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Sun dried tomatoes in uk?

CloggieCloggie Posts: 1,457
in Fruit & veg
I'm thinking of experimenting with sun drying tomatoes this year in my stupidly hot conservatory (old stylee plastic roof jobby).  Anyone tried it?  Got any tips?
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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Far too many flies about here - cows and horses all round.  I did mine in the oven last year and the year before.  Delish.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • CloggieCloggie Posts: 1,457
    But don't you have to leave the oven on for 8 hours?  I will try both methods, we are hoping for a bumper harvest so considering different options for storage since our freezer is full of raspberries! 😁
  • CloggieCloggie Posts: 1,457
    Might try apple leathers too?  Ever done that Ob?
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    The oven is left on low and yes it takes a long time but we have PV panels so it's OK here and they are delish.   No apples so no, never tried leather.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    You can "moonblush" tomatoes a la Nigella and keep them in jars of olive oil for a low energy consumption alternative 

    https://www.nigella.com/recipes/moonblush-tomatoes
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I ‘slow roast’ mine in a very similar way to that @amancalledgeorge ... we bake all our own bread so I pop a trayful of tomatoes with EVOO and a little seasalt, (sometimes a sprinkling of herbs and a few cloves of garlic too) into the oven when I take the bread out, and I leave them there while the oven cools down. Then I pop them in small takeaway containers and freeze them ... taking one out and keeping it in the fridge to dip into as I use them up. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Just worked out what EVOO is
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    B3 said:
    Just worked out what EVOO is
    I've not !!
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
     You'll get there😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Sorry @Hostafan1 ... foodie message board-speak ... Extra Virgin Olive Oil 😎 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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