hey everybody today I am going to be dehydrating bananas I didn't have any in my food storage and I thought it would be a good idea to get some put back because I love bananas with my cereal in the morning so what I have here is a bowl of water with citric acid in it and you use one teaspoon of citric acid per gallon of water now I only have a quart of water in here so I put 1/4 teaspoon of citric acid and this is how I buy mine I get it in bulk at the Amish store if you can't buy it an Amish store in your grocery store it's also sold under the name of fruit fresh so what I'm going to do is peel my bananas and these bananas I got on the reduced rack and although they are very have a lot of dark spots they really are still firm and you want firm bananas when you do this so I'm just going to go ahead and I'm going to cut my bananas about a quarter of an inch between eighth of an inch and a quarter of an inch thick kind of like that and then after you cut them you want to put them into your water and when you get them in there you want to let them sit for ten minutes so I'm going to go ahead and cut up enough bananas to fill this and then I'll come back okay so here's my bananas soaking that is I believe seven or eight bananas and I'm going to let them soak for 10 minutes and while they're doing that I'm going to go do something else I'm going to take my banana peels I have quite a lot of them just going to cut off the little stem ends and I'm going to pull them into pieces they kind of have their own sections and then I'm going to do them in half again see the section they're just going to tear like that and then I'm going to tear it again just to make some smaller pieces so it will dry faster and I'm just going to put them all together and I'm going to chop them up and peaches on a catfish square maybe so that they will dry faster and then I'm just going to put them on my tray just like that because you know I would never waste anything so I have found a use for these so these will be going in with the bananas and after those bananas sit for another five minutes I'll come back and show you how I'm going to lay them out on the tray and get the dehydrator started all right so it's been 10 minutes now the instructions that I found said that you are supposed to drain these slices and you want to make sure that they have all see how some of these kind of stuck together like that you want to make sure that they all get separated and if they all get some of this citric acid on them so I think what I'm going to do is go through make sure they all have some on it and then I'm just going to scoop a handful let them drain and then I'm just going to lay them out here before I put them onto my trays and I'm just going to move them around you're not supposed to let them touch because they will stick to each other and they say it will be a mess this is my first time doing bananas so we're both going to see how they turn out together but I figured I may as well follow the instructions the first time just to make sure everything turns out okay so I'm just going to fill this fill my trays and keep cutting bananas alright so here's my first tray I just kind of went all the way around that's how I'm going to do it and when I get these all done I will let you know how many trays of each I ended up with and then I will be dehydrating them for 10 or 12 hours I believe it takes and then I'll show you the end result and I'll let you know exactly what I started with and what I ended up with this is the banana peel it's been in for probably about four hours it's starting to dry a little bit and these are the banana pieces they're training a little bit color but not bad and I ended up with 9 trays of banana slices and four trays appeal and I actually did have the peel from two bananas that would not fit in trays you're going to put them back