ALDI Ambiano Food Dehydrator
VerifiedMPNs: 95206, 95459 and KYS336B29 reviews
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Albino food dehydrator Dissapointing – All my trays have fallen apart became brittle and literally disintegrating. The quality of the plastic is disgusting! The lid over the plastic racks is also breaking down Not used more than8 times Show details
Parts – Where can you buy replacement trays as mine have cracked Show details
Chinese Junk – Plastic trays started cracking on second use. What a poor quality product. Trays are now so cracked and broken machine is un usable and going to the bin. Do not waste your money. Show details
The trays desinigrate after just two uses – It did a great job dehydrating, HOWEVER.....I would not reccommend this product do to the poor quality of the trays. We used only 2 times and the trays just started desinigrating. Now we cannot use it anymore. SO SAD!!!! Tried to contact Aldi's but it will not let you give a report on what happened. Show details
Very poor quality & appears Aldi are happy to accept this – I really like(d) this dehydrator - did the job well. Takes a good 24 hours, made some great jerkies for my dogs. BUT - the trays just fall apart, disintegrate. Are so flimsy and cheap. What was worse was trying to let Aldi know. There contact web page is limited to only a select few options - you cannot give feedback about the quality of an item.… Read more
If you stab a guess and select one of the other options, you need to provide copy of receipt, date of purchase, barcode, etc. The item is clearly identifiable as an Aldi product, and as others have stated here, the quality is very poor. I would not buy this from them again, or recommend anyone to buy it. I have purchased elsewhere with steel trays.
Great for the 5 times it worked! – Bought as a Christmas Gift for friends who loved it for the 5 times they used it….until it shorted out mid use, tripped the power and died! Now I face the challenging and embarrassing task of trying to replace it outside the 4 weeks since purchase and stock location check, without the original packaging and most likely not being available anywhere! Show details
Exceptional quality for the money – I have had both models of the Ambiano dehydrators and this model is easy to program , temperature is accurate and timer works flawlessly. We make beef jerky monthly , using both the programmable and the basic model, and they both work Flawlessly. Would highly recommend. M.J.Rogers Show details · 1
Trays crack after first use – The dehydrator itself works well, 5 full trays of thinly sliced chicken takes about 6-7 hours at 75 degrees. The issue is that the trays crack after the first use, and continue to crack each time - so after a while some trays become unusable as they are no longer supported. I will have to return mine now as 2/5 trays now unusable. It also tripped my power for the whole house last time I used so I will not be using this again!! Show details
Trying to find replacement trays two of mine have broken. Below similar queries haven’t been answered hoping for help? – Have two broken trays and need to replace as it’s wasteful and not economical for me to throw out machine. I cannot find replacement trays for dehydrator, and Aldi does not appear to have responded to customers below with similar queries - hoping to find them soon! Show details
Not useful as it takes too long to dry foods – 1) It takes hours and hours to dry a bean or meat stew, even allowing for not putting a lot of fluid in the cooking. 2) The holes in the trays are too big to allow for the food shrinking as it dries and falling through to the next tray or two. 3) the setting is counter-intuitive (first you turn it on at the wall, then set the heat and hours, and then set it to start). 4) there is no solid tray to do fruit roll up or similar. Show details
Really dangerous plastic pieces disintegrate and melt – Used about 6 times and the plastic trays begin to melt ,ZERO HELP OR SUPPORT from the help line or aldi, really unsafe unit and horrible after sale care ! Shouldn't be this way. Show details
Died first go – Didn’t even get to use it once, fan inside was making an awful noise and plastic appeared to de melting so turned it off and a complete waist of time and money
Would not purchase again as it falls apart after only 4x being used – I purchased this dehydrator in December 2020. It is so fragile despite being very careful with it. To my great dismay pieces are breaking off, the trays are splitting. Have used this product only 8 times! Love the product otherwise. Would not recommend the purchase of this product Show details
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Plastic rubbish – I have only given this machine a 1 star review and that’s only because the jerky I made was really good. I have used the machine about 8 times and the next time I use it, it will be ready for the bin. The plastic trays are so fragile that after the first use small pieces snapped off. Each time I use the machine more keeps snapping off. I am at the point where 1/2 the trays are completely broken. Show details
Never buy this – No after sales service, no accessories available. The trays crack and disintegrate after one or two uses. Would never buy this product again. If I could give it a minus rating, I would.
