Lemon is imported directly from the U.S. and other countries, so there is a lot of wax coating and pesticides to keep it fresh. It's hard to see with the naked eye, but it's hard to remove it by washing it with water. First, wash the baking soda and rub it with salt. There's also a simple pesticide remover these days, so I'll soak it for 5 minutes to remove the pesticide.

Then rinse with running water

I'm going to remove the wax coating now. If you soak it in hot water for 10 seconds, the wax will melt. Roll it gently and remove it as if you are frying lemon peel in hot water, not cooking or blanching.

Now, I'll add 2 tablespoons of vinegar and remove the residual pesticide from the lemon. It's actually convenient to peel, but when you make an air fryer lemon chip, the skin needs to be at the end to make the color, and it's crispy and dry

Cut the lemon into 2 to 3m thick pieces

Be careful with your hands and cut it with a knife. If you adjust the thickness of the knife, it's easy to cut it. Also, the dry shape is less beautiful, but the cooking time can be shortened. The lemon you see here is sliced with a knife.

Remove the lemon seeds with a toothpick or a pointy tip. If you leave it in water for a long time when you make lemon juice or chips later, it may taste bitter, so it's cumbersome in advance, but you can enjoy it more if you take it out.

Dry for 30 minutes at 90 and 30 minutes at 70. The air fryer oven I have was specified to be 50 to 60 minutes at 130 when I made dried fruit chips, but because I sliced it thinly, 130 degrees was too high and sometimes burned. So I controlled the temperature

At first, the lemon, which was quite tightly attached, became dry and the space widened

And I have a grill net type, so I changed the position in the middle and adjusted it. The top compartment is the closest to the heating plate, so it dries quickly. So the lemon I cut myself with a knife was in the top compartment, and the one I cut with a knife was dry at the bottom.

When heated at 90 degrees for the first 30 minutes, the lemon peel was dry, but the moist pulp was less dry. So it was 70 and 30 minutes more dry.

The left side is about 1.5m thick with shredded lemon, but it is dried, and the right side is a lemon chip made by cutting it into 2-3m thick with a knife. The thickness of the was about 1.5 meters after drying it.