Sun Dried Tomatoes Done Three Different Ways - Dehydrator, Oven & Sun
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- Join Don and Brenda as they experiment with different ways of drying tomatoes. They tried dehydrating them, baking them in the oven and then the old fashioned way of drying them in the sun. They had interesting results.
What a wonderful video from start to finish. You two make a great team. Thanks for sharing this with all of us.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. We do work well together....especially after being married for 43 years.
7/25/24 and I’m sitting in my kitchen prepping my tomatoes for the …. Dehydrator. Well darn. Going to have to ask my engineer husband to construct an outdoor drying rack for me and do it the old fashioned and best way next year. Thank you for the very helpful and informative video!! Happy gardening!
Haha.... I'm already looking forward to doing more this year. The hardest part was keeping insects out of the drying rack. Happy Gardening to you too!
I have been drying tomatoes for over a decade. Mostly sun drying (in purpose built solar dehydrators), but also with table top units. And here are a few things to consider from my experiences. For all types of dehydrators, they work by removing moisture from the surface. And interior moisture then moves toward the surface along a gradient. But because of this, depending on the tool used, yes you can get different results.
- Oven and table top dehydrators do work quickly, as they provide a constant heat and air flow to remove the moisture from the dehydration area. But also, they can work a bit too fast, in that the fruit may seem to be dry, but the interior may still contain moisture. Simply "feeling" the product to see if it is really dry may not be sufficient unless you dry to chip crispness. Better to use a moisture meter to actually test interior moisture.
- Solar dehydrating takes more time as the external temperatures and rate of moisture removal can vary (even well built units with good passive airflow). The darker discoloration you saw on some tomatoes was when things got to hot and the tomatoes oxidized from the heat. This happens to those that are typically thinner or contain less moisture than others. But solar dehydration also has cycles, so at night, their is time for the internal moisture to move to the surface, where it can be removed the next day. Adding salt helps to aid this moisture movement (and also deters fungal growth). Which is also why is not really necessary to add salt to oven or table top dehydrators as the action of the salt gradient will not act fast enough to really help as much as with solar dehydration nor is there fear of fungal growth as there is no real "cool" period.
- Finally, to rehydrate, I pour boiling water over the dry tomatoes in a bowl, and let them soak till they get the consistency I want. That is, do not assume any batch needs a fixed time to rehydrate. One can even rehydrate in cold water, but that simply takes longer.
Hope this helps.
Wow!! Thank you for all of the information. I'm so glad you commented. My daughter-in-law is also very interested in food preservation. I am going to pass all of this on to her as well. I truly appreciate you sharing your knowledge/experience with me. Now that I've started sun- drying tomatoes, it will be a permanent part of my tomato preservation methods.
@@waardenburgfamilyfarm4764 So happy I could contribute in my small way.
I might add, to pass on to your daughter perhaps, the most wonderful way to preserve dried tomatoes is in olive oil. Add in some spices, herbs, a few cloves a garlic. There are many recipes online. Let it sit on the self for at least 6 months (but it can actually last years). When opened they can be used directly, even just on a slice of bread, no rehydratino required. Be prepared to say... Wow!
Will the nylon hanging dryers work?
Thank you for sharing your own experience and knowledge to the already pleasant video. Greetings from Spain where I am drying tomates. Very large tomates only cut in half but so far sooo good.
Thanks for drying three different ways and sharing the whole process. Great video!!
Glad it was helpful. I was really curious to see which way I liked best.
Your experiment was very helpful, informative, information I’m very glad to now have. It must have been some work and I appreciate how carefully you kept the test equal for all variants. Thank you.💕
I'm so glad it was helpful. I wanted to do the experiment because I was really curious to find out which way we liked the best. Have fun drying tomatoes.
I'm glad I watched to end! great video!
Glad it was helpful.
Watching this in 2023, love you guys! Thanks for the effort & detailed process.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!
8/13/24: WOW!! This was a wonderful tutorial, and I learned so much from it. I have some Compari tomatoes waiting in the wings for me to do something with them and THIS IS IT!! I live in California where the sun is always shining, especially these days with the hot summer we've been having. Nonetheless, I am excited to get it going, starting today, so thank you both for making the comparisons. I'm gonna go for it the good ol' old-fashioned way with El Sol... Yum! 😋
I'm so glad you found it helpful. Have fun eating all of thos sun-dried tomatoes this year.
I been drying tomatoes outside for many years and is the best way to do
I love sun dried tomatoes thank you for this experiment
We both love them. It's great to have them already on hand when I need them.
Thanks for going to all this work for us. I planted enough tomatoes that I'm sure I'll be able to try more preservation methods than my GO-TO Oven Roasted Tomato Sauce. Here in Seattle, there isn't enough sun to do the authentic Sun-dried method. I'll have to rely on my dehydrator. I'm disappointed to hear your results but I'll do my own and see what I get.
