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Dry 6 Different Types of Things - food.straw.drythings PEP BB

BB Food Prep and Preservation - straw badge
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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the straw badge in Food Prep and Preservation

For this badge bit, you will dry 6 different types of things!


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Minimum requirements for this BB:
-Dry Six Different Types of Things ( each type only once)
  - Herbs - ½ lbs fresh weight
  - Veggies - 5 lbs fresh weight  
      - For soups and stews and such
      - As “chips”
  - Mushrooms - 5 lbs fresh weight
  - Meat (aka jerky) fresh weight - 10 lbs
      - Cold smoking allowed
  - Sauces - 1 qt
  - Cookies and crackers and such - 2 lbs dry weight
  - Energy bars (grains, dried fruit, sweetener, oil, nut butter) - 5 lbs dry weight
  - For flour (ex. Squash or acorn flour) - 2 lbs dry weight
  - Fruits - 10 lbs fresh weight

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide proof of the following as pictures or video (<2 mins):
   - each thing you're drying at their required fresh weight (see requirements above for each item)
   - progress of drying each item
   - finished drying each of the six things
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Can the food that I am drying for my foraging sand badge count double here?
 
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Yes, since they're for different badges they usually can mesh up in cases like this.

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Can I use more than one variety of one type to totaled weight?

Herbs: yarrow, chamomile, borage, mint: total fresh weight of 1/2#
Veggies: onion, rhubarb, garlic, potato: total fresh weight of 5#
Sauce: chicken broth, beef broth: fresh 1quart
Meat: ground beef, ground sausage; total fresh weight 10#
Cookies: apple oatmeal, chocolate oatmeal
Fruits: apples, pears, crabapple for a total of 10#

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Yes I believe you can.  Although I don't think broths would work well nor would the likely count as sauces.  I think turning apple sauce into fruit leather would be what they're after...

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Would homemade granola count under energy bars?

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WOO HOO! First one to post this bb. For your easy reference, I reposted requirements for the 6 items here:

-Dry Six Different Types of Things ( each type only once)
 - Herbs - ½ lbs fresh weight
 - Veggies - 5 lbs fresh weight  
     - For soups and stews and such
     - As “chips”
 - Mushrooms - 5 lbs fresh weight
 - Meat (aka jerky) fresh weight - 10 lbs
     - Cold smoking allowed
 - Sauces - 1 qt
 - Cookies and crackers and such - 2 lbs dry weight
 - Energy bars (grains, dried fruit, sweetener, oil, nut butter) - 5 lbs dry weight
 - For flour (ex. Squash or acorn flour) - 2 lbs dry weight
 - Fruits - 10 lbs fresh weight

  - each thing you're drying at their required fresh weight (see requirements above for each item)
  - progress of drying each item
  - finished drying each of the six things
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over 1 pound of mint
over 1 pound of mint
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mint drying on a cookie sheet
mint drying on a cookie sheet
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apricots on the scale
apricots on the scale
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apricots drying
apricots drying
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jars of dried apricots
jars of dried apricots
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apples on a scale, 5 lbs
apples on a scale, 5 lbs
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apples, 2nd 5 lbs.
apples, 2nd 5 lbs.
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applesauce drying
applesauce drying
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the apples turned into sauce, then fruit leather, then sliced for eating
the apples turned into sauce, then fruit leather, then sliced for eating
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the flax cracker prep
the flax cracker prep
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flax crackers in the dehydrator
flax crackers in the dehydrator
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over 2 pounds dried weight crackers
over 2 pounds dried weight crackers
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flax crackers stored
flax crackers stored
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1st batch of meat (venison backstraps) 5 lbs
1st batch of meat (venison backstraps) 5 lbs
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2nd 5 lbs of meat, front leg pieces
2nd 5 lbs of meat, front leg pieces
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drying in dehydrator
drying in dehydrator
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all the meat stored
all the meat stored
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5 pounds of vegetables tomatoes
5 pounds of vegetables tomatoes
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tomatoes drying
tomatoes drying
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tomatoes, some in the last of my jars, some in mylar bags
tomatoes, some in the last of my jars, some in mylar bags
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The correct herb, mint in its labeled jar
The correct herb, mint in its labeled jar

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Staff note (Nikki Roche) :

Great job! I *think* this is just a matter of mislabeled photos, but your herb photos are described as mint while the finished jar says stinging nettle. Can you provide clarification or an edit of your photo descriptions?

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Paul Fookes approved this submission.
Note: I certify this BB complete.  Well done.  Great detail

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Congratulations Rebekah, this is a great example to follow for other permies following on.

 
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Minimum requirements for this BB:
-Dry Six Different Types of Things ( each type only once)
  - Herbs - ½ lbs fresh weight
  - Veggies - 5 lbs fresh weight  
      - For soups and stews and such
      - As “chips”
  - Mushrooms - 5 lbs fresh weight
  - Meat (aka jerky) fresh weight - 10 lbs
      - Cold smoking allowed
  - Sauces - 1 qt
  - Cookies and crackers and such - 2 lbs dry weight
  - Energy bars (grains, dried fruit, sweetener, oil, nut butter) - 5 lbs dry weight
  - For flour (ex. Squash or acorn flour) - 2 lbs dry weight
  - Fruits - 10 lbs fresh weight

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide proof of the following as pictures or video (<2 mins):
   - each thing you're drying at their required fresh weight (see requirements above for each item)
   - progress of drying each item
   - finished drying each of the six things


This took a while to do!  Figuring out how to do wet things was tricky.  Used a paper grocery bag for the crackers in the solar dehydrator and a cast iron skillet for the apple sauce roll-ups.

Edit to add info:
The 6 different types of food I dried were:
Herbs - anise hyssop
Veggies - kale
Mushrooms - shiitake
Sauces - apple
Crackers - crackers
For flour - squash
Herb-weighed.jpg
Herb weighed
Herb weighed
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herb drying
herb drying
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herb dry
herb dry
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sauce ingredients
sauce ingredients
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sauce drying
sauce drying
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sauce drying2
sauce drying2
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sauce dry
sauce dry
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cracker going into dehydrator
cracker going into dehydrator
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crackers drying
crackers drying
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crackers dry
crackers dry
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vegetable (kale)
vegetable (kale)
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kale dry (tray is enamel)
kale dry (tray is enamel)
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Mushrooms
Mushrooms
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mushroom weight (11.6 lbs)
mushroom weight (11.6 lbs)
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mushrooms drying
mushrooms drying
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mushrooms dry
mushrooms dry
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squash ready
squash for flour ready
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squash in dehydrator
squash for flour in dehydrator
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squash dried
squash for flour dried

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Rebekah Harmon flagged this submission as an edge case.
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Note: Hello, my dear Mike! It seems to me that you have two of the same type of things. Squash and kale are both veggies. Or are you going for the squash being a fruit? in which case, I believe it would need to be 10 lbs. fresh weight

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