Cold drying of dried meat. Homemade dryer for dried sausage and basturma Step-by-step towers of the drying cabinet

It's no secret that I practically do all the workpieces in the electric dryer Vigor.

It is equipped with a heating element, fan and a row. When the retake is triggered at a given temperature, the heater and the fan turn off.

In the case of minimal set temperature values, inclusion occurs too rarely, with many types of recipes, just need to dry at room temperature.

Sew just on the breeze for too long, so I decided to assemble my dryer from the girlfriend.

The main elements of the future dryer were: plastic container and fan in the garage.

At the verge of the container cut the hole in the size of the fan.

Fitting fan is carried out on friction. Additional strengthening of silver tape.

Under the cover of the container cut holes in which I inserted pieces of a round head - these are crossbars to which meat will be suspended.

The future Basturma is suspended on the ropes opposite the fan. Then the top closes with a lid. I looked closely to the foil leaving the air outlet hole.

As a result, we get a closed volume with constantly circulating air. In this case, such a fan works very quietly and you can drive it around the clock. The drying time of the Basturma is significantly reduced, and various insects and animals will not get to meat.

At the same time there is no heating, and therefore the meat is not overwhelmed. This is especially true for sausages from which fat is inhapsing.

In principle, if there is a desire to dry by something with simultaneous heating, the dryer can be supplemented with watt incandescent lamp by 50.

This is such a fairly simple in the manufacture of the dryer I got.

In the following articles, the beef beef recipes and the raw sausage dried in this dryer will be recipes.

The dehydrator is a device that is a dryer for products (greenery, fish, meat, mushrooms, nuts, vegetables and fruits). Also, this device can be used to prepare a healthier (dried, without any other processing) food, such as various desserts, loafs from germinated cereals, cookies, chips, and so on. Handicraft lovers create dry floral bouquets with a device, pier-mache, herbarium, and other decorative crafts. Dehydration of products in the device occurs due to the action of warm air, infrared or sun rays.

The store devices are quite expensive. They allow you to maintain a constant set temperature inside the drying chamber. Making a dehydrator with your own hands is an opportunity to save each opportunity to save on the instrument and get a device that allows you to quickly dry products in the required quantity.

The homemade dryer can be made from the old refrigerator. It will turn out a good dehydrator for fruits and vegetables.

Production algorithm

The process of manufacturing the drying unit from the refrigerator occurs according to the following scheme.

Gently dismantle the compressor, the radiator and the freezer, so as not to damage the tubes and avoid the leakage of the working substance (refrigerant).
Remove the inner trim and insulation, leaving a sealing gum on the door.
In the place where the compressor was installed, the fan is mounted.
From above (on the roof) of the refrigerator make a hole under the pipe (enough two-meter segment with a diameter of 100 mm) or an aluminum corrugation with a length of 3 m, which is fixed with glue.
The hook is cling to the door, for reliable fixation.
They attach to the side walls of the box from the refrigerator with self-drawers or bolts wooden rails in about 10-20 cm so that shelves then put on them.
If there are any holes left, they close them.
To accelerate the drying process on the pipe or corrugation, put an exhaust.

The final design is shown in the photo below.

Nuances of creating design

Internal trim and insulation are removed, because plastic and foam plastic are decomposed with the release of harmful substances.

Dismantle the insulation follows gloves and respirator to protect against glass windows (if it served as insulation).

Since the remaining tin cabinet is not distinguished by a special rigidity, then its degree may need to be needed with the installation of a strut or an inner body from galvania.

To blow products allowed to use the usual exhaust fan With a capacity of 18 W, a diameter of 125 mm, only mounted to injected air inside. The installation of the fan heater will significantly speed up the entire process, increasing the performance of the installed installation. Instead of it to the back wall, you can attach one or two electric Tan The total capacity of up to two kW - then the device will work as an electric dryer. At the same time, the second exhaust fan should be installed at the top of the box.

A created unit can be used all year round. But if an ordinary fan is installed, then staining the housing in black, as well as the installation of the device in the Sun in the warm season contributes to increasing the temperature inside, which accelerates the entire process of drying products.

In order for the drill to be created effectively, it is necessary to ensure a good blowing product laid on the sheets. This is achieved by leaving the gap of 2 cm between the box and the door on one side, and the rear wall of the box on the other.

When using a refrigerator with conventional fans without installing heating elements, it is enough to remove only a compressor with a freezer and radiator. Thus, the grooves for installing the shelves remain, but if necessary, you need to add more. As a shelf You can apply:

grilles intended for the grill, but with cut-off handles;
metal sheets with twisted holes in them;
mesh with different cell size;
old mesh shelves from the refrigerator;
made of wire or wooden rails with lattice designs.

A variety of options for creating shelves for vegetables and other products is easy to come up with independently and make from well-made materials.

