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The Solar Food Dryer: How to Make and Use Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator | 
 enlarge | Author: Eben V. Fodor
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
Buy New: $9.31
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 25785
Media: Paperback
Pages: 144
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 7.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0865715440
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.44
EAN: 9780865715448
ASIN: 0865715440
Publication Date: January 1, 2006
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Product Description
The Solar Food Dryer describes how to use solar energy to dry your food instead of costly electricity. With your own solar-powered food dryer, you can quickly and efficiently dry all your extra garden veggies, fruits, and herbs to preserve their goodness all year long-with free sunshine! Applicable to a wide geography-wherever gardens grow-this well-illustrated book includes: Complete step-by-step plans for building a high-performance, low-cost solar food dryer from readily available materials
Solar energy design concepts
Food drying tips and recipes
Resources, references, solar charts, and more Eben Fodor is an organic gardener with a background in solar energy and engineering. He works as a community planning consultant in Eugene, Oregon.
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 Food Drying August 17, 2008
J. Heuer (South Carolina)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Book is short and easy to read. I am an engineer and the designs are good, however I feel that there can be some overall improvements not necessarly to the design only but to the consrtuction. I plan to draft a set of working drawings to check out my ideas and then make a "Throw-away" sample prior to building an actual working dryer. I have all kinds of scrap in the shop to do this with that wouldn't last long out in the sun all day. I can probably get some test food free from a local market because it is past it's selling quality. I am happy with the book and plan to read it again.
 The How To of Solar Drying July 17, 2008
Ozarkflowerlady (Elkins, AR USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book explains the how and why of solar drying. I had been thinking about it as I dry quite a bit of produce/herbs each summer using an electrical dryer which is costly at this time. The solar dryers shown in the book would be for someone who dries small amounts at a time, but I have the concept and can build a unit(s) which could dry the amount of produce I process each year.
Drying food May 27, 2008
J. Lootsma (New Zealand)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I don't necessarily agree that the food dryer in this book is the most optimal design. Creating a hot plate, and then shading it with layers of fruit seems to be less then optimal to me. I am going to built a food dryer similar to the Mexican one described in the book. But that's of course a personal choice. The book is very very detailed in how to make the proposed fruit dryer. If you are not a handy type person, I guess you will still be able to make it. For me, personally it's far too much detail. I like to work from a picture only and make it to my liking, I don't like all the strict guidelines. However, this book is very helpful in explaining all the in's and out's of food drying. The underlying principals, the effect of different angles in regards to the rays of the sun, the effect of where you are on the world in regards to the strenght's of the sun rays, how to regulate the temperature by means of ventilation openings, etc. In this respect the book has taught me a lot more then I imagined I would, and has given me the basic knowledge to build a decent sun powered food dryer, and in that respect I regard this book as a really good buy.
Killer Book, a MUST HAVE for the Homemaker/Homesteader! November 2, 2006
A. Turpen (Salt Lake City, Utah)
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
If you do any kind of homemaking, preserving, growing of your own food, etc., then you absolutely need to get this book! This will give you low-cost and realistic way to preserve your food naturally and in a way that keeps it tasting great! The step-by-step instructions for building the author's food dryer are top-notch and easy to follow, even for the non-mechanically inclined.
My only wish is that the author had included plans for the other food dryers mentioned, though a quick Google will supply this, so it's not really necessary.
The Solar Food Dryer: How to make and Use You Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator August 20, 2006
Miranda D. Sieh (Hastings, MN USA)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
This book is very informational about the food dryer design promoted in the book. I wish it had a little more information about the pros and cons of other solar dryer designs.
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