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Bought a cheap dehydrator and it beat my oven method
I used to dry flowers in my oven on the lowest setting, but it always made the petals too brittle. Last month I got a $30 food dehydrator from a garage sale and tried drying a batch of lavender. It took about 4 hours on the herb setting and the color stayed way better than my oven tries. Has anyone else switched from oven drying to a dehydrator for flowers?
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paul_webb452mo ago
Drying flowers really that deep? They're just gonna sit in a vase collecting dust anyway.
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umaprice2mo ago
My grandmother dried roses from her garden for 40 years and they still looked beautiful in her guest room. The key is picking them right before they fully open and hanging them upside down in a dark closet for a few weeks. It takes a little effort but the payoff is huge compared to store bought dried flowers.
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skylerc863mo ago
Yeah it's funny how often the cheap specialty tool beats the expensive all-in-one method. Once you give a device one job to do it usually does it better than something trying to be everything. That's like how a basic toaster makes better toast than the broil setting on your oven every single time.
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