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Recommendation for a food dehydrator

  • 15-02-2022 8:41am
    #1
    RainInSummer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,045 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    Just wondering has any one any great experience of food dehydrators.

    Thinking to pick one up at the €250 mark.

    Seems to be lots of info if you're the survivalist prepper type, but not much if you're just fond of your stomach.

    Ideally I'd be looking for something quiet that will last years. Seems to be a big variation in quality and material out there.

    I'd be using it to dehydrate garden produce and some meats.

    Cheers.



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  • #2
    Slightly Kwackers
    Registered Users Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Slightly Kwackers


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058233055/recommendation-for-a-food-dehydrator

    Did you get a dehydrator?

    I was going to post the same question.

    I tried air drying last year and got quite a lot of mould. Irish summers, even baking hot ones are not totally free of moisture.


    SK



  • #3
    RainInSummer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,045 ✭✭✭RainInSummer


    No. Never got one in the end. Ireland is just a bit too humid for air drying I think.

    Kind of went off the idea eventually.



  • #4
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,797 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    i know a chap that has one, works very well for him, he does a lot of long distant walking, so needs his veg dehydrated, must ask him about his unit....



  • #5
    RainInSummer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,045 ✭✭✭RainInSummer


    Cheers!



  • #6
    Slightly Kwackers
    Registered Users Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Slightly Kwackers


    Thanks!

    I was wondering if it would be cost effective, probably not.

    I cooked and froze last years tomatoes, they filled my freezer though and despite being a major component in every frozen "meal", I ran out several months back.

    At around a euro for a half dozen though, it pains me to buy stuff that I gave away last year.


    As for the courgettes, I couldn't give those away :-(

    Thanks for the input anyway.



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