Fruit Drying · 31 articles
Fruit Drying: Guides & Recipes
Everything you need to dry fruit at home, from crisp apple chips and chewy mango to citrus slices and fruit leather. Start with the complete guide, then pick your fruit below.
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The Essential Guides
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Fruit Drying
Dehydrated Fruit: The Complete Guide
Dehydrated fruit from the grocery store often comes with added sugar, sulfur dioxide or oil you don’t need. Making your…
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How to Dehydrate Apples (Times, Temps & Storage)
Learning how to dehydrate apples comes down to four things: slice evenly, decide whether to pretreat, dry at 135°F, and…
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How to Make Fruit Leather in a Dehydrator
Fruit leather represents the pinnacle of dehydrator versatility—transforming overripe fruit, surplus harvests, and freezer-burned berries into nutritious, portable snacks that…
Apples & Bananas 2
Berries & Soft Fruits 4
Tropical Fruits 2
Citrus 2
Fruit Leather & Roll-Ups 3
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Latest Fruit Drying Articles
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Best Apples for Dehydrating (Variety Comparison)
The honest answer to “which apple is best for dehydrating” is: whatever you have on hand works fine. But if…
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How Long Does Dehydrated Fruit Last?
Properly dried and stored fruit lasts far longer than most people expect — but “properly” is doing a lot of…
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Dehydrated Fruit for Cocktails: Garnishes That Look Pro
Walk into most craft cocktail bars now and the garnish on your drink probably wasn’t cut that day. It was…
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How to Dehydrate Limes (Slices for Cocktails & Cooking)
Most fruit dries just fine at the standard 135°F setting. Limes are the exception, and it trips up more people…
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How to Dehydrate Blueberries
Blueberries are the fruit most likely to make a first-time dehydrator owner think their machine is broken. Toss them in…
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How to Dehydrate Watermelon (Watermelon Jerky)
Watermelon splits dehydrator owners into two camps almost instantly: people who taste watermelon jerky for the first time and can’t…
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How to Dehydrate Plums (Homemade Prunes)
A dried plum is technically a prune — that’s the whole definition — but home-dried plums and grocery-store prunes barely…
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How to Dehydrate Raspberries
Raspberries are deceptively difficult for a fruit that looks so delicate. That signature hollow center — the reason fresh raspberries…
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How to Dehydrate Cherries
Cherries are one of the more labor-intensive fruits to dehydrate, purely because of the pitting, but the payoff is worth…
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How to Dehydrate Figs
Figs go from perfectly ripe to overripe in what feels like a day or two, which makes them one of…
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How to Dehydrate Apricots
Store-bought dried apricots almost always look brighter orange than anything you’ll pull out of a home dehydrator, and that’s not…
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How to Dehydrate Pears
Pears dry down into something closer to a fruit-flavored chip than most people expect — sweet, slightly chewy at the…
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