Yeah, but I figured the moisture would have trouble escaping, but... sooner or
later it would dry out anyway I guess.
----- Original Message -----
From: Cy Selfridge
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 8:18 AM
Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Considering building my own apple drier or
dehydrator
Hi Matt,
Using the roof was not all that uncommon a practice years ago.
You would, of course, need to have the fruit or whatever on some sort of
rack such as hardware cloth and also covered by the same to keep the wee
little birdies from dining out.
This method is pretty blamed effective.
Cy, The Anasazi
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Matt
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 6:58 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Considering building my own apple drier or
dehydrator
The fan is something that concerns me. The one I drug up, which I already
had is small, maybe 8 inches or smaller, but it's meant for cooling a small
place for a person, so that may be too strong. Perhaps if the heatting
element is in bottom and the fan in top pointed down, to push the hot air
back down, and then vents on bottom so that the heat continues to rise, and
any excess gets blown out through bottom?
I'm just not sure. I have old tower cases of computers I have out-grown, and
they have fans, but extracting them and using them... I just don't see
myself messing with it. I've considered setting up a system in shelving in
my bedroom closet even. Funny all of the things which cross your mind when
you're being kind of cheap and lazy and looking at existing cabinets. My
wife's grandmother told us that her neighbor used to put apples up on the
roof for drying and I read an account on the net of people in the old days
spreading them out on the tin roof of a shed.
----- Original Message -----
From: Betsy Whitney, Dolphin Press
To: [email protected] <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Considering building my own apple drier or
dehydrator
Speaking of using existing things, my friend that
I mentioned yesterday tells me that she has now
made a dryer out of the cupboard above her
refridgerator. She took out the bottom and the
top and replaced them with screen. For heat She
installed a light fixture inside to create heat
and the circulation from the refridgerator fan
creates the circulation to move the air. She's
been drying all sorts of things, but says that if
you're drying such things as apples you may have
to slice them thinner than you would for an actual dehydrator.
At 04:36 PM 7/10/2010, you wrote:
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>hahahah, funny you should mention that. I've
>been looking around for an existing closed
>cabinet or something which I could rig up like
>that, and one thing I have considered has been an old dressor.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Keith Christian
>To: <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected]
<mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 4:23 PM
>Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Considering building my own apple drier or
dehydrator
>
>Hi Matt,
>I use to grow hops for brewing. I dried them by setting them in an old
>dresser with a fan attached to the back side. The bottoms of the drawers
>were removed and I inserted some wire mesh to allow the air to flow through
>the hops. It worked great.
>
>Sounds like fun. Let us know what you decide and how it works out.
>
>Keith
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