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    Oven-Dried Strawberries: Delicious To The Moon and Back

    54.3KViews Modified: Jun 25, 2022 · Published: May 19, 2016
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    Oven-Dried Strawberries Delicious To The Moon and Back. beautifully pinkish-red freeze-dried strawberries, shelf-stable.

    Oven-dried strawberries make a delicious, portable and healthy snack. Although they’re often dried in a dehydrator, you can get an equally great result with your oven.

    You can make shelf-stable, oven-dried strawberries much like the freeze-dried strawberries NASA has sent to the moon with astronauts.

    Elderberry Syrup Recipes
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    This video Space Age Strawberries shows NASA’s process and why astronauts love them – watch with your kids and then make your own in the oven!

    boxes of fresh strawberriesObviously, the more flavorful the strawberries you start out with, the more delicious the dehydrated version will be.

    Choose locally grown and dry a bunch of them while they are in peak season.

    Drying food only minimally affects its nutritional value. Most research has been on foods that were commercially dried.

    When you dry foods at home under gentle conditions (correct temperature and a reasonable drying period) you produce a high-quality nutrient-rich food. (source: Sproutman’s Kitchen Garden Cookbook: 250 flourless, Dairyless, Low Temperature, Low Fat, Low Salt, Living Food Vegetarian Recipes by Steve Meyerowitz).

    Oven-Dried Strawberries

    Directions

    Wash the strawberries. Cut the green leafy part off and cut each berry in half. Lay the halves cut side up on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Make sure to space your berries out so there’s lots of room for air to flow through.

    Note: Strawberries are the #1 most pesticide-contaminated food on the EWG’s 2019 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce, so buy organic.

    Dry Time

    Place the sheets of strawberries in the oven and dry them at 200°F for 3 hours (or experiment with 170° – if your oven goes that low – for a longer period). You may want to flip them over halfway through especially if you have hot spots in your oven. It’s best to make oven-dried strawberries during a day you will be home all day, like on a weekend.

    Lest I forget to mention, a side benefit of dehydrating strawberries is the wonderful aroma that fills the house. Mouth watering…

    Cool the dried fruit

    You won’t know if the strawberry pieces are completely dehydrated until they’ve cooled (you know how cookies crisp up after you take them out of the oven? Same way with dried fruit). Remove the baking sheets from the oven. Let the strawberries cool at room temperature for 20 minutes.

    After the cooling off period, break one of the pieces of fruit in half. There should be no visible moisture on the inside. The pieces should be somewhere between chewy and crisp like dried cranberries, figs, or raisins.

    ‘Condition’ the oven-dried strawberries

    Even after the strawberries are correctly dehydrated there may still be some remaining moisture in the fruit you can’t feel.

    That little bit of moisture shouldn’t keep the fruit from being safely preserved and mold-free, but you will have a better tasting and keeping product if you do what is known as ‘conditioning’.

     freeze dried strawberries in glass jars

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    Put the dried, cooled strawberry pieces into glass jars filled only about 2/3 full. Seal the jars. Shake the jars a couple of times a day for 4-5 days. If any

    condensation shows up on the sides of the jars, your fruit still isn’t dried well enough and it needs to go back into the oven at 200F for another 30 to 60  minutes.

    Once your dried strawberries are once again cool, store them in airtight containers away from direct light or heat. I prefer to use glass food-storage containers or canning jars instead of plastic. Go ahead and fill the jars to the top this time.

    Healthy, cheap and easy dried fruit.  No junk additives.

    Obviously, they taste fabulous dipped in my Nutella. (See my recipe).

    And for you moms, be sure to send your young astronauts off with a snack of dried strawberries and tell them you love them to the moon and back!

    Storage:

    The site EatByDate says unopened, dried fruit will last 6-12 months.

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    Have you ever tried drying fruit in the oven?

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    1. charlene ryan

      May 19, 2016 at 8:23 pm

      I’m going to consider doing this. I can already think of some great power bars to make with them. God bless!

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      • Jacqueline

        May 19, 2016 at 11:59 pm

        OOhh! That sounds like an amazing way to use them, Charlene! 🙂
        Thanks for sharing it!

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    2. Charlotte Moore

      May 19, 2016 at 10:15 pm

      These look so good. The picture of those real ripe berries was so mouth watering. I really need to try this. Never thought of doing strawberries.

      Hope you are doing well. BLESSINGS!

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    3. Lady L

      May 19, 2016 at 10:29 pm

      These look great! I love eating fruit for snacks, and this is a good way to keep it portable and always available. I’ll have to try this when strawberries go on sale next.

      Reply
    4. Jessica

      June 18, 2016 at 6:56 am

      What is the shelf life of strawberries kept in an air-tight jar?

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      • Jacqueline

        June 18, 2016 at 10:49 am

        I am not an expert on shelf life but here is a link to guide you: http://www.eatbydate.com/fruits/dried-fruit-shelf-life-expiration-date/ I hope this helps! Just an aside – I have dried red peppers that are 2 years old (VERY little moisture) and they are still excellent whe rehydrated and added to stir fried eggs or casserole or omelet. I hope that this link helps Jessica

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    5. Katharine

      June 26, 2021 at 12:45 pm

      I made 3 cookie sheets worth and they burned all the way through. I guess I should have been checking, especially because I was using small strawberries that I hand-picked but it was a busy day and didn’t check. I was so upset.

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      • Jacqueline

        June 26, 2021 at 3:34 pm

        Oh, no! Katharine, I am sure I would have been upset, too! 🙁
        Yes, next time use a reliable timer (plus checking) and you will have
        a delicious dreid strawberry snack!
        I have done things similar that, too, and it is a hard way to learn!
        Hugs,
        Jacque

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    6. Mim

      August 22, 2021 at 4:40 pm

      Can you use frozen stub to do this if you thaw them out first ?

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      • Jacqueline

        August 22, 2021 at 6:40 pm

        Hi, Mim,
        I am not quite sure what you are asking, but if you want to know if you can thaw strawberries and then dry them, I am not sure.
        I have never done that and wonder if they wouldn’t have too much moisture to get out before they would gro mold…
        You might do a test run with a tray and see how it works with your set up.
        Let us know here if you are able as it would be neat to know!
        Blessings,
        Jacque

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