Dehydrator
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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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