If the compressor is in a working condition, and the cooler circulation system is not damaged, these parts can be useful for creation.

Creating a dryer from a refrigerator occupies with the necessary parts and tools for several hours. The design can be improved in various ways, equipped, for example, by temperature sensors and the simplest automation system, or experimenting with the location of the fans. To protect yourself from penetration inside the drying apparatus of insects, it is necessary to close the ventilation holes mosquito net or gauzeFolded in 2 or 3 layers.

Homemade cabinet

The dehydrator can be made of a homemade cabinet in a manner similar to the previous one. Only instead of the refrigerator cameras here are the locker from plywood. This will require such materials:

plywood or chipboard, fiberboard;
wooden rails;
metal corners and selflessness;
aluminium foil;
electric heater;
2 fans;

Better apply instead of a separate Tan fan heater. Another fan will be usual, while working on the hood.

The cabinet must be arranged so to provide unhindered air circulation. It is collected in such a sequence.

Fans can be connected in parallel and turn on the switch. Also, the design can additionally be equipped with light bulbs showing installation operation. Fan heater is equipped built-in thermostat. It will automatically turn on the heating of the Tan. If necessary, you can turn off one helix to reduce the installation power.

Simple solar dryer for fruits and vegetables

The solar dryer can be made in various ways. Wherein no electricity costs: Vegetables or fruits are arched by the energy of sun rays. Dachnips fit the simplest construction, which can be done with a hammer, saws, stapler and scissors. The installation work is performed in the following sequence.

Collect the frame of the desired size, based on the required volumes of billets, for example, from wooden bars 50 by 50 mm.
Save it from the sides and behind plywood or boards.
The rear wall is squeezed from the inside with a metal sheet.
Color the inner part into black so that the air be heated is stronger.
At an angle, providing the best inhibition of sun rays, installed shelves made of grids, wires, plywood, tin, plastic and other materials.
In the upper and lower part of the design, the ventilation holes make the size of which must match the installation dimensions.
Close them marks or mosquito net to prevent insect penetration inside the drying cabinet.
The front of the box is made in the form of a frame attached on the canopy.
It is closed with glass, transparent plastic, polycarbonate or polyethylene film (fastening with a stapler).
Produce a support for a box of bars or metal pipes.

Also created design can be simply opens something to anything. Possible appearance is shown in the photo below.

In such a closet due to the heating of the metal sheet is achieved temperature 40-50 degrees. Ventilation ensures the removal of moisture released from fruit.

Solar Dehydrator with Collector

A more complex version of the solar dryer (demonstrated in the photo below) consists of two departments:

air heating zones consisting of a collector;
drying zones, where products are located.

The front parts of both zones are closed with transparent material, such as glass, polycarbonate.

Collectorit is a box, the bottom of which is covered in black with a thin sheet of metal. The heat insulator (mineral wool or sawdust) is placed under it to minimize heat loss. Air through the ventilation holes penetrates the heating zone. Next, it goes up through the shelves with the products and comes out.

By installing black tubes as an absorbent, for example, the painted aluminum corrugation, you can increase the temperature of the air to the collector.

In order for the device to work efficiently, it must be constantly kept the director to the Sun. If collectors are installed on three sides, then the need for rotation disappears, such a drying unit will work all day. All the gaps close up with a sealant.

Solar dryer with fan and thermostat

To create a working automated model with a length of 1 m, 0.6 m height and a width of 0.53 m, the following materials will be needed:

glass;
wooden bars and rails;
plywood;
metal corners;
aluminum sheet;
fan with a diameter of 120 mm voltage by 12 V;
grid against mosquitoes;
thermostat (for example, W1209), consisting of a temperature controller and thermostat;
voltage stabilizer with chip KR142EN8B;
solar battery, outstanding voltage of 12 V;
metal grid for pallets.

The scheme of the device is presented in the photo below.

The design algorithm is the following.

According to the scheme above, a frame of bars and plywood is collected, connecting individual elements with self-draws, metal corners.
Seal the housing made.
The wheels are attached to the bottom (with a diameter of 40-100 mm), so that it is convenient to turn the structure to the sun.
Make the back door of the glass so that the products can be laid, as well as watch the process of their drying.
Install 7 cm seven shelves.
Make shelves from mosquito or steel mesh and rails.
The aluminum sheet is placed on the collector panel, painting it with a pre-black heat-resistant paint.
Mounted fan from above.
Collect the electrical chain, connecting the stabilizer, solar panel, thermostat and fan, as shown in the diagram below.
Customize the controller to the required operating temperature.

The door must be tightly closed so that insects do not penetrate inside.

The stabilizer is needed to maintain a constant voltage on the contacts of the fan of 12 V. Further improvement of the created design possible by fan speed adjustment. The device is recommended to rotate so that the collector and the battery is constantly lit by sunlight.

