Fruit and bread
Fish and meat
The food placed on the drying trays of the appliance gets
dried with minimum nutrients loss.
Due to this, you can enjoy fruit, vegetables or mushrooms
cooked without preservatives all the year round. You can dry
herbs and herbal flowers, fruit rolls, meat jerky and many
other foods.
PRETREATMENT OF FRUIT
Pretreatment of fruit helps to save natural color, taste and flavour.
Here are few useful tips how to prepare fruit for drying:
Take 1/4 cup juice (natural will be prefered). Keep in mind, that
juice must match to prepared fruit. E.g. apple juice must be added
when you dry apples.
Add 2 cups of water to juice and dip pretreated fruit (see "Fruit
pretreatment table") for approximately 2 minutes into prepared
liquid. Fruit may also be immersed into fruit juice with honey.
Addings
Prepared products may also be sprinkled with poppy seeds,
sesame seeds or coconut crisps for making the taste piquant.
Fruit pretreatment table
Note: time and methods of fruit pretreatment, showed in the
table below, have character of recommendation. Customer prefer-
ences of fruit drying might not be the same as in the table.
Name
Preparation
Apples
Peel, core and cut
slices or rings
Artichokes
Cut into 1/8-inch
strips
Apricots
cut in halves or in
slices, remove pit
Bananas
Peel and cut into
3-4 mm slices
60-65°С
65-70°С
Dryness
Time,hrs.
test
(approx.)
pliable
6-8
brittle
5-13
pliable
13-28
crispy
8-38
4
Cherries
Pitting is optional,
or pit when 50%
dry
Cranberries
Chop
or
leave
whole
Dates
Pit and slice
Figs
Slice
Grapes
Leave whole
Kiwi
Peel and cut slic-
es or rings
Nectarines
Cut
in
half,
with
skin
down.
Pit
when
50% dry
Orange Rind
Peel in long strips
Orange,
Peel, and cut in
lemon,
rings 0.4 mm thick
lime
Peaches
Pit when 50% dry.
Halve
or
quarter
with cut side up
Pears
Peel and slice
Pineapple
Peel, core and cut
slices or rings
Plums
Pit, cut in halves
or quarters
Strawberries
Cut into 3/8-inch
slices, other ber-
ries whole
Canned fruit
Pour
out
sirup,
dry
paper towel
FRUIT ROLLS (below recipe is only the example)
apples - 300 g / berries - 300g
leathery
8-34
pliable
6-26
leathery
6-26
leathery
6-26
pliable
8-26
pliable
6-12
dry
pliable
8-26
side
brittle
6-16
pliable
8-16
pliable
6-26
pliable
8-30
pliable
6-36
pliable
8-16
no mois-
8-26
ture
the
pliable
6-12
with
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