| | |  | Dehydrators | Home » » Excalibur 2900 Economy Series 9 Tray Food Dehydrator - Black | | | | | | | Description: | | Excalibur 2900 Deluxe Series 9 Tray Food Dehydrator The 2900 Deluxe Series is a 9-Tray food dehydrator that is great for families that love eating healthy! Drying food is fun! The Excalibur Dehydrator allows you to dry anything evenly and efficiently. The unit can dry all fruits, vegetables, meats, and more! Make fruit leathers and home-made jerky - FRESH! The Excalibur has a trademarked horizontal-airflow drying system which dries foods perfectly evenly on all the trays. Dehydrating is a great way to add a new way of consuming foods without damaging valuable nutrients which may be lost during high heat cooking! Dried foods are a great treat to snack on because they hold almost all of their nutritional value and flavor. This unit differs from other dehydrators because of its unique horizontal drying system in the rear of the unit. This provides a sure way to provide an even dehydration process as the warm air removes moisture and is pushed out the front of the machine. There is also no need to rotate trays because of the horizontal drying. Includes instruction manual with over 50 recipes! | | | Features: | |
• Deluxe Non-Timer Heavy DutyFamily Model
• Polycarbonate Trays with Polyscreen inserts: 15 square feet of tray space
• FREE! Preserve it Naturally Book
• Heavy Duty 7" fan, 600 watts, Adjustable Thermostat: 85º - 145ºF - Built In On/Off Switch
• Americal Made - 1 Year Manufacturers Warranty - 5 Year Extended Warranty Available
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 19.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 17.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 13.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 23.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 22.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 19.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 15.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 22.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 62 reviews |
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263 of 263 found the following review helpful:
 Makes you a guru in a day!Dec 28, 2006
By J. L. T. Osborne
"Jen Trout Oz"
I had a Ronco dehydrator and needed to move up. I work all week and could only prepare foods to dry on the weekend. We get an organic farm share each week and my family was having trouble eating and processing it all before the next batch arrived. Once I got the Excalibur 9 tray, I was able to get all of my food dried with NO LOSS OF BATCHES. This thing has a thermostat and fan instead of relying on convection alone, so it works much more quickly. Now my family has gone RAW, and we make all sorts of food in the Excalibur. We use it several times per week and it is plainly AWESOME!!! This is what you need if you are really serious about drying foods or eating raw. Don't mess around - get the 9 tray and make BIG batches and save a lot of time.
155 of 155 found the following review helpful:
LOVE this machine !Sep 03, 2008
By kre8iv1
OK, let's clarify the amount of noise this machine puts out ... it is equivalent to the sound of the exhaust fan in our bathroom ceiling. It makes NO more noise than our dishwasher.
Yes, it's a bit distracting if you are watching TV, but it's nothing that should stop you from getting this 9-tray machine. (We moved it from our kitchen to our garage because we have a small kitchen and needed the counter space. The noise was not a deciding factor.)
It is absolutely WONDERFUL!
We dehydrate chicken and beef for ourselves and our dog so that we NO LONGER have to purchase expensive, irradiated jerky made in China. (We can season it however we want to, with ingredients that we can tolerate in our digestive tracts - in other words, we no longer suffer from gastric disturbances.) We have also dehydrated pineapple rings and tomatoes.
It's easy and fun, plus saves money. We run a batch at least once per week, sometimes more.
I researched dehydrators for quite a while because I only wanted to buy ONE and keep it for a long while. This is the machine to go with - the fan and heating element are on the back wall of this unit versus on the bottom like in other machines. Therefore, the drippings stay out of the mechanical workings and do NOT effect the durability of the machine.
I highly recommend the 9-tray model so that you can accomplish a lot of dehydrating within a minimal amount of space vs. 2 of the 4-tray models - they would need to be set side-by-side as the heat would be a concern if they were stacked directly on top of each other. I would only consider stacking the units if you had a SHELF in-between them.
The Excalibur is easy to clean and easy to use. I give it my highest satisfaction rating, and encourage anyone who wants a quality dehydrator to purchase this one.
69 of 69 found the following review helpful:
Kitchen EssentialDec 11, 2007
By Molly Amai
I use this machine all the time and am so glad to have the full 9 tray version! I really do use all those trays quite often, making my own nutritious snacks that I can baggie up and eat later at home or on the go. It also fills my home with the scent of whatever I'm dehydrating at the time (which is generally some kind of delicious fruit)... very pleasant to come home to.
60 of 60 found the following review helpful:
 Top of the line - and lets you know it too.Nov 23, 2008
By kcalyx
It's true, this is an awesome machine. Very fast, fairly even drying, large trays, huge capacity. My main complaint is that the fan is rather loud, and when it's on for many hours in a row it's a bit grating. Don't bother with the Paraflexx sheets for fruit leather - unbleached silicone parchment paper (NOT waxed paper) is faster and less expensive, and you can just cut and store the finished leather with the paper still on.
153 of 162 found the following review helpful:
 A MistakeFeb 20, 2008
By K. Horne
Don't get me wrong - Excalibur makes the most wonderful dehydrators. They're the only ones on the market that allow you to dry tall things, like tomato halves and raw breads. But this 9 tray one is SO LOUD that I cannot recommend it unless you have a service porch or someplace close to the kitchen with a door that closes off the sound from the rest of the house. It is far too loud to use in the average kitchen. I should have kept my 4 tray one and simply bought another. The smaller ones make some noise, too, but at least it's bearable.
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