Tuesday, January 29

 
Howstuffworks "How Food Preservation Works"

Another stellar presentation from the brains (Marshall Brain, that is) at HowStuffWorks.com. Topic for today: How refrigeration, freezing, canning, irradiation, dehydration, freeze-drying, salt, pickling, pasteurization, fermentation and other forms of food preservation work. The explanations are clear and in the case of current hot topic irradiation, temperate. There's a lot to go through, but if you're looking for a new way to handle your garden's overproduction, or to more successfully freeze the products from that 20-point buck you shot last season, this is the place to find it.
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