Home-Dried Banana Chips
#132 - 01/30/03 05:38 AM
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pamk
Reged: 01/29/03
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Has anyone tried the dried banana recipe on page 69 of Heather's book? I'm not sure if I'm cooking them correctly. They never seem like they are quite done when I take them out of the oven and I don't know if I need to store them in the fridge or cupboard.
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I tried to make the dried banana and they did not turn out in a food dehydrator. and they turned black can some one HELP.
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Hi - I have heard from other folks who don't have the dried bananas turn out either, and I'm stumped. I've had great luck with these in the oven and even better results from a deyhdrator. My mom has made them for years, too.
They turn a medium brown color but not black, and they end up dry but still very chewy. Are you slicing the bananas thin enough? If they're too thick they might take too long to dry... Other than that I need some ideas from other people to figure this one out.
- Heather
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I've tried splitting them up the middle and drying them in wedge sections. Is this the correct method?
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I've split them into the three wedges and oven dried them and it's worked great. This is a lot less work than slicing them. I wish I knew why people are having trouble with this!
- Heather
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Ya know, I had trouble with this recipe myself.
Unless I made them correctly and just didn't know it. I'm used to the unsweetened banana chips that I get (or used to get) from my local health food store.
Anyway, I dried them in the oven for four+ hours and they came out kinda chewy, brownish in color, but not completely dry. They were sticky still. I had to go to bed, so I just tossed them in the trash cuz I couldn't leave the oven on any longer.
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Sorry, I don't do homemade ones. This is the way I get mine. Take a look:
http://www.justtomatoes.com/html/product/banana1.html
After so many years of trial and error at certain things (a lot of them flops) I've learned that sometimes it is worth it to pay for convenience.
Now if they ship out of the states, that I don't know.
Kandee 
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i'm not having any luck with this recipe either. i tried breaking the bananas into their "natural" wedges, put them on a lighty greased cookie sheet, and left them in the oven for about 4 hours at 200°F. what came out were blackish-brown, shriveled up, and smelly pieces.  does anyone else have any suggestions? 
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I've never tried this recipe, because it just seems to cause everyone grief. (sorry Heather  )
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Yeah, I don't know what to say. They've always worked for me, and my mom has made them for years, and the mom of one of Will's friends. Why they turn out for us but not others is mystifying. My guess is that home ovens are varying somehow in their true temperature, or maybe it's the humidity of where a person is - I'm truly not sure.
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