How to Dehydrate Tomatoes in Oven

   Dried tomatoes have a distinctive sweetness and will last longer than fresh tomatoes. Understanding how to dry tomatoes will help protect your summer harvest and enjoy the fruit in winter. Aside from the loss of some vitamin C, drying tomatoes does not change any of the nutritional benefits of the fruit, and the added flavor and ease of storing dried tomatoes are benefits of the embalming process.

 How to Choose Tomatoes?

  You can dehydrate any kind of tomatoes in theory but I prefer to choose smaller tomatoes for dehydration. I almost always use cherry tomatoes or small plum tomatoes. In general, If the size of the tomato is small. It's easier to dehydrate it. If you do want to dehydrate larger tomatoes you may need to slice them, or cut them into small pieces. In addition,choose tomatoes must be natural mature color, the red the better, if it is artificial red tomatoes, then it is certainly not good, the red tomatoes prove that his maturity is better, development is more sufficient, the taste is very good. Choose round shape, thin skin，and more elastic tomatoes, this tomato will be more delicious, if the skin of the tomato has spots or a diamond, then this tomato is not good, with your hand slightly pinch the tomato, the skin is thin and elastic, feel not soft and strong tomatoes are good.The less chosen circle at the bottom of the tomato will be more delicious, now inside the greenhouse planting tomatoes, fruit bar is more, so does not taste good, can look at the bottom of the tomato, if the circle is relatively small, so it shows that stem is less more moisture, and pulp is full, will be more delicious, and at the bottom of the circle if is larger, So it turns out that the tomatoes have a lot of gluten, so they don't taste very good.

How to Dehydrate Tomatoes in Oven?
1:Rinse the tomatoes with cold water. And cut it to your liking. For example, you can cut them in half, or cut them into slices.
2:Use a spoon to remove any excess juice from the tomatoes. And you have to get rid of the core as well.
3:Sprinkle the top of the tomatoes with salt and stir well. Not only does the salt taste the tomatoes, but it also helps to separate the water of the tomatoes quickly.
4:Place the tomatoes neatly in a baking tray. When the baking pan is heated to 200 degrees Fahrenheit, place tomatoes in the baking pan.
5:Because tomatoes contain a lot of water, the time for dehydration is about 7-10hours. It is a good idea to check the progress every 30 minutes or so after around 6 hours. The dried tomatoes will be fairly hard and not have much given.Some tomatoes will be dried out fully and can be removed and some will need slightly longer so can continue to dehydrate.
6:Dehydrate the tomatoes completely and remove them from the oven. Let it cool naturally.

How to Dry Tomatoes in Large Quantities?

  To dry tomatoes in large quantities, it is not enough to use a home oven. If you want to dry a lot of tomatoes, there are two ways to do it.
One method is natural drying. First of all, wash a lot of tomatoes and put them in a container. Then sprinkle the tomatoes with sugar and mix well. Finally, place it in a sunny place and let it dry. These are the two ways you usually dry tomatoes in large quantities.

  Another way is to use a dehydrator.Follow the instructions above to prepare the tomatoes well. Then put them all in the dryer. Set the temperature between 65 and 93 degrees Celsius. Spin every few hours. The process takes 9-24 hours, but it depends on the size of the tomato.

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1:Applicable：Vegetable,fruit,meat,seafood,agricultural ,noodle,wooden
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