Forced air food dyhydrator?

Michael L Kankiewicz said:

I have a cheap food dehydrator (ronco) that works ok. Drying is very
uneven depending on the location of the food. I have to turn the trays
and switch them around several times though a drying cycle.

I have seem some dehydrators advertised with "forced air", where a fan
circulates the warm air. They claim the results are more even with no
need to be switching around trays. Does anyone know if these really wotk
better? I think the one I saw was American Harvester.

Thanks,
MK

I've never used a Ronco to compare it with, but I have a American
Harvester (Nesco) FD-50 and my brother has a 9-tray Excalibur, and they
both work great.

Bob

Michael L Kankiewicz said:

I have a cheap food dehydrator (ronco) that works ok. Drying is very
uneven depending on the location of the food. I have to turn the trays
and switch them around several times though a drying cycle.

I've had a Mr. Coffee dehydrator for years. It worked just fine upto
the last couple of years. I'm now going to buy the dehydrator trays for
my stove and use that instead.

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I have seem some dehydrators advertised with "forced air", where a fan
circulates the warm air. They claim the results are more even with no
need to be switching around trays. Does anyone know if these really wotk
better? I think the one I saw was American Harvester.

Thanks,
MK

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Michael L Kankiewicz said:

I have a cheap food dehydrator (ronco) that works ok. Drying is very
uneven depending on the location of the food. I have to turn the trays
and switch them around several times though a drying cycle.

I have seem some dehydrators advertised with "forced air", where a fan
circulates the warm air. They claim the results are more even with no
need to be switching around trays. Does anyone know if these really wotk
better? I think the one I saw was American Harvester.

Thanks,
MK

I've never used a Ronco to compare it with, but I have a American
Harvester (Nesco) FD-50 and my brother has a 9-tray Excalibur, and they
both work great.

Bob

I have an Excalibur and it works great. I dry many things in and even make
yogurt from time to time. My mom has the American Harvester and I use to
borrow it before I bought my own and it worked great too.

Lynne

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Quoted message said:

I have a cheap food dehydrator (ronco) that works ok. Drying is very
uneven depending on the location of the food. I have to turn the trays
and switch them around several times though a drying cycle.

I have seem some dehydrators advertised with "forced air", where a fan
circulates the warm air. They claim the results are more even with no
need to be switching around trays. Does anyone know if these really wotk
better? I think the one I saw was American Harvester.

Thanks,
MK

The excalibur is great. But get the one with the timer.

Michael L Kankiewicz said:

I have seem some dehydrators advertised with "forced air", where a fan
circulates the warm air. They claim the results are more even with no
need to be switching around trays. Does anyone know if these really wotk
better? I think the one I saw was American Harvester.

I've had the Ronco and an off-brand fan powered dehydrator. They
both worked the same. The forced air version, there really wasn't
a lot of circulation except for around the edges, where everything
dried too quickly. I usually load them to almost capacity, too,
and only using for beef jerky. So that probably cut down on even
circulation.

-sw