Most, if not all, raw food chefs and healing centers use Excalibur.
When you need Big, you need Excalibur.
At the biggest culinary school for training rawfood chefs — Living Light Culinary Arts Institute in Fort Bragg, northern California — you will find Excalibur the dehydrator of choice.
Unique Features Only in Excalibur
Excalibur boasts a few features that no other home dehydrator has:
Heating element and Fan are at the Back — so all trays dry equally at the same time and nothing spills into the heater and fan. With all other dehydrators, the heater-fan is in the base, so air picks up moisture from the bottom trays and then cannot dry the top trays equally well.
Nothing spills into L’Equip’s designer-base, but with Gardenmaster this is a problem.
Trays are Removable — so you pop a pyrex dish straight into Excalibur to make a pie shell or to warm the evening’s rawfood meal; all other dehydrators have only a 1 to 2-inch space between their trays. With Excalibur, you can remove all the trays and dry a complete flower arrangement inside it.
No Center Hole in each tray — so you have maximum drying space especially for dehydrating sprouted-grain crackers and fruit leathers.
Non-stick Fruit Leather Sheets — For their solid sheets, Excalibur uses Teflex coated in DuPont non-stick Teflon. All other dehydrators use plastic solid sheets, to which blended foods can stick, and crumble when you flip them over to continue drying on a mesh sheet. Of course, you pay extra for non-stick.
With L’Equip if I’m dehydrating something I know will stick, e.g. nachos crackers made with nuts (oil is sticky) I place a sheet of non-stick baking paper in each solid sheet, exactly fitting into the base. Then after 12-24 hours, I flip the sheet over onto a mesh sheet, and easily peel the paper off. I continue to dry them upside-down on a mesh sheet, same as with Excalibur.
World Bestseller
Roger Orton, a graduate in manufacturing engineering who founded Excalibur Products in 1973, writes on his web-site:
“In 30 years of business, we have hundreds of thousands of owners all across the country and around the world — gardeners, sports people, professional chefs, crafters, universities, and commercial enterprises.”
Excalibur Downside — Its Heat
Excalibur is notorious for its inaccurate temperature control, as discussed here under Excalibur Tech Specs. Users have found they’re cooking their food!
First, determine you have a problem. Use a meat (or digital) thermometer to measure the temperature inside your dehydrator.
If your thermodisc is inaccurate, you can throw it out and replace it with an accurate thermostat. I give instructions here under Convert Excal to Low-Heat.
DO NOT do this switch in the first year because you will void the warranty.
Model 2400 Is NOT for Living Foods
Excalibur 4-tray Model 2400 is low-cost but is NOT SUITABLE for raw fooders.
If you’re new to raw foods, please don’t buy this model in error. See why in Excalibur Tech Specs.
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Discover More
- Technical Specifications of Excalibur Dehydrators
- How to Fix a Faulty Thermostat in Excalibur — shows how to change the Excalibur Thermometer to a more reliable one.
- Dehydrating Links — see all info on Dehydrating.
- Site Map — see the whole feast 🙂