Homemade DEHYDRATOR for Sun Dried Tomatoes

Dealing with a glut of vegetables?
We built a simple DIY dehydrator to preserve our tomatoes, fruit and vegetables. all sorts of food can be dehydrated.
You might call this a drying rack to dry lots of surplus veggies. It's an important tool on our homestead in Portugal
Thanks for watching.
Meraid and Dan

[@ademariojunior]

I work in projects with coffee farmers here in Brazil and coffee dehydration is one of the most important parts of coffee processing. This kind of suspended drying surfaces are becoming common worldwide for the production of specialty coffees. Your application just shows that dehydration can be important for other plant cultures as well. Well done!

[@NearbyVeggies]

Nice to learn what your involved in too. Thank you 😊

[@bergannon6585]

Wow A master class in self sufficiency.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you

[@deborahbasel184]

A beautiful looking food dehydrator. Well done.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@vivalaleta]

I love you two because you're both clever, humble, and fun. Great dehydrator for delicious, home grown tomatoes!

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@MommaOG]

Very clever you two. I love it. I would have loved to have seen some of the harvesting, maybe another time? 🙂💐

[@NearbyVeggies]

We have shown the harvesting of tomatoes several times. More to come 🤗

[@Coyotehello]

Nicely done, as everyone else is saying! Can't see more progress on the house, it is becoming so exciting.

[@jaydegier3892]

His Dan and Mariad, another great video. Thank you for sharing. Your dehydrator is a work of art, yet so simple, you will get so much use out of it with all you fruit and vegetables that you grow. Thank you for sharing, stay safe and happy, Coen and Jay😀

[@NearbyVeggies]

We love it too. 👍

[@ademariojunior]

I sent the link to your video to the guy who built the suspended dryers for my coffee project. Indeed, he built the whole shed where we dried the 31 coffee samples from farmers around the region. He was as clever as you are and I think he will like to watch.

[@NearbyVeggies]

That’s wonderful, I would love to try your coffee 👍

[@deborahberkey4294]

Very nice dehydrator. Well done. ✌🏻❤️🙏🏻🇺🇸

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you kindly

[@asc3184]

Thanks for sharing another video. Very enginious! Was lovely to see you guys build it use it n reap the benefits!

[@NearbyVeggies]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@AntoniEmanuel7328]

Well done Dan, looks great. I’ve got one of those mitre saws and for odd jobs they’re great. Thank goodness for Lidl. (Other German supermarkets are available)

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thanks 👍

[@SGAneesAhmed]

Great Job Dan and Meraid...the patience, dexterity and quality consciousness shows up in the final product...awesome...well Dan looks very similar to Paul Hollywood or its the other way round 😉

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you

[@patjohnson9287]

Brilliant. Great build!

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you!

[@clionamm]

Nothing like the taste of good sun dried tomatoes, I'd say those were delicious! Great job on the dehydrator. Funnily enough this video didn't show on my notifications, they usually do! Anyway it came up as a suggested vid so all good. 🙂

[@NearbyVeggies]

The dried tomatoes are great 👍

[@maggiemorgan8422]

Fixers t shirt and the wardrobe malfunction t shirt AND THE FAMOUS STEEL CUTTING SCISSORS 😂 This is a blast from the past xx

[@NearbyVeggies]

The malfunctioning t shirt has gone into the rag bag. 🤣

[@Greta-v2e]

admirable, you're just admirable - what a great job !!

[@NearbyVeggies]

Wow, thank you, that’s really kind 😊

[@vivalaleta]

And industrious! Super industrious.

[@mesutozsen903]

Eline Emeğine Sağlık Bu Güzel Vlog ve Video İçin Kolay Gelsin Hayırlı İşler Bol Bereketli Kazançların Olsun 👍👍👍👍

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you

[@Aotruba]

Great job! 👍😊👍❣️

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 🤩

[@shadeler5335]

Ah Meraid, thank you ever so much for posting this!! I asked sometime ago whether you had more details becaus I found the sundryer super clever and you did not forget!! I am always watching your updates and cheering for both of you. I wish (or better dream) for a bit of the Portuguese weather in East England (where I live) 😁. Big cheers to you and Dan!!

[@NearbyVeggies]

I knew the footage was somewhere and finally found it. You weren’t the only one who asked. Thank you for cheering along. 🤗

[@avivat3010]

Another great video. This is going to up your cooking game!

[@NearbyVeggies]

Hope so!

[@catarinatorres6378]

Fantástico! Bom apetite!

[@NearbyVeggies]

Obrigada ☺️

[@maryhauser6523]

So cool and easy !!!! very talented !!!!!

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you

[@marietjiestegmann742]

Your project is on Google news this morning in SA!

[@NearbyVeggies]

How exciting!

[@waynejones750]

Looks great 😊

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you

[@lidijafichtner7080]

Thank you for sharing❤

[@NearbyVeggies]

👍

[@RT69hemicharger]

AWESOME! Off to the workshop to make one. Subbed! ❤

[@NearbyVeggies]

Excellent. Let us know how you get on 👍Thank you

[@mariaantoniaperezvillar902]

gracias

[@marianela111]

Have you considered coming up with a dehydrator kit that you can sell. 🌻🤔🐈💖

[@NearbyVeggies]

Oh no, that’s a job for experts. 🤗

[@marisseblakemore8977]

You asked about time you get natural limestone tile

[@universal58]

Buongiorno dall'ITALIA !!!!! Sui pomodori avete messo anche un po' di sale? Se non l'avete messo, non avete paura che dentro i barattoli possa formarsi della muffa? Un caro saluto dalla Sardegna.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Yes, we use salt.

[@josjewosje]

Do you put it in the full sun? I really love it.

[@NearbyVeggies]

The sunniest hottest place we’ve got 👍

[@milliebanks7209]

Seems that I saw this in an earlier video . Am I wrong?

[@NearbyVeggies]

We have never shown the building of the dehydrator before, only a couple of clips. It is old footage and many people asked us to put this together but we couldn’t find the footage. 👍

[@fatimar8924]

❤❤❤❤🏡👥🙏🙌

[@NearbyVeggies]

😊

[@farmerconnie8172]

Is this an old video?

[@NearbyVeggies]

It’s new on the channel but old footage we thought was lost. 👍

[@mariaantoniaperezvillar902]

hoy no hay subtitulos?

[@NearbyVeggies]

5 minutos. 👍