🥩 NESCO FD-1018A Gardenmaster Pro Food Dehydrator with 8 Trays for Perfect Jerky and Snack Preparation Review

I bought this dehydrator to prepare meals for an 8 day hike. The gardener is amazing. Its design is much better than the Snackmaster. Air is distributed more evenly throughout the machine, drying food quickly and efficiently. The temperature display is a great feature. I have dried: bananas, mangoes, strawberries, pineapples, apples, spaghetti sauce, curry sauces, ground beef, corn, carrots and peas. The street food was amazing! Much better than industrially prepared bag food. If you are a…

We were so excited when it arrived. It came today. Set everything up first. Turned on the power switch and immediately heard a loud "knock" and the fan stopped. Turned it off and on again and nothing happened. The fan stopped working. So it arrived this afternoon and I made arrangements to return tonight. Very, very disappointing and I would advise against anyone buying it. We actually bought this as a replacement for the Aicok dehydrator we recently bought from Revain, which also had to be…

The noise level is no higher than our dishwasher or washing machine, so this is not a problem for my family. It's a great machine, but it has a large footprint. Even if you don't have space, make room for this food dehydrator. It's so fast you don't even have to rotate the trays during the process, it's so beautiful. There was too much basil growing in our garden. We filled the bowls three times until everything was dry and even, dried quickly and easily. We also made apple chips and strawberry

This is my second Gardenmaster dehydrator. I exhausted my other in 4 years from overdoing venison. Is there such a thing, for a dehydrator the answer is yes. This new one works great and can handle a 10 lb (wet weight) batch of 16 fully loaded trays of venison (ground beef shaped with a beef jerky gun). The only weakness I found about them is that this US made dehydrator has a Chinese made thermal fuse inserted in it so it has Achilles healing if you will. I tried 5 times to replace this…

Arrived as a return, items are semi plastic, cord was folded in one place but only put in box, book had creases and some of them there were leftovers (?) on the trays. Thought I'd give it a try anyway - buyers were changing their minds (who better to buy?), and I was hoping Nesco would test the devices before they went out of sale. 6 hours later no difference, 3 DAYS later they are still chewy and not dry, I finally got the temp to 160. The unit wouldn't get over 140 with 4 different…

Something new in dehydration so here's what happened. Read the reviews and try to get a reasonable price not knowing if the kids (B/G 16 twins and 13 year old daughter) will eat it. Snackmaster seemed like the best choice. I also bought 6 more trays along with mesh inserts. After testing several batches, how long it took, which crop, how many minutes it took the kids (and I) to eat 11 bowls of banana chips, a dehydrator wouldn't cut them. Ordered Gardenmaster within a week. with 6 more trays…