I really wanted to see which we preferred. The oven one was pretty good too. I think no matter what method you use, it's great to have sun-dried tomatoes on hand.
Huge thanks from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 you are amazing ❤
Thanks for watching from the other side of the world.
I have done the in the dehydrator but all inclusive with seasonings and bit of oil on them. They were shelf stable for a year and kept consistency and flavour .. lots of methods to try.
I think they can be great using many different methods and everyone has different tastes. I just love having sun-dried tomatoes available to use all year round. Thanks for watching!
Super interesting! Now I know how I’ll try mine.
It tastes longer, but it will be how I'll be doing it in the future. Thanks for watching.
wow what a wondreful video
So glad you found it helpful. Enjoy your sun-dried tomatoes.
thank you! ♥️
Thanks for watching.
Great video. The horned worms didn’t find our tomato patch this year so we have a bunch. Because of the detailed comments included in the video - as opposed to a silent hand video - the oven method will most likely be the way to go here in Charleston, SC. Of all the different cities I have lived in, Charleston is by far the most humid and insect ridden. Thank you.
Thanks! So far we've escaped the hornworms so far this season. (fingers crossed) The oven is a great way to go.. We'll be doing a lot more after we harvest tomatoes this summer.
What an interesting experiment. Thanks for sharing Brenda. I’m adding this one to my “Recipes to try soon” file. 👏🏾😁.
We've been using the sun-dried tomatoes in several recipes already and I know that I will need to do a lot more next year.
Love your video…you guys do a great job! Thanks 😊
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
Hey Brenda and Don🖐🏾😁I’m here for the Sundried tomatoes. Brenda I have that same dehydrator and I absolutely love it. Sophie (my Beagle) loves when I dehydrate Apples and Beef Jerky.😁🐶ok let me get back to your video.
Hello, glad you are here. We are talking about Beef Jerky, but haven't tried any yet.
Thank you for teaching me, GOD bless you. 🙏💖😊
I'm so glad it was helpful. Thanks for watching!
You are so sweet to each other 💕🙌🏻
Thanks!! We've been married for 43 years and have not always been that way, but we've grown a lot in those years.
Thank you for the experiment. I will do the old fashion way from now on
I did another big batch so I'll have plenty of sun-dried tomatoes to use in recipes. Now I can't wait to try some new recipes. 😁
That was a very interesting experiment. Thank you for sharing that with us.
I enjoy experimenting in the kitchen and I'm looking forward to using all of the sun dried tomatoes. 🙂
When you can sun dried tomatoes in oil and spices...do you have to water bath them? How long is the shelf life? Also, will beefsteak tomatoes work? We have a lot of tomato varieties leftover and heard not to use bigger juicy tomatoes. That roma and san marzano are the best. We already started dehydrating but now we are going to put some outside because it's over 100 degrees here in SoCal.
Hello. I don't can the sun dried tomatoes, they are kept in the fridge in oil. The beefsteak probably won't work quite as well because they have so much more liquid than the sauce/paste tomatoes. You will definitely get good drying with over 100 degrees....wow. Best of luck and enjoy your sun dried tomatoes.
Great Video! Thank you so much!
Thanks for the encouragement.
Thank u so much for doing that experiment. i saw there were the three ways to make them and i wasn’t sure where to start. i have an old fashion dehydrator. i am so glad to see i can try to sun dry them or put in the ovens. You did such a cool experiment. Where did u buy your seeds for those gorgeous tomatoes?
We are still enjoying the sun-dried tomatoes. I'll be doing more this summer. I buy most of my seeds from either Johnny's seeds or MI Gardener. I've been happy with both of their Amish Paste tomatoes.
Geweldig experiment! Ik heb pas een dehydrator gekocht, mooi voor o.a kruiden en pepers. Maar de tomaten ga ik in de zon drogen. Dit zal ook voor de paprika gelden.
Bedankt. Ja, ik moet meer van mijn eigen kruiden uitdrogen of invriezen. Dat staat op mijn lijstje voor volgend jaar. Bedankt voor het kijken!
Do you have a freeze drier? That would be a good one as well. You could always use freeze dried tomato seeds and they will still germinate.
In essence the dehydrator and the oven are the same process, which makes more sense with the results post boiling.
We do have a freeze dryer and made some tomato powder, but I had no idea you could freeze dry the seeds and they would still germinate. Amazing!
That's just crazy the difference in taste before putting in water and vinegar and after. Sundried wins🎉
I know.... we were surprised by how different it was. I'm looking forward to using all of those sun dried tomatoes... yum!!!