Assembling infrared dryer

For mushrooms, vegetables, nuts and fruits, an infrared dryer is suitable. It's easy enough to make it yourself. For this, you will need the following materials:

iron wire with a diameter of 5 to 8 mm;
cardboard box, for example, from vacuum cleaner;
aluminium foil;
metal grid;
cartridge under the light bulb;
awl;
screwdriver;
self-tapping screw;
cartridge for a conventional light bulb with fasteners;
thermometer;
infrared light;
aluminum scotch or glue.

Installation is created in the following sequence.

The insides of the box are placed by aluminum foil using tape or glue.
Shelves made from the grid to the size of the box.
On any wall near the bottom, the hole is made under the feed wire and fix the cartridge screws.
Screw the infrared light bulb.
A thermometer is attached to any sidewall.
Cut the wire into pieces, which in length larger the width of the box approximately 5 mm.
Spread holes in the sidewalls under the rods for racks.
Insert the wire in them and the protruding ends of the scotch are sticking outside.
Stay racks.

As a result, after all manipulations, an installation is obtained similar to those represented in the photo below.

The lid can serve as side parts from the box, or it is made separately from the same cardboard. If there is a desire to automate the design, then you should use temperature sensor. Under its control, the light will turn on automatically.

Also in the created structure, you can use the incandescent lamp (sufficient power equals 60 W) or heating filmused to create warm floors. In the latter case, at home, a piece of 50 per 100 cm with a power of 110 W. In the general case, the length of the fragment is selected by the box used.

When using the film, you will need:

insulation, for example, bituminous, used when creating warm floors;
the kit consisting of 2 clamps, two chalks and the so many terminals of the rings, which is designed to connect the power to the film.

The PVC tape is laid on the bitumen insulation. To connect the film, you will need to solder wires and contacts.

Such a dryer allows you to achieve temperatures of almost 60 degrees. It can be turned into a roll and lay on the bottom of the box made previously specified.

Dehydrator for meat and fish with your own hands

The dryer for meat and fish is easy to make a plastic container. To do this, you will need:

fan;
plastic container equipped with a lid;
steel bars with a cross section of 5 mm or hairpins with carving washers and nuts;
trim pipe or coupling.

The entire process of making a dehydrator for rising fish, meat and sucking of other products from a plastic container is demonstrated in video:

A dehydrator for fish, meat, vegetables, fruits and other products to collect is easy from the girlfriend: plywood, boxes, refrigerators. For blowing, various workers are working old fans. In each case, you will need, of course, think over the way they are consolidated, but the economic costs will be reduced. In small installations, you can use the fan from the computer, after providing the desired supply voltage. If you automate the dryer, then it can compete with factory analogues. When drying meat and fish it is necessary to prevent the possibility of penetrating flies into the inside of the installation so that they do not spoil the products.

I got a new toy - made a dehydrator.
"What kind of crap is this?" you ask. Ohhhh, this is a thing!
If you say with a Russian and understandable language, then this is an ordinary dryer. Such freely sold on the Internet and household appliances stores.
As it works, air is driven out of the room in the drying chamber, which then comes out of a special opening, carrying out the particles of the liquid from the product.
Mostly fruits, berries, mushrooms, thin slices of meat and even fish.
The most well-known apparatus in Russia - "Sukhov" - in many families there is such. But what happened to me is a truly universal thing!
I'll tell you immediately, the idea is not mine! I have LJ FRENDS there are capable)) King Sausage and Cheese Peter Pachom last year described in detail and told how to make a dehydrator. I remembered the idea, and then for some reason he constantly stumbled that something should be dried, but nothing.
No, before, I calmly used the oven for these purposes - included convection without temperature. Or if I wanted to quickly - convection, the minimum temperature and a partitioned door.
Now, Hehe, I no longer - I do not have the oven (temporarily temporarily, for half a year and xs when it appears). So make a drying drawer are very necessary.
The second magic Pendel in favor of the Dehydrator happened from the hare - I'm periodically, and everything would be nothing, but the picnic and garden season began - in the house permanent guests and forever cramped with saucepans and bowls. Allocate the whole shelf for dried meat, I just do not have the opportunity.
Therefore, everything, boys, I collected a dehydrator! On the knee, pink tools and female hands right in the middle of the living room)))
The hare peered his feats with a fence and a normal screwdriver in his hands did not give me - he was needed himself, so he helped me only at the very end.

That NNNADA:

plastic container or drawer to lid
threaded rod on M6 or M8
nuts and washers suitable for rod diameter
ventilation grille
fan for forced exhaust

All this good cost me a little more than a thousand rubles: 516 rubles a huge boxing on wheels and 700 rubles of components (4 kg of nails for a suddenly fallen fence). Forced exhaust can be found and cheaper, and the nuts do not need so much.

