Okay I broke one of my rules – never buy something without getting rid of something the same size – and I am not sure were I am going to store it but I brought a food dehydrator.
I won a gift card in the weight loss contest last November and decided to use the card to buy a food dehydrator. I always wanted to try drying foods and this way it never really cost me anything. – So if I don’t like the machine I will not feel bad selling it. LOL
The instructions say it is good for drying apples, apricots, bananas, blueberries, cherries, cranberries, figs, grapes, kiwi, nectarines, peaches, pears, pineapple, plums, rhubarb, strawberries, asparagus, beans, beets, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn, mushrooms, onions, peas, peppers, potatoes, summer squash, zucchini, tomatoes,chives, cilantro, and parsley.
I don’t grow all those things but there are enough on the list that I do try to grow to keep me busy. Of course I can’t let the machine set until summer to try it out and lucky I don’t have to since I still have some pears left from the fruit sale.
I started with some pineapple, cranberries, pears, bananas and apples. Five hours later everything but the cranberries were dry. I was going to take a picture of the finished food but I wasn’t fast enough – so much for storing up to a year. They were like eating candy!
DIY with Kathy! 