TSM Harvest Food Dehydrator

i have not had this long but already works like a champ. To date i have dried probably well over a hundred pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables and almost 50 pounds of beef jerky. Trays are super easy to clean tho for some dishwashers a bit big. for smaller dishwashers i just lay them flat and stack them. hand washing them can be difficult with anything that might stain the trays, but if you have a dishwasher problem solved.I really like the temperature adjust feature. something i would have liked to see on this dehydrator would also be a fan speed adjustment.Edit:.... um I did not write any of the above... not sure why use reviews are being made up on this product. Not my words, but the dehydrator isn't half bad. Still works after two years just as it did when I bought it. Really don't appreciate the review being submitted as my own....You can see from my original post I submitted on March 21, 2015, I still have this product October 2022 and it still is running and working great. I've made many a gallon bag of beef jerky with this

I bought this on October 3, 2014. At first I didn't use it often, but this summer and fall I have used it a bunch. I have tried different meal for hiking, I have dried a bunch of food that I normally would have composted because it was starting to go bad. It really has saved us some money. Literally (and I don't use that word lightly) it stopped heating on my very last batch of jalapenos from the garden... just blows cool air.I'm not saying that all the dehydrating went perfectly, it dehydrates a little unevenly. The edges would dehydrate before the center of the trays would, but it was ok for me. But after a year, and barely using it the first 9 months,I expect appliances to last more than a year, and more than 3-4 month of use. It is no longer eligible for a return or replacement so I won't buy this again. I will save up for the more expensive Excalibur line.I am very disappointed!

After seeing so many positive reviews on the Excalibur, the favored dehydrator of raw foodies, I had originally planned to purchase one of their models. Not having quite enough money to spend on one I did more research on the TSM. Being that TSM's main product is commercial dehydrators I figured I couldn't go wrong with theirs. Besides being more than $50 cheaper than a comparable Excalibur it also has one more tray than the Excalibur. I have had great experiences with it. It makes very little noise and does an excellent job on everything from dried tomatoes to kale chips. Love it and would recommend it to anyone who is considering the Excalibur. Save yourself some money and get an extra tray to boot. Great investment and great product~!

and this thing is horrible. So if I can help others save their hard earned money, please save up for an Excalibur. They are worth what they cost and I'll tell you why. I got my TSM Harvest Dehydrator today and I was very excited. I have a lot that I need to get dehydrated before it goes bad. I already have a 9 tray Excalibur and needed another. So I started shopping around and found this. It is a thing of beauty. It takes up less counter space because the trays are not as wide as the Excalibur, but they give you a tenth tray. The trays do not come with mesh sheets, and therefore, things that are smaller can fall through the trays. The trays could also break because of the kind of plastic they're made of, whereas, the Excaliburs trays flex. I would not worry about them breaking. There is not front door, but the trays are designed in such a way that when they are all in the unit, it doesn't need a door. The proof is in the pudding, though and this is the most important thing I can say about this product. I put in a load of 1/8 inch sliced zucchini in the TSM Harvest at 3 pm today. I put exactly the same thing in my Excalibur at 6 pm this evening. It is now 11:00 pm and the zucchini in the Excalibur are ready to come out. I didn't have to rotate the trays, turn them . . .nothing. The zucchini in the TSM Harvest might be dehydrated by in the morning and they might not. It doesn't dehydrate evenly. The zucchini in the back and around the edges of some (not all) of the trays are dry. The zucchini in the middles of the trays and the front are about as dry as if they would have been in my Excalibur an hour. So if you're not familiar with dehydrators, let me tell you, I have used the round ones and the Excalibur. With the round ones, you have to rotate the trays because the heating unit/fan is at the bottom, therefore, the trays on the bottom get done faster. I would use a round dehydrator before I would use the TSM Harvest. Please don't waste your hard earned money on this. BUY AN EXCALIBUR!!! It is worth the extra money!!