I dont often make product recommendations, but I want to discuss food dehydrators. I occasionally recommend that my friends and family lay in food supplies. If you want to survive any crisis that interrupts food supplies, you need to have food and water in your home that will feed you and your household for weeks or months. Right now, I am dehydrating apples. Lots and lots and lots of apples As I write there are thousands, or tens of thousands or more, people trapped in their homes, due to lake effect snow. Right here in America. In the Buffalo, New York area. A food crisis could be from other reasons. Hurricane, earthquake, etc. here, in California we are prone to earthquakes. Keeping your pantry stocked could be the difference between life and death. So having canned goods, dried foods, like rice, beans, pasta, legumes, dehydrated foods and of course, water, will keep you and your loved ones alive. Before I married (over 30 years ago) I bought a dehydrator. It was the old style classic round dehydrator. I gave it moderate use for 3-4 years before it seized up. It never worked again. It was many years later, when I was in Bass Pro Shops, when I saw another dehydrator, on an end display, on sale. Another round dehydrator. I bought it, thinking I would get another 3-4 years out of it. I was wrong. This one will last much longer. Maybe a lifetime. The old dehydrator had a major design flaw. The heating and fan element were on the bottom of the unit. It blew warm air up from the bottom. But when I was loading that dehydrator with food, the liquid from the fruit, and from my hands dripped down into the electrical elements. It was those sticky juices that caused the elements in the unit to seize. My new unit has the heating and fan elements in the lid. It blows warm air down from above. Juices still drip down. But they land in the bottom tray, which I can wash in the sink or run through the dishwasher. No juices ever get into the elements, because they are in the lid, not the base. Please look at the dehydrator that I have linked. When looking for one for yourself, look for one with the heating and fan elements in the lid. I have dehydrated hundreds of pounds of fruits and veggies in mine. And now they weigh dozens of pounds, are crispy dry and will last for years, not weeks. They can be rehydrated in water, and still be delicious, nutritious, and preserve life. I bring this up because I was looking at adding a second dehydrator to my supplies, and I see that most dehydrators still have the heating and fan elements in the base. I thought that the manufacturers had wised up and redesigned the basic cheapie dehydrator. They are a different kind of smart. If they design a dehydrator to fail after a few years, they sell more dehydrators. Be a smart consumer. Get one that is designed to last a lifetime, with the elements in the lid. This is the dehydrator I have. t.basspro/Open-Country-7Tray-Food-Dehydrator/product/97756/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fgoogle%2F
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 05:28:40 +0000
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