>Hi Everyone, I am writing to both the chinchilla mailing list and the GML
>(gerbil mailing list). I was wondering, how long does it take to make
>dehydrated banana's, because I just finished cutting and stringing through
>one banana, and it is hanging up upstairs, sorta drying!! I was wondering,
>how long will it take to finish drying my banana's??
Amy, it is best to dry your bananas with heat....else they will just
mold (most likely).
I use a food dehydrator, slice the bananas with a hand powered
version of a food processor (one of those things with the plate
and the crank and the three legs); and lay them on the fruit inserts
on the trays (these are sort of slimey plastic donuts that cover the
slats on the trays); and 2-3 bananas takes about 4 hours with mine
sliced about 1/8" inch thick (a little thicker but not much) with about
three turning sessions and swapping the trays top to bottom at
least once.
If you do it in the oven, use a cookie sheet lined with crumpled
aluminum foil (crumple and sorta smooth out again) and a very
low oven (140-150F) and you have to tend them and turn them
and move the chunks so as to dry them not brown them.
You'll have to devote an afternoon to this...
Deb
Rebel's Rodent Ranch
