Morgan Rogue 11.04.22
Making your individual dried powdered eggs at house is so much simpler than folks assume!
If you occur to have a freeze dryer, you’ll be capable of make and retailer dry eggs for a lot of, a few years.
If you’re like me and might’t afford a freeze dryer (but), I do what I can with my dehydrator.
Dehydrating eggs is a good way to protect eggs for longer intervals of time.
Will dehydrated eggs final so long as freeze dried eggs?
No. But that’s okay! It can nonetheless final between 5-10 years should you bundle them in mylar with an oxygen absorber.
Preserve your individual eggs along with your dehydrator at house!
Here’s how you can dehydrate eggs:
First, seize your eggs and cook dinner them! I don’t advocate dehydrating uncooked eggs. Cook them first. Don’t cook dinner in butter or oil or the rest. Just plain scrambled eggs.
Next, add them to your dehydrating tray within the smallest items attainable. The smaller the items, the faster the dehydrating course of.
Finally, place the entire trays within the dehydrator. If your dehydrator has a temperature setting, set it to 145 levels F. It’ll take some time to utterly dry. Usually 8-10. When they’re finished, they are going to be crispy and break aside. If some items are having a troublesome time dehydrating, break them up and maintain dehydrating. You can’t over-dehydrate eggs. We wish to be sure they’re absolutely dried.
Once utterly dried, place them in a blender or meals processor or another pummeling machines, or perhaps a mortar and pestle if that’s all you’ve. Grind the dried eggs up right into a powder.
Place the powdered eggs right into a mylar bag with oxygen absorber and warmth seal.
All finished!
How to rehydrate dehydrated eggs:
Mix 2 tbsp of dehydrated eggs to 2 tbsp of heat/sizzling water. Mix it up actually good. Let sit for about 5 minutes. If it doesn’t reconstitute all the best way, add in a tiny bit extra water (1 tsp at a time, and even much less) and blend once more and let sit one other couple of minutes to thicken.
How to make use of dehydrated eggs:
Dehydrated eggs might be rehydrated and fried up like scrambled eggs. Or they are often rehydrated and added to baked items instead of recent eggs. They can be utilized in any cooking recipes that requires recent eggs.
I like to recommend rehydrating the eggs first earlier than including to any recipe so you possibly can be sure to’re not draining the recipe of any wanted moisture and also you’re including the correct amount of eggs.
Enjoy!
