You can also alternatively crush up (I used a pestle and mortar) 1 or 2 dissolvable vitamin C tablets and mix them in 1.5 cups of water to use as a dunk before placing slices (I did pears) in the dehydrator, to stop browning. You can also freeze the left over dunking liquid to use again in the future!! My pears are chewy. I thought that's as good as they were going to get as they were in dehydrator for about 12 hours, next time I will go for longer though, as I'd like them crunchy.

Karri Barlow· last week

After years and years of experience with dehydrating different foods, I personally would think that the extra amount of days of time that it will take to make PEARS crunchy isn't worth it. Apples are easy to make crunchy, but PEARS are built different. They go an interesting grainy texture before they go crunchy.

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