dried tomatoes

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> I got this lust for the salted sun-dried tomatoes (that I deep

> in the olive oil). But it costs me lot to get buying them all the

> time, so I thought if I could get a bigger quantity of fresh

> tomatoes for the good price, then I could try to dry them myself.

> Does anybody have some experience? What sort of tomatoes are the

> best for this purpose, what one has to do in order to avoid them

> rotting before they get nicely dried (and yet keeping soft)? Or

> any other info and suggestion that someone could have, I would

> appreciate greatly.

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> ys mnd

 

We grow paste tomatoes (sometimes called Roma type tomatoes) for cooking down

for sauce, salsa, etc. They have a lower moisture content then regular

tomatoes and seem to dry better in commercial dehydrators. Starting with the

right variety of tomato is probably the most important factor.

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>

> I got this lust for the salted sun-dried tomatoes (that I deep

> in the olive oil). But it costs me lot to get buying them all the

> time, so I thought if I could get a bigger quantity of fresh

> tomatoes for the good price, then I could try to dry them myself.

> Does anybody have some experience? What sort of tomatoes are the

> best for this purpose, what one has to do in order to avoid them

> rotting before they get nicely dried (and yet keeping soft)? Or

> any other info and suggestion that someone could have, I would

> appreciate greatly.

>

> ys mnd

 

We grow paste tomatoes (sometimes called Roma type tomatoes) for cooking down

for sauce, salsa, etc. They have a lower moisture content then regular

tomatoes and seem to dry better in commercial dehydrators. Starting with the

right variety of tomato is probably the most important factor.