Stainless Steel Baking Sheet (non-toxic)
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- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 4 hours
- Total Time: 4 hours 20 minutes
- Category: DIY
- Method: Oven
Ingredients
Oranges – either orange or blood orange. Or both!
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 220ºF.
- Wash and dry the oranges.
- Carefully slice them. Make the slices about 1/8-inch thick, no thicker than 1/4-inch for it to not take too long in the oven (the thicker it is, the longer it takes to dry out).
- Gently pat the orange slices down with a towel to remove moisture – this allows them to cook a little quicker.
- Put a wire rack on a baking sheet.
- Lay out the orange slices on the wire rack. Keeping them on the rack instead of the baking sheet allows them to dry quicker since air can reach underneath them as well. If you don’t have a wire rack, then you can just put parchment paper on a baking sheet and place the slices on the parchment paper – keep in mind they will take longer to dry out, but they still will!
- Place the oranges in the oven and bake them at 220ºF for 1 1/2 hours, flipping them halfway through.
- Then turn the oven down to 170ºF and cook another 1 1/2 – 2 1/2 hours or until they are dried out. Flip them a couple times throughout the process so they cook evenly. Also check on them every so often to make sure none are overcooking, removing any that are done along the way.
- Turn the oven off, leaving the oranges in there to cool with the oven. This allows them to dry out even more if there’s a hint of moisture in a couple spots. If they are fully dried out, though, then just remove them and let them cool at room temperature. You do want to make sure they are dried out (a couple tiny spots with a tad bit of moisture are fine because it’ll dry naturally) so that they don’t grow mold.
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