Aloha Matt, My friend made trays with extruded aluminum just like some folks use to make window screens. Then she could just take them out in the yard and squirt them off with the hose. She made a tent out of screen that was open on the bottom so it could just be set over the whole stack of trays. She used some sort of round metal sticks to separate the stacked trays. I remember that she had some sort of round stops on the separation sticks, and the frames of the trays had wholes for the separating sticks to fit into. I'll try to reach her via email. She lives in California now, but she used to dry apples, pineapple, bananas, papaya, mango, parsley, and basil when she lived here. Betsy At 11:37 AM 7/9/2010, you wrote: > > >Hi ya folks. Lately I've gotten into drying >apples and cooking pies and stuff out of them. >Mainly, I started out buying them already done >from a Mennonite owned store. I quickly got >addicted to them as snack food, then found >recipes for making pies and breads out of them. >I looked up instructions on drying your own. >They suggested oven on the lowest setting, or in a car on a hot day. >The oven works, but your spouse complains about >the oven always being busy, and you can only get >so many in there at 1 time. And it does take at least 6 hours the way I did it. >My wife suggested I not buy a dehydrator, >because as it is I am a gadget buyer. And ya >start running out of space to live after so long. >Just now I am considering building a wooden >frame which would hold cookie sheets stacked but >spaced from one another 1 on top of the other, >and buying screen to cover the outside to keep >some bugs out, and putting an old fan I have out >in storage in one end of it. My idea lacks the >heat element factor, but I live in east tx, and >am figuring, I could set it up in the attic, or >out in a back room where there is no air >conditioning. I could go to the trouble of >forming my own screen trays, if I wanted to >build them, but then cleaning something like >that with a wood frame? I don't think that would >last long. Anyone ever done this stuff, say, to make jerky or whatever? >just curious. > >Matt > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
Re: [BlindHandyMan] Considering building my own apple drier or dehydrator
Betsy Whitney, Dolphin Press Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:42:38 -0700
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