Simple (Deluxe!) Sonotube Food Dehydrator

Step 7 Thar she blows!

I filled up the baskets with pears sliced on my old fashioned apple corer-peeler-slicer http://www.applesource.com/peeler.html (love that thing) and gave her a go. My oven thermometer showed 50 C after about 5 minutes. I wanted a little bit warmer, so I plugged the space under the heater with some dense foam rubber and the temp rose to 65 C in no time at all, that's about 150 F. Three hours later I had dried fruit!

I still have half of the tube left! I think I can cut some holes in the side of the tube, insert wooden sticks through the holes and use it for drying jerky. Hang the meat on the sticks and let 'er rip. Maybe a drip pan or something to keep the heater clean? Enjoy!

Comments

[Paulakise]

When you dry meat like that it's called biltong South African tradition.
Don't rli know y im telin yall this cos im vegetarien! anyways planing 2 make my own dehydrator soon for fruit. Probably will use the box and lightbulb method! :-) anyways nice tutorial dude