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wlfmn323
does any one here dry fruit?
i have a dehydrator, i can get grapes into raisens pretty good,
if i do bannanas and or apples, i cant seem to get them to turn crisp, i do one tray, usually about 24 hours, and they shrink don, and appear dry, however they are soft and not crunchy.
how do i get that crispness associated with dried bannanas and apples?
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  • spurgemastur
    quote:Originally posted by wlfmn323
    does any one here dry fruit?
    i have a dehydrator, i can get grapes into raisens pretty good,
    if i do bannanas and or apples, i cant seem to get them to turn crisp, i do one tray, usually about 24 hours, and they shrink don, and appear dry, however they are soft and not crunchy.
    how do i get that crispness associated with dried bannanas and apples?




    I've done some drying and frankly, I prefer the soft to the crisp when it comes to fruit. If you're going for crisp, I'd suggest starting by curing the fruit in a hypertonic solution before drying it.

    I'm making this up as I go along but here's what I'd do if I wanted crisp fruit:

    1) cut it into thin strips
    2) soak it overnight in lemon juice into which you'd dissolved as much sugar as possible (and maybe a little salt?)
    3) dry.

    If that produces a carmelized product then mess around with the amount of sugar and salt in step two....I'm thinking that should get you a crisp product.

    Let us know if you learn anything!
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  • jwb267
    it seems that i have the opposite problem with apples they get to hard like eating potato chips
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  • spurgemastur
    quote:Originally posted by jwb267
    it seems that i have the opposite problem with apples they get to hard like eating potato chips


    Well how do you achieve that?
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  • wlfmn323
    ok ive tried the solution that you mentioned, and they are drying as i type. ive got two rows of golden delicous( bought a 3 pound bag that had a few small brown spots, on clearance for 83 cents,so i figured why not play with the dehydrator?) any way ive got the two layers of apples and the top layer is some grapes that was starting to shrivel up, its raisen time!
    ill let you know how it works out
    thanx for the advice
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