Dehydrator recommendations

[troutfisher13111]

Can anyone recommend a good dehydrator for around $200? I’d like to be able to do up to 5lbs of venison at once. Thanks


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[See_Bennie_Point]

I have the Cabela's brand 10 tray dehydrator and it has done the job every time so far.

 

[beachbunny]

i have always liked my excalibur 9 tray, air flows straight across instead of up

 

[wmr89]

meatyourmaker.com has a 25% off sale right now. Their 10 tray is $210 with the sale. I have the six tray and it is only $100 with the sale. The 6 tray works great for me.

 

[rclouse79]

I have been super impressed with the LEM big bite, which is just above your price range. It is all metal with no plastic parts to get brittle over time. I just got four pounds of finished deer jerky and only used 8 of the 10 trays.

 

[MTPipeliner]

I’ve got the avantco 10 tray. All metal, super quiet fan, just put about 12.5 pounds of ground jerky on it tonight. Takes 9-10 hours for a full load to be done.

I also have several of the nesco round shaped dehydrators, they’re not as nice but I picked them up a yard sales for a good price, they’ve been going strong for 10+ years.

 

[Tradchef]

Excalibur

 

[tdot]

Another vote for Excalibur. Size it to your budget.

 

[WI in the west]

I have had good luck the past two years with my cabelas 10 tray to. Had enough poibts to buy it but id guess i can get maybe 7-8lbs of jerky in it at 1/4 slices about. If i start it at 6 am ish its probably all done between 1-4pm roughly. Also does good at back packing meals like chillinor ground meat to add to ramen. Im happy

 

[WallySegap]

We have an L’Equip and it’s worked well. It has the fan on the bottom so you do need to rotate the stackable trays.

 

[SWOHTR]

i have always liked my excalibur 9 tray, air flows straight across instead of up

Second for this one. We use ours all the time, lately for doing a lot of fruit. Works well for whatever you may need.

 

[HiMtnHntr]

I just got the Meat! 10-tray. One round done with it and I'm super impressed.

 

[V2Pnutrition]

I'll throw my hat in the ring for the Meat! version. I picked up the 5-tray and have been super impressed with it. I also have a cheap Ronco that I picked up several years ago and have nothing bad to say about it either.

 

[AdamLewis]

The Nesco FD-1018A has always worked well for me. It does 1000 watts and you can expand the trays up to something like 30 if you end up wanting more space.

 

[Stalker69]

Has any one tried any of the new air fryers for dehydrating, I see they have that option ? Looking at a breville unit, and notice they have it, but have not heard of anyone using it.

 

[SDChungus]

Wife bought a LEM 10 tray. 150 degree temp and did both ground and strip jerky this year. Worked great. $200 from Scheels. Im guessing 5-6 lbs of strip or 10 lbs of ground is what it can fit. Rotate trays every few hours as seems center gets done a little quicker. Food for thought (pun intended )