Solar Dryers

Let me guess. You hope to maximize your profit by having somebody here design for free your solar dryer. Well you might try this...

Remove moisture from air by lowering the temperatures, right after -bring dry air to solar heat exchanger then make the air blow or made contact your raw product...wallah..get somebody to figure it out the adjustments for you -a mechanical engineer.

add refined powederized sugar before drying..oppss...just try it.

I read that all vegan food should be soaked in the urine of an old billy goat prior to drying - supposed to make it more tasty.

that would explain why Vegan's have that unique wang about them

I always thought it was the brewer's yeast

Hi Garthh, Why the sarcasm, it is not really necessary!

when you support a unhealthy lifestyle [vegan] you better have a sense of humor

when you show up & ask for a solution, without much in the way of input, you better have a sense of humor

& finally Russ started it

How come I always get blamed? Just because the post has my name on it I suppose

Nothing wrong with veggies - just by themselves, as Garth noted, it is not healthy - regardless of what people (scientists I suppose) claim.

As an omnivore with no allergies I agree that not all foods are healthy for all people.

The OP is following his rights to be vegan.

I am following my equal rights to think the OP is off his/her rocker - plus he/she seems to be a freeloader.

I only cut slack where slack is due.

Hey I thought you were leaving?, it did make for a dramatic exit from the GW thread...

the organic thing has been co-opted by all the usual industrial players, it gets hard to separate the the fact from the hype

better results are going to be obtained using electric or natural gas fired dryers,

it's going to be tough to have real control with solar dryers & do any serious production, chances are this is an exercise in marketing 1st & formost

as you noted humans are omnivores...

I should probably have added that it is generally easier to have a working process, before using a much less versatile source of dry hot air like solar

walk before you run

Some considerations to the solar dryer: It is similar to the problems with an oven - in the sense that you need enough surface area to process the whole batchload, and you need a design which will allow for only a very small variation in temperature among the racks, throughout all corners of the unit. Perhaps, (and I don't know this for a fact, but you may want to experiment) the loss in color is due to bleaching of the product due to ultra violet rays from the light source, as in the case of the sundried, outside exposure, or from the incandescent light source, when making test batches. A possible way to test this is to use a steel box heated by incandescent lamps which has louvered vents, or slits which allow the hot moisture laden air to escape without much of any UV light let in. You could try the concept on a small batch for testing purposes. Dry it to your requirements for product suppleness, and controlled quality of your standard of sweetness. I suspect that some batches may need variations in sweetening, or flavoring to put out a consistant-tasting product, but, as Kipling used to write - "That's another story".

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