Re: Food dehydrators anybody?
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  • Subject: Re: Food dehydrators anybody?
  • From: j* s* <i*@q.com>
  • Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 08:09:52 -0800
Cyndi--American Harvest [Nesco, same thing] sells a nice solid tray insert for making fruit leather. I have one but have never used it.
On Dec 4, 2009, at 7:58 AM, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI wrote:
Oooh I'm looking at the Cabela's model. Nice. Maybe when I'm retired and I have time to grow more good stuff. Of course I won't be able to afford 
it then.
I have used my greenhouse in the summer for fruit leather, it gets about 
120F - 130F in there with the door shut. It's just more convenient to
use the dehydrator for most things.

Cyndi


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Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 7:40 AM
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Subject: Re: [CHAT] Food dehydrators anybody?

Probably depends of what, and how much, she wants to dry. The standard
is probably the Excalibur--http://www.excaliburdehydrator.com/--
although I think Cabala also makes a top of the line one, too.
Excalibur costs several hundred dollars, price depending on model and
niceties. I have a cheapy, a Nesco, that I picked up on freecycle. A
new one sells for $20-$30 at Wal-Mart. One can download [pdf] the
Nesco manual to check out it's capacity. Finally, when I lived on the
farm, I build one from plans provided by the Arkansas extension
service; it was designed to dry a bushel of apples at a time, which
made it somewhat bigger than the Excalibur.


On Dec 4, 2009, at 6:40 AM, Jesse Bell wrote:


I girl at work was sent to me (go figure) to get some information on
food dehydrators. I don't own one, never have. But I figured some of you do and - and if you do, can you recommend one (or several) for her 
to look at, and possibly where to buy it?


--
Jesse R. Bell

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Inland Jim
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