It is most practical to dry sour and sweet and sour varieties of apples to make stewed fruit on cold winter evenings. Sweet fruits do not have a good dry taste.
In an urban apartment, you can dry apples in the oven. First, they need to be sorted out, discarded rotten and broken apples, rinse them with water with the addition of table vinegar. This helps to wash away not only the dirt, but also remove the remnants of pesticides.
Then the apples are divided into halves, clean the core and cut into thin slices. 2 liters of water are poured into a large container. Then add 1 tbsp. liters of salt and store chopped apples there so that they do not darken until they finish processing the entire harvest for drying. But do not keep them for more than 20 minutes in this solution.
It is necessary for all young housewives to know how to dry apples in order to maximally preserve the crop. Dipping slices in salted water, you stop the oxidation in them, preserve the natural color, protect from spoilage during the drying period. Slices are covered with a thin layer of salt, which will protect them from insects. It should only be remembered that before cooking the compote, such dried fruits will need to be washed well with water.
Turn on the oven, warm it to 75-80 degrees, pour apples on a tray with a thin layer, turn on the fan in the oven and dry for 3 hours. After the slices have dried, they must be thoroughly mixed. Then you can lower the temperature to 50 degrees. And keep 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, better in the sun and in a well-ventilated place. To prevent the worms from starting, apples should be shaken often, covered with flies with dense, several times folded gauze. Discard spoiled apples immediately.
Tips on how to dry apples:
- Select apples of the same degree of maturity and good quality.
- Cut slices of the same thickness and size.
- Keep them in salted water so that the apples do not darken and are better stored.
- It is necessary to dry them in the sun. In cloudy weather, drying is not worth it.
- Apples, sliced in circles, it is more convenient to dry under a canopy, on a thread.
- 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.
- Unfold sliced apples in one layer and mix them during drying daily. Make sure that they do not stick together.
- Duration of drying takes from a week to 10 days in fine weather. Indoors, the drying time increases.
- Properly dried apple slices will turn yellow, will not crumble, but will retain their elasticity and will not secrete juice.
- They must be stored in linen bags, cardboard boxes or glass jars under the lid. Make sure that they do not absorb odors.
How to determine the degree of readiness of apple slices?
To do this, one must break in half. If the juice starts to leak, then you need to continue drying. And if the lobule begins to break, this indicates that they were overdried. You can put the dried apple slice in the refrigerator. When after a while the slice becomes wet, this will indicate good drying. If the slice remains dry, then the apples are overdried.
In recent years, the growing popularity of drying apples in a city apartment in a microwave. Only this takes time and skill during the process. After all, how to dry apples in the microwave, while little information.
How to Dry Apples in the Microwave
1. Cut apples into half rings, 0.5 cm thick.
2. Try to observe the same sizes of cuts.
3. Put them on a plate in one layer and put in the oven for 2 minutes, with a power of 300 watts.
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. Leave the next batch of fruits to dry immediately for 3 minutes.
7. Carefully ensure that the fruits do not dry out, do not burn out.