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  1. 4th July 2015, 06:27 PM #1
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    Default Drying branch cookies / discs in the home oven

    This is my first ever post so I hope I am in the right place
    i am a preschool teacher with a passion for providing children with authentic natural resources. I recently invested in some tools to make my own branch cookies for the children. I began with collecting aged and hardened gum which cut beautifully. I have recently however come across an abundance of recently felled gum branches ( result of storms ) that are still quite moist but not freshly green. I have begun cutting the branch ...the diameter is about 5 cm and I cut them in slices in approx 2cm think. They are literally the size of cookies. I have been putting them in my fan forced kitchen oven on 150C Degrees for an hour and they seem to dry without cracking or burning.

    Can anyone suggest any other type of tree in South East qld that would also be good for branch cookies....any better drying tips for the home oven.....open to any help or suggestions

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    Welcome Viollet to the forum!

    I sometimes dry in the microwave and generally get good results. I put the pieces of timber in, nuke for 30 seconds, pull them out, let them cool and repeat until dry. This has worked on all sorts of timbers but I haven't done big pieces so it is open to more experimentation.
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    If the wood is hard and aged I image it is already air dry anyway which is probably why is to did not crack.
    And I was thinking, unless something structural is being made, does it really matter if the wood is dry or not?
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    Haven't tried drying in the microwave, but did some thin (~1mm) discs by soaking them first, then clamping them flat between several layers of newspaper until they dried. For my job, it was important that they stay flat, which they have.

    I'd suggest you try to get hold of some discs from one of the local acacias. They usually seem to have plenty of colour in them.
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