Drying fruits

[kittycats_delight]

That looks fancy. How long does it take to dry fruits in it? Which kinds do you dry?

We don't have a Carrefour in Denmark, but I've seen them in Spain. I don't travel much anymore, though. Of course, I could buy one online, probably.

It really varies from fruit to fruit and also the thickness of the cut and the amount of fruit to be dried. It can vary from 2 hours up to 16 hours. We have dried bananas, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, grapes, peaches, plums, apricots, pineapple, and I do apples for the goats & horses at the petting zoo section at the small family run zoo near our house.

You can absolutely order it online and I am sure they can be found in any of the hypermarkets you have in Denmark. They carry them here at Carrefour, Auchan, Emisfero, etc as well as the DIY (do it yourself) places & stores that carry domestic appliances.

[kaycountrygal]

Hello, I have dried fruits in different ways, mainly apples. A long time ago I used my own apples, peeled them & cut them as thin as I could & laid them onto a
(1)screen wire thingy outside on a picnic table. I did this for most of a summer but then the ants found them and that was it for outside.

2) oven. I turn my kitchen stove oven on as low as it will go & put sliced apples in it on cookie sheets. I peel the apples, slice them thin, spray the cooking sheet with Pam or something like it, into the oven on cookie sheet, until apples are sort of leathery

(3) food dehydrator. I have one that has 8 round thingys on which to place the fruit. I do not use parchment paper or anything like that.

(4) my car. LOL That's right. When I worked, one summer I put some sliced apples on cookie sheets and then put them beneath rear window part of car and they did great. My car was parked outside in sun, locked and windows up so it got hot in car and apples got dehydrated really good. I suppose people wondered what the heck I was doing LOL.

Out of all the above, I liked the ones dried outside in the sun the best... but the darn ants got to be too much. Last year I used the food dehydrator and my own apples. After apples have dried, I put them in a ziplock bag and freeze them... will last for years in my experience.

[Laura's Babies]

I have a dehydrator like kittycats_delight posted. I go on Mondays and sometimes I can find a big bag of over ripe banana's for 99 cents! I get them done in no time!! I have dehydrated just about everything in mine. My daughter makes jerky in hers for their camping trips.