Drying toms

Wow this is a great idea , it deftnely work in Arizona , where they have cold night and dry sunny day , I still shettick for the use of it in uk , tomatoes over here are ripen by the end of September , will we really have lots of sunshine , to transform our £3 per kilos fresh juicie tomato in 100gr , £1, sundry tomato? I still belive that all the excess tomato should be transformed in nice chillie souce and pickled green tomato ; ).
JWK in case you want to try anyway , I`m a joiner I can knock one up for you. It may work.

 

Nice find John

My basic one just had an insulated back with bamboo poles, for drying apple rings. A gap at the bottom for airflow. I just put it against a south facing double glazed window.

It did caramelize a few of the rings though, got a bit too hot.

 

Before -

And after drying -

I've doubts about solar drying here in the UK. This summer I don't think we had sufficiently long periods of sunshine.
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Too right Dave, had to treat every sunny day like it was the last one this year. It just didn't warm up.