Love love LOVE my excalibur. Got it toward the end of March of this year. The first thing I dried was a puree from most of my remaining winter squash from ‘11. Hubby buys clearance veggies now and we dry those along with garden produce. Just last week he found mushrooms on sale and I filled the entire dehydrator with them. I put up 40lbs of vidalia onions like that. Dried them about 50% longer than the recommend time and they’re just like funyons. I’ve had to hide them from my oldest. We found pineapples on sale that were overripe already. Those were GOOOOOOD dried.
I’ve been especially happy with the tomatoes though. They’re still just as red and pretty when they’re dry as they were when I picked them. My previous cheapie dehydrator invariably ‘cooked’ them to a nice brownish red that wasn’t very appealing.
In my experience the cheapie dehydrators are a waste of time and money.
Second that...spend the money, folks...it's worth it.
Holy cow ... that sounds so good! I have to travel to Sam's pretty soon and will pick up a couple of big bags of onions to try that. Maybe sprinkle them with a little Tony's seasoning before I start the Excalibur.
Dried pineapple is one of my favs. That and jerky. We can't keep jerky around in a SHTF stash ... we always end up eating it. It is tough to get my granddaughters to eat their meat, yet they will devour 1/2 lb. of deer jerky in an afternoon!