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  • Randie NR Offline
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    Randie N
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    I am wanting to get something different myself but the probably close to 30 year old (I believe snackmaster American harvest) I have still works great. It wasn’t real expensive back then either. I have about 10-12 trays I can stack on top. . It something to get started. Was just watching a video and some guy was comparing his Excalibur to some cheaper Amazon dehydrators and his choice was one of the cheaper ones for the money

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    • johnsbrewhouseJ johnsbrewhouse

      ND Mike Good dehydrators are really had to find right now, they are all stuck on ships. I’ve been shopping for a decent one. I use my oven right now, I have a convection feature on it that allows drying at either 140 or 190 degrees. I dry the veggies on a cheap Harbor Freight unit that takes way to long.

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      ND Mike
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      johnsbrewhouse thanks.

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      • Randie NR Randie N

        I am wanting to get something different myself but the probably close to 30 year old (I believe snackmaster American harvest) I have still works great. It wasn’t real expensive back then either. I have about 10-12 trays I can stack on top. . It something to get started. Was just watching a video and some guy was comparing his Excalibur to some cheaper Amazon dehydrators and his choice was one of the cheaper ones for the money

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        ND Mike
        Big Green Egg Team Blue Regular Contributors Cast Iron Power User
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        Randie N thanks.

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        • B bocephus

          ND Mike The Sausage Maker has some that are good.

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          ND Mike
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          bocephus thanks.

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          • smokinbubbaS smokinbubba

            LEM mighty bite 10 tray. I have the older model of this one and it is awesome. Holds 10 lbs of meat! Kinda pricey but worth it. Hardest part is storing the behemith

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            ND Mike
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            smokinbubba thanks.

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            • ND MikeN ND Mike

              My son really wants to make some restructured jerky and I just bought the attachment for my stuffer. What do you guys recommend for a decent dehydrator. I will probably do fruits and veggies on it too.

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              Deepwoodsbutcher
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              ND Mike My husband got me a Cosori dehydrator for our anniversary this year. I’m really happy with it so far. Dried my herbs all summer long and made whole muscle jerky two nights ago. Turned out awesome. Will be doing restructured jerky soon.

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              • DeepwoodsbutcherD Deepwoodsbutcher

                ND Mike My husband got me a Cosori dehydrator for our anniversary this year. I’m really happy with it so far. Dried my herbs all summer long and made whole muscle jerky two nights ago. Turned out awesome. Will be doing restructured jerky soon.

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                Deepwoodsbutcher thanks! I will check that one out. I have never heard of that one.

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                • ND MikeN ND Mike

                  My son really wants to make some restructured jerky and I just bought the attachment for my stuffer. What do you guys recommend for a decent dehydrator. I will probably do fruits and veggies on it too.

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                  lkrfletcher
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                  ND Mike - I love my excalibur

                  Life is a Garden - Dig it.

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                  • lkrfletcherL lkrfletcher

                    ND Mike - I love my excalibur

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                    glen
                    Regular Contributors Team Grey Sous Vide Canning Dry Cured Sausage Masterbuilt Power User Meat Hack Winner Veteran
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                    lkrfletcher I’ll second the Excalibur, bought it new 10 years ago and it was an older model even then

                    Give a man a fish and he eats for a day
                    Teach a man to fish and he drinks beer for a lifetime

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                    • lkrfletcherL lkrfletcher

                      ND Mike - I love my excalibur

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                      lkrfletcher 5 tray or 10 tray?

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                        make one DIY by taking an element out of a toaster oven?

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                        • Ridley AcresR Ridley Acres

                          make one DIY by taking an element out of a toaster oven?

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                          smokinbubba
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                          Ridley Acres also a fan. Its very important!

                          If the women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy - Red Green

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                          • ND MikeN ND Mike

                            lkrfletcher 5 tray or 10 tray?

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                            lkrfletcher
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                            ND Mike - 10 tray

                            Life is a Garden - Dig it.

