Anybody dry orange peels for tea?

What’s your preferred method? Oven? Dehydrator? Hanging dry? I don’t have a dehydrator, but I’m seriously thinking of making the investment.

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Pandeme said

I’ve never actually done it before! I’m going to sound like a total dork here, but what do you use it for with your tea?

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just an ingredient to flavor custom blends :) I saw this recipe (http://www.nourishingdays.com/2011/03/make-your-own-orange-spice-tulsi-tea/) but i’m looking for different ones. I’d probably do green rooibos because I don’t think I like tulsi. Plus my friend from Florida brought me a huge bag of oranges and I need to use them now before they go bad!!

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Nerys said

I dry oranges rind I also dry rinds of mandarin, lemon, grapefruit , lime and other citrus my grocery store sometimes has others like mineola etc I use a pair of scissors to cut rinds into very small pieces and airdry them on kitchen paper or just plainly on a small flat plate/ dish. I dry small portion spreading the peel/rind flat single layer. I tried oven drying but my oven sometimes heats up too much so I prefer airdry. Now in winter with central heating it takes usually 2 days for dried rind. Dried rind I store either in paper lunch bags or in mini sized empty jam jars, wash well sterilize in oven and re-use empty jars. If you want really thin rinds use a zester which scrapes away rinds.

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Nerys said

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Hmm, I think I will get one of those!

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