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I have an Excalibur 9 tray with the solid sheets for every tray. I sometimes use my surplus zucchini to make fruit roll ups, flavored with and cooked in frozen Welches grape juice. Run through a blender and pour on the solid sheets. I dehydrate tomatoes, great on winter salads when there are no fresh tomatoes and who wants store bought? :sick

I've made hash browns with my mandolin slicer, blanched and dehydrated them. Stored in a glass jar, they go great for hash browns or in soups and stews. They keep forever.
 

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I have an Excalibur 9 tray with the solid sheets for every tray. I sometimes use my surplus zucchini to make fruit roll ups, flavored with and cooked in frozen Welches grape juice. Run through a blender and pour on the solid sheets. I dehydrate tomatoes, great on winter salads when there are no fresh tomatoes and who wants store bought? :sick

I've made hash browns with my mandolin slicer, blanched and dehydrated them. Stored in a glass jar, they go great for hash browns or in soups and stews. They keep forever.
Are store bought tomatoes, really tomatoes? I think that's a good question to ask.

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It's really easy to make your home grown tomatoes taste like store bought. Pick them when they are starting to turn red and store them in the refrigerator.

up until this year we've had great luck with most of our tomatoes - this year we tried a new variety and they were just like store tomatoes in that they were hard even when ripe. it was odd for us to process them and the taste wasn't as good as usual so we won't be looking for these ever again to plant. i want tomatoes to be big, soft and juicy when they're ready.
 

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I have big one from Cabelas I bought a decade ago. I have a little round Presto that works awesome for herb drying.

I don't actually dry a lot.


This sucker holds 30 pounds of apples and is a workhorse. I need to get a new piece of plexiglass for it and Mom says I can have it.

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