Don’t cook, just dry your food!

Published May 31, 2016

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London - You can tuck away your spiralizer in that cupboard where the slow-cooker and juicer are gathering dust.

The latest must-have appliance, it seems, is a food dehydrator.

Sales of the devices – which extract water from food without cooking it – are soaring.

Publicity from health-conscious celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and cookbook authors the Hemsley sisters have prompted a boom in demand for home-dried produce.

The gadgets, which use hot air to dry out fruits and other foods, range in price from £25 (about R500) to nearly £700.

Food lovers are using them to dry everything from strawberries to mushrooms and meat for storing in kitchen cupboard jars.

Sales at Lakeland have risen by a fifth in the last 12 months, with customers using the gadgets to turn vegetables and fruit into “guilt-free” crisp-style snacks, according to a spokesman.

Online retailer Amazon has almost doubled its sales of dehydrators since last year.

Miss Paltrow one of the leading celebrity fans of the devices, describes them on her lifestyle website Goop as a “must” for people living on a raw-food diet.

Daily Mail

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