To process the fall harvest and keep it more useful vitamins and microelements, such necessary for the body in the winter months, a good purchase will be a dryer for vegetables and fruits.
Summer and autumn are generously endowed with the harvest of berries, fruits and vegetables. Many thrifty housewives are sure to roll up cucumbers and tomatoes in jars, make jams and stewed fruit, and freeze the berries. And you can also dry the mushrooms and useful aromatic greens. Drying for fruits and vegetables is a necessary device that helps housewives to save their crops. Dried foods are much better preserved trace elements and vitamins, which on winter cold days will help to defeat the 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 without protection from dust and insects that carry microbes and lay the larvae. The electric dryer for fruits will allow you to quickly dry a large number of products. Such products, cooked at home, are much tastier than those sold in stores.
There is a 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 their color; in dry form 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, infrared radiation of high density during drying destroys all harmful microorganisms and preservatives. The dried products with the help of infrared radiation are stored for about 2 years. The disadvantage of such an electric dryer is a high price.
But in the market there is a large selection of dryers available for any consumer both in volume and price.
Drying for vegetables and fruits has a capacity of cylindrical shape, inside it there are pallets made of mesh. It is more convenient when they are transparent, they are laid with products for drying. The number of pallets is different, the top is installed on the lid. If it is intended to dry a large volume of products, then the dryer should be chosen with a large number of pallets and large capacity.
In convection dryers, the air temperature is increased by means of a heating element. It is desirable that he was at the top. If the water that evaporates will drain onto the element, this will lead to its rapid breakage.
It is better that the drying for vegetables and fruits is with the fan, thanks to it the warm air is distributed evenly due to constant circulation. Vegetables and fruits are dried better and faster, in just a few hours. In airtight dryers, poor air circulation and drying the products will be necessary for 24 hours.
Drying for vegetables and fruits should be high power, 350-450 watts. Well, if it has a thermostat, different products require different drying temperatures.
Such a device as drying fruits and vegetables, reviews are only positive, because this is really necessary and useful thing.