Dryer for apples: how to choose and produce?

Any gardener wants to preserve his crop in the best possible way.To get it, the cottaber puts a lot of work and time in caring for his culture.

In order to prevent microorganisms from affecting your fruits and vegetables, thereby spoiling them, experts advise you to cook foods, adding a lot of sugar, freeze them in the refrigerator or dry them. In this article we will talk about this method of preserving apples, as drying. It is the easiest and non-stock storage option for your fruits or vegetables.

Harvest can be dried in the microwave, under direct sunlight, in the oven. If you dry greens or mushrooms, then avoid direct sun exposure. Before starting the drying process, the fruit should be thoroughly rinsed under running water, peeled and cut each fruit into slices or in half. The dried crop is significantly reduced in size, however, retains all the beneficial properties. Keep it worth it in the dark.

Such a device can make every summer resident with his own hands. The main advantage of the solar dryer is the complete absence of energy consumption, the products are dried under the sun.

To create such a dryer you will need: scissors, hammer, saw, stapler and nails.

• At the very beginning, you need to create a base from the boards. Size: 0.5 x 0.5 m.
• On the back side and on the sides should sheathe plywood or fiberboard.
• A metal sheet is attached to the far wall from the inside.
• In order to raise the temperature inside the structure, it is recommended to paint it black from the inside.
• Mounted hanging folding mesh of wire or any other material.
• Holes must be drilled at the top and bottom of the dryer to ensure that the structure is well ventilated.
• The holes are covered with gauze so that no pests can penetrate inside.
• The open part of the dryer is covered with glass or stitched with cellophane film.
• It is important that your dryer does not stand on the ground, it must be installed on some kind of stand or with the help of self-tapping screws to fix small legs.

For example, this method can be collected and electric dryer. It is enough to install the fan heater from below, with the hot air jet up. At the same time the lid must be open. Drying time can take up to 10 hours.

• Convective electric driers. This is the most popular type. The main element of the dryer is a special heating device on which the fan is installed. The principle of operation is based on the effect of hot air on your products. Due to this moisture evaporates completely.

• Infrared electric dryers. This version of the device is small in size. It consumes less electricity. Works like sunshine, warming up exactly the fruit. Thereby all vitamins and bright color of products are saved.

• Horizontal. Here the trays look like a baking tray in the oven. Any of them is being advanced. Accordingly, a lot of products can be dried in one approach. The heater is mounted on the back of the device, so that heat is distributed evenly on each sheet of the tray.

• Vertical. In this case, the pallets are mounted on top of each other. Hot air can be supplied both from the top of the dryer and from the bottom. In this case, for 1 time you can dry not a very large amount of fruit. The dryer itself can serve without fail for a very long time.

Unfortunately, power does not affect the rate of drying products. The greater the power of the device, the more fruits and vegetables you can dry at one time. The smallest figure for an electric dryer is 250 W, the largest is 1 thousand W. Dryers of 500 watts are very popular on the market.

In order to preserve all the useful elements, vitamins and microminerals, the temperature in the dryer must be not lower than the air temperature, but not higher than 75 degrees.The best option for infrared dryers - 50 * C.

Herbs and greens are dried at a temperature of 35-40 degrees, and mushrooms, fruits and vegetables - at 60 degrees Celsius.

Many owners are interested in how long the apples should be in the electric dryer. Experts recommend owners of electric dryers to dry fruits and vegetables at night: from 10 am to 7 am. But strictly adhere to such a framework is not necessary. In practice, it may be 6 or 7 hours. Drying time may increase significantly if you periodically change the location of the pallets or report new fruits. It is recommended to focus on 8 hours of drying, however, you need to look at readiness.

Many factors affect the time of full readiness: the size of the sliced ​​slices, the capacity of the pallet, the number of products in the dryer, and much more.

Very often gardeners are interested in the temperature that should be in the device. If the dryer has the ability to adjust the temperature, then its indicator should be set in the region of 70 degrees Celsius.

Of course, apples can be dried at a temperature of 100 degrees. It is maximum on most household electric dryers. However, after processing apples with this temperature, they can lose all the vitamins and nutrients. After all, 100-110 degrees is the boiling point of water.

The mode is pretty easy to figure out. On all electric dryers, management is intuitive. Often, during the selection of the mode, on the slider there are figures of apples, vegetables, mushrooms.

Inexperienced gardeners spend a lot of time determining the readiness of apples. However, after having at least some experience, you will have no difficulty in determining the readiness of fruits.

In order to determine readiness, you should bend the apple a little. Properly dried fruit will bend. If you managed to break a piece in half, then you have not dried enough. Externally, the apples should darken a little, and the skin should become a bit crusty.

"Summer Resident-4" is the best infrared dryer without a fan for any fruits, vegetables, herbs and mushrooms. The main advantage of this device is its huge dimensions. Inside the dryer are five metal sheets. Four of them are nominated, one is non-removable. Due to its size, this design can accommodate up to 7 kg of apples.

This multifunctional dryer can not only dry your crop, retaining absolutely all the useful elements, but also prepare some dishes, dry pasta and much more. This version of the device will not disappoint any host. According to reviews, the price varies from 8 thousand to 9 thousand rubles, and is fully consistent with the quality.

Main advantages:

• Large capacity.
• High power device.
• Multifunctional.
• High quality build.

This is a rather unusual dryer. It is a small rug of bright colors. It is quite practical, it can be rolled up into a roll with a radius of 5 cm. Waves emanate from this infrared dryer, which will quickly dry your apples at a temperature of 35-40 * C.

Reviews are only positive. Your fruit will never burn. Waves do no harm to human health.

Main advantages:

• Cheapness Price in Russia: 1500-2000 rubles.
• Multifunctionality. You can dry shoes.
• Complete noiselessness. There are no fans or heating elements. No hot air under pressure.
• Absolute security.

The most popular dryer among summer residents is the domestic device "Breeze".This dryer belongs to the budget segment and is endowed with a minimalist design.

Main advantages:

• Maximum capacity - 5 kg.
• Five transparent plastic sheets.
• The lid contains instructions for using the drying modes.
• With a large volume, the weight of the structure is less than 4 kg.

Negative sides:

• There is no sleep timer.

The minimum temperature is 55 degrees, the maximum is 75 degrees Celsius. Power - 550 watts.

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