Food Dehydrators

[Chantal]

Tchibo have food dehydrators in their on-oline store for £26.

http://www.tchibo.co.uk/is-bin/INTERSHO ... KU=0000618

[Primrose]

Thanks for flagging this up Chantal. I've been eyeing these up at various agricultural shows over the past year but they've all been around the £90 mark and I've been asking myself how often I would use one and whether it would spend most of the year in a cupboard somewhere. Now I have the same dilemma but it would cost me £26, which would seem to make it an almost affordable white elephant !!! Seriously, does anybody else have one of these and if so, how often do you use it and what products do you dry in it. Has it been worth your kitchen cupboard space ?? I suspect I'd use it a lot for drying tomatoes. If anybody has used theirs for these, have effective is it? Thanks.

[peter]

Chantal, you little darling you, the OH has now bought my birthday present for next month.

I'll tell her when she wakes up tomorrow.

[Alison]

I was trawling through Google and came up with this!
http://www.thefarm.org/charities/i4at/surv/soldehyd.htm
Does anyone feel inclined to give it a try?!
Alison

[peter]

Oh memory lane.

Takes me back to helping my dad with his bees. Well quality checking the new honey by eating the cappings sliced from the comb. What I did not munch my way through had to be collected after the honey had drained away and go into Dad's Solar Wax melter and guess what?

https://secure.thorne.co.uk/cgi-bin/cgi ... =110569508 you can still get them and my memory, triggered by Alison's post was not far out.

[Primrose]

Alison - what a fascinating post! It reminded me of my time many years ago in the Girl Guides when I had to make a haybox for my Cooking badge. Maybe if we have another good summer I might be temped to get my husband to give it a try drying some tomatoes or apples, just to see how effective it is.

[Chantal]

Amazing but I think I'll stick to my Tchibo one. I too have one on order but as Tim's just bought me an EM composter for my birthday (he doesn't know what it is but he's agreed anyway) this latest one is on me.

One of my main reasons for wanting it is to be able to preserve fruit and veg without using sugar as my mother's diabetic and can't eat most of the preserves I make. I can't wait to give it a go.

[seedling]

I dont know what an EM composter is either. Do tell Chantal

Confused Seedling

[Chantal]

I was just looking on ebay and there's a woman (? Saxoqueen) who is selling Tchibo dehydrators for £69.99 plus £8 postage as a buy it now item. There's another one with bids standing at £30 with 8 days to go. She's even using the same TEXT to describe them, not to mention the photo.

Good money if you can make it...

[Tigger]

Thanks for this Chantal - I've ordered mine.