How to Dry Apples

It is most practical to dry the sour and sweet and sour varieties of apples to make compotes of them in cold winter evenings. Sweet fruits do not have a good taste in dry form.

In a city apartment, you can dry apples in the oven. First they need to be sorted out, discard the rotten and broken apples, rinse them with water with the addition of table vinegar. This helps to wash away not only the pollution, but also to remove the remnants of pesticides.

Then the apples are divided into halves, the core is cleaned and cut into thin slices. In a large container pour 2 liters of water. Then add 1 tbsp. L of salt and store there the chopped apples so that they do not darken until they finish processing the entire harvested crop for drying. But do not hold them for more than 20 minutes in this solution.

It is necessary to know all the young housewives how to dry apples in order to preserve the harvest as much as possible. Omitting slices in salted water, you stop oxidation in them, keep the natural color, protect from spoilage during the drying period. Slices will be covered with a thin layer of table salt that will protect them from insects. It should only be remembered that before cooking compote such dried fruits should be washed well with water.

Turn on the oven, warm it to 75-80 degrees, pour out on a tray a thin layer of apples, turn on the fan in the oven and dry for 3 hours. After the lobules dry, they should be thoroughly mixed. Then you can reduce the temperature to 50 degrees. And still hold them in the oven for about 4 hours.

How to dry apples if you live in your house? It is most convenient on the street, it is better in the sun and in a well-ventilated place. In order not to start worms, apples should often be shaken, covered with flies dense, several times folded gauze. Spoiled slices of apples immediately discarded.

Tips on how to dry the apples:

• Select apples of the same degree of maturity and good quality.
• Cut slices of equal thickness and size.
• Keep them in salted water so that apples do not darken and are better kept.
• We must dry them in the sun. In case of cloudy weather, do not dry.
• Apples, cut into mugs, it is more convenient to dry under a canopy, on a string.
• It is best to dry the apples, covering them with gauze, on plywood panels, on a tin roof, under a canopy, in a ventilated room.
• Lay the sliced apples in one layer and mix them during drying daily. Ensure that they do not stick together.
• Duration of drying takes from a week to 10 days in excellent weather. The drying time increases in an enclosed space.
• Properly dried apple slices will turn yellow, they will not crumble, but they will retain their elasticity and will not separate the juice.
• They should be stored in linen bags, cardboard boxes or glass jars under the lid. Ensure that they do not absorb foreign odors.

How to determine the degree of preparedness of apple slices?

For this one must be broken in half. If juice begins to flow, then you need to continue drying. And if the lobule begins to break, this indicates that they were overdried. You can put a dried apple slice in the refrigerator. When after a while the slice will become wet, this will indicate good drying. If the slice remains dry, then the apples are dried.

In recent years, the growing popularity of drying apples in a city apartment in a microwave oven. Only this requires time and skill during the process. After all, how to dry apples in a microwave, while little information.

How to Dry Apples in a Microwave

1. Cut apples in half-rings, 0.5 cm thick.

2. Try to keep the same cutting dimensions.

3. Spread them on a plate in one layer and put in the oven for 2 minutes, at a power of 300w.

4. Check how fully the apples have dried.

5. If necessary, put them on the plate several times for 30 seconds at a power of 200 watts.

6. The next batch of fruits should be left to dry immediately for 3 minutes.

7. Carefully watch that the fruits are not overdried, not burnt.