Magic Mill Premium Food Dehydrator Machine (10 Extra-Large Stainless Steel Trays) 700W Dryer for Beef Jerky, Fruits, Vegetables, Dog Treats, 48 Hour Digital Timer - 95°-167° Temperature Control

Best dehydrator I've ever owned best on the market very big and great for dog treats and bones ,fruits jerky I mean everything this is top of the line very fast with the same quality of once that take days love this brand and all thank you I would highly recommend don't mind pics we have used it a bunch of times lol

I like this dehydrator really good design. I like that it is racks instead of cylinders. I like the idea you can hang meat in it for making jerky without being on the racks themselves. It's not horribly good very very quiet pretty easy to operate and does a good job of dehydrating I don't dehydrate a ton. I wanna get more into it, but this is a really nice machine. General meals has been around for a long time. I wish there was an on and off button. That's my only complaint. It's always on when it's plugged in.

This dehydrator works great. We have dehydrated so much produce from our garden. It is easy to operate, easy to clean and the perfect size for my kitchen. The instructions cover all the vegetables I would want to dehydrate, even more! It is easy to set the time and temperature.

great product. works great for fruit, vegetables, and filament. the artbin super satchel is perfect storage for the extra trays and accessories.

I am always skeptical with any Amazon purchase. But, I am pleased with this dehydrator. I would have given this a five star except that I would of liked it to have a better electrical panel. For example, there is no pause button. It's just and up and down button. It's a good product, and it is still easy to use and it comes with plenty trays. It also comes with one liquid tray which can be used at the bottom to capture any spillage. It's large enough to fit a turkey to give you a better picture/idea. And the machine is very light weight so it will be easy to move around.

As described!! Works perfectly.

Perfect size dehydrator. 7 trays are decent size. I can fit 4 pounds of meat easily on 6 trays with a little room to spare on 2 of the trays. So it’ll fit 5 pounds for sure using the 7th tray. So much easier than the old school tower dehydrator. The fan is quiet and everything is easy to operate. It comes with 2 plastic jerky trays. Would be awesome if it came with 7 (one for each tray). Wouldn’t recommend putting stuff directly on the wire racks. But you can buy food grade silicon mats for it which are inexpensive. I bought the mats, and clean up is a breeze. Set the temp and time and pretty much forget about it. I turn my trays at halfway, but you honestly don’t need to. It evenly distributed the heat. Using the old tower dehydrator, I always had to rotate my trays from bottom to top and etc every few hours. This dehydrator makes everything simple and easy. I’ve used it a handful of times now. Started off with just one pound of meat to understand it. And now doing 4-5 pounds of meat at a time. Comes with a recipe book, which is a good reference with temps and times for a lot of stuff if you’ve never used a dehydrator. It makes it easy to just open the book and figure out what temp for what ever you are trying to make. I’m happy you can set a certain temp for a certain time and not have to constantly check on your stuff. Used a tower dehydrator for years just bc that’s how I was raised. But so glad I got this. Made my life so much easier. I no longer have to constantly check to make sure everything is getting dehydrated properly, and constantly check my tower trays. Would recommend to anyone that would like to start dehydrating things, as well as to people that have been dehydrating for years using a tower tray system. This dehydrator is worth it to me and I’ll continue to use it for as long as I can.

Overall, this is a pretty great dehydrator! I started with some apple slices and then tried some banana chips (those take awhile!) and then finally today some jerky.I purchased a 5.7 lb package of eye of round already sliced to 1/4” thick and split into two different flavors of jerky; a Sweet and Spicy and a Jerky Lovers Ghost Pepper.Before putting the jerky in the dehydrator, I figured I would break out my Fieldpiece Dual Temp Thermometer and check the actual grate temp at a thermostat setting of 165 degrees. This is a professional meter (I am in the HVAC industry) and I wove the temp probe through the grate to get a temperature at the grate. The probe was calibrated in ice water to 32 degrees prior to this test. I tested at the middle grate position, the top and the bottom. Temps were very even and was let run for 20 minutes to make sure it had time to heat. As you can see in the photo, the temp was consistently 122 degrees in all positions with the temp set at 165 degrees.I am not sure where Magic Mill locates their thermostat probe, but I am guessing it may be near the heating element causing false operations.If a guy wants to make jerky, these temps can be a concern as getting beef to at least 160 degrees is a good idea to kill possibly dangerous microbes. I knocked a star off for this reason. I may look into where the probe is located and see if it could be relocated somewhere different to sense box temp more accurately. I think I will call Magic Mill first to see if they can give me any ideas.Other than that, I only have one additional gripe and that is the unit is pretty flimsy once you remove the grates from it. Obviously, the grates keep the box square when installed, but the box seems to be made mostly of plastic and doesn’t have much of a rigid frame. Again, at this price point, this is to be expected!When the unit is running, it is VERY quiet. Airflow is great due to a large diameter fan prop in the rear cabinet. The beeps ARE quite loud, but I have the dehydrator in our pantry (which is a different room) and it doesn’t bother me and I can still hear it in my living room, so for my application it works.In conclusion, this is a great dehydrator at a great price and includes 10 metal screens, 2 fruit leather shelves and one silicone screen for herbs and sticky fruits (bananas). I will probably order more of the silicone screens from Magic Mill so I can dry peppers and herbs next season. The digital display is easy to read and easy to use and the temperature range is a nice feature. I set the unit to 95 degrees, pulled out the screens and placed my stainless mixing bowl unit with some bread dough to proof and in an hour, the dough had more than doubled in size, so another great feature! The recipe book includes some directions about culturing yogurt in the machine as well and is a nice mention, as I never thought of using the Magic Mill in that fashion.I will update this review if I find out anything about the temperature accuracy and also when the jerky currently in the machine is done.UPDATE: Jerky turned out pretty great! Had it at 165 and ran for about 5 hours. So much easier and faster than the old round stacking style I had with no fan! Thumbs WAY up! 👍🏻