Summer gives us a lot of berries and fruits, and in autumn the mushroom picking season begins. Collecting mushrooms has long ceased to be a pleasant hobby, it's a kind of lifestyle. Each mushroomer will tell you a lot of recipes for delicious dishes from mushrooms. Salted, pickled and canned, they are always an excellent side dish and addition to any dish. The most successful way to store mushrooms for the winter is to dry them. After the drying process, the mushrooms do not require any other treatment and can lie for a long time. For today you can choose a dryer for mushrooms and fruits for every taste, color and purse.
Infrared dryer for mushrooms
Such a dryer for mushrooms and fruits - a great way to make billets for future use, if you live in an apartment. Infrared dryer for mushrooms has many types, from small and compact, to serious floor installations. The big plus of such a dryer is the fact that all vitamins, when exposed to infrared radiation, persist in fruits or mushrooms. Products retain their taste and color, if they are soaked for a while in warm water, they will almost completely restore their original shape.
Mushroom drier with own hands
Dry mushrooms, collected by themselves, a pleasure. And if you also make a mushroom dryer with your own hands, they will surely be even more delicious. To make such a dryer for mushrooms and fruits is not so difficult, you only need a little time and skillful hands. Here's a step-by-step lesson on how to make a mushroom dryer.
- As you know, any fruit or other products are dried very quickly in a draft or under a stream of air. Thus, the main purpose of the home-made dryer is to provide this flow.
- It is necessary to make several boxes of plywood. Such boxes are simply made independently from several boards with a width of about 50 mm.
- The bottom of each box must be made from a mesh. Choose a grid with cells no more than 15 mm. A larger cell size can cause mushrooms or fruits to fall. If you select a cell size less than 8 mm, this will contribute to too much wind resistance.
- The bottom box should be slightly larger than the others (quite enough a discrepancy of 5 mm). It is to this box that guides will be attached, on which you can put the upper boxes. The larger bottom drawer allows the upper drawers to move along the guides without jamming.
- It should be borne in mind that the total number of boxes should not exceed 10 pieces. The entire structure should be located at a height of 30-40 cm.
- The topmost part of the entire structure is a plywood roof. Its dimensions should exceed the size of the boxes by at least
10 cm. This will provide a permanent shadow. Between the top drawer and the roof there should be a gap of at least 10 cm. - This design should be put in a draft. To speed up the process, you can make an air collector.
- It is very easy to make an air collector for mushroom dryers. Fix the sheet of plywood under the slope under the bottom drawer. The sheet of plywood is fastened from the bottom edge of the box to the opposite bottom edge of the guides. Another sheet of plywood is attached from the side. Now it's enough to put the dryer face to the wind and everything is ready. The air will circulate in boxes and dry fruits and mushrooms.
- Such a dryer for vegetables and fruits can be slightly improved. To make boxes and put them one on another. At the bottom of the lowest drawer, install a motor with a fan from any broken household appliance. Thus, you absolutely do not depend on weather conditions.