"Bruce" wrote in message ...

On Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:50:53 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"Bruce" > wrote in message
.. .
>> On Sun, 10 Sep 2017 07:40:29 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>
>>>For a first time try at dehydrating, I would advise him to do it
>>>with his oven. It's very easy to do. If he likes the results and
>>>decides to do it often then I would go for a dehydrator. I
>>>occasionally dehydrate some vegetables but not often enough to
>>>warrant paying for a separate appliance.
>>
>> There are cheap dehydrators available, but I don't know how good they
>> are and how long you have to let them run.
>
>I had the Nesco. It was fine except that it was small and if you were doing
>a lot of stuff, you needed a lot of extra trays. The Excalibur is the one
>everyone really wants because it is so very huge! But... You do have to
>have
>a lot of room in your kitchen or wherever you use it. It is best for
>someone
>with a large garden, who makes a lot of jerky or needs a lot of stuff for
>camping. For one snack food, the small one is fine, perhaps plus a couple
>of
>extra trays. Should come with a booklet of suggested time and temps to use.
>But it's more a matter of trial and error. Pretty easy to tell when
>something is fully dehydrated and it's not like cooking. Can't really
>overdehydrate something unless perhaps you are doing a raw recipe like
>onion
>bread where you might want it soft.

Yes, the 9 tray version is a big box. We don't keep it in the kitchen
for that reason.

I want to find more uses for it. I also dried apple and banana. The
result was interesting, but not really better than a fresh apple or
banana, if you ask me.

==

The time to use it is when you have a glut of something ... in your case,
apples.



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