Dehydrated bananas

I love food. And I always want to eat. But always eating candy or chocolate is not good so I decided I want to dry some fruit that I can have as a snack throughout the day. Why not regular fruit? Because I also love coffee and drink it throughout the day and coffee and I don't like the combination of juicy fruit and coffee.

First I had to buy a dehydrator. But no, it wasn't as easy as it may seem. :)
Just like with buying a printer, I immediately saw that there are sooo many different dehydrators to choose from. After a couple weeks of research and trying to understand what the hell is the difference between 5 similar dehydrators I finally made up my mind and bought the CONCEPT SO-1060.
So far I'm very happy with it. It cost me 55€, it has a temperature regulator, plenty of room for fruit (9 plates) and most importantly a timer! I can't imagine not having a timer on this thing. It works like that: you put in fruit, set the time (for example 10 hours) and it shuts off when the time is up.

The first thing I tried dehydrating is bananas!

I have bought the dried banana chips from a store before that look like this:

but mine came out nothing like that - in my opinion they taste a lot better! In addition to that the banana chips I have bought for some reason contained oil and sugar? I suspect maybe those were deep fried instead of dried... 

Later I calculated the cost and mine came out a little more expensive (7€/kg) than the ones in the store (6€/kg), but at least I know they don't have any additives!

At first I tried storing my bananas in these pretty little fabric bags that my mother made, but although they really are nice to look at, they didn't work that well - the bananas started getting moist again.

So now I just store them in plastic containers, that works pretty well (if only the bananas weren't so good that I want to eat the whole container right away)

I've also tried drying apples and pears and both came out good! :)