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spamel

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Feb 15, 2005
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Bumping this, as they are back! get in quick whilst stocks last, I made some jerky last night in my german branded version of this dehydrator. No doubt the kids'll eat the lot when they get home tonight!

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Settler
Sep 29, 2004
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Edinburgh
Can anyone tell me roughly what temperature these dehydrators get to when running?

I'm tempted to try doing some dehydrating in my oven, provided I can get it set to a suitably low temperature... I'm guessing it must be somewhere between 50 and 70 degrees C.
 

Tadpole

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Nov 12, 2005
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Can anyone tell me roughly what temperature these dehydrators get to when running?

I'm tempted to try doing some dehydrating in my oven, provided I can get it set to a suitably low temperature... I'm guessing it must be somewhere between 50 and 70 degrees C.

Much is depending on make and model, but they range from 30C to 85C
Others are fixed at one temperature, somewhere about 80C
 

Nagual

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Jun 5, 2007
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Just to say thank to this thread I am now a proud owner of a dehydrator from westfalia. What a wonderful thing this is, I've only stopped using it now as I've ran out of stuff to dry... Well I'm tempted to try potatos, but not sure about that one.


Cheers one n all.
 

Toddy

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Jan 21, 2005
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About a hairdryer on cool. But I think the fan is the biggest aid to drying out the fruits and veggies. I used to string stuff above the kitchen radiatior in Winter but had a problem with leathers. The dehydrator is brilliant for them :D

cheers,
M
 

JohnC

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Jun 28, 2005
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I bought a dehydrator with my Christmas money, and we've been pretty pleased with the results so far. Theres a lot of cheap fruit going from time to time and we've been experimenting with honey dips as a pre drying treatment. So far only one go at leathers, but it came out ok. I bought an apple peeler and corer device (one of the winding ones) in a junkshop the other day as the boys are keen to help.
 

Nagual

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Jun 5, 2007
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So far I've made a few different jerkies, few bits o dried pear and banana and a leather made from mixed fruit. I have to say I'm highly impressed, I tried drying things before in the oven but it wasn't as fast as this, and I suspect used more electric.. :(

I made what I'm choosing to call travel cakes last night, consisting of potatos, rice, cous cous and some cajan spice. I cooked the above and grated n mixed, allowed to cool a bit then made into small rounds and fried in dry pan. I'll dehyrate them later on hopefully to have a nice tastey carbohydrate snack.. Welll thats the plan, they'll probably be eaten veryquickly, as all things that come from the new fangled gadget.


Nagual.
 

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