Dehydrating

[BakedIn]

Thanks, that's great news. Was hoping they would since much cheaper than specialty grinders. I'll start the search for a sale or high powered used one.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by BakedIn

Thanks, that's great news. Was hoping they would since much cheaper than specialty grinders. I'll start the search for a sale or high powered used one.

Here is the way I grind this stuff at least peppers.
I de-seed the peppers as much as I can in I want to de-seed them.
They go in a food processor then to the blender then to a modified burr-mill type coffee grinder.
It is a Cuisinart flat burr mill.
I took it apart and shimmed up one of the plates so it runs about 3 thousands or so off the other plate at the finest grind.
I run my powder through this and sift it in a fine sifter.
What goes through the sifter I put in the jar.
What doesn't goes back into the grinder.
You can buy these sifters of different meshes on line.
This is how they do it in the industry they sift it and regrind.
My little sifter just happens to be a KitchenAid strainer.
You cant make a fine powder without sifters.
On a budget you can use nylon stockings for a very fine powder.
Worth

[BakedIn]

Your stuff must come out as fine as store bought paprika. I'm not gonna be that particular at the moment haaaa.
I found a 600 watt GE blender at the Goodwill for 8 bucks that did a great job on the first batch of tomatoes though it. Absolute fine powder (by my standards) in a few seconds. I'm not sure why it never occurred to me to use a basic blender. Took me like one minute to do what used to take me a half hour with the coffee grinder.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by BakedIn

Your stuff must come out as fine as store bought paprika. I'm not gonna be that particular at the moment haaaa.
I found a 600 watt GE blender at the Goodwill for 8 bucks that did a great job on the first batch of tomatoes though it. Absolute fine powder (by my standards) in a few seconds. I'm not sure why it never occurred to me to use a basic blender. Took me like one minute to do what used to take me a half hour with the coffee grinder.

It can if I want it to but for practical purposes it doesn't have to.
The last batch of powder I made I just kept going back into the burr mill grinder.

One time I spent a lot of time to make the fine sifted powder only to have something fall out of a cupboard hit the bowl flipped it off the counter and onto the floor.
Powder went everywhere and the bowl broke.
All that work only to sweep it up and throw it away.
About a pounds worth.

Worth

[efisakov]

Just bookmarking it, so I can read from the start.

[bad.kelpie]

I've been dehydrating everything this year (my year with no canning), I just found out about tomato powder, so all of my tomatoes are getting powdered (the ones that aren't going into the freezer as sauce).

I use this:
https://www.amazon.com/Farberware-Si.../dp/B00FN3HTGW

It works like a magic bullet, but is cheaper. You can get them for under $20 at walmart. I was going to use my food processor for tomato powder, but it doesn't really work, so I threw them in this little thing and it grinds them right up, no problem. I can fit 4 dehydrator trays full of Juliet tomatoes in the large cup the blender comes with and it grinds it to about a half a cup of powder.

[Salsacharley]

Here's some stuff going into the dehydrator, and the finished tomatoes. The green chile is Sandia that has been roasted and pealed. They will be made into powder. I'm still deciding what to do with the tomatoes.

[efisakov]

We use dry tomatoes as a snack. Love it.

[FarmerShawn]

Dried tomatoes are one of my market staples. We snip some onto a salad, we toss a handful into a sauce to thicken it up, and soaking some in warm water briefly (10 minutes or so) and making a pizza with them instead of a sauce is the best pizza ever!


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[coronabarb]

Wow, nice! Can you tell me what varieties those tomatoes are?

[Worth1]

The peppers look like bull frog skins.

Worth

[Salsacharley]

The tomatoes are Stupice, Sunrise Bumblebee, Lucky Tiger, Orange Caprice, Red Bumblebee Hybrid and Red Tiger Hybrid, and Green Bumblebee F4 (all but the Stupice are from Fred at Artisan Seeds.

Originally Posted by FarmerShawn

Dried tomatoes are one of my market staples. We snip some onto a salad, we toss a handful into a sauce to thicken it up, and soaking some in warm water briefly (10 minutes or so) and making a pizza with them instead of a sauce is the best pizza ever!


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While I love my own dehydrated tomatoes, I've never purchased any. I think most of the store bought tomatoes say "Sun Dried". I wonder how many are in fact sun dried as opposed to simply dehydrated and if it makes any difference. Since I didn't dehydrate any this year, I will purchase some and give them a try. I know the tomatoes I dehydrate really have concentrated flavors. I dried some pretty bland tasting tomatoes that have great concentrated flavor after dehydrating.

I buy most of my spices in the big jars at Sams Club. They have a really good selection of name brand spices. I've been hoping to see tomato powder in their selection, but I haven't seen it yet. Maybe some day they will include it on their shelves.

I like to cook with tomato flavors a lot. I have to be careful because strong tomato flavors give my wife bad acid indigestion. I cooked a really big pot of pinto beans yesterday to freeze in small containers for easy meals. While cooking my beans, I was wishing I had some tomato powder to cook in the beans. I've never tried tomato in my pinto beans, but it sounds good.

Ted

[Worth1]

Ted you mean to say you have never had tomatoes of any kind in pinto beans?
I bet a powder made up of tomatoes and chilies would be good.

Has anybody tasted tomato powder?


Worth

Originally Posted by Worth1

Ted you mean to say you have never had tomatoes of any kind in pinto beans?
I bet a powder made up of tomatoes and chilies would be good.

Has anybody tasted tomato powder?


Worth

I may have had a mixed bean stew with tomatoes. I really can't remember everything that was in the stew. I didn't prepare the stew. I've never added tomatoes to southern style pinto beans. We shopped at Winco today. They have a huge selection of bulk spices, pasta, cereal; and other commodities. I was sure they would have tomato powder, but they didn't. I guess I will order it online. You can get three or four pounds of tomato powder online for about twenty bucks. The thought of the tomato taste caused me to decide to have tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwich for dinner tonight.

Ted