Drying Food - Miele H6860BPXB Operating And Installation Instructions

Special applications

Drying food

This programme is designed for
traditional style drying of food to
preserve it.
The temperature can be set between 80
and 100 °C.
It is important that fruit and vegetables
are ripe and not bruised before they are
dried.
 Prepare the food for drying
– Peel and core apples, and cut into
slices 0.5 cm thick.
– Stone plums, if necessary.
– Peel, core and cut pears into thick
wedges.
– Peel and slice bananas.
– Clean mushrooms and cut them in
half or slice them.
– Remove parsley and dill from the
stem.
 Distribute the food evenly over the
universal tray.
Use the Gourmet perforated baking
tray, if you have one.
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 Select
Special applications
 Select
Drying .
 Alter the recommended temperature
if necessary and then set the
duration.
 Follow the instructions in the display.
Food
Fruit
Vegetables
Herbs *
 Drying time
* Because this programme uses the fan
you should use Conventional heat 
with a temperature of 80–100 °C for
drying herbs.
 Reduce the temperature if
condensation begins to form in the
oven.

Danger of burning. Wear oven
gloves when removing the dried food
from the oven.
 Allow the dried fruit or vegetables to
cool down after drying.
Dried fruit must be completely dry, but
also soft and elastic.
 Store in sealed glass jars or tins.
.
 [min]
120–480
180–480
50–60