That was interesting. This is just a guess, but is it possible your dehydrator was set too hot? I do them in an old fashioned plastic Ronco Food Dehydrator with the electric element in the bottom. I think it takes 2.5 -3 days. I just have to watch them to get them out before they go rock hard. They turn out dark red and taste exactly like the kind that I've bought at the store. The one time that I tried to dry them in the sun, they molded. I'm in Atlanta and think the humidity must be too high here.
It's possible. Maybe I'll try some this year at a lower temp. As for the mold, yes, the humidity would be a factor. I did ours at a time when our humidity wasn't very high.
Love your video thank you
Thanks!!
Great video ❤
Thanks for watching!
You are rock stars!!
You can sell those in your farm stand for 💸💸
I'm just thrilled to have sun dried tomatoes to use in lots of yummy recipes.
I was always thinking why no one used oven to make sun dried tomatoes, atleast I never came across any videos so far.
I am happy that you tried all 3 methods. 😊thanks for the experiment!
It was a fun experiment and we wound up with a lot of sun-dried tomatoes. The tomatoes are just starting to ripen for this season so I'm looking forward to making more for next year.
Makes sense. Sun dried is dried most because it wasn't heated and was dried longer. Dehydrator should be equivalent, but you would probably have to match the outside... like 96 degrees for 4 days. Just a guess.
I could have matched that this year....we've been in the 90's for most of the last 2 weeks....too hot. I'll definitely be making more sun-dried tomatoes this year.
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I was planning to... but now seems like it's gonna rain the next week so forced to use the dehydrator. Think I used too much salt the first batch... too tomatoes... 32 roma plants in my backyard and 23 indeterminate, lol, lunatic I am.
And powder in the vitamix that way you would have it to add to anything that you want tomato in it
We are planning to do some tomatoes and then powder it. We dehydrated the skins and powdered them one year and I used them in a lot of various ways.
Thanks, was wondering.
I was hoping the dehydrator would be the best.
The other video I seen, they rinse with dried tomatoes in cold water to rinse the salt off. Then gets hydrated by sitting in oil for awhile. Which is another thing because I also read also your not suppose to infuse oils, for safety. IDK They say that and do that with olives too, in oil so?? :/ I would think that they speed up the sun dring process by chemical which could be the salt and possibly added electric, within two days for mass productions...maybe wrong idk...Maybe oven first to dehydrator whoohoo!!! jk
So I watched a couple more vids anyways. A few years back but, mass production was a sulphur steam bath overnight for a natural preservative. Their drying times were 3-9 days lol I would think in some kinda hot box timed for 2 days. But supposedly theirs are good in oil indefinetly because of the preservative and home a few months supposedly so..careful.
I've not researched any kind of perservatives. Ours don't last very long so I feel safe keeping them in the fridge in the oil. Thanks for the info.
I’ve seen it done where you cut them in half, scoop the seeds and juice out with your finger then dry them. Wonder how that would work
I saw that too but i wanted to keep the seeds and pulp. It would definitely dry a little faster without then. I also think Romas would be much better to use than Amish Paste. Amish Paste are great for sauce, but I'm definitely gonna plant Romas next year for sun-dryng.
Always fun to try it many ways. Looking forward to your results as you go along. Last year I cut cherries in half, put olive oil, salt and herbs on, then put in the oven for 30ish minutes then packed in oil. They were delicious in many dishes as well as the sun dried.
So do you have to reconstitute them before putting them in oil? I wonder if the oil would do the reconstitution?
I have tried that before and failed. Oil doesn't reconstitute the tomatoes like how water would.
I see someone already posted an answer. I'm glad, because I've never tried it. Now I know not to even do an experimental batch with just oil. Thanks for watching.
Only the sun dried needed the 2 minute boil. The others just needed a good rinse to remove the salt.
I didn't know that. Thanks for the information!
Which brand are those table top burners please?
Here's a link to the ones I have. I'm extremely happy with them. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07G9YKPQC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1
Do you buy you're salt thru Azure alot of homesteaders swear by it
I haven't bought salt from them yet, but I'll look into it.
Most of the videos Ive seen show them just washing the salt off, not boiling them.
I hadn't seen that, but maybe in the future I'll experiment with just washing.
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You ought to use you're freeze dryer
We've been using it more and more. We make a lot of freeze dried fruit for the grandkids as well as vege powders. We're still learning all of the things we can do with it.
Why do you cut so much of the tops off? Its a lot of waste
I do it for several reasons. First, it saves me a lot of time and nothing goes to waste---my 45 chickens love tomatoes. They eat every single bite and turn them into eggs. 😁
Lord I need a supportive husband 🙏
He is truly a gem. I'm very thankful for him.