Excalibur Dehydrator
This 9-tray Excalibur Dehydrator is on sale at Woot today! It’s $179.99 which is 40% off of the original retail price of $300! This is the same model I own and have used for years, but this one has the added feature of a 26-hour timer which is really nice.
If you’re a Prime member on Amazon, you’ll get free shipping too!
Excalibur Dehydrators are 100% worth the investment if you dehydrate food often or want to start. This is a workhorse of a dehydrator that produces consistent results.
If you typically buy prepackaged dehydrated meals, I can assure you that you will quickly recoup the cost of this dehydrator (and make meals with far less sodium).
There is an excellent dehydrated food cookbook geared towards “outdoor adventurers” if you’re looking for a suggestion of one geared towards hiking and backpacking. It was written by the owner of Food for the Sole, which creates my favorite ready-made backpacking meals, so I know the author has a solid reputation with creating healthy and delicious food.
It’s hard to beat $0.99 to try out a cookbook!
Here are a couple of other resources I refer to repeatedly for dehydrated meals, beyond the things I like to dehydrate at home from my own recipes. My dehydrator makes short work of leftovers, and nobody seems to mind them nearly as much on the trail as they do repeatedly on the dinner table:
- Backpacking Chef’s Website and associated cookbook
- Backpack Gourmet Cookbook by Linda Jaffe.
- My blogging friend (and member of my Facebook group), Jan Ewen of Jan’s Jaunts has some great ideas and recipe on her blog.
Beyond these resources, here are just a few things I dehydrate at home that are staples in my backpack on trips:
- Watermelon: It’s delicious dehydrated!
- Apples: I typically sprinkle these with a little cinnamon and they’re my all-time favorite snack on the trail. They really are better than any store bought dried apple–much more apple flavor the cinnamon really makes them yummy.
- Soups and Stews: Just about any soup I make can be spread on dehydrator sheets and dehydrated (recipes coming, I promise!).
- Veggies from my garden: If you’re like me and over plant in your garden, a dehydrator will quickly put your excess to good use. It’s so nice to have a collection of dried veggies to add to simple meals on the trail to give them a bit more nutritional value. And zucchini chips are the bomb.
- Homemade Jerky my family especially loves it when I make salmon jerky from the Backpack Gourmet Cookbook.
If you’ve been in the market for a dehydrator that won’t let you down, this Excalibur is worth the investment, in my opinion!
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