Don’t look now …..but …..I’m dehydrating my tomatoes !

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Yes, I have chatted about this a lot over the last few days. I was given some cherry tomato plants by a neighbour and …..boy, oh boy …..have they given some fruit ! …..and then some! We are eating as many as we can and we have given some away…..yet we still have hundreds and they just keep a growing ….. So I was wondering what I should do with them, as I don’t want to waste any. Several ideas and suggestions ….soup, was the favourite. One idea that I was very interested in was dehydrate them . I almost bought a dehydrator several years ago but thought it was expensive and could see me using it often enough ( I can be sensible some times so I didn’t buy it ). Now, though I have a Ninja air fryer and I saw that several people had used that for dehydrating cherry tomatoes, so with that and advice from lovely MyLotters I have taken the plunge. I washed them and let them dry. Cut them in half Placed in a bowl Scattered with salt and tossed in olive oil. Into the air fryer they went . At the moment the smell from the kitchen is mmmmmm lovely I have them on dehydrate on 60* for the first two hours, then I will give them a shake and do more time …..people have said between 3 and 8 hours. I am thinking this batch will go into oil to preserve and the next batch maybe dehydrated more ….til dry …and placed in bags ready to be added to soups and stews etc…. Is this something you have ever done ?