Excalibur Dehydrator D502 / D902 Series

Meets my requirements – Have only used it so far to dry my Chilies and it did a great job. Took two days, which was a lot longer than the instructions suggested but it was filled chokka with chillies. They turned out very dry and with all the flavour and heat intact. The dehydrator functioned as would be expected, and whilst some prior reviews I had read suggested it was noisy, I decided to place it in the garage. Not required! It's about as noisy as a toaster, maybe I'm lucky? Was intending to give it a flogging this summer with tomatoes, and fruit but with all the rain to date, I'll be lucky to get anything out of my water logged garden!! Anyway so far so good.

Impressive machine – The D902SHD is a heavy unit. With heavy stainless steel mesh trays, stainless steel lid and side panel, it looks and feels solid. One of the trays was faulty in the box - the vendor replaced immediately. The 9 trays can take a significant amount of food on board, and drying seems to be quite even. The noise level is more or less like a small fan heater. Good drying Heavy (if you want to move it around)