[Dailydrool] Sweet Potato (Yam) chip variations- sounds easy, try 'em!

[Kathleen Jones]

Okay, I got busy & have yet to try 'em. Bad Mommie. But I've been collecting info helpful Droolers sent me and this weekend will experiment.

The tech at our vet's makes 'em for his young Golden, Zeke.  Zeke is red-gold & goofy like Maestro. They are friends. He will vouch for Zeke's judgement.   He gets his yams

 washed, dried, unpeeled 
 sliced into 1/4"  thick coins, and 
baked at the lowest possible oven, about 150 to 200 degrees. 
 Apparently, it can take hours & will vary with the potato size & oven temp.  Chewy or crispy, Zeke will eat them. I'd guess that any Basset would too.

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It's looking like it's pretty hard to goof.  In this one, they slice lengthwise & bake at 250.

http://www.dogtreatkitchen.com/sweet-potato-dog-chew.html


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A big thank you to Cindy Heron for this idea.   These would make handy sized training treats!  .I may even try the bite size piece idea on a low oven. (The dehydrator is in the attic...)

 Peel them, cut them up into bite size pieces and put them in a food dehydrator until they are dried out.  My dogs love them.

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Several kind  Droolers sent me a version from Alexa Paul. THANKS to all!  I know she has experience feeding LOTS of Bassets! :-)  It has a higher cooking temp than the others:


"You know these are sooooo easy to make and GOOD for your Bassets and...you just can't go wrong. 

Each oven is different and sometimes the cooking time just is different...I have undercooked em and cooked them till they are black and little...and..the dogs love them all no matter what!

Never have seen a recipefor them but this is how I make them:

Sweet Potato or Yam Treats

I buy ours from Costco a huge warehouse kinda store here..cheaper and they come in a box easy to carry.

Turn your oven to about 325 or 350
Dump all the yams and sweet potatoes into the sink. spray them with water, brush off the outside .
Then slice them into rounds. Thick or thin it does not matter. I just try and not slice myself.Uhh say not more than 1/4" thick. You will get really good at it..just go slow on the first couple of yams.
Get them onto a cookie rack on a big cookie tin. If I don't want to hunt for the cookie cooling rack Just stack the rounds against the edge of the pan and then tip them all up around the pan so that they get air under and around them. If you want you could put some canola on the pans surface so they don't stick

You could use a hydrator too...but I find that the oven works great.

Just leave them in for a couple of hours..and check em. Cook them until they look done. According to a recipe I found once it said to bake them overnight at 200.  I found that they are just something I need to look in on evey so often. I have forgotten them before and actually burned them...but even so the dogs love them even if you cook them rock hard and dark brown.

It just depends is all on the oven and the yams. The dogs dont care..just so they are cooked enough to not be hard (they WILL eat them then even..but too hard to digest if they are raw) 

Then just put them in to bake. (if you have a hydrator then that's good too)
Its so easy. Makes the house smell good too. You can do a little or a lot..one thing I've found tho..that I always do at least two pans full because I am always sorry I didn't take an extra few minutes to make it really worth my while. They love them sooo much they go WILD for em. 
When I first start giving them to a rescue dog (who may never have had any treets and do not trust you are actually are giving them a thing to be eatten) I show themthe treet..let em smell it and then take a bite myself. Then offer. Then just put it down..on the floor or in their dish...on the pillow where they sleep..just act like it doesn't matter.
Then...say ok. If that's all they want. Then go.
They will be driven crazy by their nose to try it.
lol
Works every time.
Good luck! It is sooooo fun to make homemade treets which if you were to buy them would cost soooooooooooooooooooo much money and probably have bad ingredients in em besides!
YAY!

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Kathleen Jones 
& Maestro ( So just MAKE SOME, already!)
Fezziwig the Cavalier 
(w/Henry Wadsworth & Bentley Basset ATB)



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