DIY Dried Fruit

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This video demonstrates how sun dried tomatoes are made from freshly harvested tomatoes in California. • This video was taken at Morning Star Company (Valley Sun) in California's Central Valley, and follows the washing, slicing, preservative application, sun drying, sorting and packing of sun dried tomatoes. • Please check out https://www.theproducenerd.com/2016/1... for more information related to sun dried tomatoes. • You can also see a behind the scenes look at how tomatoes are machine harvested at: • How Processing Tomatoes are Harvested... • FREEBIE: Get a copy of The Produce Nerd’s free eBook focused on the harvesting and postharvesting methods of fruits and vegetables here: https://www.theproducenerd.com/harves... • FREEBIE: Learn how to select and store 35 of the most common produce items here: https://www.theproducenerd.com/grocer... • What I use to film (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/3AUOtx9 • Video Chapters: • 0:00 Overview of how sun dried tomatoes are made • 0:13 Unloading freshly harvested tomatoes from the field • 0:28 Tomatoes pass through two single-pass wash steps • 0:57 The tomatoes are hand sorted to remove discolored tomatoes and any field debris • 1:19 The tomatoes are mechanically sorted by size • 1:40 The tomatoes receive a third single-pass wash step and are sliced in half • 1:54 The tomatoes receive a fourth single-pass wash step and are transported onto wooden trays and hand sorted • 2:12 The trays full of sliced tomatoes are stacked and transported to storage rooms to be gassed with Sulfur dioxide or to a dehydrating room • 2:34 The trays are transported to the drying yard • 3:10 Laying out the trays of tomatoes to dry and then picking them up • 3:40 The trays of dried tomatoes are brought back to the packing line, where the trays are agitated to remove the tomatoes from the trays • 4:17 The sun dried tomatoes are manually scraped off of the trays • 4:54 Two shaking steps to remove skin, seeds or any debris and can then sort the dried tomatoes by size • 5:34 The sun dried tomatoes are hand sorted and placed into bins for storage • #howsundriedtomatoesaremade #dryingtomatoes #sundriedtomatoes #tomatoprocessing #californiaagriculture #morningstarcompany #processingtomatoes

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