How do you use the dehydrator function on your convection toaster oven?!
How do you use the dehydrator function on your convection toaster oven?
I bought this cool looking convection toaster oven from Costco the other the day. It is an Oster 6058. The main reason I bought it was because it had a dehydrator function that I want to make jerky and other goodies.
Trouble is that when I got it home and read the instructions I came to realize it can only cook for 90 minutes. I am not sure how to dehydrate in that short of time since I have always used just a regular oven or dehydrator that takes many hours to dry things like meat.
Any ideas on how to use it? Does the convection speed the process up for dehydrating? By how much? Any personal uses?
Thanks
K
2 weeks ago
Part of dehydrating is not for a cheaper product but a better product. I buy lean grass fed meat on sale and freeze it just for jerky. I use only organic non-preservative ingredients that have low sugar and no wheat to marinate. This produces a great product, not a cheap product .
Answers:
2 weeks ago
Part of dehydrating is not for a cheaper product but a better product. I buy lean grass fed meat on sale and freeze it just for jerky. I use only organic non-preservative ingredients that have low sugar and no wheat to marinate. This produces a great product, not a cheap product .
If the dehydrating function only runs for 90 mins maybe that's all the tme it takes in that oven.Try it with a small amount of something and if it needs more time just reset it and watch it carefully. I'm betting that the convection speeds up the process.Maybe try it with an apple.
You can probably purchase beef jerky for less cost than you can make it . . depends on beef price and how much your labor is worth . . takes around 3 pounds of beef to make 1 pound of jerky.
Wal-Mart sell a 16-ounce bag of World Kitchens brand beef jerky for around $8.50.
http://www.worldkitchens.net/products.ht...