The reason for making dried apricots:

  Apricot is a kind of sweet and sour delicious fruit, In the apricot ripening season, many people will go to pick fresh apricot taste this delicious. But when the apricot season is over, people haven’t a chance to enjoy it. To continue this delicious taste, wise people have come up with another way to preserve apricots for a long time. That is to make apricots into dried apricots.

How to dry apricot at home:

• First: remove the stones and wash the undamaged 70-percent-old green and white apricots.
• Second: sodium bisulfite is thrown into 500ml of cold water to make a solution. Soak the apricots in the solution for 30 to 40 minutes, then rinse with water.
• Third: whisks 300g of sugar and 200ml of cold water into a pot, bring them to a boil, then simmers them for 5-10 minutes, before dropping the apricots into the pot and continuing to cook them for 10-15 minutes. Then add 100g of sugar and 50ml of cold water and cook for another 10 minutes. Finally, add the remaining 100 grams of sugar and cook for 20 to 30 minutes. When the sugar is reduced, turn off the heat.
• Forth: soak the cooked apricots for four to five hours, along with the sugar solution.
• Finally: scoop out the apricots, place them on a bamboo drawer to drain the sugar, and let them dry.

How to dry apricot in large quantities:

  For a long time, mature fresh apricot besides a few goes on the market to sell and partial farmers eat from oneself, make by the air of soil method by the farmer mostly dry, not only health condition and apricot dry quality are poorer, the loss of apricot is 15% to 30%. According to calculation, if the whole apricot is dried, it takes 15 to 20 days for the traditional natural drying, and only 2-3 days for the single time of the heat pump drying system. Compared with the 20-30 days of natural cool sun sai, the difference is very obvious. And the use of hot air drying made of dried apricot than ordinary apricot prices increased on average 2 to 3 times, but also pulled the fresh apricot purchase price. Compared with the traditional natural drying needs 18 workers, the use of heat pump fruit drying noodles only needs 5 workers, the labor cost is greatly reduced. The use of heat pump drying, two or three days can be completed, there is no deterioration (unless the process and system problems, the qualified rate of the finished product is high. The heat pump drying system is not only time-consuming and unattended but also produces good quality and the high price of dried apricots. Heat pump drying is in a closed space, the original fruit taste loss is less, and will not bring secondary pollution to dried apricots; The heat pump drying process is mild, the apricot looks good and tastes good, and the price per kilogram is more than 3.3 yuan higher than that of natural drying.
  Push the screen tray of the apricot into the drying room. The initial temperature of the drying equipment is 50℃, and the final temperature is 72℃. According to Finnick air source 15P fruit and vegetable dryer configuration 5.8 meters long 3 meters wide 2.2 high drying room calculation, into the material car 8, each material car 10 layers, each layer 1.5 square meters, can be put into fresh apricot pieces; About 1000 kg, the air can heat pump drying time is about 20 hours. Grade according to the quality of the finished product. The poor color, dry and broken ones can be picked out.

Recommendation of apricot dehydrator/drying machine

Commercial 100-3000kg/h large amount of dehydration wide application and easy operation

  Heat pump drying machine use the principle of inverse Carnot cycle. It absorbs low-temperature heat energy in the air, which becomes high-temperature heat energy after efficient heat collection and integration by the heat pump system, and is transported to the drying room for cyclic heating and drying of materials.It refers to exhausting the hot and humid air in the drying room directly to the outside of the drying room through dehumidification device, and then replenishing natural fresh air.
  Hot air circle drying machine belongs to high temperature heat pump unit. Its working principle is: the working fluid of the heat pump is compressed by the compressor, becomes high temperature and high pressure gas, enters the condenser, condenses and liquefies the heat, and is used for air heating in the drying room. The moisture in the material is vaporized and evaporated by the form of hot air, and the evaporated water vapor is discharged by the moisture discharge system, thereby achieving the purpose of drying the drying material.

 

Apricot drying video：