EziDri Snackmaker Food Dehydrator

The EziDri Snackmaker food dehydrator comes with 5 trays and is expandable to 15! Dehydrating food is so easy and you can make your own really healthy snacks, preserve an abundance of fresh fruit and vegies, make beef jerky to your own taste and turn vegetables into seasoning powders.

The EziDri Snackmaker food dehydrator has 3 convenient temperature settings: Low, Medium and High, so you can speed up or slow down the dehydrating process according to your requirements.

EziDri offers a 2 year warranty on the Snackmaker dehydrator so you can be assured of a long lasting unit that will serve you well even if you use it on a regular basis.

Enjoy home made snacks with no preservatives, no salt and no sugar! Your EziDri Snackmaker dehydrator puts you in control of flavourings. If you want to add sugar, you can, but if you want it left out, you can do that too.

Features:

• 230/240 Volt 50Hz 500w 
• 3 temperature settings: Low 35C Med 50C High 60C
• Trays have a 340mm diameter
• Running cost is approximately 5 cents per hour
• Dry up to 15 trays of pureed fruit (for rollups) at the same time without any loss of power!
• Safety thermal cut-out on motor and element

The EZIDRI airflow pattern with microprocessor and integrated PLD circuitries ensures accurate airflow temperature and exceptional expandability. These features ensure FAST EVEN DRYING with no need for tray rotation, and no loss of nutritional value due to the slow drying process.

Extra accessories are available from Live It Up:
Extra trays or spacer rings for added height - $17.00
Solid sheet - $10.00
Mesh sheet - $8.00

Other models of EziDri food dehydrators:
EziDri Classic Everyday $149 plus shipping
EziDri Ultra FD1000 $369 plus shipping - check out the features!

What can you make with your EziDri Snackmaker food dehydrator?

• Picture your pantry with a couple of rows of glass jars filled with dried fruits, vegetables and jerky. You might imagine it would seem like a scene from that quaint old show "Little House On The Prairie"! But it's SO rewarding, producing foods that are not only easy to prepare, but fun when you check on them, satisfying when you put them away, VERY tasty when you eat them, and inexpensive and healthy for you and your family.
• Make beef jerky with the flavoured marinades that you choose.
• Feed your child less sugar. Watch how they devour YOUR fruit roll-ups!
• Making your own homemade corn chips is incredibly easy, and you can add seasonings to taste.
• Banana and strawberry medley is 100% healthy, sweet and colourful. Munch on them to your heart's content.
• Orange Crisps - slice unpeeled oranges into 1/8 to 1/4 inch slices. Dry 6-15 hours in your EziDri Snackmaker at medium until crisp. The rind easily separates from the orange flesh for snacking or you can pulverise the rind or flesh for natural sugar or spice flavoring.
• Vegetable seasonings are easy. Simply lay processed celery, carrot, capsicum, onion, garlic or pumpkin out on mesh sheets and stack in the food dehydrator. Dry to a crisp in your EziDri Snackmaker then pulverise in the blender. Add these powders to soups, stocks, bread mixes, gravy, salad dressings and whatever else you can think of that can use a flavour boost.
• Dehydrated citrus peels make wonderfully fragrant and incredibly effective fire starters. Once the water is dried out of the skins, the citrus oils remain. They flare up beautifully and last as long as any chemically-produced fire lighters.

All you need

The EziDri Snackmaker dehydrator comes complete with everything you need for food dehydrating:

• 5 drying trays (you can buy a further 10 trays and run them all at the same time without loss of power or drying capacity!)
• 1 solid sheet for drying foods such as fruit purees for fruit leathers (rollups)
• 1 mesh sheet for drying marinated foods such as jerky, or finely chopped foods
• 48 page instruction and recipe book

TASTY RECIPE IDEAS

Beef jerky
Winter or summer, beef jerky is the ideal snack. Full of protein and flavour, it's perfect to enjoy with a beer or to include in cheese platters. Simply trim very thinly sliced (5mm) beef of all fat and marinate in your favourite marinade. Try combos of soy sauce, honey, Worcestershire sauce, lemon pepper, bush spices, fruit nectars or whatever else takes your fancy. Lay slices out on mesh sheets in your EziDri Snackmaker dehydrator and dehydrate on High for 6 to 8 hours, turning the meat after approximately four hours of drying. Allow to cool and then test by bending. Properly dehydrated jerky should crack when you bend it but shouldn't break, and there shouldn't be any moist spots. Store in an airtight container in a cool, dry, dark place.

Fruit leathers (fruit rollups)
Stop shovelling sugar into children's tummies. Fruit Leathers are easy to make at home using your EziDri Food Dehydrator. Not just easy, but fun too! Let the kids help and explain as you go, why the homemade ones are much healthier.

Puree your chosen fruit in a blender or juicer. For 4 cups of fruit puree, use  cup honey. Blend together, and in a saucepan, heat to almost boiling. Allow to cool. Pour onto solid sheets (you receive 1 solid sheet with your EziDri Snackmaker dehydrator). Each layer of puree must be 1/4 inch thick or less. Place trays in your Snackmaker dehydrator and dry on Medium for 10 to 14 hours. The rollups are done when they are pliable and leather-like. Remove the fruit rollups from the trays while still warm and roll up in cling wrap. Four cups of puree makes 4 to 5 rollups.

Note: The cooking step is only required for certain fruits, if it is important to retain color and prevent darkening. These fruits include nectarines, peaches, apricots, cherries, pears and apples. There is no need to cook plums or berries.

Recipes abound on the Internet. Browse around and you'll find plenty of ideas, but experimentation is fun too. If you find your fruit shop selling boxes of produce cheaply, take a box home and see what you can do with it in your EziDri dehydrator.

Dried cherries
When cherries are at their peak, they are quite affordable and extremely scrumptious!  But!  You can only eat so many.  Why not pit your cherries (cherry pitters are available in most kitchen gadget stores) and dehydrate them?  Eat them as a handy snack, add them to your favourite cereal, sprinkle them on yogurt and desserts, turn salads into gourmet treats and use them to garnish meat, poultry, and fish dishes.  They're also a brilliant alternative to sultanas or prunes on a savoury cheese platter.  They're similar in texture to sultanas or raisins but definitely have that familiar, full-bodied cherry flavour.

Which dehydrator Is right for you?
The EziDri Classic EveryDay food dehydrator is perfect for making fruit rollups, or for dehydrating your vegetables for enhancing the flavour of your soups & pastas. If you were looking to also dry meats, herbs & flowers, then you'd be better off considering either the EziDri Snackmaker or the EziDri Ultra FD1000. Each of these has variable temperature controls that allow you to dry a larger variety of produce. Check the EziDri Comparative Chart below.