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Dehydrating Oranges & Orange Fruit Leather | Fun Projects

Dehydrating Oranges

Chef Glenn’s Guide to Dehydrating Oranges. How to dehydrate orange slices and pieces, orange fruit leather, orange juice powder, and candied orange peels.

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Chocolate Covered Oranges: Take a Dip into Delicious!

How to Make Chocolate Covered Oranges. Dipped, Topped, and Covered.

How to make chocolate covered oranges with dried oranges. Slice, dry, dip, or cover oranges completely with chocolate for amazing snacks, gifts or party favors.

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Trail Cooking & Food Drying Gear Guide

Trail Cooking & Food Drying Gear Picks

Recommended products for dehydrating food and cooking on the trail.

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Which GSI Dualist Cookset is Best for Two People?

GSI Microdualist, Dualist, and Dualist-HS Cooksets.

GSI Dualist cooksets come in 3 configurations. Chef Glenn reviews the Microdualist, Dualist, and Dualist-HS pots and demonstrates “easy clean” bowl cooking.

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Dehydrating Tomatoes | 7 Ways to Slice, Dice & Season Them

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Guide to Dehydrating Tomatoes shows 7 ways to dry tomatoes and use them in recipes. It continues with how to dehydrate tomato sauce leather and tomato powder.

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Dehydrating Eggplant for Backpacking Meals

Dehydrating Eggplant for Backpacking Meals.

Dehydrating eggplant instructions for oven-roasting and stovetop cooking before drying in a dehydrator. Recipes include eggplant parmesan and ratatouille.

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Dehydrating Butternut Squash for Meals, Soups, and Desserts

Dehydrating Butternut Squash

Dehydrating butternut squash into cubes or powder for heathy dehydrated meals. Learn how to dehydrate butternut squash, including a great soup recipe.

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How to Make a Pot Cozy for Cooking Backpacking Meals

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A pot cozy saves fuel and holds heat in the pot while your backpacking meal finishes rehydrating. Page shows how to make one.

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GSI Cook Pot Comparison: Halulite Soloist vs Halulite Boiler

GSI Outdoors Soloist Cook Pot

GSI cook pot review evaluates the Soloist and Boiler pots for capacity, materials, accessories & packability; and shows how to cook backpacking meals in them.

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GSI Minimalist Backpacking Pot—Soloists Eat Big with a Little Pot

The GSI Minimalist kit includes a .6 liter hard anodized pot, pot lid, pot gripper, neoprene cozy, and a folding “foon” eating utensil.

In this review of the GSI Minimalist Backpacking Pot from GSI Outdoors, I evaluate the pot’s features and demonstrate how to cook backpacking meals with it.

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