Dried Tomatoes

In recent times, sun- and semi-dried tomatoes have become indispensable to cooks wherever they happen to live.

But unless you can reliably predict several days of breezy weather with low humidity and daytime temperatures in excess of 32C/90F, which is roughly never where we live, you’ll have to fall back on other options.

The chief options are using a dehydrator, a low oven with the door ajar or your homemade drying box. An ingenious alternative is to place a rack of tomatoes on the shelf under your car’s rear window on a hot day.