Making tomato powder for the first time

We had some more tomatoes as we would eat trough and I saw a video of someone making tomato powder, which is nice to season food with and is a space saving storage way, so I wanted to try that out.

The amount of tomatoes I used did not quite fill up my dehydrator, but that is fine. I am just trying this out to see how it turns out and if I will be using the tomato powder at all.

Since I also had a lot of small tomatoes, the cutting took quite some time. I had set the dehydrator on 70°C for about 15 hours. I will be using the tomato powder in cooking, so there is no advantage in using a lower temperature.

After the dehydrator finished, I checked a few tomato slices and thought they where perfectly dry, but, while putting all of the dried tomato slices into my food processor, I noticed not all tomato slices where dry enough. I also do not know if the food processor is the right tool for this, but I did not really get a powder. I have more like some what sticky tomato crumbles, but that is ok, they will be used anyway. Just to be on the safe side, I will be storing this jar in the refrigerator.

For next year, if I will have enough tomatoes, I should check more of the tomato slices to see if they are dry enough and just let the dehydrator run maybe an hour longer or so.