Ivation 10 Tray Food Dehydrator, 1000W, Stainless Steel

I can't believe how nice this is. I went through a lot of listings for other brands and was very worried about the amount of plastic in the so called "high end" models. I went with this model because it was all stainless steel (and had the best reviews). The Ivation dehydrator (I got the 10 tray model) looks and feels like it was twice the cost. Everything about it is so well made, I was very impressed when taking it out of the box and it looks so good I don't mind leaving it out all the time (which is good because it is big!). There are a few features that I would have considered paying more for, if they were available as options. Being able to accurately set the temperature instead of the "9 degree" increments would have been nice. I'm new to dehydrating and if the recipe says 135 degrees, I would feel better setting it to the exact temperature instead of deciding to go higher or lower. I wish you could turn the beeping sound down or off, as it is a little loud. I would also have liked to purchase more of the fruit leather trays, as it only came with one. I haven't seen that as an option, though. But those aren't deal breakers for me. I would much rather have a high quality product at a very reasonable price and trade off a few features that aren't very important to me anyways. One other important feature for me besides the materials used to construct it is the size. And this thing is huge! I plan on gardening this year and I really want to dehydrate a lot of the harvest. Right now I have about 6 pounds of apples drying (sliced at about 3/16 of an inch). This would have taken days to get through the oven or a small dehydrator. I don't have an oven thermometer so I can't check the accuracy of the temperature setting. I am curious and will try to remember to update when I get one and check it out. Overall, really thrilled with this purchase!

Great product. I have every confidence in it. Very happy with it. User notes: The dehydrator comes with one plastic sheet that overlays the stainless steel tray. And it's fine but what if you have more than one tray requiring that kind of plastic sheet. For the fruits and veggies and the cookies and such that I dehydrate I found a 6 pack of Silicon sheets - an example of part of one is shown in the picture here. They are fantastic. Theyadded about $20 to the cost (from a different supplier) but a great product that works beautifully with this elegant machine. If I'm dehydrating apples or bananas, for example, I don't want the fruit on the stainless steel grid directly and these silicon sheets - which you will see are porous if you can make the picture bigger - are wonderful: easy to clean and they don't stain and they allow the air to move through the product being dehydrated. I think the stainless steel racks might be more difficult and time consuming to clean it in direct touch with the food items. I also purchased some Teflon sheets, a 9 pack, and these were non-porous if you're making stuff that is a little runny ... like fruit leathers. Don't be alarmed if they stain. I don't know why. It was a little disappointing at first to see these new and reusable sheets getting stained but this doesn't take away from how well they function to keep drops from dripping from the food tray. I don't use them too often because of the items that I mostly dehydrate. But overall I couldn't be happier with this product. It really is simple to use and fast to set up each new series of trays with its simple controls. I enjoyed a previous dehydrator, cheaper, round plastic thing. It worked okay. And I set up my daughter with the top brand name in consumer dehydrators ... And value wise this is the best machine out of all of them. It is professional grade and I'm betting it could stand up to commercial production levels if I wanted to produce a bunch of product to sell. The air flow seems to be fine. The timing send to be fine. The temperature that I work with is the 113 degrees F since I don't want to go over 118 degrees and while I haven't tested it I am sure that it is properly registering within a degree or two. Perfect for my needs. Okay, for those of you who need it: this machine looks great. Perfect for my industrial style kitchen. It looks like a mini oven. And certainly makes the kitchen look very cool. I didn't buy it for that reason but everyone who sees it is totally impressed. It's big, books, and beautiful. And it works great.

Funciona a la perfección, excelente calidad de los materiales, es bastante grande si vas a comprarlo, primero piensa en donde lo vas a poner, es muy fácil de usar.

We've used this only a couple of times thus far. Ours has no rattles, only less-than-moderate fan noise, but enough that I'm glad we can keep it in the garage. Trays fit snuggly and clean easily. Love the basic time and temp control system. We've only done our orchard's apples so far, and they leave virtually no residuals. April 2020 update: this continues to be a very nice unit that we're quite pleased with. Recently used some grass-fed beef (which does not make great burgers btw, perhaps because it's too lean) and a "Judge" jerky gun to make some jerky, which we've never done before. Great!

Tenía un pequeño golpe en la carcasa que no afecta su función….