VIVOHOME 1000W Commercial Food Dehydrator - 10 Stainless Steel Trays with Digital Timer & Temperature Control - Perfect for Drying Fruits, Vegetables, Meat & Making Beef Jerky - ETL Certified for Home & Commercial Use

Got this unit 2 years ago and wished we had purchased it way before that!! Excellent dehydrator!! After 2 seasons of drying lots and lots of fruit i would give this unit a 5 star rating. Only reason i gave it a 4 star review is temp control is only preset in 9 degree increments. This isn't a big issue, but have to dry fruit at 131 instead of my preferred 135 degrees. Other than that,we are totally satisfied with the dehydrator in ALL REGARDS with 2 years of heavy seasonal use. Can get approx 49 apricot halves per tray or roughly 250 apricots per load, so real nice capacity. Once in a while the back wall of unit will start to vibrate while in use, but not often and if you gently tap the back wall near fan , it stops vibrating (back wall near where fan mounts is pretty thin metal and flexible). Brother has Cabelas commercial dehydrator and this unit, in my opinion, is every bit as good if not built better(expect for temp control). This Vivohome dryer is built well, heavy duty and works like a charm. Easy to clean,good head space between racks , noise level i would rate as low. I would recommend this model dehydrator and would buy again, if i ever had another need. Mike & Kim G-CalifMy husband could not wait to make beef jerky. It wasn't 24 hours, and he had a batch on. This is more like a commercial size. It will get big jobs done. I guess also it just seems so much bigger because we had a regular size before. I was tired of spending money on cheap ones so I went for a good one that will last! Your money will not be wasted if you purchase this. I am glad I did!My main reason why I bought this dehydrator is that after making jerky in the oven I needed something that can regulate heat better and be easier to clean. This nailed both of those issues.I tried beef and pork jerky (the pork version is what is pictured). I set my temp to 158°F and the timer to 4.5 hours. After checking around the 3.5 hour mark I realized I needed another half hour so in total it took around 5 hours but in the end they came out better than using the oven. The texture was more even and they were totally dried out, so I could put them in my pantry instead of refrigerator (~2 weeks according to various sites). My pictures don't do it justice, they looked and tasted fantastic. I made two batches, one with salt and white pepper; and a marinade with coconut aminos, salt, white pepper, and crushed red pepper (not pictured). That one took a little longer which is to be expected considering it was wetter but still was leagues better than any product I bought from my grocery store.One suggestion is to put some aluminum foil on the bottom in case anything falls or drips, makes cleanup easier.I bought this dehydrator March 10, 2021 unfortunately my dehydrator will no longer get hot the fan blows but it doesn’t get hot. I use my dehydrator alot because I have alot of dogs and I make all their treats sadly I can’t now because my dehydrator isn’t working, it stopped working in the middle of the night when I had 2 big packs of boneless skinless chicken breast in and all the chicken went bad. I figured this dehydrator would last longer than my last one because it costed 3x as much however my cheap dehydrator worked much longer.Updated I contacted this company and the customer service is ridiculous they offered me $150 back on a $300 purchase 5 months ago that’s half the price I paid what a joke, I can’t even believe Amazon sales their products I’m very aggravated. They actually ended up giving me a full refund therefore I changed my review from 1 star to 3 stars however I did have to argue a bit and tell them I wasn’t Will to accept a 50% refund on an item I had bought bought less then 5 months ago.Unit was represented as being in like new. Condision, but three of the ten shelves are not wide enough to stay on the rails, very disappointing.I like this dehydrator but it’s not my favorite. I think for the price it should have a lot more options and should be a little more user friendly. It beeps really loud, multiple times when it is finished. You can’t turn off the beeping, there should be a feature to be able to turn it off. The temperature control only lets you do certain temperatures. You can’t choose your own temp, it’s one that is preprogrammed like 113 degrees. Such an odd temperature, I have yet to find a recipe that says 113 degrees. The other thing I don’t like is that the trays are a little too long and they hit the fan cover and push it inward in order to close the door. The trays are also not exactly square and can only go in on a certain side. The dehydrator is square, the trays should be square as well so you don’t have to turn three trays when you are trying to load them and they have food on them. This dehydrator does a nice job dehydrating food and liquids but the above features make this so I wouldn't recommend this to anyone.The only thing I wish this had was a guide for time/temp to use for which foods. It is way too big for my small kitchen, but I wanted to be able to do a lot at once. I'm using this for raw dehydration of fruits and veggies. Made a really nice mango fruit leather with raspberry swirl. As I saw on other raw dehydration articles (there are so few straightforward resources online), it took experimentation to get it right. 105 to 115 degrees for 12 hours does the trick.I only used it one time but; It is fantastic. I bought some of the mats to put inside with the little holes not sure what they are called. They cling and don't move around and no little pieces fall thru. This is very quiet. There is a ton of room and it took me forever to fill up all the trays with mushrooms due to my arthritis but I did it and OMG I love this.Ce deshydrateur a brisé 4 fois pour 3 problèmes différents juste après la garantis pour le retour. Comme nous sommes bricoleurs, nous l’avons réparé, modifié et maintenant il fonctionne bien.Cet appareil n’est pas fait pour fonctionner plus d’un mois en tout cas. Heureusement que nous avons qqun dans la maison qui sais comment s’y prendre pour réparer ce genre de chose.Autrement, cet appareil serait allé à la poubelle…Se nettoie bien, déshydrate bien les légumes fruits et viandes.Mais tout de même, je ne recommanderais pas. Et appareil. Il est fait pour briser.The product has been damaged with shipping we are not happy the way we have received this product everything is working well but has a big big damage on the outsideUsed the dehydrator 5-6 times, worked amazingly well but than it didn't. Just completely stopped turning on, tried several different outlets so it's not that. Unfortunately had to return it, was good while it lasted.I had to return this And I only got $155 back because shipping cost was rediculous. Box isn’t even open.Works really well, loads of space! Wish it came with some sort of instruction manual though.