Cheap Dehydrators

ducks4you

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I have a 20yo dehydrator. I don't use it much, but it is a good one, NOT cheap at the time, but there were not a lot of them on the market at that time. Somebody gave me their used one, missing 2/5 trays, and it works well, too. I have successfully dehydrated peppers, both sweet and hot with it. I did not like how it worked with onions and I think I will dry them out in a cold oven instead next time. The dehydrator cooked the onions and kinda burned them.
Regarding your nephew...I think you could either throw that $30 (to buy the one in the link) in the trash or mail it to me if you don't need it that badly. Your nephew could clean somebody's gutters and earn his OWN dehydrator with the money.
 

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My family Loves my beef jerkey! I bought an Excaliber.

I've heard that Excaliber makes some of the better units however I was leary of the plastic, so I went with a all stainless steel unit instead:

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STX INTERNATIONAL Dehydra STX-DEH-1200W-XLS 10-Tray Stainless Steel Digital Food Dehydrator, 1200-watt

It's been great for dehydrating onions, potatoes, kolirabi, cantaloupe, etc. In fact, I'm doing sweet potato jerky right now for Dieter's dog treats (he had eye-of-round jerky last week)...

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