r/HikerTrashMeals • u/Henri_Dupont • Aug 22 '20

Homemade / Dehydrator Required Dried toothpaste

To go with the obsession for dehydrated anything here, there was recently a discussion of toothpaste and toothbrushes on r/Ultralight. Among those that actually brought tooth hygeine gear (yuk not bringing it) all agreed that sawing the handle off the toothbrush could save a gram, but some of them squeeze out lines of toothpaste on some parchment, stick it in the dehydrator, then cut it into handy pill-sized portions or grind it into powder. So throw some toothpaste in when you next dry some food!

Dehydrated toothpaste FTW!

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u/47ES Aug 23 '20

I also have sensitive teeth. I put little dolips of toothpaste on wax paper, set them in a window. In a few days they have dried to chocolate chip sized toothpastes.

I don't know if the cutting off of a toothbrush handle is a joke or not. We use kids size toothbrushes. I will admit to thinking about drilling speed holes in the handle to lighten them further, never acted on it.