I chose this one because it was 700watt compared to 350 or 500 so I assumed the drying time would be much less and I was right! I am so thrilled with this product and look forward to doing many other things as well. When I checked out, the price was significantly lower than I thought it was going to be due to some unexpected discounts. Also it arrived quicker than the committed shipping time. For a summer treat, dehydrate your fruit leather until it's kind of puffy and slimy. Then freeze it and you have a good treat for ice cream or by itself! I use it every weekend. So far I have only made jerky for hubby and dogs but they just love it.

The unit performed flawlessly. We were able to dehydrate everything in less time than expected. I bought the fruit leather screen and the jerky screen and both came out beautiful. There are two drawbacks to this dehydrator: 1) is that it is pretty noisy and 2) there is no "auto off" feature. This upgrade from our 10 year old version works wonderful, and is more powerful than our original 550 watt version. It's a great dehydrator at a good price.

I chose the Nesco FD-75PR 700-Watt Food Dehydrator because of the power, the size and the temperature controls. So far, I have dehydrated onions, red and green peppers, bananas, apples, oranges, and grapes and have been very pleased with the process and outcome. I don't know how long the other reviewers have owned theirs, but after 19 months and 1 warrantied repair (we paid shipping one way), we now own a broken dehydrator. The very nice people at Nesco told me that at this point it would be more cost effective to buy a new one that to pay to have it repaired.

It is nice to be able to give the kids snacks that are not full of sugars and things no one can pronounce. I only wish it had a timer.

I absolutely love the Nesco dehydrator. My old dehydrator had heat coils on the bottom and this one has the heat and fan on the top of the trays.

Now my kids, who are on special diets, can share jerky with me that I make. I absolutely love this dehydrator! While it was said to dry foods in a fraction of the time that a cheaper unit would require to do it, our experience has not been consistent with this expectation. The Nesco is an attractive unit with seemingly nice features, but our experience with its performance suggests it is about the same as any other similar unit. I've been drying things for a year or so. I have a cheap "as seen on TV" Ronco dehydrator which I do not love, and felt it was time to step up. I tried it two days ago drying the 600-800 persimmons I have each year from one tree. A friend discouraged me from drying food because the fruits he dried (with a dehydrator) turned out to be so discolored that he did not want to eat them.

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