today I'm going to show you how to dehydrate limes first thing we're going to do is wash all of our limes and you want to remove all of the stickers off all of them to cut your slices you can either cut them regularly with a knife or we can use a mandolin to cut all of our lines the advantage of a mandolin is it will go a lot more quicker plus it will also give you perfectly even slices each time once you have your limes cut we're going to just lay them out onto our dehydrator it nice even rows and just keep going until you fill up your tray when your tray is full of limes go ahead and put it into your dehydrator on the excalibur they just slide in do as many trees as you need to and then we're going to put the cover on and then we're going to turn it on for dehydrating red limes we want to set our temperature to 130 degrees Fahrenheit and for limes you want to dehydrate them for 16 to 18 hours on my excalibur dehydrator I have a timer here so I can just set it for the 16 hours and when it's finished it will automatically turn off after 16 hours we're going to check on our limes when checking your limes we want to make sure they are firm and brittle and you want to squeeze in between where the flashes to make sure there's no stickiness if you feel any stickiness this has not dehydrated enough so you want to put it in for another couple hours you're much better off dehydrating longer than necessary than not enough if we try to put in the limes into our containers if there are still a bit sticky if everything hasn't dehydrated you're going to get mold and spoilage in your pan in your container so better safe than sorry the other thing we're also going to do is right now these have finished dehydrating but they're still really hot because we just turned off for a dehydrator so we want to let this cool for about a half-hour so it's cool to the touch same thing if we put them into our store container while they're hot that's going to create moisture which will again lead to spoilage so we're going to let this sit for about a half hour once your lines that have cooled in for about a half hour we're ready to start peeling them off the trays and put them into whatever your storage container is going to be I sent two lines to plastic bags so they have so many of them however you can also use glass jars if you would prefer to maintain them for a longer time the glass jars do better with keeping out moisture any air and things of that said you will last longer if you end up doing the glass jars and they also want to consider putting in a food grade oxygen absorber it helps take out the excess air again helps prevent spoilage and moisture from getting in and it helps keep your lines longer whatever container you decide to do right down or what is going into the container and it would also be helpful to write down when you made them that way you can rotate your food more easily