Making Fruit Powder

motoeric · Nov 10, 2011

Hi!

I'd like to make fruit powder to add to rubs, but I don't have a dehydrator. Has anyone had any success drying fruit to the point that it can be powdered in your oven?

I just baked thinly sliced apples at 175 for 4.5 hours. No good. Too malleable. Too much moisture left.

Any thoughts?

Eric

B-Lazy BBQ · Nov 10, 2011

Even with a dehydrator it'll take longer than 4.5 hours-depending on how thick the slices are. I'd say let them go longer, they will eventually dry out, I just can't say when. Quick question-are you drying them on a pan, or do you have them on a rack to let air circulate around them.

motoeric · Nov 10, 2011

I have them on a cooling rack that is propped over an empty dish. It lets the air circulate and the dish catches the drippings (if any).

Maybe I'll try tomorrow for 6 or 7 hours.

Thanks!

Eric

Smiter Q · Nov 10, 2011

At better grocers they have very dried out fruit by the below vendor.
This can be ground very fine.

http://www.justtomatoes.com/jtstore/pc/Just-Cherries-4p61.htm

B-Lazy BBQ · Nov 10, 2011

Actually, now that they have gotten a head start on drying, you might just want to leave them out overnight. They may be dry and crispy in the morning.

B-Lazy BBQ · Nov 10, 2011

Smiter Q said:
At better grocers they have very dried out fruit by the below vendor.
This can be ground very fine.

http://www.justtomatoes.com/jtstore/pc/Just-Cherries-4p61.htm

I have found these and other dried fruits to still be too moist and leathery to grind. They still benefit from a run in my dehydrator.

n2dabluebbq · Nov 10, 2011

did you leave the oven door open? it helps
just saying

Pyle's BBQ · Nov 10, 2011

Do you have a box fan and some furnace filters? AB did this on a show. Put the fruit between two filters and bunge cord the filters to the fan.

Pappy · Nov 10, 2011

We put dried cherry's in a dehydrator and it never did get dry enough to grind into powder. It kept gumming up in the grinder.

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