Reddit reviews Nesco FD-75PR Food Dehydrator

This is what we use. It's fairly quiet, but if it bothers you it can be operated on a back porch or other covered area such as a a garage.

http://www.amazon.com/Nesco-FD-75PR-700-Watt-Food-Dehydrator/dp/B000FFVJ3C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320859625&sr=8-1

This is the one I have. It was more than $20. I think I got it on sale for about 40 a couple of years ago. There are other cheaper ones on amazon right now too. I'm sure they're all pretty similar.

I have a nesco 700 watt which is really nice as it has a thermostat on it which some of the cheaper ones don't-- I love dehydrating stuff--

http://www.amazon.com/Nesco-FD-75PR-700-Watt-Food-Dehydrator/dp/B000FFVJ3C

Spend $60 once on a good quality Dehydrator and there after make your own jerky an many flavors at about 1/4 the price or less...

For example:

Ingredients

2 pounds beef round steak, cut into thin strips

1/4 cup soy sauce

2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

2 tablespoons liquid smoke

2 tablespoons brown sugar

2 teaspoons salt

1 teaspoon ground black pepper

1 teaspoon meat tenderizer

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1 teaspoon onion powder

1 teaspoon paprika


Directions

Place beef strips in the bottom of a large bowl. Pour soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, liquid smoke, brown sugar, salt, pepper, meat tenderizer, garlic powder, onion powder, and paprika over beef. Mix to assure all the meat is evenly coated. Cover and marinate in the refrigerator for 8 hours or overnight.

Remove meat from bowl and place between two pieces of plastic wrap; pound to 1/8-inch thickness.

Arrange the meat strips on the tray of a dehydrator and dry at your dehydrator's highest setting until done to your liking, at least 4 hours. Store in an airtight container or resealable bags.

Use a food dehydrator. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FFVJ3C/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
is what I have used for years now.

I bought this one for myself over a year ago. Cheapest, most basic basic model I found that had decent reviews. It works well and airflow is good but lacks a couple nice features: temperature control and fruit screens / fruit roll up trays.


So for my mom for Christmas I ended up getting her a slightly better model which has a temperature control dial and came with a screen tray, roll up tray, and a jerky gun.


The item you linked to looks great (better wattage than the 2nd Nesco dehydrator I linked to). I might be tempted to buy the slightly less powerful model with the extras for the same price. BUT the one you linked to has the TWO screens and roll up trays, and only lacks the jerky gun. So really I think either one would be a great choice.


The "musts" I would list for a dehydrator are 1) good air flow so you don't have to rotate trays a lot and 2) a temperature control.

EDIT: In regards to making jerky: if you are slicing the jerky from a cut of meat, you can do it raw. But if you're using ground beef or poultry, cooking it first is the safest way to go.

I have this model dehydrator, which is about $50. Works fine, I've made jerky, dehydrated fruits and veggies, powdered eggs, even entire dehydrated meals (spaghetti, chili, stews, etc.) with it.

You need one of these. It's really easy. You just cut the fruit into slices (usually thin ones) and put it in the machine to dry for a while. IMO it works best with bananas and pears.

This dehydrator from Nesco is the one I've had my eye on for a while. I think it's the one Angelo Coppola showed in his post with his wife's awesome jerky recipe here.

$52, free shipping: Nesco FD-75PR 700-Watt Food Dehydrator

I have this dehydrator and it is awesome, in fact, its actually drying some stuff as I write this lol.

The Nesco 75PR

http://www.amazon.com/Nesco-FD-75PR-700-Watt-Food-Dehydrator/dp/B000FFVJ3C

If you plan on doing more than a couple pounds at a time I recommend getting some extra trays. They are fairly inexpesnive.

I'm looking to buy a dehydrator. It appears you have the Nesco FD-75PR 700-Watt Food Dehydrator. Do you like it? What do other people have or like?

My buddy and I bought the Nesco FD-75PR 700-watt specifically for dehydrating meals for backpacking. We are currently prepping for 6 days on the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Anyways, definitely get a dehydrator and definitely experiment with seasoning because it will be a lot different than you are use to. From our first chili experiment with the dehydrator we found it was best to season when reconstituting the chili. Someone told me that most spices are fat soluble (could be completely wrong on this) so while we are reconstituting the chili we threw a pad of butter in. Get a dehydrator, you will love it and soon start dehydrating everything. If you go to the link posted above look into the freezerbag cooking. I have not used it but it seems nifty.

I bought this dehydrator after reading through several "which dehydrator should I buy" threads on reddit. I'm in Australia so I had to get a step down transformer (that's 2000w, you only need 800w to run the dehydrator).

The first thing I watched was Good Eats season 9, episode 03 - youtube linkie here. The recipe he uses can be modified pretty easily. I sort of cheat a little bit for my 'boutique' marinades; I use Nandos Peri-Peri marinade to make peri-peri jerky (just left it for 2 days in the fridge) and this weird terayki sauce I found in a korean store :P

For the super spicy one I used Alton's recipe and just added a bugger-ton of chilli. Really helps with keto, on nibble and you feel like drinking 600ml of water!

I don't have one, but at just $51, it might be a good option to look into. Thanks!