Household 8 Trays Food Dehydrator Machine, 8 Stainless Steel Trays Hold 10 lb Meats with 8.8 ft² Space, 24 H Digital Timer, 190 °F Temperature Control, for Herbs, Meat, Fruit, Dog Treats

I did not expect to be leaving a five-star review and I purchased this item. I do not regret buying a cheaper plastic version for a dehydrator. I paid a little bit more and I believe I received a lot more for my money. I am happy that I went for the better product which is rare on this site. More expensive usually doesn't mean better but in this case it was money well spent. I honestly expected everything to go wrong or the item malfunctioning for some reason. I've only had it for a month maybe less so I may be jinxing myself or cursing myself for leaving a good review but so far I have filled this thing up with meat for my dog three or four times and it has been pretty phenomenal. Something that may help somebody learn with dehydration of dog treats which helped me out was not run it at a temperature where you think you'd kill your germs. It does much better at 145° for a little bit longer as when you finish any type of poultry you still have to put the trays in the oven at 350° for 10 minutes. With the beef and fish I don't put it in the oven. My first effort was done at a higher temperature after purchasing all the organs including bull testicles which took me a good 13 hours to prepare as you have to cut all the fat off as fat does not dehydrate and it will make your treats go bad faster. It didn't even take a week and there was white fuzz already growing on my first effort at dog treats. Effort number two was done with less organs as they have too much fat to trim off. Beef cut really thin without fats and chicken breasts sliced thin same with fish, liver. If I can advise anybody with liver try to cut it while it's frozen since it's one of the nastiest meat you'll ever handle. Overall my experiences have been good and keep on getting better and faster. One of my dog's favorite treats now are chicken feet. They take a little bit of cleaning and cutting the nails off with my dog's nail clipper is very easy. Once everything is dehydrated I put it in the The freezer. I purchased for $8 little bags I can put in there that absorb moisture. Now I add dehydrated meats on top of my dog's food that to give her better nutrients. I hope leaving this review doesn't bite me in the rear end and this thing fall apart next week. So far so good and I plan on using it on a regular basis. Another tip I learned that helped quite a bit was the bottom tray was instantly wrapped in aluminum foil. And I have a large 300 ft roll of parchment paper from restaurant Depot to cover up all the screens or shelves making this with no cleaning at all. I don't know if anybody's ever tried to clean grid shelves after letting me dry on them but it's hours of work saved. When these things are done this slide right off the parchment paper and there is nothing to clean off the shelves. You can reuse the parchment paper if it's not too stained or dirty since you're only doing dog treats. Wash all the blood out of the liver than dry its. The more you pat your stuff dry the faster and better it'll work and the less mess it will make. So far I have learned chicken gizzards, chicken hearts, chicken livers are not worth the work you have to put into it. Beef kidneys have a piece of fat that is impossible to remove so plan on taking several hours trying to clean that one if you want to try once but you won't do in a second time. Beef hearts seems to be a really good treat once you cut the fat off. Beef liver cuts while it is frozen or mostly frozen but wash it and dry it before putting it into your trays because it will bleed like crazy and make a mess. When it all comes down to it just fish fillets cut thin, beef sirloin without fats or very little that you can cut off sliced thin works good and chicken breast sliced into thin chicken cutlets or the fastest and easiest meats to do. You also have to try chicken feet because the dog loves them. I don't recommend replacing your dog's food with this as there are many nutrients missing but it is definitely something worth adding on top of the dogs food so they eat less kibble and a little bit more nutrients. I am leaving these tips along with this review because I had a hard time finding information that was clear for all these different things. Google and YouTube all put information out there like this is very easy but it's all about their channel and not saving you time so hopefully these tips help out

So I am new to dehydrating this way but it's so AMAZING 🤩I make seed crackers in the oven and that takes forever...So I had some ready to go when I picked it up! Read the book whipes it all down and put them in the oven on 2 racks. Set at the temp I needed and set the timer for 5 hours and let er go...When I woke up the next morning it was done and turned off. ❤️Now I ready to learn how to do other things. I'll keep you posted

I have never had a food dehydrator before now. My wife is growing our own herbs with my favorite being basil. I set out to purchase our first dehydrator thinking that we would purchase one in the $50.00 range. It had plastic shelves and a base with some stainless steel. I got it, read the directions, plugged it in to burn off the factory manufacturing oils and immediately smoke came out of the unit that smelled like burning electronics components, the display extinguished and it no longer responded to the control panel. I don't try to get any purchase that I make repaired when it malfunctions right out of the box. I returned it and Amazon made quick work of issuing a refund. I went back to shopping and picked out a new unit from a different manufacturer in the range of $140.00. This one was mostly stainless steel but the door was cheaply made. I did the same thing as with the first unit, turned it on and set it up to burn off the manufacturing process oils. This one stopped working at random times and wouldn't complete a cycle. It got packed up and sent back for a refund and as usual, Amazon made quick work of refunding my purchase price. I went shopping for a new dehydrator from a different manufacturer with the intention of getting one with solid construction. I found this one and gave it a really good look at the description and photos. What I saw was was what looked like solid all stainless steel construction and it was described as a commercial quality dehydrator. One of the features that I saw was that the heater unit was easy to remove so that the food cabinet could be well scrubbed without worrying about getting the electronics wet. The reviews were decent so I pulled the trigger on the purchase in the neighborhood of $200.00. It arrived and my first impression was HOLY COW! This unit is solidly built. It weighs likely more than twice the previous unit. I plugged it in to burn off the manufacturing process oils and the controls were nicely made. It operated as it was intended to out of the box. I've put two batches of food through it and it worked flawlessly. This unit really is IMHO a commercial quality dehydrator. Now I'm going through the recipe book looking for some interesting things to try. My first batch was basil and sage. They came out perfect. Peaches are in season in New England so we went out to our favorite orchard and got a couple of baskets of them. I sliced them thin and put them in water that I added lemon to so that they didn't turn brown. I put parchment paper on the silicone liner in the trays and placed the slices. Then I sprinkled coconut palm sugar [a complex carbohydrate] with a few pinches of pink salt on them and got them started dehydrating. I let it run overnight and when they were done they were nice and crispy like potato chips. The taste was out of this world. At this point I have no doubt that this dehydrator is going to get a lot of use as we find more food that we can dehydrate. I am very happy with my purchase and my wife is as well. Only one caution that I can think of is that you need to check the dimensions of the unit to make sure that you have space enough to use it. It is big and heavy. The good news about that is that you can do a huge batch of dehydrating given the space inside this unit.