The Solar Food Dryer
How to Make and Use Your Own High-Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator
1st Edition
Published on 16. May 2023
143 pages
978-1-55092-415-2 (ISBN)
Description
The Solar Food Dryer describes how to use solar energy to dry your food instead of costly electricity. With your own solar-powered food dryer, you can quickly and efficiently dry all your extra garden veggies, fruits and herbs to preserve their goodness all year long-with free sunshine! Applicable to a wide geography-wherever gardens grow-this well illustrated book includes:
- Complete step-by step plans for building a high-performance, low-cost solar food dryer from readily-available materials
- solar energy design concepts
- food drying tips and recipes
- resources, references, solar charts, and more.
- A Mother Earth News Book for Wiser Living -
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Eben V. Fodor
The Solar Food Dryer
How to Make Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator
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01/2006
New Society Publishers
€34.87
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Eben V. Fodoris a professional community planning consultant, and an environmentalist, civic activist, and grassroots organizer from Eugene, Oregon. He has been in the middle of the urban growth controversy for the past ten years.
Content
- Front Cover
- Advance Praise
- Title Page
- Rights Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Food Drying is More Fun in the Sun!
- Chapter 2: Harvesting Solar Energy
- Chapter 3: Design Considerations for Solar Dryers
- Chapter 4: Complete Instructions for Making Your Own Solar Food Dryer
- Chapter 5: Putting Your Solar Dryer to Work
- Chapter 6: Favorite Dried Food Recipes
- Sun Path Charts
- Useful Solar Data
- Handy Conversion Factors for Solar Energy
- Glossary of Terms for Solar Energy
- Resources for Solar Food Drying
- Index
- About the Author
