My Small Garden

[pz]

They looks like they're going to taste great!

[CDN Smoker]

There's a lot of toasted Ts there

[Smokin Don]

My tomatoes slowed up a few week ago with cooler weather. After a couple of 80+deg. days I had a bunch and not wanting to waste them I decided to try to dry some. Reading Ahrons, africanmeats, method  and searching the net I tried some in the oven and some in my smoker.

I did them both at 200 deg. for six hours. The one sin the oven dried pretty well but the ones in the smoker, being thicker did not dry. I will use them to make some smoky chili.

The ones for the oven


Oven on the left and smoker on the right


Smokin Don

[pz]

Looks mighty tasty, Don. 

I'm using Ahron's method as well - the tomato flavor is so intense I can eat those babies like savory candy.

[Wingman]

Don, I did like you.  Last year we had an abundance of Romas so we dried some in the kitchen oven and they were great.  So I thought I'd do the next batch in my Bradley and save a little energy.  I put 8 loaded racks in and after a few hours the black nasties were all over the toms.  It was just too much moisture for the OBS to handle.  I'll stick with the kitchen oven on this one since I don't have a wood-fired pizza oven like some here. 

Those were awesome looking toms, way better than ours.

[drholly]

Nice looking tomatoes! I like having a variety of ways to prepare / preserve and use them! This is great.

[spuds]

Nice toms Don,did you get this years garden in? Im in same boat,tomatoes my best crop for sure.