How To Dehydrate Fruit In Your Oven

Dehydrated Grapes Become Delicious Homemade Raisins!

What To Do With Old Grapes...

Yesterday it came to my attention that some grapes that were forgotten in the back of the refrigerator were shriveling up and should be thrown away. Nonsense! They are starting to look like raisins anyway, so let's make them into raisins.

I took a baking sheet and sprayed it with a light coat of non-stick spray. Then I pulled all of the grapes off of the stems and arranged them in a single layer on the baking sheet. Fortunately, my oven has a dehydrate setting that runs the oven at 150 degrees and also runs the fan. If your oven doesn't have a special dehydrate setting, set it to the lowest temperature.

Put the grapes in and let the oven run overnight. Even stale grapes turn into delicious raisins. The raisins I got from seedless red table grapes are much larger and more flavorful than store-bought raisins. My homemade raisins are probably at least 5x the size of standard raisins. I left mine slightly moist in the center. They taste like they are filled with grape candy filling, but they are entirely natural grapes.

Don't Throw Away Those Bananas!

Make Dehydrated Bananas in your Oven

As my grapes were on their way to becoming raisins, I noticed some bananas on the kitchen counter that were starting to turn brown. The usual plan for overripe bananas is to make banana bread with them, but this is a lot of work and banana bread is not very health to eat anyway due to high fat and calories.

Since I had the oven running anyway, I decided to spray a second baking sheet with non-stick spray and proceeded to cut up the excess bananas into coins about 1/4 inch thick. After about 5 hours, the bananas were dehydrated and tasted delicious. The banana flavor was concentrated and these bananas will definitely get eaten instead of going to waste (or going to waist in a banana cake).