[at-l] maildrops - Dehydrator Recommendations?

[lwbooher@halifax.com (Leslie Booher)]

I'm back!  It would seem that the topic is dehydrators.  We bought a
Farberware Convection oven 19 years ago, and we use it every day.  It
dehydrates like a champ.  Damp tennis shoes?  Pop them in the convection
oven with no heat.  Thanksgiving turkey?  Cinch!  Roast beef?  Divine.
Literally, we use it for something every day.  It's been a wonderful
investment.  If you have a little money to spend, I highly recommend a
convection oven.  I'm not sure that the ones that come as part of a
microwave are as versatile.  anklebear

----- Original Message -----
From: kahley <kahley7@ptd.net>
To: Ed Williams <edwilliams@plangraphics.com>; <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 9:39 AM
Subject: RE: [at-l] maildrops - Dehydrator Recommendations?


> At 10:56 PM 9/28/01 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >Any recommendations for a good dehydrator at a reasonable price?
>
> American Harvest Snackmaster Dehydrator
>
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?cat=4064&product_id=1120727&path=
> 0:4044:4064:55320:4815&dept=4044
> or go to http://www.walmart.com/ and enter snackmaster.
> My first dehydrator didn't have a fan...BIG MISTAKE.  You can manage
> without a thermostat if
> necessary but the fan is really a big plus.   This isn't the unit I have
> but it will be the next one
> I buy because I like the idea of the top mounted fan.  My unit has the fan
> on the bottom which
> makes is subject to getting food in the fan mechanism.
> Dehydrators show up in thrift stores in remarkably good shape!  It seems
> that folks get them
> as presents and never use them.  My fanless unit cost me 5 bucks about 15
> years ago.  My
> current one cost 10 about seven years ago.
>
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