When longtime friends Jenny Daniher and Cathy Owen needed $300 to start a new hobby, they raised money selling jars of homemade strawberry and rhubarb jam.
Their sales at a local market in Braidwood, southern NSW, funded cooking equipment to make black garlic, an umami-rich ingredient they were curious about.
The women bought a basic benchtop dehydrator, which "spewed out" heat but happened to m...