here's what i bought for 100-150 yen:



boiling the sweet potatoes in my pressure cooker - you're supposed to steam them but i have no steamer...


peel them, cut them into slices. most people are using an egg slicer but i just used a knife... doesn't actually take that long. i don't know why "exactly" you're supposed to peel them but the peel can be randomly really bitter (and on one storebought baked sweet potato, one bite out of the whole thing tasted like soap)


hanging indoors


outdoors (and there's my yellow work uniform... not that i've gone to work much)


the most common dried stuff i've seen so far is squid, daikon, sweet potato, and persimmon now that they've been in season. but apparently you can dry meat in general with this kind of rack as well. i'm going to the neighbourhood 100 yen shop now to see if i can get any more useful stuff... i saw that there's special aluminum foil specifically for baking sweet potatoes, also you can put rocks in your pot and make sweet potatoes "on the rocks" like that...