Dehydrator
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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.
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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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.
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.
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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I have been looking at them. And I did not know if the hours that the time could be set to was important. I have seen 12 to 48 hours. What is a maximum drying time average? I know veggies and fruits wont take as long as jerkey but what would be a good amount of time you could set.
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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!!!
mhighland69 good information. Thanks
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I have been looking at them. And I did not know if the hours that the time could be set to was important. I have seen 12 to 48 hours. What is a maximum drying time average? I know veggies and fruits wont take as long as jerkey but what would be a good amount of time you could set.
samspade I use my dehydrator all year long for jerky. What I can tell you is this, I make my jerky using ground meat and a jerky gun (my gun also came with an attachment for snack stix’s) the reason for this is I can make 9 trays of jerky made with ground meat in about 6 hours time. I have also made whole muscle jerky in my dehydrator but you are looking at about 12-16 hrs. and it can take longer if you don’t rotate your drying trays, with the ground meat it is “SET IT AND FORGET IT”
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I have been looking at them. And I did not know if the hours that the time could be set to was important. I have seen 12 to 48 hours. What is a maximum drying time average? I know veggies and fruits wont take as long as jerkey but what would be a good amount of time you could set.
samspade I have never run mine past 12 hours for jerky, that is what I usually make.
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Will be smoking a whole lot of cayenne, chili, Poblano, Ancho, & Jalapoleno peppers in a few days. We smoke em low & slow until dried out & store them in jars with one of those little desiccant crystal things in it. Grin them as the year goes by for pepper flakes & homemade chili powder. Much better than store bought & easy. No peppers go to waste.
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I may have a problem… I constantly find equipment I cant live without. Lol
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samspade That’s the problem with this sight!
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Maybe Paul processhead will post a link to a DIY about converting a large toaster oven he found on the side of the road into a dehydrator LOL!! I would love to see a DIY on that for sure
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processhead I think that was a double dawg dare ya
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processhead I think that was a double dawg dare ya
cdavis said in Dehydrator:
processhead I think that was a double dawg dare ya
In a lot of ways, a dehydrator is just a smoker without the smoke. A dehydrator is more about air flow than high temperature heating.
Paul
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cdavis said in Dehydrator:
processhead I think that was a double dawg dare ya
In a lot of ways, a dehydrator is just a smoker without the smoke. A dehydrator is more about air flow than high temperature heating.
processhead never thought of it that way but you’re exactly right
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