Comments on: Frugal Friday Recipe-Sun Dried Tomatoes at home

By: Nate @ House of Annie

Nate @ House of Annie — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:41:37 +0000

We used to have a really cool, home-built food dehydrator that we got off of Freecycle. We dried our own tomatoes and apple chips in it – quite fun! And so nice to be able to pull out some homegrown dried tomatoes for use in our Winter cooking.

Since you’re using homegrown tomatoes, share your post in our Grow Your Own roundup this month! Full details at

http://chezannies.blogspot.com/2010/03/announcing-grow-your-own-40.html

By: Amie

Amie — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:00:14 +0000

Thanks Anne-Marie!
The refrigerator makes all the difference as it keeps it too cold for the bacteria to grow although I must warn you the olive oil turns “hard” and “lard like” in the fridge but it tastes fine! I actually recommend storing all dried food in the refrigerator. Without any preservatives this extends the shelf life and decreases to almost zero the chances of bacterial growth.

Here is a link on it: http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/foodnut/09305.html

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:11:57 +0000

I had dehydrated soem tomatoes and stored them in olive oil. My brother-in-law mentioned that they are highly susceptible to botulism. have you ever heard this? it’s made me wary of using them but maybe i should have been storing them in the fridge?