Dehydrating fruit will fill your home with pleasing, fruity smells. If you're like me, you'll get hungry and start snitching before the fruit is dry. Do not worry, because dehydrated fruit is so healthy for you an extra early taste to help you reward yourself for your effort is a nice thing.
Dehydrating fruit is easy and easy. Cut the fruit into small equal-sized pieces lay out in a single layer on the dehydrator trays and turn up the dehydrator. It takes from 6 to 36 hours to dry fruit depending on the moisture of the fruit but the effort is so worth it when you taste thefinished fruits.
Dehydrating fruit concentrates the natural sugars so your bananas will taste extra sweet on the trail. Choose mature firm fruits for the highest sugar and nutritional content but avoid bruised or overripe fruit. When dehydrating fruits such as bananas choose yellow bananas with some brown speckles on the peel for max sweetness. Peel the bananas and cut into slices. Dehydrate until leathery and the banana slices don't stick together. 6 to 10 hours is a good average time to permit.
Your dehydrated bananas could be like chips in some cases and moldable in others. It is entirely your decision to permit them to go thru the process of dehydrating so you get the result you would like to have. I regularly let some go to the pliable stage and stop the dehydrating and let the rest go to the harder chip stage. That way I have a choice of tastes and textures and can decide on the texture I desire when I make a decision to carry a snack.
Whether crunchy as in the chip stage or chewy as in the more pliable stage, I find a great way to keep bananas from getting too ripe if they look to be ripening more quickly than you or your family members are eating them. You regularly can pick up great bargains in your produce department too when the bananas are ripening more quickly than the purchasers are selecting them and the manager is putting them on special.
Dehydrating fruit is easy and easy. Cut the fruit into small equal-sized pieces lay out in a single layer on the dehydrator trays and turn up the dehydrator. It takes from 6 to 36 hours to dry fruit depending on the moisture of the fruit but the effort is so worth it when you taste thefinished fruits.
Dehydrating fruit concentrates the natural sugars so your bananas will taste extra sweet on the trail. Choose mature firm fruits for the highest sugar and nutritional content but avoid bruised or overripe fruit. When dehydrating fruits such as bananas choose yellow bananas with some brown speckles on the peel for max sweetness. Peel the bananas and cut into slices. Dehydrate until leathery and the banana slices don't stick together. 6 to 10 hours is a good average time to permit.
Your dehydrated bananas could be like chips in some cases and moldable in others. It is entirely your decision to permit them to go thru the process of dehydrating so you get the result you would like to have. I regularly let some go to the pliable stage and stop the dehydrating and let the rest go to the harder chip stage. That way I have a choice of tastes and textures and can decide on the texture I desire when I make a decision to carry a snack.
Whether crunchy as in the chip stage or chewy as in the more pliable stage, I find a great way to keep bananas from getting too ripe if they look to be ripening more quickly than you or your family members are eating them. You regularly can pick up great bargains in your produce department too when the bananas are ripening more quickly than the purchasers are selecting them and the manager is putting them on special.
About the Author:
Marjorie J McDonald experienced growing up in a gardening family. Each and every year a large garden was planted and all extra food was sold, frozen, canned or dehydrated so the extra foods lasted all thru the year. Creating food dehydrator recipes was especially fun for her family to do. Her family loved seeing what they could combine with the bananas they purchased. The combination of dehydrated fruit was appreciated when the snow was blowing outside.