NESCO Food Dehydrator

NESCO food dehydrator

The NESCO food dehydrator company has made Nesco food dehydrators for over thirty years and their patented food dehydrators feature technology that dries your food faster and evenly.

Nesco FD-75A Snackmaster Pro Food Dehydrator, For Snacks, Fruit, Beef Jerky, Gray

Nesco FD-79 Snackmaster Pro Digital Food Dehydrator for Snacks, Fruit, Beef Jerky, Meat

Nesco FD-60 Snackmaster Express Food Dehydrator for Great Jerky and Snacks, 4 Trays, Gray

Nesco FD-1018A Gardenmaster Pro Food Dehydrator, for Jerky and Snacks, White

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Even Drying ~ From Top to Bottom


According to NESCO®, you get even-drying from top to bottom because of NESCO's Converge-A-Flow® air-flow design.

This is supposed to eliminate the tray rotation, but I still rotate the trays, anyway.

They also have clear NESCO® food dehydrator trays so you can see what's drying. They also have a Snackmaster® Square Dehydrator and Jerky Maker.

Check out this model in our photo over on Amazon.

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Easy-To-Use Temperature Selector

NESCO temperature selector

The NESCO® food dehydrator models have a temperature selector on the lid and is easy to read and use.

The NESCO® food dehydrator fan is located on the top inside the lid, (which is better than some models where the fan is at the bottom, as it makes it a breeze to keep clean!)

There isn't an on/off switch on the NESCO® food dehydrator, you just have to plug the dehydrator in and unplug it when you're done. More on that below.







Buy a Lamp "Timer-switch"



You can buy a 'timer-switch' from hardware stores if you want to have the luxury of the NESCO® food dehydrator turning off, say after ten hours, if you know you won't be home to shut it off! Check out this timer on Amazon.

A neat feature of a NESCO® food dehydrator is that you can stack as many trays as you want, within reason! (You MUST have a minimum of four trays in use; see additional comments coming up).

I feel good about being able to use as many dehydrator trays as needed, rather than having to run the machine with empty trays. Sometimes I'll have just four trays going, and some days seven!

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Nesco Food Dehydrator:
Features Stackable Trays; Fan is in the Lid

Nesco FD-75A

I began with the NESCO®  four-tray model and purchased additional trays.

They come in sets of two at a very reasonable price.

I was pleased that the new NESCO food dehydrator trays color-matched perfectly with the old(er) trays for an almost seamless stacking experience!

I also made sure I had solid fruit roll sheets too, more on these coming up!

Use A Minimum of 4 Trays!

NOTE: NESCO® states you must use a minimum of four trays, whether you've got food on all four trays or not, for the fan to create even-drying.

The only time I ever need to run the dehydrator with less than four trays is when I make fruit roll-ups—I only have two Fruit Roll Sheets that came with the dehydrator so only two trays are actually being used! So I bought two more sheets, but I'm leaving in the following paragraph for those of you who still are operating your NESCO food dehydrators with two roll up sheets.

Keep on scrolling to read more about screens to keep your Nesco food dehydrator clean!

Nesco®
Food + Jerky Dehydrator


Nesco® American Harvest Express
All-In-One Kit with Jerky Gun


Nesco®
FD-60 Snackmaster


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Nesco Clean-a-Screen and Fruit Rolls Sheets

NESCO Clean-a-Screen and Fruit Roll sheets

So for now, when only using TWO trays for the roll-ups until you have purchased more fruit roll sheets to make the stack of trays add up to four, add an empty tray (without clean-a-Screens, more on those coming up) in-between the fruit roll trays and one more on top, so that you have the 'four tray minimum' for drying.

NESCO®  food dehydrators also have "Clean-a-Screens" which are circular plastic mesh flexible screens. They have little half-round cutouts for your fingers to enable easy removal of the sheets—and that's great!

They fit neatly into the dehydrator trays and this enables you to keep small foods from falling through to the trays below (as foods shrink when they dry out!)

NESCO®
Dehydrator FD-75PR


NESCO®
Clean A Screen


NESCO®
Extra Trays


NESCO®
Fruit Roll Sheets


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Sticky Foods on Screens Clean Off Easily

Also, any sticky fruits/foods clean off really easily from these dehydrator screens—which is their intended purpose. I just soak mine in the sink, then gently scrub away any stubborn particles, but honestly, it's rare that I have to put that much elbow-grease into cleaning them.

My 4-tray model came complete with two Fruit Roll Sheets as mentioned above, and these are like the Clean-a-Screens because they fit neatly into the trays, but these are solid so that the tray's contents CAN'T spill or seep through! Important when pouring puréed fruits to make the fruit roll-ups!

The NESCO® dehydrator company also offers cookbooks and Jerky Gun Kits.

NOTE: Some of you have written in saying that you've been using plastic wrap instead of the NESCO® Fruit Roll sheets—word of caution here! Make SURE you DO NOT cover the center hole in the trays—if you do, you won't get ANY air circulation and you'll likely burn the motor/thermostat out if you forget.

I'd err on the safe side and get more Fruit Roll Sheets because of their affordability.


Susan Gast owner, Easy Food Dehydrating plus Finally-Keto.com and SusanGast.com

Susan Gast began Easy Food Dehydrating in December 2010. Read Susan's story of what sparked her interest in all things related to "food dehydrating."

Susan is featured on Mother Earth News blog, and on Solo Build It (SBI) who host this site along with her sister site, Finally-Keto. Read her first SBI interview, and her second SBI interview. Susan also runs an additional SBI website: SusanGast.com - Non-Fiction Author - and showcases many of the books she's created and marketed over the years.

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