Dehydrating fruit - part 1

Wild plums

1st batch

Sliced in half and placed on a baking tray with a temperature probe.

2nd batch

Sliced in half and placed on an anti-splatter screen from Ikea with a temperature probe.

Loaded into the oven.

It's a gas oven which is not the best environment for drying fruit so there is an electric boiling ring at the bottom.

The probes plug into a Mavrerick barbecue thermometer. Final arangement was using the lowest two racks in the oven and the electric ring set to 2. Occasional rotation and swapping positions of the screens occurred.

 After a couple of hours the fruit on the baking tray was transferred to another screen. After a bit longer all of the fruit was transferred to one screen.

With the door left ajar, it looked like this after 18½ hours

After and before.

All a bit of a pavlova really, far better to bite the bullet and buy a proper dehydrator.

Watch this space.