Birthday Presents

It was my birthday last weekend, and I asked my parents for two things for my birthday: a second hand food dehydrator, and some manure. I got both, thanks Mom and Dad! My parents are convinced I'm weird.
With my new dehydrator, I made crispy dried apples. It was super easy, and it only took about an hour of prep and 10 hours in the dehydrator. I cut the apples and soaked them in a half lemon juice, half water mixture while I cut the rest of the apples. The lemon juice is so the apples don't turn brown. I could have peeled the apples, but that would have taken way longer, so I left them on. Once I cut up an entire bag of Gala apples, I laid them on the plastic frames of my American Harvest dehydrator, and sprinkled them with cinnamon. Then, I turned the dehydrator on to 135 F and left it in there for 10 hours.

When I woke up the next morning, I tasted the dried apples and put them in a ziplock bag. I've eaten them like that as a snack, or crunched them up and put them in my cereal. Super simple!
Now I just need to invest in an apple corer/peeler to make the next batch ten times faster.

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