Drying Bananas

When my kids were little, they thought dried fruit was candy and juice mixed with mineral water was pop…. then they went public, and that put an end to that! I had a huge food dryer which would easily hold a 40 lb box of bananas. Between my 3 kids, 2 nieces, and a couple of neighborhood kids, they came close to cleaning out the food dryer before the 40 lbs of bananas were done. My sister called me that evening and wanted to know “what on earth I fed her daughter” hahahaha those were the days! Bananas are one of the easiest fruits to prepare and load and they taste like warm banana pudding when eaten straight out of the dryer. They are a tripod fruit, which means when cut in half, you can push your finger right down the middle and it will fall into thirds…. place them on your dryer sheets and your good to go. I dry them at 115 (living food) for about 15-20 hours, just keep tasting (I mean checking) them.

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