Drying Tomatoes

These are the tomatoes that are drying. It turns out, that the steam from the dehydrating device on the wood stove wasn't able to adequately vent from the room. So, the tomatoes had a hard time drying. We aborted the attempt and I used the electric dehydrator. I hooked it up to the Kill-a-watt and discovered the process only uses 4.25 Kwh of electricity. So, it costs less than a quarter to make a quart of dehydrated tomatoes. Richard has a great plan for making a ventilation system for the dehydrator. However, we decided that the cost-benefit isn't as big as we thought it would be. So, we will use the electric dehydrator for now.