I have been working on preserving a whole bunch of apricots that we picked off Kyle’s mom’s tree (around 150lbs worth), and in addition to canning and freezing the apricots I dried to dehydrate some as well. But the dehydrator that I had just wasn’t doing the job. It was an old dehydrator that we got from Kyle’s Nana years ago. It has a heating element at the bottom, but no fan and there are no switches on it, it’s just either plugged in and on or it’s not. But since it didn’t have a fan to blow the heat around, and since the heating element was at the bottom, only the bottom tray of fruit was having any changes. I had it on for about a day and a half and none of the apricots were anywhere near done, so I decided that we just needed to get a nice new dehydrator. And since I was going to go out and spend money on one, I wanted one with a fan AND temperature controls. This is what I got:
Nice huh? It came with 4 trays, and one fruit roll sheet for making jerky or fruit leather. I already had one fruit roll sheet that went with the other dehydrator but it fits in this one too, so I can make two fruit leathers at a time. This dehydrator works SO much better than the other one we had, and it’s lots faster. I just love it! 🙂