I am leaving for 4 days on the AT this Tuesday. I have 2 lbs of ground beef that was bouth that needs to be "dehydrated". first let me say, i do not have a dehydrator, nor am I planning on getting one. i looked at the ones locally and nothing was worth spending my money. I would rather buy a bette runit, but since I leave in 3 days, ordering is not an option...
So, I am left with my over. My over goes down to 170. How can I dehydrate lean beef in my oven? A lot of folks say prop the oven door open and just let some of th heat escape. That seems a little silly as you would use alot of energy because the oven would be going contstantly to counteract. My thought was, instead of browning then dehydrating, let the oven do some of the cooking. Perhaps cook at like 250 until cooked, then drop th eheat to 170 and finally kill the oven an dlet the residual thermal energy do its thing... But I don't know. I have never done this before.
Also I read a tip saying to mix in bread crumbs or panko to assist with the rehydration. IS this a pretty common practice among you dehydrators?