dehydrated foods – Vegan Nosh https://vegannosh.me Celebrating peace and non-violence with delicious vegan food. Mon, 08 Nov 2010 05:40:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.3 Adventures with Tomatoes https://vegannosh.me/2010/10/01/adventures-with-tomatoes/ https://vegannosh.me/2010/10/01/adventures-with-tomatoes/#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:58:00 +0000 http://vegannosh.ckblogs.me/2010/10/01/adventures-with-tomatoes/

Once again we managed to be busy, busy, BUSY during the peak of tomato season. This means several pounds have sadly gone to mush on the vine, but earlier this week I went out and picked pounds and pounds. I’ve been hearing all about people drying them in the oven (“sun dried” for Portland) and thought I’d give it a whirl.


Several of the “Roman Candle” paste-type tomatoes sliced into quarter wedges (the long yellow ones) along with the larger cherry types and some small plum types.



A whole roasting pan full of cherry and grape type tomatoes cut in half and put face down.






Hours and hours and HOURS later:
Yield = 3 cups of dried tomatoes

The verdict: The oven is very inefficient for dehydrating food. We’ve pondered an Excalibur model and this experiment has moved it up in priority.

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