Food dehydrator

mawk

hey guys, i mentioned in a thread here the other day that I was building a dehydrator. So i decided id stick up a guide for anyone interested.

here she is in her minimalist glory:







First I took a tough plastic box with a hinged lid, and hole saw'd two holes for the fans.



then I soldered up two computer fans to a power supply and glued them to the outside of the case



the side opposite to the fans I drilled a whole loada holes in the wall



after that I glued a layer of aluminium foil inside the box











and added a lightbulb through the lid of the box in a ceiling fixture




once all the parts were together I simply added in a tray and started dehydrating

deandean

Nice!

What type of stuff have you processed so far?

mawk

the herbs on the picture are the first thing to go in that dehydrator. only made it over the weekend.

but i had one made before that i made a bunch of jerky and fruit with

Doc Ruby

Awesome.

krissovo

Cool, can you seriously make jerky in this?

When I get back to Ireland I am so building one of these and making dried mango

mawk

woo, my first batch of dried, chopped, mixed herbs. perfect for any kitchen

mawk

krissovo wrote: »

Cool, can you seriously make jerky in this?

When I get back to Ireland I am so building one of these and making dried mango

batch 3 of jerky just gone on. takes about 12hrs a batch.
made some biltong too which took a bit longer, maybe 18hrs but was damn tasty