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Any benefit to air-frying gathered wood this way?

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[–] HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 52 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Could be part of prepping wood to integrate into an enclosure for a reptile or similar. You have to be really particular about contamination and moisture so I could see using a low heat to dry it out as part of prep

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can you get a low enough heat in an air fryer? The lowest mine goes is 180C.

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Some of them literally have a "dehydrator" setting that I think is fairly low.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ah, ok. Admittedly, mine's just a cheap one I got from K-Mart.

[–] ecvanalog@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They're still pretty common in Aus. Different company to the US one though, I believe.

[–] ecvanalog@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

It is, yes. I remember that the international stores got sold to a different company when Sears liquidated the US stores. I’m just being silly.

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Holy blue light special Batman!

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago

My first thought as well, reptiles or aquatics.

I was just about to comment this. I keep fish, and I bake all the leaves and twigs I put into my tanks in case they have something dangerous in them.