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                              Excalibur dehydrators are tops in my book, I own 2. Mine are the 9 tray model # on their Excalibur’s site is 3926TB it has a 26 hour timer, and a thermostat on top as well. It is very affordable and IT GET’S THE JOB DONE!!! I have dried fruit, made granola, I do all my jerky & beef sticks on it (much quicker) I use a jerky gun and you can make 9 trays of jerky in about 6 hours, I also make my dog treats on it. I will tell you this I bought mine off of E Bay and saved about $125.00 on each machine, Excalibur’s web site is pretty pricy. You can also buy replacement screen inserts, etc. for the machine on E Bay at a much cheaper price. These dehydrator’s are the best I have ever owned nothing digital, or fancy, it simply does what it is suppose to do. Hope this helps you out!!!

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                              • lkrfletcherL lkrfletcher

                                ND Mike - 10 tray

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                                lkrfletcher thanks.

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                                • M mhighland69

                                  Excalibur dehydrators are tops in my book, I own 2. Mine are the 9 tray model # on their Excalibur’s site is 3926TB it has a 26 hour timer, and a thermostat on top as well. It is very affordable and IT GET’S THE JOB DONE!!! I have dried fruit, made granola, I do all my jerky & beef sticks on it (much quicker) I use a jerky gun and you can make 9 trays of jerky in about 6 hours, I also make my dog treats on it. I will tell you this I bought mine off of E Bay and saved about $125.00 on each machine, Excalibur’s web site is pretty pricy. You can also buy replacement screen inserts, etc. for the machine on E Bay at a much cheaper price. These dehydrator’s are the best I have ever owned nothing digital, or fancy, it simply does what it is suppose to do. Hope this helps you out!!!

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                                  mhighland69 thanks!

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                                    I have a 9 tray excalibur, bought in 2008, never and issue with it. Make jerky(ground and whole muscle), snack sticks, dried fruit, peppers, herbs. It goes down I will get another excalibur.

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                                    • ND MikeN ND Mike

                                      My son really wants to make some restructured jerky and I just bought the attachment for my stuffer. What do you guys recommend for a decent dehydrator. I will probably do fruits and veggies on it too.

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                                      calldoctoday
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                                      ND Mike Second on johnsbrewhouse & everything has gone pricy too. We had been using the old Farberware countertop convection oven I bought my wife back in the early 80s. It still looks great, but a temp controller went out on it a few years ago & finally found that part & now something else went out on it, I think just an element, but having trouble finding that now too & parts have gotten pricey on some things. I probably need to get her a new one now. We use the smoker for peppers, jerky, etc. & it works great for those things, but it would not work too well for fruits & veggies I don’t think.

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                                      • johnsbrewhouseJ johnsbrewhouse

                                        ND Mike Good dehydrators are really had to find right now, they are all stuck on ships. I’ve been shopping for a decent one. I use my oven right now, I have a convection feature on it that allows drying at either 140 or 190 degrees. I dry the veggies on a cheap Harbor Freight unit that takes way to long.

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                                        johnsbrewhouse Our oven is down now too & I cannot get parts for it or get anyone to work on it. Come to find out to make things worse it was an expensive high dollar hunk of junk apparently to start with. Finding 40" ovens these days is even worse. Apparently, there are some good ones out there, but very expensive & most dual fuel rather than electric & I cannot afford to do that again right now. Some of the oven can work good & ours also did, when it worked.

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                                          johnsbrewhouse Our oven is down now too & I cannot get parts for it or get anyone to work on it. Come to find out to make things worse it was an expensive high dollar hunk of junk apparently to start with. Finding 40" ovens these days is even worse. Apparently, there are some good ones out there, but very expensive & most dual fuel rather than electric & I cannot afford to do that again right now. Some of the oven can work good & ours also did, when it worked.

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                                          calldoctoday Know how that can be, we have a downdraft range. There used to be only two companies that made them. Our first one was a GE and a pile so we stepped up and bought the Jenn-Aire 10 years ago with all the bells and whistles. Of course we have not used the indoor grill or gridle but once, so it was a waste to buy them, but love that we can remove the inserts so if one of the ceran top elements burn out, you can replace the cartridge.

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