Author: Judy Vaughn
Planning Unit: Estill County CES
Major Program: Food Preparation and Preservation
Plan of Work: Health and Wellness
Outcome: Initial Outcome
Estill County Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Agent presented a dehydration preservation workshop to a total of fourteen participants. The participants experience, before the program, ranged from zero experience to very little experience. The participants learned the safe way to prepare and store jerky, fruits, and vegetables. Fifty percent of the participants learned the technique of blanching, checking the skin, and conditioning. Ninety-three percent of the participants identified proper ways to store the dehydrated foods. Eighty percent of participants identified research-based methods of home food preservation because of the program. Seventy-eight percent of participants identified various methods for dehydrating foods.
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