On Sep 7, 12:40*pm, Omelet > wrote:
> In article >,
>
> *sf > wrote:
> > On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:31:50 -0500, Omelet >
> > wrote:
>
> > > Mom did teach me how to do that and the house fan empty space makes a
> > > great dehydrator. *
>
> > I just use my microplane to do the zesting and let the zest sit out
> > overnight in a little flat dipping bowl. *If you just left it out on
> > the counter, it would probably dry in an hour or less given the dry
> > heat where you live. *No need for fancy machines to dry lemon zest
> > here either. *Even in my fog & cool, it dries in no time flat. *I
> > don't want it dried for most of my purposes, so I get it to the
> > freezer before it dries out on me.
>
> I guess it depends on the final use. :-) For Lemon Pepper, I want it
> ground and dried.
> --

Obviously my lemon zest is a lot finer than yours. It dries literally
in just a few hours on the foggiest, rainiest of days and it's so fine
that I don't need to do anything to it to be able to shake it out with
no problems. Sounds like you need to borrow a microplane and give it
a test run... or are you really talking about lemon peel?