The Solar Food Dryer: How to Make and Use Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator

by Eben V. Fodor

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865715440
• ISBN13: 9780865715448
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: New Society Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.6" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

excellent resource

Excellent resource for building a solar dehydrator. Complete easy to follow instructions. Can't wait to get mine built.

The How To of Solar Drying

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.

Killer Book, a MUST HAVE for the Homemaker/Homesteader!

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 Dehyd

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.

A very worthwhile book

Fodor has written a book to be used, not simply read. The first part deals with the theory and physical facts of solar drying, while the second tells how to make a dryer. Next comes a section on preparing food to dry, followed by a brief group of recipes and, finally, some very handy appendices. Fodor writes clearly and handles details well.