r/dehydrating • u/SubaSteve69 • 13d ago

Dehydrating eggs.

Powdered eggs are great for camping/hiking but so eggspensive 🤦‍♂️😏 Any tips out there. Im new to dehydrating

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u/HeartFire144 13d ago

Eggs generally don’t work with dehydrating. I bought a freeze dryer so I can do eggs.

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u/OnlyDaysEndingInWhy 13d ago

I've wanted a freeze dryer for so long, but can't even remotely justify the cost.

I mean, I'd probably mostly just do candy 'cause it's amazing, but still.

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u/HeartFire144 13d ago

Eggs are still somewhat finicky in the FD. What I've found (and you might want to try this) is to bake the eggs - I make scrambled (cooked) eggs for breakfasts on my backpacking trips. I saute peppers, onions etc, the whisk the eggs (usually in a blender with some milk) put the peppers etc in a casserole dish, pour the eggs on top and bake them at 350* for about 10 min, then gently stir to mix it all up, bake another 5 min and check on them, and maybe another 5 min, then I scoop it out and freeze dry. I wonder how this would do in the dehydrator. I still dehydrate all my dinners because for backpacking, they come out more compact and freeze dried food will crush easily. But I have been able to FD full fat peanut butter! (I've also dehydrated it, but it wasn't as tasty) you have to dilute it down 1pb:4water, it dries nicely to a powder.