Hauture Food Dehydrator Machine, Digital Timer and Temperature Control, 5 Trays, for Jerky/Meat/Beef/Fruit/Vegetable, BPA Free

My first dehydrator. Would have appreciated a bit more information in the manual. Had to figure out how to set time and temp. on my own. In reading the reviews I thought additional trays were available for purchase through Amazon. Which I had no luck finding. All in all I have dehydrated fruits and enjoyed results. But originally purchased for Dog Treats and the temperature settings are preset and with very little information in manual either jump in increments lower than recommended ( U-Tube /Google) or high. So not a good novice buy. I am saving for Excalibur which comes with mesh trays and Manual.

My son loves dry fruits as snacks for years, I never thought about to get a food dehydrator to do my own until last month saw someone posted DIY dry mango slices on her Facebook.Here I am, this is bargain found, 5 shelves food dehydrator under 50 bucks, it is very easy to operate. I have this for over two weeks, have been doing dry mango slices, raisin, apple slices and banana chips with it, they all turned out better than what I had expected. My son can’t stop eating those snacks. They are more tasty and healthy than what I bought from the store, and of courses more cheaper.It is very easy to clean as well, I have not done any beef jerky and fish yet. Was afraid the smell remain in the machine, but one day, I will try beef jerky which is my husband ‘s favorite. And I will update how those turn out.

Our first and main purpose for the dryer is for herbs. All articles we've read say to use low temp and 1 to 4 hours drying time. This dryer took over 12 hours to get the herbs dry and we only had 2 trays of herbs. We're trying another batch to see if it is any better. So far, I'm not sure we're getting what we wanted.

I am making my first batch of dried fruit (blueberries and strawberries) right now. It smells delicious and I can't wait to try them. There was none of the odor mentioned in some other posts, even in the first 30 minutes, and it run extremely quietly. I am very pleased so far, and am looking forward to using this machine a lot for healthy food storage.

My daughter and I really like eat dried apple chips. But it not cheap, and the fresh apples are so cheap. I searched online to looked for how to make dried apples chips. I knew a kind of machine easy to make. So I bought this on amazon. For these days, I tried to make dried apple chips and banana chips. Really so easy!

Horribly cheap plastic product. Hot water will SEVERELY warp the trays beyond being useable again. Definitely do not put into a dishwasher, you have to hand wash every nook and cranny and it can take forever if you have dried any jerky. We threw ours away after a couple of uses since we were down to 2 good trays left. It’s just not convenient to wash sanitize. Find something that will let you wash it in the dishwasher.