Forced air food drier

A forced air drier for food such as fruits and the like, said drier comprising a cabinet having a top, a bottom and side wall means extending between said top and bottom and defining an access opening in one side of said cabinet, a door removably closing said access opening, support means within said cabinet for removably supporting vertically spaced food supporting tray structures, a plurality of tray structures removably supported in relative vertically spaced relation from said support means within said cabinet, each of said tray structures including a pair of vertically spaced upper and lower food support and radiant heat sheets, respectively, said food support sheets being foraminous, alternating opposite sides of said vertically spaced tray structures including means defining upstanding air flow passages therethrough communicating the spaces between adjacent pairs of tray structures and into which the adjacent portions of the spaces between pairs of upper and lower sheets open, said spaces between adjacent tray structures, said spaces between upper and lower sheets, and said passages defining a tortuous air passage through said cabinet around said tray structures, and means operative to force heated air through said tortuous passage in said cabinet.