ISO: Dehydrator Recipes

[RustyStickers]

I recently acquired a food dehydrator. I have made some things for us (humans) but am interested in recipes for my dogs. So far, I've dried sweet potatoes, apples and chicken breasts for them. Rusty is allergic to beef, oats, barley, lamb, duck & rabbit. I would appreciate any recipes! TIA

[sassymaxmom]

I pureed equal amounts of cooked sweet potato and raw ground turkey to make a very pretty SP/T leather for the dogs. Spread the glop evenly on wax paper, dry until top is dry, flip and carefully pull off the paper, finish drying. Slices of beef liver can be treated the same way. If liver is raw it comes out chewy, if you cook it first it breaks up easily for training treats. Whether this works all the time or I was careful enough doing it I don't know but no failures yet. I usually dry stuff in the garage, an especially good idea when drying liver!

If you see long tendons that aren't beef at the ethnic market you can dry them for chews. Short ones would be swallowing hazards and I only see short tendon bits in markets around here but I have bought long ones from a dog meat guy.

If I found washed tripe at the market for cheap I might cut into large strips and dry them. In the garage! It isn't as good as green tripe but it also isn't as stinky. Just thought of that one. Maybe once the dried tendons are gone I will try it.

[RustyStickers]

Thanks for your reply. I like the idea of the cooked sweet potato and ground turkey. I have a jerky gun that I use to make jerky for us. I was going to just fill the gun with ground raw chicken or turkey and dry it like I normally do for our jerky but a friend told me it won't dry properly without something added to the ground meat to hold it as a binder. That it would just crumble if I do that?

[sassymaxmom]

If it works for your jerky why wouldn't it work for the dog jerky? What is different? Try a little but put it on a sheet so it won't make a mess if it does crumble. Won't go to waste, dog will eat it no matter how odd it looks to us.

The sweet potato/turkey leather was great, it tore easily and stayed together just fine. Max eats prey model raw so haven't made any combinations lately.

[Lisa_j]

I freeze raw liver and slice it frozen and place on the dehydrator until it is crisp. I also freeze pig, cow, or mutton lung, slice it frozen and dehydrate it, my pack loves it! I have also bought fresh rabbit ears and feet and dehydrate those.

[gorge77]

i've dehydrated kale chips. cut the leaves into small pieces & marinate it with coconut oil, ACV & sea salt.

a very crispy & healthy treat.