Why food dehydration?
Dehydration is simply the process of removing moisture from food by exposing to warm dry air. Drying food is fun, easy, and inexpensive, providing garden fresh flavor all year around. Drying is easy. A wide variety of fresh foods can be dried: fruits, vegetables, fish and meats. These foods can be eaten dried for snacks and parties, or reconstituted for cooking and baking. Drying is easier than canning or freezing: you simply wash, slice and load food onto the dehydrator trays. Within hours your foods are dried and ready to eat or store. Drying can save you money. Owning an Excalibur dehydrator allows you to purchase and dry foods in peak seasons when prices are lowest a great savings compared to the high cost of commercially dried products. Best of all, operating a dehydrator costs only pennies a day and dried foods dont require continual electricity to be maintained as with freezing. Dried foods taste great and are nutritious. As food dries, natural food flavors and sugars tend to co
