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Excalibur 2500 5-tray Food Dehydrator, Jerky Maker - Black by Jerky Makers Price: $153.95 Updated on 3-5-2010. 
Product Description
Excalibur ® offers the Turbo Charged ParallexxTM Drying System. Millions have rediscovered the benefits of food dehydration. Healthy, nutritious, and tasty food at a huge savings.
Now Excalibur makes drying easy. For centuries food has been dried in the sun or open air - a lengthy, messy and difficult process inviting contamination and spoilage. With the introduction of electric dehydrators the drying process was improved. But most manufacturers offered round stackable models with a heating unit in the bottom. Excalibur pioneered a rear-mounted equipment package allowing horizontal or parallel air flow; The Parallexx SystemTM.
The Model 2500 is the compact, counter size model. Yet, with 8 square feet of drying area, it is large enough for quantity drying.
For use with: Fruits, Vegetables, Fruit Leathers, Jerky, Fish, Raising Breads, Herbs, Yogurt, Cheese, Recrisping crackers, even drying photographs
Included are 2 Paraflexx Premium Non-stick sheets so you can make fruit leathers and flax crackers.
Almost unbreakable and FDA approved polycarbonate trays. Excalibur trays are dishwasher safe.
Very fast drying times (no tray rotation needed)
Reader Reviews Recently I decided that I want to go raw foods. Then, it only seems natural that I should get a dehydrator: storing health foods for longer time, have them out of season, and of course quick healthy snacks. If you are into juicing, drying the pulp is a delicious treat! Besides, it only takes a couple of hours to do it - most liquid is already out. I chose Excalibur because most people recommended it for making living dried foods. Sure, there are newer technologies out there, but why should I pay more for something I don't need when Excalibur works great? Besides, this one (all Excalibur series, actually) has a unique feature: the fan(s) is at the back, not at the bottom - this means that the heat is the same on every tray. The rest of dehydrators - having the fan down - makes the heat go up, so the highest tray dries first, etc. For this reason, people need to rotate trays. Not with Excalibur! The heat is the same for every tray! You can get a model with a turn-off timer, but that costs $40 or so. Instead, I went for a timer device, which is much cheaper (the type you use for bulbs while you are in vacation). I would suggest getting a thermometer if you are into raw foods and want to dry it faster: the technique is to use (almost) highest temperature setting until inside air temperature gets there, then lower it to 105-115 until food dries completely. The thermometer helps you know when the first stage is done. This model with 5 trays offers a generous 8 square feet drying surface - this is because you don't need dedicated holes in the trays to allow for extra air circulation. Other dehydrators with the fan at the bottom do need them, using some space which could have otherwise been dedicated to drying.
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