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Food Dehydrator Reviews to Show You Some of Your Options for Dried Food Storage

You can use food dehydrators to make many kinds of foods.

Of course, it's cheaper in the long run to dry your own food for emergency storage, or just for the taste and fun. These food dehyrator reviews can help you decide.

You can simply dry some fruits, or fruits, vegetables, meat, trail mix, dried soup, banana chips, beef jerky, bloom rice, dry sprouted breads, raise breads, make yogurt, sprout beans and seeds, dry pie crust and more. If you buy these items in a store you'll get a lot of added chemical preservatives, added sugar and other ingredients you don't want in your body. Make your own and feel healthier. You can also dry flowers and crafts and make potpourri.

Excalibur has been around for over 35 years and is a popular brand. Its trademarked Parallexx Dehydration horizontal-airflow drying system is in the back and dries foods evenly on all the trays. The warm air removes the moisture and pushes it out the front of the unit.

The Excalibur 2900 Deluxe Series 9 Tray Jerky Maker Food Dehydrator is a large model for families serious about drying food for food storage or hiking foods. The trays are 15" X 15". There's 1.25" between each shelf. The doors and trays are removable. Door is made of plexiglass. Trays are dishwasher safe! It comes with an instruction manual with over 50 recipes! Uses a 7 inch fan. The thermostat ranges from 85° to 155° F.

You can get smaller models such as the 2400 and 2500. Also, larger models include the 3500 and 3900 Deluxe.

The Nesco FD-39 500-Watt Food Dehydrator is a countertop model with a 4 inch fan. Its top-mounted power head sends the heat down with radial-air Fan-Flow technology that eliminates the need to rotate the trays. It comes with 4 trays, but that can be expanded to 7 (the extra three are sold separately, so pricing it with just 4 is sort of a way to make it seem cheaper than it will be with the full set of 7 trays). It has a fixed temperature setting, which means no thermometer. Some customers have complained that it's very loud while operating. It certainly is somewhat smaller than the Excalibur, but may be suitable if you don't plan to dry a lot of foods at one time.

The Open Country Dehydrator Trailmaster Digital Controls Specialty Food Processing expands to 20 trays, so it's really for people who plan to dry a lot of food. Its patented Converga-Flow fan forces air up, then horizontally across each tray, so there's no flavor mixing. If food drips down, then you have to clean the fan after every use. Fan is fast and quiet. It has an adjustable thermostat covering 90-160 degrees Fahrenheit. It's also got a timer so you can let it work while you go to work, and it'll turn off automatically while you're gone.

The VegiKILN Food Dehydrator comes with 8 Drying Trays.

The Food Pantry Hanging Dehydrator / Dryer #8211; Five Tray Non Electric is a good model to have on hand in case of emergency. The other models need electricity to spin their fans around. But what if you find yourself in a post-disaster world with no more electricity? It'll be all the more important to dry the fruits and vegetables from your garden so they last you through the winter. Or maybe you're not in a hurry to dry your food and you wish to save on electricity to save on money or to reduce your carbon footprint.

You can hang this one up in the sun and dry your food with solar power, in its three cubic feet of space.

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