Solar Vs Electric Dehydrating Apricots

Lets do a side by side comparison of dehydrating apricots.

[LorellaPlanBeeOrchardandFarm]

Cool experiment! My mom was telling me about a dehydrator that you hang outside and the trays are covered in nets so you’re heat dehydrating them outside.

[jeannel]

Commercially dried apricots are sulphured. I like mine drier and chewy and open the bag inside a cabinet to let them air dry more.
At home, you can use ascorbic acid to slow browning. I used to air/sun dry on the dashboard of a closed car and on a picnic table, covering the fruit with window screens to keep fruit flies off. I used foil on cookie sheets and cardboard and placed halved fruit on top, window screen above that, not touching. Usually took a day or so in hot weather. We had two big, old apricot trees in our yard and a orchard ladder. I canned and made jam, fruit leather and dried cots. I gave away the cot by the boxful.

[carolyoung]

Maybe you could have cooked unsay roast in the solar lol that must get hot tfs xx

[grandiesgarden]

Geeeeze!No wonder they're so expensive!