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- What is it and why
- HAUSLICH DH 70419
- GORENJE FDK500GCW
- SATURN ST-FP0114
- ROTEX RD620-Y
- VITEK VT-5053 W
- PROFITM ESP-02
- PROFITM ESP-01 E
HAUSLICH DH 70419
Reliable dryer for large harvests – up to 15 kg of fruit at a time. 8 temperature settings, power up to 600 W, 9 removable trays – for a large family and their favorite dacha.
Powerful and high quality
GORENJE FDK500GCW
An excellent choice for preparations for a small family – up to 5 kg of products at a time. It works silently, trouble-free, and will dry anything. Power up to 450 W.
Transparent
SATURN ST-FP0114
Compact, inexpensive drying for a small family, but also transparent. 2 temperature settings and 5 time settings. Power up to 500 W, you can make yogurt and marshmallow.
Same thing, but cheaper
ROTEX RD620-Y
Fundamentally different in design –The trays do not pull out, but are placed on top of each other, like a pyramid, but they can easily be swapped. Also for a small family. Dries any fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, herbs.
With long cord
VITEK VT-5053 W
Compact and lightweight, designed for 1.5 kg of fruit at a time, easy to carry with you like a yogurt maker (yogurt does too), 5 temperature modes, so it will dry everything the same as more expensive dryers.
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Economy option
PROFITM ESP-02
Metal not only the body, but also the trays,why they don’t crack, as sometimes happens in plastic dryers. The smell does not spread throughout the apartment either. Powerful, 5 temperature settings, spacious – for giving and serious mood.
Domestic. Metal!
PROFITM ESP-01 E
Also metal, but can dry up to35 kg of products – for preparations on an industrial scale. And if you remove all the trays – Can be a room heater. An excellent choice for a cottage with a large garden.
The biggest and most expensive
Electric fruit dryers are convection and infrared, the latter are less common and more expensive, so let's not talk about them now.
Modern convection dryers for fruits andvegetables are a fairly simple device, the main modules of which are a heating element and a fan. This ensures the supply and circulation of warm air, similar to how fruits would dry in the open wind, but faster, since the wind inside the unit is hotter than it would be natural. And while the drying process is in progress, the products are protected by the body of the dryer from dust flying by, insects and birds, and therefore drying fruits and vegetables in such gadgets is much more hygienic than naturally in the wind. This is in case you have a question in the process of stringing cut mushrooms on a thread: why do you need these drying at all. Gardeners, gardeners and just zealous housewives have no doubt: they are needed. But how to choose from all the variety the one that will serve you and provide the family with supplies for the winter - let's figure it out.
In fact, there are few options here, and all drying,presented on the market, they cope with their main mission: they supply warm air to the fruits you cut. Typically, the air flow comes from the bottom or side, depending on where the fan is located. Also in the dryer there are usually trays placed one above the other, on which you lay out all your stuff. And keep this life hack straight away: in dryers with bottom air supply, less wind can reach the upper layers, and therefore from time to time you should swap the upper and lower trays so that everything dries evenly.
Of the additional functions that canto please the user - a timer, protection against overheating, electronic control, automatic shutdown (so that one visit to the country house to lay fruit, and the next - a week later - get ready-made dried fruits that were cooked in the first couple of days, and the rest of the time they patiently waited for the owners). All this is optional - you really decide what you need and what you can do without.
What should be the capacity of a fruit and vegetable dryer?
It all depends on your appetites and prospects.If you plan to make modest preparations for a small family, a power of 350 - 450 W is enough for you, such as VITEK VT-5053 W. A power above 450 W is already for large families and large-scale processing of crops - for example, if you have dacha, and there is a lot of things there.
Is it worth overpaying for a thermostat?
In fact, the function of setting the temperature at will is not a whim. After all, different products are dried at different temperatures:
- 30 – 35˚C – for drying herbs and flowers for tea or crafts,
- 50 - 60˚C - for juicy fruits and vegetables,
- 60 – 70˚C – for meat, fish, nuts and cereals, crackers, noodles.
And if you choose it at 40˚C, in general you can get the result not dried, but dried.
So, if you are only going to dryapples and mushrooms - you can get by with cheaper drying without a thermostat, but if you plan to dry fish and everything else, you need a dryer with the ability to set the temperature yourself. Here's a great example - GORENJE FDK500GCW
What else is a dryer for?
In addition to drying fruits and meat or fish in suchThe dryer makes it easy to prepare homemade yogurt. After all, the main thing in the design of the device is the heating element, as in the yogurt maker. It is enough to remove the trays from the case, and instead of them place there portioned jars of sourdough. In some dryers, the design implies special trays for making marshmallows from fruit puree with sugar - but here you really need to look at the description of a specific model.
HAUSLICH DH 70419
This is a convection dryer with a fan on the back.
Has 8 temperature settings – from 35˚C to 70˚C,power 600 W and capacity 27 liters - in total, up to 15 kg of fruits or vegetables can be loaded into the unit. This is not a thing for pampering, but for the good owner of a fertile dacha.
Includes 9 trays, the height between each of them- about 3 cm, but this is not a constant, of course - if you need, you can use trays one at a time, taking out the extra ones - then you can put uncut mushrooms or whole apricots. There is a power indicator and overheat protection. There are also special functions for making marshmallows and yogurt.
The unit weighs just over 8 kg and has dimensions of 45x48x38 cm, which means it won’t take up much space in the kitchen. The manufacturer promises a 12 month warranty.
