food dehydrators does anybody out there have one of those food dehydrators i ve been seeing all over late night tv recently i was wondering if they use forced air hea or both if there s heat involved anybody know what temperature they run at my wife would like one and i m not inclined to pay for a box a fan and a heater seems to me you should be able to throw a dehydrator together for just a few bucks heck the technology is only what years old you can learn how to build a deyhdrator very easily from the book the hungry hiker s guide to good food by gretchen mchugh the heat source is a watt light bulb basically it s a vertical wooden box with ventilation holes in the top and bottom lots of them you want the air to flow the light bulb goes in the bottom and wire cake racks are spaced every starting about above the bulb or at a slightly higher cost in electricity you can do what i do use your oven note i do this in an electric oven some gas ovens may not have a low enough setting put food to be dried on cookie tins or racks in the oven set oven to degrees the lowest setting on my oven if yours goes down to that s probably even better stick a wooden spoon or something across the front corner of the oven and close the door on the spoon so that it stays open about an inch this allows for airflow leave the stuff in the oven for to hours check it often since this dries it much faster than the dehydrator if you are using cookie sheets instead of racks turn the stuff over halfway through if you want more info e mail me since this isn t really the right sub for this stuff gerald belton ozonehole com slmr i still miss my boss but my aim is improving the ozone hole bbs a private bulletin board service full service nodes usrobotics k bps gigs files skydive new orleans rime network mail hub usenet newsgroups please route all questions or inquiries to postmaster ozonehole com
