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Dehydrate Food in a Solar Dehydrator - PEP BB food.sand.dehydrate

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I made Paul some Kale chips!

I didn’t have a large enough bowl for 2lbs of kale so I split it up into 3

2lbs = 32oz
12.2 + 13.0 + 8.9 = 34.1oz
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Food on scale 1
Food on scale 1
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Food on scale 2
Food on scale 2
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Food on scale 3
Food on scale 3
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Going into the dehydrator
Going into the dehydrator
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Close up
Close up
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Crispity crunch
Crispity crunch
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It’s such a beautiful structure, I need one
It’s such a beautiful structure, I need one
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I built my dehydrator using this video as a guide: How to make your own solar food dehydrator. I cobbled it together from some of the old boards lying around in the barn instead of using a table (which I don't recommend, but it worked). I'm definitely planning on making a better one later, but this still did the trick. For the food itself, I picked some apples and asian pears from the scraggly old grove on my mom's land.
Note: I did this in early September, I'm just bad at remembering to post lol
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fruit before cutting
fruit before cutting
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half of the cut fruit
half of the cut fruit
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the other half of the cut fruit
the other half of the cut fruit
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dumping and distributing slices
dumping and distributing slices
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all filled up
all filled up
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done!
done!
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