Ronco Food Dehydrator

We have a fig tree on our property that produces dozens and dozens of sweet, fat figs every year. They're delicious, but the problem is they all get ripe around the same time and I can't possible eat all of them before they start to spoil. I suppose I could give some of the figs to friends and neighbors, or allow the creepy fig thief lady to sneak over and steal them, as she is wont to do, but I am greedy when it comes to figs. I want them all to myself.

I thought about canning them, but that takes too much effort and I also don't want to add extra sugar to them, because they're plenty sweet already. So I decided to dry them. I paid $30 for the Ronco Food Dehydrator, which has five round shelves that stack on a heating coil. It takes about two days to dry a big batch of figs, and now I can store my figs for a long time, eating them whenever I want. Sometimes, when my wife and children are very nice to me and I'm feeling especially jolly, I'll give them a dried fig, but I usually regret doing so afterwards. $30 on Amazon