Food Dehydrator helps to dry fresh raw food in the home. Excalibur food dehydrator is one of the many models available in the market today.

How food are dried?

The heating element is either at the side or at the bottom.  The air is either blown from the bottom or horizontally from the heater on the side.

Different types of food may take different time to dry. Some may take hours, some may take days. You can make fresh pasta and then dry them for storage in airtight containers. When you need to use it, just rehydrate it in water for a few minutes. You can store many food items using the machine.

Excalibur Food Dehydrator

There are many uses for this machine. It can be used as:

• dehydrate food for preservation
• make bread crumbs
• act a a humidifier
• act as a air freshener
• dry ingredients such as potato peels for use as fertilizer in gardening
• kitchen drye

The Excalibur model comes in trays which is easy to put the items in and air flows horizontally.