Chris S
Legendary Member
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- Birmingham
You've got me wondering what the animal was now. Has one of my neighbours been eating tomatoes and pooing in my garden?
How green was my tomato plant
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Poacher
Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
Bolted, but not useless! You've got more "normal" leaves than we have, but it's still OK if finely chopped. You can even get the same flavour from the roots. I don't know why it's always so quick to bolt - maybe need to keep watering it, I guess.
sleuthey
Legendary Member
- Location
- South Gloucestershire
@Dave7
@Poacher
@lazybloke
Doing very well here, bit more sunshine and will have a bumper crop. Yours?
Poacher
Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
Not so good here generally; just enough Gardeners Delight from the greenhouse for our needs.
I didn't keep on top of pinching out side shoots and leaders, so there's a huge amount of vegetation and not much fruit.
Greenhouse bell peppers about ready to pick, reasonable returns from a single pot.
Outdoor tomatoes, specifically the Pink Brandywine, producing a huge crop, but stubbornly failing to ripen.
There must be well over a Kg in this truss alone.
annedonnelly
Girl from the North Country
- Location
- Blyth, Northumberland
Oh that's interesting to know, i've got one of those plasticky multi tray bottom dryer ones, which i use mainly for green veg, to take on trips -
( Chlorophyllaphile me)
@Notafettler @mudsticks I'd be interested to know which brand of plasticky, cheapo bottom heating dryers you use. I'm having a look & I'm a bit wary of the ultra cheap ones on Amazon with unknown brand names. I'm wondering if it's better to get a slightly more pricey one.
Notafettler
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@annedonnelly
Homcom 5 tray. Daughters bought it for me. No idea where from not available on Amazon but there is reviews. Only 4 out of 5 didn't read the reviews. Done 8 jars of toms see below various oils. Forgot to add chilli to some
Very very happy with it so far.
1 it takes up considerably less room than the excalibur.
2 I think it works better than the excalibur as long as you constantly move the trays round.
The latter is the down side.
My excalibur is on ebay for £120. A bit late to put it on as a lot will have finished dehydrating?
Either way glad it was bought for me. Note I am not sure there is a lot of difference between the bottom heating ones. Element and fan, surely they can make them all of equal quality? Assuming that the latter don't actually all come from the same suppier? Guarantees is what I would look at.
Homcom 5 tray. Daughters bought it for me. No idea where from not available on Amazon but there is reviews. Only 4 out of 5 didn't read the reviews. Done 8 jars of toms see below various oils. Forgot to add chilli to some
Very very happy with it so far.
1 it takes up considerably less room than the excalibur.
2 I think it works better than the excalibur as long as you constantly move the trays round.
The latter is the down side.
My excalibur is on ebay for £120. A bit late to put it on as a lot will have finished dehydrating?
Either way glad it was bought for me. Note I am not sure there is a lot of difference between the bottom heating ones. Element and fan, surely they can make them all of equal quality? Assuming that the latter don't actually all come from the same suppier? Guarantees is what I would look at.
annedonnelly
Girl from the North Country
- Location
- Blyth, Northumberland
mudsticks
Obviously an Aubergine
Sorry Anne, I went to hunt for ours to check out the brand name.
Took me a while to realise a friend is borrowing it right now.
But I think it's a not particularly well known make - certainly not high end.
You pays your money, you makes your choice, but more money doesn't necessarily seem to mean better results in this case.
I've heard from other dehydrators (people - not the appliances themselves) that sometimes better results are had with the more basic models.
Especially if you periodically swap up and down the trays.
Depends what you're drying.
I shall probs 'semi dry' the last of the super sweet cherry toms, then put them up with oil a bit like notafettler has done.
If you bung in some basil in too you end up with a nicely flavoured oil for dressings.
We also have some silicone inserts to line the trays with, for smaller bits and pieces, or for making fruit leather, or dehydrating 'whole meals' for trips etc.
annedonnelly
Girl from the North Country
- Location
- Blyth, Northumberland
Thank you, that sort of info is useful.
In my attempts to re-use, re-cycle, etc. I like to buy things like this second hand so I'm keeping an eye on Ebay but don't want to waste time buying one that is rubbish.
Notafettler
Guest
Don't buy mine then. I have a 5 tray Exaclibur on. After using cheapo I prefer the cheapo
annedonnelly
Girl from the North Country
- Location
- Blyth, Northumberland
You'll never make a salesperson with that attitude
I've just paid £20 for an Andrew James one on Buy it now. It's enough to pay to have a play with.
mudsticks
Obviously an Aubergine
You'll never make a salesperson with that attitude
I've just paid £20 for an Andrew James one on Buy it now. It's enough to pay to have a play with.
Good call.
This one was second hand and still seems to be fine after 6 (?) + years - there's not much to go wrong - she says - tempting fate - and easy enough to clean so S/H should be fine.
I'd imagine there would be quite a few floating about on gumtree or wherever as they take up quite a lot of storage space , and i spose often sit there gathering dust and grumbles after the initial enthusiasm has worn off -
Have fun desiccating everything in sight ..