Forced exhaust, we are located at the bottom - place the place. The ventilation grille is located from the drawing as far as possible - ideally on the lid of the box, but my cover was uneven, so the place for the grid will be on the opposite wall from the hood at the top. Also mark the place under the hole. (If anyone is interested, I drew it a special special for glass, but you can use the marker or scratch something sharp).

Cut the holes for hood and ventilation grille. Actually, it is easiest to do this with a special round saw-crown - the largest diameter of 10 cm, just all the embedded hoods and the lattices are such a size. BUT! The screwdriver was busy, and the drill I was ashamed. There was a thought to use the jigsaw - was afraid that plastic could crack. I went longer, labor, but accurate and neat way. An ordinary manual drill and a thin drill endowed around the perimeter of the holes of the holes (under the bottom put a piece of rubber so that the floor is not spoiled, and the paper is better visible to the border).
And then the ordinary kitchen knife cut the jumpers between the holes. If the knife heat the lighter - the case will go somewhat more fun.
Insert the ventilation grille into place, the hood is also installed, there are still special holes under fasteners. (Dada, in the frame Men's hands - the hare came to shake into the process, distribute valuable advice and melted over pink passages.)

On the side of the box along the upper part, we stick the greasy tape and make marking under the hole for the rod. Drill (Daaaa, with a screwdriver much faster).

It remains to cut the threaded bar for the desired length. The shortest rod in the store is a meter. I would just saw in half, but the hare offered not to leave sticking long ends. While I thoughted to go to the neighbor on the carbonate and ask for help with the Bulgarian (for thanks, of course), the hare saw everything in the metal.

It remains to insert the rods into the prepared holes and secure them with nuts and washers. Alternatively, instead of ordinary nuts, you can turn the lamb nuts - so the rods will be more convenient to shoot, if you have to dry something volumetric.

EVERYTHING, Drying Box - Dehydrator Ready!

Now the first launch!
Here, for example, the easiest recipe of dried chicken fillet.
Chicken fillet remove from the bone, clean from the skin, films, if we rinse and dry with napkins or a towel.
Sea large salt mix with large black pepper. There you can add a broken dry chili pen, a twig of dried sage or rosemary. And for a tasty flavor and thin taste to splash on 2 kg of salt one third of a glass of brandy or port wine.

We take suitable capacity for salting. I am currently using a big bowl, and insert a colander - inserting a salt - the salt is worst, but the liquid with chicken is better stalking.

At the bottom, we smear the salt with spices and alcohol and layers lay a chicken fillet, speaking salt. We also fall asleep with a salt mixture. If not enough - just pour a pair of grieving spray salt.

We put in a cool place for 8-12 hours. During this time, meat is imposed, absorbs spices aromas and becomes rubber.
We rinse, wipe off from excess water, sit on the hook (ordinary chrome hooks for kitchen rails approached perfectly) and hang in the box on the rods (and you can hang for the twine).

Turn on the outlet and "forget" for the day-night. Of course, it will not be possible to forget - in the room where such an aggregate will work, it will be very pleasant to smell with dried meat, spices and brandy)) Well, the forced hood is buzzing a little bit. Not the way in the toilet - there the ventilation shaft resonates. And then quietly so noise like a cooler in the system unit.

Here, the difference in appearance - meat after singing and after a day of richness.

To taste - absolutely the same as as if I were, but much faster. If you go further, the factory fillet can be cut into slices, decompose on the grille, install on the rods in the dehydrator and tap to a translucent state.

Now about why this box is universal:
You can dry there everything is any fruits and vegetables, pieces of meat.
You can put a grille with parchment on the rods and dried smaller products - mushrooms and berries.
In such a box, you can shove the whole stick of the sausage and it is pretty drying. Yes, many enjoy dry or adapted to drying airhril, but try to shove 30 centimeters of sausages or a whole Baranoga!
An indisputable plus drawer - the product is closed in it about all sides. You can install ventilation with dampers and make a dehydrator practically sealed.
Muh protection 100%! And how else neatly and safely turn the fish?
The box is compact enough, but the roomy - it's not a question for 8-9 kg of meat at a time!
If it suddenly needs warm air inside - you can put a rug for reptile on the bottom and set the desired temperature.
Well, and also a bonus - score a bottle box with frozen water, turn on the outlet and get "air conditioning" for all night
Express drying of socks for themselves invent))))

And you can still refine the design with a special adapter with a timer - let the hood turn on-turns off through the specified gaps.

And finally, why Dancing Dancing Dancing? Such a name gave a dehydrator of the hare, when the driver was injured in the kitchen to the kitchen to drink, and under the smooth buzz of the fan in a translucent drawer, the dried chicken was having fun, every piece in itself)))

The dehydrator is my first step towards cold smoke and sausages. Soon there will be new experiments!
Pleasy!