Are the Excalibur Food Dehydrators the best? If so, which version?

[MaureeninMaine]

Looking for a recommendation on your favorite dehydrator and why.

[Bradybb]

I remember some earlier discussions about them.Here are a couple.

Shopping for a fruit dehydrator

Time for me to buy a dehydrator/fruit dryer. Just doing some general google/amazon searches makes it a bit scary. I’ve seen a thousand different model ranging from $14.99 to $499 !!! I’d really like to hear from you folks who have a particular model that you are happy with. I won’t be doing a lot of dehydrating at all so even the smallest ones would probably work. I don’t need anything of commercial quality or size. This being my first ever experience with dehydrating, I’d like to start wi…

Recommend me a dehydrator

I am looking into getting a dehydrator to dry stone and pomme fruit. Which dyhedrator do you have? How do you like it? Any recommendations for a particular model or other information about the process? Thanks!

Mine is an inexpensive Nesco,that works okay.

[MaureeninMaine]

I saw the 2015 one but figured there must be newer info out there. Thank you for finding the, though!

[franc1969]

I have had an Excalibur dehydrator for many years, I think it is 3900B. Temp control, no timer, 9 trays. This might be the cheapest model now, I would get the same again as I don’t need the timer or clear door. If you do very wet foods and set dehydrator on an uneven surface, you’ll get water dripping from one corner. The fan pulls out water quickly which won’t vent properly if uneven. Also loud as /$&#, it’s like a hair dryer on for a day. Still the best thing ever, fruits and herbs dry fast and then can store a long time, just keep away from your sleeping area for sanity. I also have teflon liners I use for fruit leathers or very sticky stuff. You can get liners from somewhere like HomeGoods or TJMaxx very inexpensively. I think those are sold for cookie sheets, I am not sure if those for oven floor liner are direct contact food safe, probably.