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Excalibur 4900 Dehydrator

I’ve thought about this in previous years, but not taken the plunge until now. We always have an excess of allotment produce which we find difficult to store. We fill the freezers and make jam and pickles, but we don’t bottle or can our produce, and we don’t dehydrate. It was the crates of apples that made my mind up. They’ll keep until Christmas, but not much beyond that.

Dehydrator 002a

Not only can you dry apple slices, but you can also make “fruit leathers”, which I’m betting are going to go down a storm with the grandchildren.
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