Best Dried Fruit

[TickTockMan]

I keep seeing ads for dried fruit. Has anyone here tried some and like them? Most of them like mango I have not even tried in their normal form. Not sure if I would like a dried version.


Any recommendations?

 

[Peloso]

I love dried pineapples but they're way too high in sugar and nitrates for me to eat regularly.

Freeze dried strawberries are incredible. They're like potato chips, but strawberries.

 

[Vannie]

Freeze dried strawberries are incredible. They're like potato chips, but strawberries.

Are they good with sour cream and onion dip?

 

[Vannie]

Best case scenario would be to get a dehydrator and experiment. I've wanted to get one for a while now

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

I love dried pineapples but they're way too high in sugar and nitrates for me to eat regularly.

Freeze dried strawberries are incredible. They're like potato chips, but strawberries.

It's bad enough eating fruit, there's no sprinkles or chocolate on it. Why would you eat it dry?

 

[TickTockMan]

Best case scenario would be to get a dehydrator and experiment. I've wanted to get one for a while now

I have wanted to for years for fruit and jerky. Just not sure what one would be the best and can do more than one task.

 

[Vannie]

I have wanted to for years for fruit and jerky. Just not sure what one would be the best and can do more than one task.

Yes and the prices really fluctuate all over. There are some well rated ones for under 40 dollars on Amazon. I like some of the mid level priced ones for under 100 bucks that look a bit more substantial.

 

[HoodedRat]

Figs, dates, apricots, raisins, sultanas, currants, cranberries, goji berries, mangos, papaya, peaches, pears, pineapple, prunes, etc, etc.

I love them all, and I like to think that they love me in return.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Dehydrators often wind up in thrift stores, but you have to in the habit of frequenting them to catch one. You can also ask a friend who is a thrift-store shopper to keep an eye out for you.

I'm not a Facebook member, but I took a look at FB Marketplace in Salem, and I found lots of dehydrators for pittance. One was only $15. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/106176786079428/search/?query=dehydrator

MOST ovens will work just fine in lieu of a dehydrator, and convection ovens even better. It's just the lowest setting. You need either something like a cake cooling rack or you can use something like parchment paper to make it easier.

And, of course, fruit can be dried in the sun on cloth or screens, but you have the problem of insects, blowing dirt/trash/seeds/leaves, and in Oregon, humidiity.

My favorite dried fruit is peaches, but cherries are good, as well as strawberries. I tend to like dried fruit that is leathery, not hard.

 

[unloadonme]

I like a wide range of dried fruits. I think apricots are probably my favourite.

 

[Kahaih]

It's bad enough eating fruit, there's no sprinkles or chocolate on it. Why would you eat it dry?

You're going to be okay. I promise.

You can rehydrate lots of dried fruits in dark rum.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

You can rehydrate lots of dried fruits in dark rum.

Now you're talking my language.

 

[TickTockMan]

You're going to be okay. I promise.

You can rehydrate lots of dried fruits in dark rum.

I have a hard time believing Fab has never had dried fruit.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

I have a hard time believing Fab has never had dried fruit.


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[Araucaria]

I belong to a local Rare Fruit Council, which mostly consists of backyard fruit growers, but also small-scale commercial and horticultural people. Fruit trees are often extremely prolific during their bearing season, providing far more fruit that ca be eaten, given away, or sold. Many of the members will dry fruits such as mangos, carambola/starfruit, and papaya, and even citrus rinds. They once served an exquisite dried mandarin rind at one of their meetings. Drying is one way of preserving excess fruit until later.

 

[me203]

MOST ovens will work just fine in lieu of a dehydrator, and convection ovens even better

I suppose so, but it might be more fun to try using a flame thrower.

My mother had a tabletop convection oven in the 1980s. I can't remember very much, but I have a sense that dehydrating was something the maker metnioned--maybe even as a marketing point. (The main marketing points my mother was interested it--the oven in the kitchen was broken, something a repairman said he couldn't fix, and this convection oven was a fast fix.)

 

[Peloso]

Are they good with sour cream and onion dip?

You're thinking of dried jalapenos.

Best case scenario would be to get a dehydrator and experiment. I've wanted to get one for a while now

Rent a republican congresswoman for a few hours. They've been drying beef in their vaginas for decades.

 

[nycguydowntown]

I like all dried fruit - don’t eat a lot of it but I do wonder if the fruit was washed of pesticides before drying it

 

[Vannie]

You're thinking of dried jalapenos.

Rent a republican congresswoman for a few hours. They've been drying beef in their vaginas for decades.

I fell into a burning ring of fire.

 

[Vannie]

prunes,

I love them all, and I like to think that they love me in return.

The neighbors are complaining. Lay off the prunes a bit.