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Apple Chips – Thin and crispy Apple Chips made in the microwave! All you need is a few minutesbefore you can devour this delicious and super healthy Fall snack.
Those recipe-introduction lines up there make me sound like the most annoyingcar salesman. Or, recipe salesman, in this case. My husband sells cars… I hope he’s not this annoying. 😉
HI, Friends! What’s goin’ on?Are you suiting up for the weekend? Just a few more hours and you’ll get to flop onto that couch and Facebook-all-the-people for the next 48 hours!
Oh, hey. Remember that one time when we didn’t have Facebook? Like, the times when your little cousin was YOUR LITTLE COUSIN and you didn’t have to know everything about her teenage life via the duck-face pictures onyour Facebook news feed??
Or, or, when your child’s teacher was just a teacher and you didn’t even know that she had a first name, but thanks to Facebook, she has a firstname ANDshe drinks beer on the weekends?! Remember those days before you knew all this stuff? WOW. That was thelife. At least all my duck face pictures are on a polaroid… and in my possession, only.
And, and, how about that one time when you baked sliced apples in the microwave and ate all the apple chips?? I felt like the healthiest being on the planet.
So, I don’t have patience. I know that baking apple chips for hours on end, in the oven, and letting them dry just a little bit longer is the correct way to go about this apple-chip biznass, but I just can’t.I’m as anxious as a child on early Christmas morning. I want all the things, and I want them now.Stat.
Look at the yellow tint up there… What a beautiful action shot! 😛 BUT, that picture serves a purpose, and it’s described in two words; SINGLE LAYER. Remember those words…
Just minutes after coming home from the Apple Orchard last weekend, I was slaving over the mandoline, trying to save my fingers while slicing my Honeycrisps. Without adding a single crystal of sugar, nor a drop of cinnamon, I popped them in the microwave oven and within minutes, I had my fix. It was wonderful.
Healthy. Crispy. Fall-y. Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Soy Free, Vegan, Vegetarian… I got it all covered.
You should totally make some while thinking about what to do with all them apples. Then, you should totally come back in a day or two and see what else I did with them apples!
Happy Weekend!
ENJOY!
Apple Chips {In the Microwave}
Katerina | Diethood
Thin and crispy Apple Chips made in the microwave!
Cut off the ends of an apple, core out the middle (I don't), and thinly slice into 1/8-inch rounds. This is best done with a Mandoline Slicer, but you can also use a sharp knife.
Line a microwave safe plate with parchment paper.
Place a few apple slices on parchment paper in one single layer. (You will have to do this in batches.)
Microwave for 4.5 to 5 minutes, or until edges of apples start to curl up.
Flip each slice and continue to microwave for 30 seconds to 1 minute, or until edges are crisp.
Remove from microwave and let stand 10 minutes, or until crispy and dry.
Serve immediately.
Notes
All microwaves are different; start watching the apples at about the 4-minute mark until you can determine the proper time needed to bake the apples in your microwave. If the apples are small, about 2-inches in diameter, decrease the time by 1-minute. RECIPE SOURCE: DIETHOOD
Nutritional info is an estimate and provided as courtesy. Values may vary according to the ingredients and tools used. Please use your preferred nutritional calculator for more detailed info.
Why are my dehydrated apples not crispy? This means you haven't dehydrated your homemade apple chips for long enough. You can place them back into your dehydrator for longer.
Treat apples before drying to prevent excessive browning. The treatments also help to preserve the flavor and vitamins of the fruit. The simplest pre-treatment is to soak freshly cut slices for 10 minutes in a solution of one part bottled lemon juice to one part water.
Baking apple chips is a slooooowwwww process. You bake them at 225F for 1 ½ to 2 ½ hours. I tested speeding up the process by baking them at 250F but more often than not it resulted in some apples being mushy, while others were burnt. So trust this slow process.
ARE APPLE CHIPS BETTER IN AIR FRYER OR DEHYDRATOR? I would always recommend using an air fryer as it has a far higher cooking temperature. This means you can dehydrate the apple a lot more quickly than you would if you made dehydrated apples. The air fryer really cuts down the recipe to a fraction of the time.
Apple slices should be pliable or crisp (depending on thickness) in texture when properly dried. To test, remove a slice and let it completely cool. They may have some bend but if you tear one in half and squeeze it, there should be no moisture that seeps out.
Allow 6 to 12 hours for apple slices to dry. Test for dryness. Remove a few slices from the dryer and wait a few minutes until cool. Apples are dry when they are pliable and no beads of moisture form when pressed between your fingers.
Lay the apple slices on dehydrator trays. Turn on the dehydrator to 150-155 degrees F. (You may need to adjust this temp depending on your food dehydrator's tendancies.) Dry for 6-10 hours (or more), until apple slices are dry and crispy as desired.
It's important the apples are the right thickness before dehydrating. Slice the apples approximately 1/3-inch thick—they should be no thicker than 1/2-inch thick. Otherwise, they won't dry well.
The best apple for dehydrating is Gala or Fuji. Both are sweet apples that make your dried apples taste like you've added sugar when you haven't! Other good options are Golden Delicious, Honeycrisp and Fuji apples. If you prefer less sweetness in your dried apples, go with Granny Smith.
Slice the apples as thinly as you can into rounds, around 1/8" thick. We like using a mandoline to get thin and even slices, just use caution. If you don't have a mandoline, use the sharpest knife you have and (carefully) slice as thin of slices as possible.
Apple uses memory, which is designed to serve both large chunks of data and do it very quickly. It is called 'low latency and high throughput'. This removes the need to have two different types of memory and all the copying of data between them, making the M1 faster.
Most dehydrators will specify a setting for drying fruit, around 130 to 135°F. The apple chips should be done drying within 8 to 12 hours, depending on your dehydrator. To dry apples in the oven, bake them on 200°F until they're nice and dry.
Dried Apples are among the healthiest and most convenient of dried fruits. Dried apples possess many of the same health-giving properties as fresh apples. It may come as a surprise to learn just how widely available dried apples are nowadays.
Even if you don't have a formal dehydrator, you can still make dehydrated apple chips in the oven or in the air fryer. How long it takes to dehydrate apples varies on the method and the thickness of the slices, but the process can be as quick as 20 minutes, or as low-maintenance leisurely as 12 hours.
You can avoid this by thoroughly patting dry your potatoes before you place them in the air fryer. Secondly, you might be putting in too many potato chips so they aren't cooking evenly. You can have layers of potatoes, just make sure you give them a regular shake to toss them.
Some items, like pineapple are still going to feel a little bit sticky even when dehydrated properly. If your dehydrated food feels soft, spongy, or sticky it's probably not dehydrated enough. Put the product back in for additional time. Hard and crunchy or breakable pieces are done.
Turn on the dehydrator to 150-155 degrees F. (You may need to adjust this temp depending on your food dehydrator's tendancies.) Dry for 6-10 hours (or more), until apple slices are dry and crispy as desired.
Similar to dried fruit, dehydrated fruit is fruit that has had its water content removed, via a slow evaporation process or using gentle heat. Through dehydration, fruits become thin, dense and chewy.
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