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Re: [at-l] food drying

Yup it works for me too, but I've discovered that dried fruit is more
palatable and far less expensive when you purchase it at Walmart or your
local grocery story.  Dried meats, on the other hand, are cheaper to
dehydrate yourself.

If you have to be a purist about food (i.e. insecticides, etc.), be mindful
that the sprays used for commercially grown fruit are designed not to be
washed off.  You can wash an apple or grapes for very long periods, and
you'll still have a residue.  I would strongly recommend sticking to fruits
that can be peeled, then dehydrating.  Of course, then you'll have to worry
about what was put in the soil to make them grow, etc. etc.  You can't
escape, but you can minimize.

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> From: Amy Friends <coelura@hotmail.com>
> To: at-l@saffron.hack.net; hudsom@us.ibm.com
> Subject: Re: [at-l] food drying
> Date: Thursday, June 04, 1998 11:35 AM
> 
> >Have any of you dehydrators out there tried drying oranges or other 
> citrus
> >fruit? Just a thought, maybe someone can save me from wasting my time 
> since I
> >have my doubts about getting anyting edible out of the effort...
> 
> Skeeter - yep, it works.  I dry mandarin oranges all the time (they 
> taste like candy!! :)  You'll just need to be careful with them, 
> especially full size oranges and grapefruits.  Keep watching them, and 
> as smaller pieces dry remove them - consolidate the larger pieces on the 
> remaining trays (you'll want to keep 'em pretty even sizewize across the 
> different trays to start with, so they dry more evenly).
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Coelura
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