Learn how to dehydrate dill pickle chips with this easy guide. Perfect for snacking, camping, or incorporating into recipes, dehydrated pickles offer a tangy crunch and extended shelf life, making them a versatile addition to any pantry.
Drain the pickle pieces in a colander or blot well with paper towels to remove as much moisture as possible.
Dehydrating Pickles
After all of the pickles have been sliced and the excess juice drained arrange the pieces on a dehydrator tray that has been lined with a mesh screen.
Slide the trays into the dehydrator and set the temperature to 135 °F degrees and turn it on.
It takes approximately 6-8 hours to dehydrate ¼ inch thick pickle chips if you drain them the way I did. If the slice are extra moist it will take longer. It is worth the extra work of draining them in a colander which removed 1 ½ cups of the pickle juice for me.
Recipe Expert Tips
A mesh screen will prevent the pickle pieces from falling through the cracks as they dry and shrink.
I filled 7 Excalibur square trays with the amount of slices I had.