How to dry black chokeberry: 4 ways

How to dry chokeberry? You enter a query in a search engine, read the first article and brows creep up with surprise. The authors of the texts recommend collecting chokeberry only after frosts, but drying in the sun. I wonder, where does the sun come from in our climate after frost, which can evaporate the juice from the rather dense pulp of berries? This is how many days the black worm will collect dust on the street? Incredibly valuable product will turn out. With a decent film of all chemical elements.

Gentlemen, turn on your brains before giving your advice. Otherwise, you will not be cursed by those who follow them. Let's take a look at how to dry the chokeberry properly, and debunk the other misconceptions.

Oven

We read further. "La la la la and turn on the oven at a temperature no higher than + 45 ° C with convection." Hmm too. In the average article the most simple cooker. And the oven there is also ordinary.Without convection, the minimum temperature is not lower than + 100-120 ° С. What to do?

Stop blindly following ridiculous advice. Russian people have always been famous for hunch. No convection? Leave the oven door ajar. It does not work with the temperature regime? Reduce the drying time and often mix the berries in the process. It's very simple.

Just do not try to throw the whole brush on the baking sheet, bringing them from the garden. You can’t do without some preparation:

• The berries are carefully separated from the bunch.
• They move from garbage and spoiled grouse.
• Thoroughly rinse under running water.
• Throw back on a sieve or colander.
• Crumbled on an old towel or piece of waste fabric.
• As soon as the black fleece is dry, you can begin the drying process.

Try to carry out all manipulations with aronii as carefully as possible. No, not for fear of losing a large amount of juice. Simply, it is very hard to wash and does not wash off for a long time.

How to understand that chokeberry dried out? There is no exact schedule and time in seconds. We'll have to determine by touch and by eye. Squeeze a few berries into a fist, open the palm.Ryabinki not become lumpy, easily separated from each other? So ready. Still stick together? So let them still dry.

Externally well-dried black chokeberry dark color, wrinkled, but with a glossy sheen.

Dryer

For happy owners of an electric dryer, there are no problems at all. Prepared chokeberry, as described above, laid out in trays. First the device was turned on for an hour at + 55 ° С, it is necessary to dry it at a temperature not higher than + 40 ° С. On average 3-5 hours are enough, depending on the load.

Fridge

Just be sure to spread a newspaper or cloth under a layer of chokeberry, they will absorb the excess juice, if any. This happens very rarely, because you can’t call a juicy chernoplodka, but after frost it may well happen.

The berries should be stirred once a day, and sprinkled with a layer of no more than 1-1.2 cm. After about 5-6 days, the black chokeberry can be removed for storage.

Drying on the thread

So, what else do the readers are advised by extraordinary experts in the drying of black chokeberry? Yeah, tie the shields in bundles and hang. Without washing and eaea with them. In winter, use, etc.

Interestingly, do they know that it is much easier to wash fresh smooth chokeberry than dried, shriveled? And that individually the berries dry much faster than bundled ones? They did not say where to hang such blanks so that they dried up. And in the yard in October. What to do?

Remember childhood. Beads from the usual rowan for sure did everything. Well, the female half of the country is for sure. Here we go. Chokeberry prepared (washed by all means!), Dried from the remnants of moisture. Now you need a needle and durable thread. You should not take a long one, then you will be entangled in it yourself, you will be angry. The optimal length is from 50 cm to 1 meter.

We prepared and started making rowan beads. At the same time, children can be asked to help, maybe they will like it. So what, that they have other interests. Mom help as much as I can - I understand this interest. Now is not about that.

Strung on? Now hang. It is possible and on itself of course, but better in the attic, in a dry barn, on the loggia, in a hot closet.That's just not necessary, there are such pantry. In the corner apartments of the old Khrushchev houses, they are all hot, and half the country lives in such houses.

What if there is no one in these rooms? Well, the kitchen is certainly available. There and hang. Yes, higher, under the ceiling of the most warm going. Just do not attach beads of black chokeberry on the wall. Wallpaper will be painted, the blank will turn into an unexpected repair.

Little storage

Chernoplodku after drying, you must still be able to save. Like any dried fruit, it has very hygroscopic properties. Therefore, it can not be kept in plastic containers, cardboard boxes and paper bags. The best containers will be glass jars with sealed lids. In them dried chokeberry can be stored up to 11 months. In second place is tin, with a tight lid. In such dried chokeberry live quietly live up to 7 months. Food plastic containers and special zip-zip bags complete our hit parade. In them, dried fruits can lie up to 4 months.

Just do not put containers in the refrigerator. Condensation forms on the walls and the lid.which will help grow mold inside. The ideal would be a dry cool dark place. For example, the far shelf of the kitchen cabinet or pantry.

How to dry chokeberry? Any method described. Choose the one that suits you. Just make sure that the berries do not light up during drying. No, they will not be poisonous. Just from a useful medicine will turn into a sweet billet. The taste will remain, but the healing properties will not be.

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