[pct-l] dehydrating food

[brentramsby-pct at yahoo.com (Teflon)]

Judson

All food dehydrators are not created equal.  You'll want to look for
one with the following features:

Horizontal Airflow (via fan)
- dehydrates much faster than vertical flow (stacked) models

Adjustable Temperature
- some foods need to be dehydrated at different temps

Timer
- very nice to have ... just set the dial and come back later

I highly recommend the 9 tray Excalibur #3926T.  We ran it almost 24
hours / day for 12 straight weeks without a problem.  (that was
enough to make lunches and dinners for 2 people for six months)

You can find it here:

http://www.excaliburdehydrator.com/cat7.htm

If you're serious about dehydrating a lot of food, I wouldn't go with
anything less than a 9 tray model.  The dehyrdator will be the bottle
neck in your process.

Also, if you're going to dehydrate lots of food, consider locating
your dehydrator outside of your normal living space.  The smell of
dehydrating food will get to you after a while.  We converted an
outside storage closet into a dehydration room and it worked great.

-Teflon


--- Judson Brown <judsonb@internetcds.com> wrote:
> I'd like to get into the whole dehydratin' thing rather than
> spending my
> huge teacher's salary on freeze dried. Are all food dehydrators
> more or less
> the same, or are there some recommendable models out there?
> 
> Judson
> Ashland
> 
> 
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