Dehydrating

Having not dehydrated for a couple of years, slap of hand, out came the machine!

Mine has 5 trays the same depth and one deeper tray plus 4 small containers for more liquid items:

A couple of days previously, I picked all my large tomatoes, Ailsa Craig, to make sure they were fully ripe. They were sliced, an apple corer used to remove the bit of core stuck in the bottom slice of each tomato, once sliced:

 

 

 

 3/4 of a bag of peas: 

Then I dug out an older bag of Hungarian Hot Wax peppers from the freezer:

This is what they looked like once dry, between 10 and 13 hours later:

The side edges of the tomotoes didn't dry out so I shall rehydrate those to put on our salad for lunch.