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Dehydrators: the juiceproducer review

Let's look at dehydrators, a great way of making healthy snack foods at home, fruit, veggies, puree's, herbs, they'll all dry nicely in "lower than cooking temperatures" to preserve nature's all important nutrient and enzyme content. When you get your dehydrator and make your first snacks you can't fail to notice the vivid flavours and colours, beats the shop stuff any day!

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The L'equip 528dehydrator is a favourite of mine, I like it coz it's square, naturally it stays in a lot but what I mean is you get maximum square footage (12) in minimum tabletop space. Available in grey and white, full temperature control and the ability to stack more trays on top for more room...........................................................................................£ 129.00

The Hottop KN 128 is a simple neat stacking dehydrator with five smoked trays so you can peer in and have a look at your banana chips. At 350 mm in diameter it's a neat drying solution, low power consumption too so cheap to buy and run. Not as much drying room as the l'equips but a funky little unit................................................................................................£ 69.00

The Hottop KN128P is the drawer version of the machine above, as neatly made as its brother the stacker, the drawer machine features the same low power consumption and quiet fan unit to ensure even drying of your fruity booty, just try making your own fruity snacks and taste the power!..........................................................................................£ 69.00

The Stockli dehydrators are noticeablefor their nice deep trays, this allows for chunkier snacks and better air circulation through the unit, the unit comes with three trays as standard but can be expanded to 7 for more drying area. At 335 mm in diameter this dehydrator has the smallest footprint of all the machines, good for the smaller kitchen!.........................................................................................£ 89.00

The Stockli featuring an integral 12 hour timer, this is a great feature as the Stockli machine features internal baffles whipping the hot hair into a crazy swirling dervish that can reduce drying times over conventional units. Stockli dehydrators also come with a time indicator on the lid to remind you when your fruity payload went in. This machine is a well thought out thing...............................................................£ 99.00

The Excaliber dehydrator is a seriously well made thing, the 5 drawers offer a massive drying area and the machine is very well made, worth noting is the fan/heater unit being in the end, not on the bottom as per most machines, for sure this gives more even drying. Does dehydrating get any better....£ 189.00 Available in black or white

The Excaliber 9 drawer machine is the dryest peak, loads of room, excellent build quality the kind of machine that you buy once and enjoy for life, make no mistake these are chunkymachines with a 483mm x 432mm footprint and all up weight of 10 kgs, chunky!......................................................................£ 239.00 Available in black or white

top banana here is a banana split, the l'equip is great value, the excaliber range are just the best of the best!

All dehydrators are united by the same fact, they are nice simple machines that are quiet, clean and easy to operate. For a lively energizingdiet it is essential to preserve nutrient content of your food, not cook it or boil it to oblivion. A home dehydrator is a great piece of kit for preserving food and making snacks all year round! Your own sun dried tomatoes in january??? well nearly! read more

My personal recommendation is to go for a stacker type dehydrator such as the L'equip 528 as they are easier to strip down and clean AND you can buy more shelves to give you more drying area!

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