Knowing the advantages of creating your own home-dried foods will certainly make you eager to prepare your own homemade snacks. You will have more control about what you eat and it will definitely be preservatives-free. If you just start thinking about making dried snacks for travel or simply for daily occasions try L’Equip 306200 500-Watt 6-Tray Food Dehydrator to do the drying work. You will find how this unit offers many features which can only be found in more expensive models; it has over 24 square feet of drying space and you can stack up to 20 trays with this dehydrator. You won’t be hassled with rotating the trays to get the food dried evenly and uniformly because it has solid state variable temperature control that will assure precise results. The micro-processor controlled heat sensor allows stable drying environment, and the design of this unit is easy both to clean and use.
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L’Equip 306200 comes with instruction book, expansion and solid construction, you will notice how firm the trays are and each of them is outfitted with a removable fine mesh to prevent smaller items fall through other trays. The motor is reasonably quiet and it works fine drying the food without cooking it so the nutrients and flavor of the food will be well preserved. You will love its rectangular unit as it will fit nicely on a shelf without consuming much room when not in use. The size is just about a smaller microwave, and you don’t have to buy a lot of extra accessories if you wish to dry a lot of food with the unit. But if you wish to dry ‘more than a lot like for a much bigger family, extra trays are also available to purchase on Pleasanthillgrain.com. (I cant find the item on Amazon.)
Compared to the models of American Harvest, which mostly round like the Nesco FD-75PR, FD-61, or FD-61WHC, you may think that L’Equip 306200 is expensive. But actually, if you add all the mesh sheets, fruit leather trays, and 2 extra stacking trays to the American Harvest, the price of both brands are actually quite similar, another perks is that your purchase has included a 12-year warranty. The dimensions already give plenty of space to dry many fruits and vegetables so you need no extras with this unit. You can dry apples, pineapple, coconut, also bananas on this dehydrator for 6 to 10 hours and they will come out great.
I would recommend this item as the second option after the Excalibur 3900, especially because this one is quieter, heats only the trays you are using, and has less expensive price. People would opt for LEquipe for those reasons as well, click here for reviews of Excalibur 3900.
You will not have problem to use the unit as the directions is easy to understand, basically you only need to load the trays of the dehydrator, stack them up and turn the machine on. As for cleaning, you can simply rinse the removable trays and tray liners in the sink, dry them and have them ready for the next use. If you have a question regarding the product, you can call the customer service who knows a lot about the unit and get sufficient information from them.
There are few things which if owned by this unit, it will become a great machine for drying foods. First, the fan has no variable speed and no variable temperature. When foods go in, they push out a lot of moisture which can condense on the top and eventually pushes all them out. If the fan speed could be managed, it would make the process goes faster. Sometimes you may need to lift the top a few times at the beginning, wipe down the moisture and let it vent. This will aid the drying time as it eliminates a fair amount of water, since there is no controllable air flow to help the process. Second, it would be nicer if the racks are a bit taller as it could be handy in dehydrating things like large strawberries or other items that don’t fit as well.
Although rotating the racks is actually not necessary, one user recommended me to do so within a few hours because the food on the bottom dries out quicker than the one on the top. The food on the tray could be moved around part way through, especially the ones at the edges as they are a bit slower to dry out. The airflow is a bit less at the perimeter and corners, so you need to run the machine longer for those parts to make about 10% of the food evenly dried. This way, your food will dry more uniformly and you can cut your drying time considerably.
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