(15-03-2022, 09:36 AM)Small chilli Wrote: Kale crisps are lovely. With salt garlic and mixed dried herbs.
Sure the recipe is in one of the links for timing and how to. Think I made up the garlic and herb coating myself. Think it only take 5 - 6 hours. Definitely easily done in a day.
I have learned to put a lot less salt on than they say in the recipe.

(15-03-2022, 10:41 PM)Veggie Wrote: What I've learned so far!!
1. Its best to load the trays from the top down.  When you push a tray in, it can catch on the items in the tray below and push them into a heap, when you've spent hours spreading them out neatly. Similarly, if you pull a tray out, it can pull items from the tray below with it. The items in question were kale and chard leaves that were a bit curly and didn't lie flat on the tray.
2. Make the items you want to dry as flat and thin as possible (See 1.)
3. Lovage dries faster than chard/spinach which dry faster than kale.
4. At a temp of 125 F/ 52C, Lovage takes 3 hours to dry, the rest take 4-5 hours.
5. A 5 tray Excalibur is not as heavy as I feared but it does have a big footprint.
6. It isn't too noisy although its nice to have it in another room.
7. I over estimated how many leaves I could dry - its about 4/5 chard leaves to a tray. Gave the stalks to the chooks as I was too lazy to chop them up for drying.
8 5 trays of leaves fill a 1lb jam jar when dried.