I couldn’t keep my hands off the dried pineapple, it was like candy! It works great for making your own dried onions, too. I have made jerky both with the sample of curing spice the unit came with and without it (just using my own marinade concoction) and they both came out great. Sliced very thin, we can do a 3 pound piece of beef in about 4 - 5 hours which makes about a large Ziploc bag of jerky. My wife and I limit their exposure when we can. An example is a particular fruit snack that did not contain this dye. Very quiet and has a large capacity. There are obviously a couple things that I would improve, but I would never expect a product that works this well for this price to be perfect.

Works great! We absolutely love this product. The thermostat is a great feature with which you can dial up any temperature you want. Also, having the heating element, fan on the top makes clean up a breeze.

This dehydrator does everything I would like a dehydrator to do. It’s versatile and provides very even heating throughout all levels. I haven’t tried any of the recipes in the book yet but I plan to try some of their fruit roll and dog treat ones. The jerky seasonings provided were pretty good but I added some of my own seasonings to it for my personal liking. I gave some of my friends’ kids some dehydrated strawberry leathers and “jerky granola” (if you dehydrate ground beef until it gets a granola crispness, it’s actually really great). They unanimously adored it. Also, it comes with a smaller grated tray that sits inside the real trays in order to keep small pieces from falling through the grate. It also has a couple fruit leather, yogurt trays which are solid instead of grated. I’m up to 9 trays and for me that’s as many as I’ll probably ever need. It is nice to know I could add 3 more if I needed to and I have no doubt it would work perfectly with 12 racks.

It says in the manual “firm but not brittle” that is just not enough info for me. Regardless, even with a few pieces under-dried, this has kept me well fed on my backpacking trips and in the office. The seasoning and cure that comes in the box is really good stuff! The only thing I added was a tiny bit of liquid smoke and pepper.

This is my third dehydrator and by far the Best one. This unit does the job and reasonably fast.

We have another dehydrator (FD-60) but the FD-75PR is quieter. Quiet Source Generator.