Cooking & Baking

but if you live in a hot, dry climate it's easier to let them dry out (at certain times of the year the morning sun falls on my kitchen counter, and will dry small tomatoes and mushrooms in a couple of days. I sometimes take the tomatoes outside during the day to speed up the drying.) It's the old-fashioned way to preserve them. Once dried, they'll keep for months. Of course, you need temperatures in the upper nineties and humidity in the low teens for this to work.