What are you dehydrating?

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What are you dehydrating?

Post by preppingsu »

Well, I mentioned it might be good to start a new thread about dehydrating so here we go.

I'll kick off with some apple I'm doing today.
Standard bag of apples from the supermarket, lemon juice, corer.
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Core and then slice the apples. Put them into apple juice and water, stops them going too brown.
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Dry slightly ( use kitchen paper or tea towel) and arrange on tray from dehydrator.
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This bag of apples filled 3 trays.
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These should take about 9 hours. I'll add some more photos later.
I have made some before sprinkled with cinnamon which makes a nice change.

Apologies for the size of photo, taken with iPad!!!! :roll:

Finished product. Will be stored in a Kilner jar.
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Thanks for sharing. :)

A deyhydrator is on my wish list.
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Nice one, one of my favourites are dried banana :D
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With a big sexy dehydrator like that one you can probably leave the food to dry by itself. With my westfalia £35 one, i have to stay in and check it and move stuff around, rearrange the trays during the process.
Must get more money and get more toys, erm, I mean.... kit... yea...kit :)
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i`m planning on doing two punnets of plums tomorrow .
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just finishing dehydrating my apples, I had a bumper crop this year!
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ive just put on one apple and a banana , just as a test you understand and 2 punnets of plums . pic`s in due course when they are done .
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Cool pics
I'm shopping for a dehydrator ATM myself, any recommendations down at the budget end of the market ?

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I have done apples, oranges, tomatoes and plums
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How do you use the dehydrated fruit :?:
I have dehydrated banana and apple on my cereal sometimes but can't think of other day to day uses.