This amount of dehydrated rice feeds 8 people.
Why would I dehydrate rice you ask? My new passion is dehydrated meals – – it’s serious fun. Rice is a wonderful base for these shelf-stable meals.
You could buy store-bought instant rice, but it’s repulsive and expensive. Not a great combo. Home-dehydrated rice is just like fresh cooked after re-dehydration, and it’s extremely inexpensive! I buy my rice in 25 pound bags from Costco, which comes out to be 33 cents a pound.
Rice is one of the easiest things you can dehydrate. I simply double the rice I cook each time I cook some up, and dehydrate half. This is good for meals-in-a-jar, convenience, or for emergency purposes. You should be thinking about storing staples like rice in case of an emergency.
Before dehydration: 
After dehydration:
To dehydrate, just spread cooled rice on dehydrating trays, and set on 135 for about 5 hours. You know it’s done when the rice is crunchy and there is no evidence of water in your rice. Store in jars or vacuum sealed bags.
Great piece!
I really want to try this. Could just boiling water make it ready to eat?
Then, what if I don’t have a dehydrator but have to make quite a quantity?
I figure it’d be good for school.