Cure: Dehydrate & Store

Pick a food for its NCHFP-cited drying temp, time, pretreatment, and yield — then the conditioning and storage steps most home dehydrators skip. Fruit, veg, herbs.

Cure is a home food-dehydrating companion for fruit, vegetables, and herbs. Pick a food and get its drying temperature, time, pretreatment, and yield — every number cited to the National Center for Home Food Preservation (NCHFP / So Easy to Preserve, University of Georgia) and the Colorado State PreserveSmart program, not unverified blog folklore.

Free forever: • Per-food drying card — temperature, time range (dehydrator and oven), and pretreatment, for grapes-to-raisins, apple rings, apricots, banana slices, tomatoes, herbs, fruit leather, and more • Yield predictor — enter fresh weight, get the approximate dried weight and "how many half-pint jars from this haul?" • Doneness test — the cut, squeeze, and fold test for each food, so you know it is actually dry, not just that the timer went off

24-hour free trial of everything else, then a one-time $4.99 unlock (Cure Pro): • Conditioning tracker — the 4–10-day jar-and-stir step most home dehydrators skip, with a live day counter, an optional daily stir reminder, and the moisture-beads → re-dry call. Skipping conditioning is the number-one cause of mold in storage. • Storage & use-by planner — realistic storage life by container and conditions, a use-by date, and the water-activity reason dried food keeps • Full food library

Cure is built around the part the web charts skip: the drying time is a commodity, but whether your dried food actually keeps comes down to the doneness test, conditioning, and storage — and almost nothing covers those. Cure does, with every figure traced to a primary source.

Fruit, vegetables, and herbs only. For drying meat and jerky, see our companion app Strip.

Pay once. No subscription, no account, no network calls — everything runs on-device.

Cure presents NCHFP and university extension guidance for educational purposes. It is not a substitute for a thermometer or your local extension office. When in doubt, throw it out.