FRUIT AND VEGETABLE DEHYDRATOR QUERY

[Duke Ellington]

Does anyone here own one of these?
Do you use it often?
Do you think it was worth buying?
What do you dry in it?
How long does it take to dry sliced bananas/sliced apples/chillies?

;) :D   Duke

[Duke Ellington]

[pumkinlover]

I was wondering this- Thanks for asking - after trying to "sun Dry" tomatoes in the oven all day, giving up, forgetting about them and finding them all furry the day after :-[

[grannyjanny]

There's was a thread on this subject in the Summer. I remember Jeannine contributed :'(. I can't do links but it's under hydrators. I don't know if the info is there that you need Duke

[pumkinlover]

http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,68036.0.html

http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,68581.0.html

[Duke Ellington]

Oh thanks everyone  :) I will check out those links now

Duke

[artichoke]

I have a fan electric oven as well as a gas oven. I find the electric one left on very low dries apple rings very well. I haven't tried anything else because I freeze most things, but I imagine they would work too.

We have a nasty little thing that measures how much electricity you are using and bleeps if it doesn't like it, but it barely registered the fan oven on at its coolest temperature all night.

I looked into hydrators for some time before I realised I actually had one already.

[grannyjanny]

Thank you PKL ;D.

[green lily]

Last year I used my fan electric oven to dry tomatoes. It took 2+ days for the big Amish and Delicious which I cut in quarters I think. Worth all the time and effort. ;D Stored them in olive oil etc etc. Worked fine but realise oven will be  out of use for a while.....

[Buster54]

I bought one of these this year Excalibur 9-Tray Dehydrator and have dried beans,onions for powder(had about 60 with white rot) and loads of diff fruit leathers,I chopped the onion into small half inch dice which seemed to take forever to dry(gonna try puréeing them next year see if that speeds it up),fruit leathers took about 4-6hrs depending on how mush you spread on a sheet,I didn't get it till around August so  haven't  experimented any more than that,if anyone wants to give it a try who are willing to pick up and drop it off are more than welcome