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Expert Yogi
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| N2Y - I borrowed one from a friend years ago but don't recall the brand. Made many, many rolls of fruit leather for my kids. If I were in the market for one now I think I would try freecycle or Craigslist. I'll bet they are the kind of thing people have sitting around unused.
Oh - I just took a look at eopinions and it looks like you want to avoid certain brands like the plague. There aren't many reviews, but some good info. Have fun! |
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| Craigs list rocks I got a bakers rack for 25 bucks! |
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| I happen to rather like my excalibur - the temperature regulation is pretty accurate, the fan is fairly quiet (I've been running it the past four days making food for a backpacking trip), the square sheets are a good form factor for many things, and it's got few dead spots in the drying process around the four trays of the small model. It was expensive, but it's held up well over the five or six years I've been using it, and I dry all kinds of stuff on it. (Chili - like a big pot of vegetarian or turkey chili - dehydrates quite well for backpacking. As does cooked quinoa with vegetables. ;) ) |
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| Wow NE - you are a serious dehydrator! For you it is clearly worth buying a good one. I tried to dehydrate some things in my oven but this new fangled one I have has a safety shutoff that shuts it down after 8 hours or so. It also doesn't really have a low enough temp. for drying or making yogurt. The old wood and oil stoves I grew up with (yes, I am THAT old!) would have been great because they all had warming ovens and were on almost all the time. |
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| I'm trying to think of what I could make that would dry in 8 hours... 
my apple slices would have to be veeeerry thin.
yeah, oven dehydrating in hard. I haven't tried jerky in my gas oven. it's a scary thought...
(backpacking food is expensive... glutenfree/dairyfree backpacking food is ... homemade!  ) |
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| Oh my parents have the Excalibur dehydrator too. We made yummy dried bananas, apples, all types of fruit. Maybe I can go ask my dad to dig it up. How do you make fruit leather? I buy some fruit leathers at Trader Joe but would love to learn how to make my own. |
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