First recipe for my new dehydrator?

[Mindful mama]

Actually used(5x), bought on craigslist. A $100 9 tray excalibar!! Can you feel the excitment?! I'll have it in my kitchen tonight. What's the first thing I make??

[k8sl8]

For me it would be flax crackers - there are a ton of recipes and almost no-fail. The simplest recipe of all - soak flax in water to cover until slimy/slippery... pour on teflex sheets (or bakers' parchment paper) and dehydrate.

All manners of additions can be made to make them tasty.

Second choice: Oatmeal Raisin Cookies. Don't even have to dehydrate much - just warm. MMMMMM.

[OnMyJourney]

My vote is for cheesy kale chips!!! *salivates just thinking of them* :D

Congratulations on your awesome find!! :eek:

[margoss]

yes...kale chips, bananas, apples, tomatoes if you have any, anything that's about the go bad. I've made eggplant bacon, a few crackers...make sure you add enough water to the crackers. The flax will bind you like crazy if you don't. Speaking from experience and PAIN!
So manygreat things to do. I was the same way. So excited but didn't know what to do with it. I bought mine for the same price on CL...isn't it exciting!!

[January Noir]

I agree with Kale and Banana chips. Oh and you can't go wrong with Mango slices. Oh boy! :D.

[ArcturusXIV]

Why choose? Do all three!

Kale chips + flax crackers are best!

[Stina]

you really scored on that dehydrator! congrats!

oh check out that Tropigal thread for garlic bread; it's with jicama. it's a humdiner of a dehydrator recipe. it should be floating around right now

[ferb]

the cheesy kale chips, and onion rings (from the same sauce used on the kale chips) omgosh this is the best, my next batch of 'dip/sauce' I'm just going to refrigerate it and have it as a soup.
I've got a batch of onion rings and a small batch of kale chips going right now. this time though i'm leaving off the cayenne pepper on the chips it was just too overpowering crunching into a kale crisp and finding a glob of pure cayenne... not a good thing.

[laura-jane]

Go simple, just dehydrate some bananas! OMG to die for.

But if you want to get fancy, I'd make some crackers!

These are nice and full and filling-tasting:

EVERYBODY’S FAVORITE CRACKERS
(Boutenko)

1 cup soaked sunflower seeds
1 cup soaked walnuts
1 cup soaked almonds
1 tomato
1 cup red onion (chopped)
3 tablespoons flaxseed
3 teaspoons cumin seed
2 teaspoons salt

Mix in food processor or Champion Juicer with blank on. Spread on parchment paper or TefIon sheets. Make them very thin.

Then using a pizza cutter, cut in squares. They will be easier to break into pieces when dry.

Dehydration time is about 15 to 20 hours.

[ArcturusXIV]

Careful with bananas. When you're first going raw, they feed candida!