Success StoryDehydrating Food Preserving



Dehydrating Food Preserving

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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