With the arrival of the heating season, many have a need: to humidify the air - on the one hand, and to dry the berries and fruits picked in autumn - on the other. You can dry apple chips, candied pumpkin fruits, rose hips, hawthorns, carrots, onions, greens for the winter. All these tasks are successfully solved by drying products using a battery - these are 5 vertical compartments between and 1 compartment on top. To do this, you can make a special device - drying frames and use skewers with a notch.
Instructions
Step 1
Take or make a 15 * 41cm frame from wooden slats (or from thick cardboard). To do this, take a rail 2 cm wide and 1 cm thick, cut into 37cm pieces - 2 pieces, 15cm - 2 pieces. and glue with glue Moment Express Joiner. Then leave to dry overnight.
Step 2
Next, fix a regular mosquito net measuring 30 * 41cm - on 2 frames around the perimeter using clerical studs every 5 cm.
Step 3
Then, on one side of the frame, secure one part of the Velcro with clerical nails, and on the other side, wash the second part of the Velcro.
Step 4
Now remove the peel, remove the core with a special device and cut or in 5mm circles. Arrange the apples on the frame.
Step 5
Close the fixture with Velcro and fix each row of apples with a pin on top.
Step 6
Put frames with apples between the battery sections to dry for a day.
Step 7
Thus, you can dry 2, 3 kg of fresh apples on one battery, of which 13% will come out in the dry residue, i.e. you get 300 grams of drying - apple chips.
Step 8
Another method is that the apple is not peeled, but the core is removed and cut into slices and strung on skewers, skewers with special notches so that the fruit does not slide down.
Step 9
Between the sections of the battery, you can place 5 skewers with 12 apple slices on it (about 1 Simirenko apple).
