In order to process the autumn harvest and keep in it more useful vitamins and minerals that the body needs in the winter months, a dryer for vegetables and fruits will be a good purchase.
Summer and autumn are generously endowed with a harvest of berries, fruits and vegetables. Many thrifty housewives will certainly pick up cucumbers and tomatoes in jars, make jam and stewed fruit, and freeze the berries. And you can still dry mushrooms and healthy fragrant herbs.
Drying for fruits and vegetables is a necessary device that helps housewives to keep the crop. Dried foods retain micronutrients and vitamins much better, which in the winter cold days will help to defeat the common cold and save from vitamin deficiency. You can dry vegetables and fruits by spreading them in a draft, but this will require a lot of space and time, the products remain unprotected from dust and insects that carry microbes and lay larvae. An electric dryer for fruits allows you to quickly dry a large number of products. Such products, prepared at home, are much tastier than those sold in stores.
There is convective, high-frequency, infrared drying of products. Infrared drying is considered the best. Products are dried by blowing warm air. This technology allows you to save a large percentage of useful properties and saves time. During drying with infrared radiation, the products do not change color, when dry, they have a wrinkled appearance, but if they are placed in water for a while, they will restore the shape and taste of the fresh product. In addition, high-density
infrared radiation during drying destroys all harmful microorganisms and preservatives. Dried products with
infrared radiation are stored for about 2 years. The disadvantage of such an electric dryer is its high price.
But on the market there is a large selection of dryers available for any consumer both in volume and price.
The dryer for vegetables and fruits has a cylindrical shape, inside it has pallets made of mesh. It is more convenient when they are transparent, they lay products for drying on them. The number of pallets can be different, a lid is installed on top. If you intend to dry a large volume of products, then the dryer must be chosen with a large number of pallets and a large capacity.
In convection dryers, air temperature rises with a heating element. It is desirable that it is in the upper part. If water that evaporates will drain onto the element, this will quickly break it.
It is better that the drying for vegetables and fruits be with a fan, thanks to it, warm air is distributed evenly due to constant circulation. Vegetables and fruits dry better and faster, in just a few hours. In airtight dryers, poor air circulation and products will have to dry for days.
Drying for vegetables and fruits should be of high power, 350-450 watts. Well, if it has a temperature regulator, different products need different drying temperatures.
Such a device as drying vegetables and fruits receives only positive reviews, because this is really a necessary and useful thing.