, or, like the broccoli I dehydrated last year<\/a><\/span>, enough for about 6 years.<\/p>\n

The broccoli<\/strong> is vacuum sealed, so I plan on testing it’s shelf life …. It’s all about the journey, right? It’s hard to tell how these things are going to end up when it is not how we have eaten things in the past. We have used some of the broccoli, and I think if I can plan ahead for better reconstitution, it will be more popular. The carrots and beans were able to be dumped right into soups and stews, so all dehydrated veggies are not created equal.<\/p>\n

In spite of<\/strong> the aroma, prepping the onions for dehydrating was pretty straightforward.<\/p>\n