Excalibur 3900 Deluxe Series 9 Tray Food Dehydrator Reviews

Excalibur is the best dehydrator ever!

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Rated 5 out of 5

Excalibur 3900 Deluxe Series 9 Tray Food Dehydrator is the best food dehydrator that I have ever used.  I used it to make jerky and it is so much easier to make in this, than the small round ones.   It dehydrates the food so much quicker and I like that it has a fan in the back of it and distributes the heat evenly.  I would recommend this product for any one that dehydrates a lot.   I love that it is nine trays because you can fit so much more on there than the littler dehydrators.  And I also like the fact that you can fill up the trays and put it in the dehydrator, and turn in on the right settings and forget about it.  You don't have to worry about turning the beef jerky.  That is a big time saver when you don't have to flip every piece of jerky nor do you have to keep filling up the tray and doing batch after patch because it isn't big enough.  The tray on the other hand are a little hard to clean where they are much bigger. 

The best!

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Rated 5 out of 5

When me and my boyfriend started entering my Claico cat into kitty fashion shows, we had to go all over the country.  Which meant my other, 13 cats HAD to come with..because I was not about to leave them behind.  But it got to be too hard carrying all those cans of cat food, and then trying to feed fouteen cats with canned food, in the seat of a honda civic?! It was too much.  So I did some research online and praid to our heveanly father, that I would find something to help me.  And the next I heard about theExcalibur food dehydrator.  Never have I ever been more pleased with something.  Now I dehydrate chicken, and fish and vegtables that all of my babies enjo...

Great Way to Enjoy Fruit

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Rated 4 out of 5

I am a vegetarian, so I try to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables in my diet, and this Excalibur 3900 Deluxe Series 9 Tray Food Dehydrator - Black Plus FREE Paraflexx Sheet with purchase from Alive and Aware is an amazing way to prepare fruit that tastes so good.  I bought this online for $215 and it was definitely worth the price.  It does take up a lot of counter room, but has nine rows of racks so you can make a lot of fruit at the same time.  I first tried this with apples and strawberries, but have found so many foods that taste great with this.  It is heavy duty and high quality and saves you a lot of money by being able to make your own dehydrated foods.  ...

A Wonderful Dehydrator for multiple uses!

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Rated 4 out of 5

I was given the Excalibur 900 Deluxe Series 9 Tray Food Dehydrator as a gift and boy what a great gift!! I see only two downsides to this, it's big, This is also a plus, due to it's large size dehydrating large quantities of what you're dehydrating is super convenient and makes it seem worth it in the end. The second thing that I'm not a big fan of is that the trays are a bit hard to clean, they come clean easily but they're large and a bit floppy and are just a bit difficult. BUT, with all of that said, this is really a top of the line dehydrator. It has a temperature gauge for food items to dehydrate at the appropriate temperature. It also circulates air well because of it's shape and where the fan is placed in the machine, it's at the back instead of at the top which gives all the trays the same dehydrating love. It's a bit pricey but if you're serious about dehydrating it's really worth investing in this Excalibur Food Dehydrator.

Excalibur 3900 Deluxe Series 9 Tray Food Dehydrator is good

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Rated 5 out of 5

The Excalibur Deluxe 9 Tray Dehydrator gives your family and wholesome option for snacks. Gone are the days of chomping on chips, palming some popcorn, or gnashing on nachos now that the Excalibur is here!This dehydrator makes many healthy alternative food snacks at a fraction of the price for junk food. The dehydrator makes outstanding jerky in all varieties and a plethora of dried fruits for your pleasure. It dehydrates the food so much quicker and I like that it has a fan in the back of it and distributes the heat evenly. I would recommend this product for any one that dehydrates a lot. I love that it is nine trays because you can fit so much more on there than the littler dehydrators. I have dehydrated Bananas, Onions, Zucchini, cheese flavored Kelp and a nut based crust each item on different trays all at the same time and I did not have any flavors cross or penetrate the other foods.

this is the best dehydrator ever!

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Rated 4 out of 5

I never knew that I needed a food hydrator until I received this one as a gift from my parents, who told me it would help us save money and waste less food! They sure were right. I wasn't really sure what to do with it, at first, but as my husband and I are vegetarians, we quickly learned that this dehydrator is perfect for storing fruits and vegetables -- things that we eat a lot of! It is so wonderful to be able to have fruits and vegetables stocked up all the time -- we will purchase them in bulk and store them until we have a use for them! This little unit is so easy to clean, and although it seems like it is an expensive item (thanks mom and dad!) it is definitely worth it in the long-term, as you'll surely save on throwing out food that has gone bad!

Love love love the Excalibur!

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Rated 5 out of 5

Love love love the Excalibur! I was afraid it would be really noisy, but I really do not think it is that noisy. I have it in my laundry area off my kitchen, and its just a little hum like a microwave oven, really. I think it is definitely worth the money!

I love my Excalibur

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Rated 5 out of 5

You can often hear our dehydrator humming--it's a great source of raw, whole, and yummy food! During harvest times it's drying apples, pears, or peaches but all year long we come up with ways to use it for healthy food.

