Growing fruits, berries, vegetables, picking mushrooms is half the battle. We must also be able to save them, the winter is long here. In dried fruits and vegetables, nutrients are well preserved.
Someone threw out the refrigerator, and I turned it into a drying cabinet for fruits and vegetables. I pulled all the “insides” out of it, left a metal case with a door and a rubber seal. The holes on the back were tightly sealed with a piece of tin so that mice, as well as insects and dust did not penetrate. He fixed the rails on the side walls with self-tapping screws so that the frames covered with a fine mesh lay on them. It is possible to pour crushed fruits on it and, without turning over and without tilting, put the mesh frames on the racks in the cabinet. I made a distance of 10 cm between the frames and 25 cm between the bottom and the bottom. To dry the contents faster, the cabinet painted black on the outside and placed it in a sunny place. As a result, the temperature in the “refrigerator” reaches 70 ° C. From the bottom and top of the structure, I drilled holes with a diameter of 1.5 mm for air circulation. On cloudy days, it is heated from the mains. I secured cartridges and light bulbs on a wooden frame, which are connected in series with Using a cord with a plug, they are plugged in. The lamps in this mode serve for a long time.
I learned from the reference literature that the optimum temperature for drying carrots is 70 ~ 75 ° C, beets - 78 ~ 89 ° C, apples and mushrooms - about 70 ° C, parsley, onions, celery, etc. - 50 ° C . A bucket of apples or mushrooms dries completely in sunny weather in 1-1.5 days, in cloudy weather for 1 ~ 2 days.
My oven works reliably and efficiently, constantly providing seven vitamins.