I tried an experiment the other day. Since I’m using so much ginger lately with my drink each night, I wanted to see if there was a way to store it long-term rather than having to buy a hunk of root every three or four days. And, since 3 Bears had a huge selection of amazingly large ginger root, I went ahead and bought two nice big sections and gave my dehydrator a whirl.
I did not peel them. Some people said you have to, others say it’s not necessary. I guess it’s up to you whether or not you peel before you use it. Since I’m just boiling it, I see no reason why I should expend the effort to peel it and so leave it on.
When I make my tea each night, I typically slice the ginger quite thin – so that’s what I did for the dehydrator. Turns out, that was not a good thing to do. I should have cut it maybe a quarter of an inch thick. Certainly, no thinner than an eighth of an inch. My nice big (albeit thin) slices of ginger turned into tiny little crumpled up balls of ginger. They look funny – but I’m thinking they’ll still work for boiling. I will have to play with the amount of water I use, since a lot of it will have to go in to rehydrating the ginger.
I’ll try it again later on and see if cutting it thicker works better.
You might try grating it and letting it air dry or put in an air fryer briefly. It has worked well with other things I would expect it would with Ginger.
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