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GORENJE FDK500GCW
This dryer is smaller than the previous one - designed forweight of fruits (or vegetables, mushrooms, meat, fish, herbs - underline what needs to be dried) up to 5 kg, internal volume of the unit - 17.5 l, only 5 trays and power 450 W.
Well, first of all, it's the brand. And secondly, these are:
- 5 round large trays whose height can be adjusted, the minimum distance between them is 2.8 cm,
- control via a keypad with display,
- power indicator,
- temperature regulation from 35˚C to 70˚C and overheating protection,
- timer and automatic shutdown function.
It is also transparent, so if you have nothingdo it for about 10 hours, you can watch the whole process of turning the fruits into supplies with your own eyes - well, or at least look at what stage of preparation they are at. There are special non-slip feet under the body. In general, everything that is needed for a small family with average appetites is there. Making yogurt and marshmallow here is not a problem either.
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SATURN ST-FP0114
The same transparent as the previous one - but almosta third cheaper. And 20% less productive - designed for 4 kg of raw food. It has only 2 temperature settings - either heats at 40˚C or 70˚C, respectively, and only two types of power: 260 W and 500 W. The timer also has fixed modes - there are 4 of them: 2, 5, 10 and 15 hours.
As in the previous one, the supply of warm airIt is carried out from below, there is overheating protection, a power indicator and automatic shutdown. The dryer itself weighs a little more than 2 kg, the dimensions are more than modest - 30-something centimeters in all dimensions. In general, it’s cheap and cheerful, and it won’t take up much space in the kitchen. The manufacturer promises a 2-year warranty, but judging by the reviews, burst trays are not considered a warranty case.
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ROTEX RD620-Y
Another drying with a democratic price, and besides, if you're lucky, you can get under the action and get the scales as a gift. Moreover, it is domestic.
5 plastic trays spaced 4cm apartfriend. It’s true that using them one after another, as in previous models, to increase the height between them, will not work, since here the trays do not slide in, but are simply stacked in a pyramid on top of each other. But you can swap them around without any problems.
The warm air supply comes from below, there are 5temperature conditions from 35˚C to 70˚C, overheating protection is also provided. Maximum power: 520 W. Surprisingly, although the dryer is made of plastic, it weighs just over 5 kg. That is, anyway, you can’t put it on a flimsy shelf. The manufacturer promises silent and reliable operation; among the pleasant little things is an extended power cord - 1.7 m - at least one less extension cord in the kitchen. Well, and a 1-year warranty - perhaps you can take it. If you believe the reviews, of course.
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VITEK VT-5053 W
Perhaps the most affordable of ourlist. You can easily throw it at the dacha and not worry that mice will eat it in your absence. You can easily remove the trays from it and make homemade yogurt in it. You can easily take it with you when going on vacation, where you plan to have an abundance of fruits and berries - it is compact and weighs only 2 kg (0.5 kg more in the original packaging).
5 trays with a 3.5 cm gap between them will allowprocess about 1.5 kg of fruit at a time. 7 temperature settings from 40˚C to 70˚C and 250W power is what we have here. Warm air is supplied from below, trays can be easily changed. Made in China, the manufacturer provides a 1 year warranty.
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PROFITM ESP-02
Large dryer of domestic production.Due to the fact that the body is metal, it dries faster, as it raises the air temperature to 90˚C, the minimum value is from 30˚C, that is, even crackers, even dried fruits - everything will do. In total, drying has 5 temperature modes. To develop the maximum temperature, you need high power - here it is up to 820 W. An additional bonus of the metal case is that during the drying process (which takes more than one hour), the smell of the product being dried does not spread throughout the apartment - in the case, for example, with a ram, you must admit, this is a significant plus.
There is a power indicator on the case, and if there is a threat of overheating, the unit turns off automatically. The drying capacity is 20 liters, there are 7 trays inside, and 4 cm between them.
Here, too, the fan is located below, but youlabor, you can rearrange the trays, removing some of them and thereby increasing the distance between them if you are drying large fruits entirely. But the main charm of this model is that the trays are also made of metal. This means that there is no threat of cracks in the trays, which is often complained about in reviews by those who purchased a dryer with plastic trays.
Since everything is metal, the weight of the unit is considerable - when going to pick up a parcel, be prepared to drag more than 6 kg.
The control of the device is mechanical, but the manufacturer gives a 2-year warranty. In general, a powerful, slightly cheaper than foreign counterparts and a reliable metal case are its main characteristics.
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PROFITM ESP-01 E
Perhaps this is the most serious device of all,presented in our list. The description says that it can be used both as a thermopot to maintain a constant temperature (for example, for baby food), and even to heat the room - if you remove all the trays. Like the above-mentioned model from the same manufacturer, this miracle is made of metal. The trays are made of fine mesh, so even small berries can be dried on them without any problems. With 7 temperature modes and a maximum temperature of up to 70˚C, in this dryer, in principle, you can dry absolutely everything: from fruits and vegetables and meat and fish to homemade noodles, nuts, crackers, and herbs. 7 trays, with a height of 6 cm between them, allow you to process up to 35 kg of food in one go - this is a serious gadget for an “adult” garden. The maximum power this dryer can pump is 825 watts. It is equipped with a timer and auto shut-off, overheating protection, a clear display and a power-on indicator, and simply due to its power and high temperatures it can dry your crops faster than other low-power dryers. The fan is located at the bottom, changing trays between each other is not a problem. If you're being picky, this powerful model has two drawbacks - a rather high price and a somewhat intimidating design (a bit like a fruit crematorium). And if you don’t find fault, then before you is a domestically produced beast of a car.
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