Blending and drying your own vegetables - oven drying?

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Blending and drying your own vegetables - oven drying?

Post by finchbob » Sat Sep 19, 2009 1:52 pm

I've blended up a load of cabbage, broccoli, spinach and carrots and blanched it, now I need to dry it, anyone know how long it takes to dry in the oven? The guide I've found says like 10 hours but I think that's for whole vegetables, not the tiny finch edible pieces i've created.
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Re: Blending and drying your own vegetables - oven drying?

Post by finchbob » Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:22 pm

Dehydrating it atm in an oven, on for 4 hours so far. Does ayone else do this to feed veg to their birds? I made a lot of it so I can store it in an air tight container and feed small amounts to my birds every daily.
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Re: Blending and drying your own vegetables - oven drying?

Post by L in Ontario » Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:28 pm

I've never dried out any foods.
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Re: Blending and drying your own vegetables - oven drying?

Post by Ursula » Sat Sep 19, 2009 7:00 pm

I never did that either.

I give mine frozen veggies though. The small portion that they get thaws within 20 seconds or so in the micro wave... It's an easy and quick way to privide them with fresh food.
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Re: Blending and drying your own vegetables - oven drying?

Post by cindy » Sat Sep 19, 2009 10:33 pm

I give fresh, finely chopped greens/veggies done in the food processor.

They get dry greens in their ABBA92 egg food and their seed.

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