My Food Dehydrator Trial - Apples and Bananas

My parents gave my sister and I a food dehydrator over 10 years ago but since it did not come with a recipe book or instructions we never knew how to use it.  Other than drying flowers it was never used.  I somehow ended up with it in my garage.  I have been researching how to dehydrate foods and finally pulled my dehydrator out a few hours ago.  I scrubbed it down and am about to slice the apples to see how it works since the apples are on their way out.

I can get apples super cheap at Aldi ($2/3lbs) right now so I want to try to dehydrate them so we can have apples all the time as they are not an item that is always at Aldi or other stores at a great price.

I will post how it turns out once I am done.  They should take about 8-10 hours from what I have read.  I do not have a fancy new dehydrator that has changeable temperatures or anything else.  I just have an "on/off" switch.  Maybe one day soon I will have a new one if it does not work out with this old one.


Process:
I had a Red Delicious apple that was starting to bruise so I cut it into quarters and cut out the core (I need to get a corer.  I have a corer that slices at the same time so that does not work.)  I then put each quarter into my food processor to be able to get an even thickness.  Would also work in halves but I would not go any smaller than quarters.

I also sliced up half a banana my daughter did not finish to see what happens.  The bananas I have here are mainly brown which means they are the most nutritious but from what I read they are not the best for making banana chips since they are "soggier".


Update: 4 hours later and I took the apple chips off to cool.   My 26 month old took her stool over to them once I walked away and helped herself to them...so I will be making another batch tomorrow so I can take photos.  This was her first time having them and she keeps asking for more.  They are really sweet too.

The bananas look to be about halfway done.  I will check them again in 3-4 hours to see how they are.

I am going to try strawberries tomorrow.  I bought some at Winndixie when they were around 3/$5 and froze one container of them to use when needed.  I live about an hour or so from Plant City where a lot of strawberries come from so next season I will stock up on them to make jams and to dehydrate them.