A favorite recipe is for dehydrated granola: we sprout buckwheat by soaking it in water for 20 minutes, pouring it into a colander (or 2 big ones in the case of filling all 9 trays with this delicious cereal) to be rinsed every four hours for a day or two. When it has little tails we mix it up with a bunch of coconut oil, raw local honey, vanilla extract, carob powder, dried shredded coconut, and any number of ground flax, hemp, chia, sunflower, or sesame seeds, and/or fin...

Excalibur, the best there is

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Rated 5 out of 5

Ok, to anyone who owns this....is this not the best thing ever? I've been making jerky forever. I started with one of those Home Harvester's or something like that. Not sure of the name. It was fine for years, but very difficult to clean. I wore out many toothbrushes trying to clean those racks.

Then, I saw a written advertisement for the Excalibur brand dehydrator. It was very expensive. I mean VERY. After much hemming and hawing, I finally ordered one. This was back in about 1985 or so. Since that time I have probably used my dehydrator to make pounds and pounds of jerky. As a matter of fact, I have nine racks in the process of making jerky right now. I used to only make beef j...

huge but energy efficient dehydrator

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Rated 5 out of 5

There are cheap dehydrators out there for $40-60 that are basically pancaked (or should I say bundt caked) on top of each other, with a fan and heating element on the top or bottom pushing air throughout the stacks. There are holes in the middle of them to allow for circulation/structural integrity. But the problem with those designs is that the hot, fast air gets pushed through the first cake, slows and cools down and picks up humidity for the second cake, slows/cools/humidifies some more for the third cake, so on so that the cake layers dry unevenly, with tehe first cake layer is dry before the last one is. This is sort of fixable if you rotate the layers, but who wants to do that? With th...

The Excalibur 3900 Deluxe Dehydrator Makes Yummy Jerky

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Rated 5 out of 5

This dehydrator shrinks your food while fattening your wallet! The Excalibur 3900 Deluxe 9 Tray Food Dehydrator gives you a big bang for your buck.

The Excalibur Deluxe 9 Tray Dehydrator gives your family and wholesome option for snacks. Gone are the days of chomping on chips, palming some popcorn, or gnashing on nachos now that the Excalibur is here!

This dehydrator makes many healthy alternative food snacks at a fraction of the price for junk food. The dehydrator makes outstanding jerky in all varieties and a plethora of dried fruits for your pleasure. You can keep all those preservatives and chemicals out of these snacks you consume when you make them yourself. This machine makes these ...

Great Dehydrator

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Rated 5 out of 5

I purchased this the Excalibur dehydrator because I was using a snackmaster dehydrator and faced with needed to purchase more trays or go to a bigger dehydrator I opted to purchase a bigger dehydrator.  I am glad I did.  The Excalibur has 9 very large trays.  The mesh on the trays is fully removable and flexible.  So when you are done drying a sticky fruit you can flex the trays to loosen it up.  Unlike the other brand which are hard plastic which does not flex making it hard to remove sticky items.  I use my dehydrator a lot in the summer when we have surplus from our garden.  Also when I get fruit and veggies on sale I can dehydrate the extra for use late...

Wonderful Food Dehydrator!

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Rated 5 out of 5

When I was growing up we had a little four tray food dehydrator for years that was used extensively for drying apples. My parents finally upgraded to this Excalibur Deluxe Series 9 Tray Food Dehydrator when I was in my teens and, boy, did it get a work out! I was so excited to get my own Excalibur Deluxe Series 9 Tray Food Dehydrator shortly after I got married! Now, I haven't used it nearly as much yet as I helped to use my parents' so this review is mainly based on that experience. We dried bushels of apples every fall as well as peaches, pears, canteloupes, bananas, various fruit leathers, and of course jerky! The fan in the back keeps the warm air circulated so that everything dries evenly. The nine trays allow for maximum capacity...we could fit about a half a bushel of apples in the Excalibur Dehydrator at a time. My husband and I are having a wonderful time experimenting with what all we can dry in our dehydrator, and this is definately the model to get!

Reviewer received a sample of this product.

Works great so far

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Rated 4 out of 5

I just got this and have only used it once so still learning. I dehydrated some apples and they tasted great. Will be using alot this summer for everything in my garden. I would like to do beef jerky also. It is very large. Is somewhat loud so I keep it in my laundry room or basement.

I'm glad I picked the Excalibur food dehydrator.

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Rated 5 out of 5

I picked out the Excalibur 3900 food dehydrator for my Christmas present this year and am I ever glad I picked this one.  I honestly knew nothing about food dehydrators before this.  I did a lot of research first and was convinced that this was the best of the best in food dehydrators and I still believe it to be true.  It is so easy to use and clean,  My family has eaten more fruits than they ever did.  We are especially crazy about green apples and pineapples.  They are so tasty when they are dehydrated.  They're as good as candy and so much better for you.  I put the food in the dehydrator before I go to bed and in the morning it is done.  It c...