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Subject: Re: food dehydrator questions
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Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 01:19:50 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  9 01:19:50 1984
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Suggestion on type of dehydrator:  Get one that has a fan as well as a
heating element.  (They're a little noisy but not too bad.)  The point is
that you need to have the air circulating; otherwise things won't dry
evenly and you'll have to be rearranging and removing food every hour or
two.  With ours, we load it up at night and everything is evenly dried by
morning.

Fruits dry very well, and you don't have to put up with the sulfuring crap
of many commercial dried fruits.  Try apples - pare, slice, dunk in a
bowl of water with a little lemon juice before drying to keep them from
turning brown.  Try pineapple; it's great!  One of the best uses for dried
foods is for hiking; they save a fair amount of space and weight.

{ucbvax,hao,allegra}!nbires!rcd