Name: Jana
Original Inspiration: http://www.theworldwidegourmet.com/recipes/dried-strawberries-ruscalleda/
What I Did: Dried strawberries in the oven. Simple yes? Not for me! Mine look nothing like the inspiration pic. Mine look like they need a shave! Instead they went file 13! In the trash! Thanks!
My Result:
Next Time I Will: Put them in a dehydrator next time! If it looks too easy, it probably is! Save time and money and skip it and go with what you know!
Comments on this post
Funny enough, I did this yesterday and had the same results as you. Disgusting FAIL.
5. February - 9:11 amI was super excited to try this one… thinking… why haven’t I thought of this before? Oh jeez these were disgusting. Although they did make up for themselves when I dumped them into a smoothy later that day. On their own… nasty crap.
12. February - 5:27 pmThis is probably the most deceiving Pinterest pin out there. There’s no way in h*ll that the ones shown in the picture were made in an oven. most likely a dehydrater since oven drying does not result in them looking like the picture, at all!
27. February - 12:55 amTHANK YOU!! I thought it was just me! I consider myself a pretty good cook & baker. Tried these ad though-how great–fresh, homemade natural dried strawberries! And then I made them. And then I keep putting them back in the oven thinking they just hadn’t dried enough. Nope—just soggy wet ugly slimy things. Had to dump the hole huge tray I made. Major fail!!!!! Yuck! (glad I’m not alone!!)
27. February - 11:39 amWow. Holy typos! Sorry!!
27. February - 11:40 amHaha…total fail. I was so excited to try it. Totally did not work!
2. March - 8:30 pmTotally agree!!! Do not try this recipe! It’s bad! My strawberries look exactly the same! Bad all the way!
9. March - 12:48 amOMG! I tried these strawberries last week! TOTAL FAIL!!! My boyfriend came over, looked at the pan of sad, gross looking strawberries, looked at me and just said “Pinterest again?!” I was so disappointed! They looked so yummy on the site!
16. March - 10:31 pmI just tried this recipe tonight! LOL, I am so dissapointed, I dislike misleading Pins. Theres no way at all that they made this in an oven #EPICFAIL
18. March - 6:47 pmI tried this and it turned out exactly like the photo you showed.
19. March - 10:55 amMy wife made this as well. Same result. Thanks for the post! She feels better now about all the wasted fruit.
8. April - 2:21 pmI had the same result when I tried this a few weeks ago. I kept putting them back in the oven thinking they weren’t “done” yet too. I think my total oven time was probably close to 5 hours. They never dried though. And certainly looked nothing like the picture. Just warm slimy strawberries. Glad to discover it wasn’t just me.
9. April - 8:32 am