Apple and pear slices

I liberated about a dozen of the Ashmead’s Kernel this evening, broke out the peeler/corer/slicer machine and filled five dehydrator trays with apple slices. Then I started looking at the large numbers of pears sitting in the kitchen waiting for something to happen to them. Hmmm… Turns out it works quite well with pears, too 🙂 I did have to slice off the top 15mm of a few of the larger pears to fit them in and it’s perhaps a little wasteful because it takes out more of the pear near the neck than is strictly necessary, but then it’s quite efficient at removing the main part of the core, so quite possibly it all balances out. Ultimately of course, if I dry them then they’ll get eaten whereas if they get too ripe to be usable then they’ll be heading for the compost heap, so wasting a quite small amount to ensure that a far larger amount gets eaten surely has to be a good thing. I filled another five trays with those. There were still two trays left, so out of interest I sliced enough Bramley apples to fill them. As cooking apples they’re obviously a bit too sharp to want to eat raw (perhaps I should try some more cheese?), but if they’re ok once dried then there’ll be a lot more of those going into the dehydrator, too.