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.