How to dry lemon?

   Lemon is a nutritious fruit, rich in vitamin C and citric acid. Therefore, it is known as the “Citrate Warehouse”. Lemon has a miraculous effect for curing scurvy, cough, obesity, and other diseases. In summer, add two or three slices of lemon to a cold drink to make lemonade. It tastes great. Adding a few slices of lemon to the meal will not only remove the fishy taste but also increase the umami taste. Lemons become essential fruit in the kitchen and cold drink shop. But because the lemon is too sour, it only takes a few slices to cook a meal or make tea. Dried lemons are not easy to store, so let us learn how to dry lemon. Dried lemons not only retain the nutrients of lemons but also easy to store. 

There are two ways to dry lemon
Sunlight Drying 
1:Wash the skin of the lemon to make sure that there is not dirt and pollution, because the skin is of the lemon needs to be preserved.
2:Cut the lemon into a thin slice. The thinner the slices, the shorter the drying time. In this step, you need to be careful not to cut the lemon seeds, because the lemon seeds have a bitter taste. 
3:Place the cut lemon slices neatly on a wooden board, put them in a place where the sun can be fully exposed. If the weather is good, you can turn over to dry the other side for one day. If the sun is not enough, you can wait for two days. When both sides are dried, the sunlight drying process has been completed.

Oven
  Sunlight drying is not a good choice for basins and areas with a lot of cloudiness, so if you want to dry lemons quickly at home, using an oven is a good choice. The steps are the same as drying in the sun. We need to wash the lemons and cut them to a thickness of two or three centimeters. The thinner you slice it, the shorter it takes to make it. At the same time, we must pay attention to keeping the seed intact. Then, the lemons are evenly spread on the grilling net, set the oven temperature to about 60℃, and heat the air. This is to evaporate the lemon’s moisture more quickly. It takes about 12 hours. When the lemon is dried, the flesh becomes a translucent film. The shape completes the drying process of the lemon.

How to dry lemon in large quantities/Dehydrate lemon in a dehydrator
  If eating a small number of lemon slices at home, you can make them in the sun and the oven. But if you need to mass-produce and sell lemon slices, using a dehydrator to make dried lemons is a good choice.
Henan Baixin has two ways to dry lemon in large quantities:
1:The first method:
Household Commercial All-in-one drying equipment without installation for any material
   Drying essence is take moisture away, but takes away the moisture temperature is not the most critical factor. The key for drying is depending on relative humidity within certain space, Baixin Company took advantage of the dry essence, originality developed a "Closed Cycle" dryer, changed the traditional heat pump dryer "bake" to "dehumidifier”. Its several advantages were unmatched by the traditional heat pump dryer.
   Baixin Food Dehydrator has a compact structure, great energy-saving, wide application, high drying quality, easy operation, simple installation and removable. it is the best drying equipment for small firms, drying experiment and scientific research. The users only connect the power to use, is the easiest operation heat pump dryer.

The second method:
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.

Advantage of lemon dehydrator/drying machine 

The heat pump drying machine is Commercial All-in-one universal drying equipment without installation,suitable for 85% of food vegetable fruit mature material.This kind of dryer has the advantages of easy operation low cost clean and sanitary small area occupy.
1:Applicable：Vegetable,fruit,meat,seafood,agricultural ,noodle,wooden
2:Output：100-3000kg/h
3:Heat pump model:1P/2P/3P/6P/8P/10P/15P/20P/30P/40P/60P
4:Drying time:Depends on different drying materials
5:Core advantages:Energy saving and environmental protection, simple or without installation, easy operation operation, wide application for food vegetable fruit dryer，small area occupy

Lemon drying video：