Good for price – I have two, owned for a couple of years now. So far reliable and trays have survived dishwasher. I give them heavy use in fruit season hence the need for two. Trays need rotation both top to bottom and turning. Takes several hours to dry depending on type of fruit. Small berries fall through tray as they dry, finer mesh inserts would be handy but… Read more
it’s a budget machine. I only dry sliced fruit and vegetables. Tempted to upgrade to larger horizontal drying machine at some stage but that’s only because I live in a country town with lots of free fruit and do a lot of drying.
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Terrible product – Used it for about 8 hours to make beef jurky and was fine all went well. Went to do the same a week later about 4 hours in all the plastic started cracking you could see and hear it cracking every single bit of plastic was cracked Show details
is it safe – i'm using it no for about 4 weeks. But i notice there small part of the plastic tray which are coming of. Like some small flakes. I'm using it to dehydrate chicken fillet Show details
Epic fail – After nearly 26 hours, my very thinly sliced orange slices were still emitting juice when squeezed. Absolutely hopeless ! It would have been quicker to dry them in the sun. Very disappointed in this product sorry. Show details
Kitchen Stable! – Very happy with this dehydrator. I’ve been using it heaps over the last 2 years to dry sugar cookies. My only negative Is that the trays stack, if you aren’t 130% careful you can stack them wrong causing damage to the cookies on the lower racks. For $40 I couldn’t be happier. Show details
Rubbish job – If I could give this product 0 I would. The manual says 8 hours for thinly sliced tomatoes. After close to 24 hours I gave up, put the machine in its box and took it back to ALDI for a refund. I tried apples and apricots with just as much success. The problem is it just doesn't get to temperature. Show details
Fantastic dehydrator – This is a great dehydrator all round. I use it mainly on mangos at 70 for 12 hours and they come out perfect, full of flavour and crispy. The design of this dehydrator makes it easy to load and clean. For the price I think it's a steal. Show details
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I'd love to make this work – I've tried every way I can think of to dry lemons - sliced thick, thin, wedges, peeled, unpeeled, 70 degrees, 55 degrees, but they just end up sticky and look like they'll go mouldy very quickly i.e. not dry enough, even after 17 hours. Feel like they'll still need freezing, not really the point. Don't want to keep using all that electricity… Read more
unless I know it's worthwhile. If anyone can help me get the rating up to 5* or even 3* I'd be extremely grateful.
Good – I have been using this dehydrator for two years now. I really like it. I make banana chips, strawberry chips, and anything else i can think of. The only problem is I would like to make some fruit leather and I'm unable to find the sheets to fit the machine. Show details
Another example of Aldi Cheap as Chips electrical items – I thought what could possible go wrong with set of stacking containers sitting on a heating element and a fan... It was been a couple of years since I last tried using this item and considered that perhaps I had been a lille to premature in my judgment of it and how long it took to produce anything so to be fair I gave it another go, My memory… Read more
must be failing me because after two complete 17 hour cycles trying bananas, Mangoes and Muscatel grapes I can only conclude that life is too short and electricity is too expensive to experiment any further, so into the dumpster this heap of rubbish goes.
Much used and much loved – I have been using this dehydrator for the past two years. It's easy to use, easy to clean and still looks nearly brand new. I've used it for jerky, herbs, fruit, vegetables and just about anything else I could think of. The time and temperature are both adjustable, as is the number of shelves. Not a thing wrong with it! Show details
downgrade from 4 to 1 stars – I gave this 4 stars in 2015. Two years later the trays have cracked and broken. I'm not hard on my appliances so it is a quality issue. I was careful about not putting in hot dishwasher etc. I suspect that regardless of this make the issue will be the same for brands with the same fabrication. Show details
Does the job well – This Food Dehydrator cost $40 from Aldi. I have use it four times. I have dried, prune plums, peaches, nectarines and figs and it has worked worked well. It is not noisy. I am so far, really pleased with this product. I am still experimenting with this product and the suggested times for dehydration.
This is the newer model kys336D – Wow this is the bees knees I'm loving the simplicity of use just slice what ever you want to dry and set the time and turn the trays a couple of time during the drying process and you have lovely dried fruit and veg does the best dried orange slices great for the festive season and it is a very affordable unit and has a 3 yr warranty
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