date:Dec 02, 2016
It's almost silent in the room where fresh fruit is turned into dried fruit. Every now and then a loud crack is heard. The huge tunnels, in which the process happens, recall horizontal milk tanks in a dairy. The process of sublimation takes 10 to 14 hours, during which the ice in the frozen fruit is evaporated at minus 18 degrees in a vacuum. The result is freeze-dried fruit which last for two to three years and retain their full flavour.
Production manager Thomas Grothe strides across the tun