25 February 2007

Solar Dehydrator



We've been taking advantage of the hot/dry season, and making sun-dried tomatoes on the balcony. As an experiment we also made a passive-solar convection dehydrator out of a couple of old boxes. Unfortunately we don't have an ideal place to put it, and it only gets direct sun for about five hours a day. Our first trial batch of bananas is up on the top balcony, waiting for daylight. We'll let you know how it works.





4 comments:

  1. This is all fine and interesting but can you feed puppies with it?

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  2. Once we have verified its effectiveness we fully intend to utilize the dehydrator to make puppy jerky. Sorry, should have mentioned that earlier.

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  3. You made a "passive-solar convection dehydrator?" Methinks you are now officially too cool for me.

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