Food drying - Dehydrators (merged)

savvy

I use the bags that cereals come in, just slit down the middle and trim to fit the trays (got an Excaliber one), they probably aren't as good as the proper all singing dancing liners but it works well for me especially with the fruit leathers

louise_1981

How do you make the fruit leathers? My freezer was left open, and I hvae a good couple of pounds of various fruits (Rhubarb, blue berries raspberries etc, plus a few cooking apples in the fridge.

Would they do?

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I am ready to get going with my dehydrator again. I have made massive use of the mushrooms, baking apples, onions and peppers that I dried 2 years ago and now the store cupboard needs stocking up with them. I have made fruit leathers and dried all sorts in the past but the above 4 are those that really earn their money for me.

Has anyone seen any sign of reasonably priced bramleys, peppers and onions yet? we pick our own mushrooms but not until october or so

jenster

i thought id treat myself to one of these and it came yesterday

so today im going the the mountains of apples from my apple tree to dry

and then i got tomatoes to do

anyone else using theres ??

benz

Thinking about buying a dehyrator mainly for apples. The prices seem to vary from £27 (Westfalia) to £100s.

Can anyone recommend a make and model?

kinkyjinks

benz wrote: »

Thinking about buying a dehyrator mainly for apples. The prices seem to vary from £27 (Westfalia) to £100s.

Can anyone recommend a make and model?

I follow The small cottage holder blog and she recently bought the £27 Westfalia model and swears by it.

Penelope_Penguin

benz wrote: »

Thinking about buying a dehyrator mainly for apples. The prices seem to vary from £27 (Westfalia) to £100s.

Can anyone recommend a make and model?

We have an existing thread, so as this has fallne from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the existing thread so that you can see other recommendations

Penny. x

savvy

louise_1981 wrote: »

How do you make the fruit leathers? My freezer was left open, and I hvae a good couple of pounds of various fruits (Rhubarb, blue berries raspberries etc, plus a few cooking apples in the fridge.

Would they do?

Oops only just noticed this pop up again. Fruit leathers are dead easy, I generally mash all the fruits I want up together in a blender, sometimes add a bit of fruit juice or water, then spread the mix out quite thinly on your sheets (the proper sheets, waxed lining paper or cereal bags) then dehydrate

rhosynbach

hi just got a food dehydrator (20th wedding anniversary pressie) and was wondering if others have them and what they use them for . Any tips and help would be appreciated we have lots of fruit trees so that would be a good use but i was thinking of herbs as well espeacily mint for mint tea has anyone done this
thanks

Sunnyday

rhosynbach wrote: »

hi just got a food dehydrator (20th wedding anniversary pressie) and was wondering if others have them and what they use them for . Any tips and help would be appreciated we have lots of fruit trees so that would be a good use but i was thinking of herbs as well espeacily mint for mint tea has anyone done this
thanks

Mwah!! I want one

Happy Anniversary, IIRC Kathlicos over on the grocery challenge has one so you could perhaps ask her for advice.

HTH

SD