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Nesco American Harvest FD-75PR 700-Watt Food Dehydrator | 
 enlarge | Brand: Nesco
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $79.99
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Rating:  103 reviews
Color: Gray
Shipping Weight (lbs): 8.8
Dimensions (in): 13 x 10 x 13
MPN: FD-75PR
Model: FD-75PR
UPC: 029517641124
EAN: 0029517750024
Release Date: June 1, 2006
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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 700-watt 5-tray food dehydrator dries in hours instead of days | | • | Top-mounted fan; adjustable thermostat from 95 to 160 degrees F | | • | Flavors don't mix; no need to rotate trays; opaque exterior blocks harmful lights | | • | Includes recipe book, 2 solid sheets, 2 mesh sheets, and 3 jerky spice packets | | • | Measures approximately 13 by 13 by 10 inches |
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Product Description
The NESCO Professional Food & Jerky Dehydrator has more power than most dehydrators -- 700 watts -- which means faster drying time. You will have results in hours, not days. The top mounted fan with patented Converga-Flow action pressurizes air downward through the outer ring and horizontally across each individual tray, converging at the center, for fast, even drying. No need to rotate trays. The adjustable thermostat allows you to dry different foods at proper temperatures (95-155 F), providing the flexibility to produce the best drying results. As your needs grow, the Professional Food & Jerky Dehydrator can be expanded up to 12 trays.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 98 more reviews...
 Nesco FD-75PR 700 Watt Food Dehydrator November 24, 2008
Kathy Flaherty
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this dryer a couple of months ago and am very pleased with the performance of this product. You may want to purchase more of the screens Nesco American Harvest Clean-A-Screen Tray as it only comes with 2 and there are 5 trays. These help prevent dried foods that have shrunken from falling through the grates of the trays. They are also needed for fruit leathers.
The book that comes with the dryer is good for a starter but not detailed enough. For instance, if you are wanting to dry fruit for storage the best pretreatment is a sulfite dip rather than ascorbic acid or honey. Sulfites are not recommended for people with asthma. Pretreating with an acidic solution or sodium metabisulfite, sodium sulfite or sodium bisulfite (USP or Reagant grade) helps keep light colored fruits from darkening during drying and storage, helps speed the drying process of certain fruits and enhances the destruction of harmful bacteria during drying.
The book does not provide very much detail on blanching vegetables, which is necessary to destroy enzymes in the tissues and also enhances the destruction of harmful bacteria. Different vegetables have different blanching times and over or under blanching may have an undesirable result as far as loss of color and flavor during drying or storage.
The book has many recipes and includes recipes for pet treats, drying crafts, dough ornaments and potpourri.
More information on drying fruits, fruit leathers, vegetables, jerkies as well as info on food storage can be found online at the National Center for Home Food Preservation.
A good dryer is a handy tool to have if you grow veggies and fuits and like to have storage of your own creations to enjoy later.
Or make healthy snacks and foods without corn syrup.
The things you will like about the dryer are the size, variable temperature settings, the dryer is on top, very easy to handle and clean and not too noisy. Like others have said, it would be nice to have an on/off switch and a timer.
 Great value for money, perfect for home use November 23, 2008
J. Coffey (Fremont, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After some research, I settled on this model as the best combination of size, flexibility and price. I'm glad I did -- this little powerhouse has been doing a great job since day one. I've made raw cookies, sprouted granola, fresh fig leather and all kinds of fruit and veggie chips with it. I haven't made jerky yet, but I'm glad that the variable temp gives me the option to do so in the future.
Pros:
- Has large capacity without taking up excessive counter space.
- Variable temp lets you dry delicate foods without harming nutrients.
- Stackable trays customize the size of your dehydrator - you don't waste power drying empty space.
- Dries contents fairly evenly from top to bottom of tray stack. I only rotate trays once during drying, if at all.
Cons:
- Trays can be tricky to clean unless your sink is large.
- Doesn't have an on/off switch or timer. These aren't deal-breakers to me because drying fruit is not a precision art.
- The top (where the heater/fan is located) is awkward to set aside when you want to rearrange the drying contents. It doesn't rest flat.
Overall, I'd recommend this model highly to anyone who wants a good, all-purpose dehydrator at a reasonable price.
Exactly what I was looking for November 16, 2008
Dugan Annie (Pocatello, ID USA)
This is what we were looking for. With the fan it dries so much faster than the older styles. We also purchased some extra trays to do more at one time. The only thing I can see to improve would be an on/off switch on the lid with the heat controls. Don't like having to unplug from the wall to check the progress of the food.
Makes good Jerky November 16, 2008
R. Dangel (needham, ma)
Very good Jerky maker. Trays are hard to clean but there's no getting around that with any dehydrator. I noticed that the meat closest to the motor dries quicker than the ones at the bottom so you will have to rotate the trays.
The motor on the top is a better design than the models with the motor on the bottom. That way there will be no liquid dripping into the motor and destroying it.
Runs very quiet.
Everyone's getting jerky for Christmas! November 15, 2008
B. Godwin (New River Valley, Virginia)
I bought this for one reason only...JERKY. So far I have no complaints with its design or any other functionality. Other reviewers have noted that it's missing a timer and an on/off switch which is true but to me it means that there's just less that could go wrong with it, and who doesn't have a timer on their microwave, oven or watch?
I have the larger size jerky gun that nicely holds a pound of lean ground beef or turkey. It only takes 2 or 3 trays to hold 1 lb of jerky using my gun. For ease of use in squeezing out the meat, I use the wide tip on the jerky gun and arrange it in a spiral on the tray. There is less problems with constantly having to pinch of the ends and also with this method I only need 2 trays and when it's done, I just cut the long strip of jerky into squares.
With the spices/cure already prepackage for sale here or at my local WM, the ease of the jerky gun and the quick drying with this unit, all my friends, family and coworkers will be getting homemade beef and turkey jerky for Christmas. It'll save me money, the jerky is outstanding and for the people that don't know I have one of these, they will think I went through a lot of trouble to make them homemade jerky. Hehe.
I have not attempted to dehydrate anything else and really don't intend to. I bought this only for jerky and for that it does an excellent job. It's fast, it's dries consistently, not messy at all, and I can make over 3 lbs of jerky in a matter of hours. Yeah...I LOVE IT!
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