Re: Food dehydrators anybody?
gardenchat@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: Food dehydrators anybody?
  • From: j* s* <i*@q.com>
  • Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:01:54 -0800
Yeah, I know... NOAA says snow flurries Sunday; I can hardly wait.
On Dec 4, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI wrote: 


I have a couple of those. They work but each tray doesn't hold very
much. Of course, a fruit roll-up isn't supposed to be huge. Usually if
I'm making fruit leather though I have gallons of the stuff and it's
faster to pour it into cookie sheets and put them in the greenhouse.
This is making me long for spring. And we haven't even started winter
yet!

Cyndi


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of james singer
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 8:10 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Food dehydrators anybody?

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


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of james singer
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 7:40 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
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

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE GARDENCHAT




Inland Jim
Willamette Valley

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE GARDENCHAT

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE GARDENCHAT




Inland Jim
Willamette Valley

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE GARDENCHAT

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE GARDENCHAT




Inland Jim
Willamette Valley

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE GARDENCHAT
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index