I am really enjoying this dehydrating thing. It is well worth the $170ish (some places may have it for less) for a quality machine like The Cosori brand!
The original corn-sesame seed chips and sweet potato chips have already been consumed. We are on our second batch of sweet potato chips. So I decided to try other foods items.
Yesterday I prepared banana chips. Very simple to make. The borrowed mandolin slicer wasn’t much help because of slicing too thin. My husband suggested using an egg slicer. Well I just happen to have one just like the link and was thrilled to see the wire strips are exactly 1/4 inch apart. This is the suggested best size for the recipe. All I did was slice the fruit into chunks small enough to fit the slicer and quickly had 6 bananas sliced in beautiful even pieces. Place them all in a bowl, sprinkling with lemon juice and they are ready to place on dehydrator trays.
It took about 14 hours on 145 degrees to get crunchy chips.
These won’t last long at all so I’ll be buying enough fruit to fill all 6 trays next round.
This evening I shucked 4 ears of corn and spices all the kernels off the cob to make a batch of corn chips with flax seed this round as the original recipe called for. These ears aren’t as large as the first batch so I only got 2.5 trays filled. The taste is amazing…..I know this because of course, as the cook 👩🍳, I test tasted the batter 😁 .
The one thing I did different than the recipe was score the batter before placing in the dehydrator. My thought process is that it will make it easier to separate into individual chips rather than breaking a large sheet to random size pieces. So e shall see in 11 hours.
It is almost cranberry season. I’m thinking of attempting my own craisins!
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