The rhubarb took 63 hours to finish processing. That is the longest single run I have done so far but it makes sense. I put 18 pounds of cooked rhubarb onto the tray and I got out 1 pound. 17 pounds of water was removed from the rhubarb! Quite amazing and the ice block on the inside was huge. While letting it defrost I discovered it is extremely good that I have the catch bucket in a shallow bucket since the inner overflowed from all the melting ice. In all I got about 1.75 gals of water from the defrost cycle.
I look forward to using some of the rhubarb to make strawberry rhubarb that will be smooth and not chunky. I bet I can get the texture to come out like the lemon in the lemon meringue pie. It will likely depend on how much water I use to reconstitute the rhubarb. I presume I will be able to use some of the strawberry juices to rehydrate it but will need a good bit more than the strawberries contain. Will be interesting to play with.
The next batch will have to wait until after the weekend. I need to clear more stuff our of the freezers so I will dig and come up with a full load to run when the temps are cooler.
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I'll be curious to see how the rhubarb works in the strawberry-rhubarb combo...