Dehydrating fruits and vegetables is essential to making your own fugal make ahead mixes, meals in a jar, dry vegetable broth powder, fruit oatmeal packets, dry mix dips, dry tomato paste mix and MRE’s .
Sort: Carefully discard any bruised or undesirable fruit or vegetables
WASH: Thoroughly with to remove dirt, bugs or wax put on produce to keep it fresh while being transported
Slice: Slice thinly and evenly. The thinner the slice of item being dried, the quicker the drying time.
DRY: Spread one layer thick on racks and dry
Dehydrators: Set temperature at 135 – 155 degrees.
FRUITS
Apples 8-12 hours
Apricots 12-14 hours
Bananas 8-10 hours
Berries 8-10 hours
Cherries 12-14 hours
Cranberries 10-12 hours
Figs 10-12 hours
Grapes 10-12 hours
Kiwi 8-10 hours
Nectarines 10-14 hours
Peaches 10-14 hours
Pears 8-10 hours
Persimmons 10-14 hours
Pineapple 10-12 hours
Prune Plums 12-16 hours
Rhubarb 6-8 hours
Strawberries 7-9 hours
Watermelon 8-10 hours
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VEGETABLES
Asparagus 6-8 hours
Beans, Green or Wax 8-10 hours
Beets 8-10 hours
Broccoli 10-12 hours
Cabbage 7-9 hours
Carrots 8-10 hours
Celery 3-5 hours
Corn 6-8 hours
Cucumber 4-7 hours
Eggplant 4-7 hours
Greens 3-5 hours
Mushrooms 3-5 hours
Okra 4-6 hours
Onions 4-6 hours
Parsnips 7-10 hours
Peas 4-6 hours
Peppers 5-8 hours
Potatoes 7-12 hours
Pumpkin 9-12 hours
Summer Squash 10-13 hours
Tomatoes 6-10 hours
Turnips 9-13 hours
Winter Squash 8-12 hours
Yams 8-12 hours
Zucchini 8-12 hours
Fruit leather Roll Up 4-6 hours
Jerky 6-8 hours
Fish Jerky 12-14 hours
Herbs & Spices 2-4 hours
Nuts 10-14 hours
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