Do you love this article? Please share it with your friends! Sign up for the A Year of Slow Cooking newsletter and get the Top Ten Reader Favorite Recipes sent directly to your inbox! So sorry it didn't work out for you! I do applaud you for trying all of these things and "keeping it real" by telling us when it works, when it doesn't and what may help it work if we want to try it. I don't think I ever had fruit leather though. Gotta look for that next time I'm at the stores. Thanks, Amiyrah. Fruit leather is the all-natural form of fruit roll-ups or  [[https://rentry.co/1688-zap-clean-review-a-comprehensive-analysis-of-a-revolutionary-cleaning-solution|ZapClean fruit and vegetable cleaner]] fruit-by-the-foot. It doesn't taste quite as good and isn't fluorescent, but is better for you. I had a huge flop trying to make apple butter last week in my crockpot. It turned into a huge black brick of charred apples and sugar that clearly went beyond the hardball stage. It is actually my finest disaster ever in the kitchen.



I smelled the burning through the lid! Darn. I was hoping this would work. It sounds yummy! I used to have a dehydrator, and I used it all the time to make delicious things. If anyone gets this to work, post so the rest of us who are too chicken to experiment can try it! Oh too bad! I used to do a LOT of dehydrating: banana, apple, pear, peach, apricot, peach, strawberry chips. Cherries too were super delicious - just a little messy with the pitting. The overripe fruits went into the blender for fruit leather. They all turned out wonderful and provided year-round great snacks. Sometimes I would mix all the fruit up for leather and those turned out the best. I even made wonderful beef jerky. The only [[https://www.deer-digest.com/?s=disappointement|disappointement]] was grapes which to my dismay, turned into plain old common raisins - imagine that - lol! I had and still have an Equi Flow dehydrator. It's a foolproof no-nonsense workhorse that uses up as much electricity as a lightbulb - that was it's biggest selling asset.



I don't think they make them anymore though - pity. If they're no longer made, watch out for them on eBay or garage sales and grab one if you find it. It'll be worth every penny. They weren't cheap when they were popular but I bet you could find one now for pennies. Anyway, store-bought fruit leathers, no matter how natural, just seem to taste inferior to homemade. Could be just me though. I want to try this.I have a surplus of peaches and apples. Can't win them all, I guess. Not sure I'd want to make fruit leather anyway. But that's just me. Anyway, as previously mentioned, it does help that you tell what works and what doesn't work quite so well! This is so funny. I wanna make this just to see if it's possible for it to turn out okay. I think this idea was is really creative. I also wanted to tell you that I had a customer yesterday at Sears place an order over the phone for a crock-pot.



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She still has it and makes fruit leathers for my kids. So, I checked out the make and bought one of my own. I've had mine about 6 years. Soccer season has begun and I'll be using my crockpot more. FYI - They also sell fruit leather at Target which is cheaper than Trader Joe's. You can get a box of 10 for like $2.99. I make apple butter in my crockpot. You cook it at high for only one hour and then turn it on low, checking and stirring it. It does a great job. Mind you I have two very elderly slow cookers, I don't think they run as hot as the new ones. I too use a dehydrator and it does fine for me. I do have the cookbook, Dry it, you'll like it. It is very helpful. I don't do [[https://rentry.co/1688-zap-clean-review-a-comprehensive-analysis-of-a-revolutionary-cleaning-solution|ZapClean fruit cleaner]] leather though as the ingredients aside from the apples are too expensive in my part of the country.
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