Hey NePas....

[Mr Walleye]

I know you have one of the Cabela's dehydrators. I was curious if it was the 80L or the 160L model and also was interested in anything else you had to say about it such as drying time with a full load of jerky.

I did notice on their site there is conflicting information as to the size of the heating unit in them. On this page it indicates both sizes have a 1600 watt heated.
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/product/standard-item.jsp?_DARGS=/cabelas/en/common/catalog/item-link.jsp_A&_DAV=MainCatcat602009-cat570005&id=0019202515819a&navCount=8&podId=0019202&parentId=&masterpathid=&navAction=push&catalogCode=7IS&rid=&parentType=&indexId=cat570005&hasJS=true

And on this page it indicates the smaller unit has a 1200 watt heater and the larger has 1600 watt heater.
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?cmView=full&type=pod&id=0019202

If your is the 80L unit do you know which size heating unit it has?

Thanks
Mike

[dick621]

Mike,  I just bought the 80 and it says it is 1600 watts and the parts list has the same part number for both the 160 and the 180.

[Mr Walleye]

Thanks Dick

What's your opinion on the unit?

Mike

[NePaSmoKer]

Same thing Mike
1600 on mine too 80L

nepas

[NePaSmoKer]

I have been through many dehydrators, from the round ones, eqi-flow's, excaliburs and the Cabelas beats em all. My eqi-flow takes around 9.5 hrs to 11 hrs for a full unit, around 10 pnds. The Cabelas cut it down to 7 hrs and i can do just under 13 pnds.

nepas

[Mr Walleye]

Wow... 13 lbs!

I didn't realize it would hold that much. Have you tried doing much else in it? I have never done tomatoes but would also like to make something along the lines of sun dried tomatoes.

Mike

[dick621]

I havent really done enough yet to know for sure, but think its going to be everything I hoped for.

[NePaSmoKer]

If you do things that will shrink alot you will need the tray covers. Food grade FDA approved that sit on each rack. They are small 1/8" square holes. I use them when i do banana chips, chunk style jerky, ancho peppers and the like.

nepas

[Mr Walleye]

Thanks Guys!

What are the openings in the standard racks? Are the racks metal with chrome plating?

Mike

[NePaSmoKer]

Thanks Guys!

What are the openings in the standard racks? Are the racks metal with chrome plating?

Mike

My racks are 3/4" square coated. And they have not peeled at all.

nepas

[tsquared]

Mr. Walleye--you won't believe how good your dried tomatoes will be. We do a whole batch every year and they are unbelievabley sweet and tasty all winter long.
T2

[Mr Walleye]

Thanks again Guys!

I think I may have to order the 80L unit. They appear to be very well constructed. I have had a few different dehydrators but none of them were that good.

Mike

[Mr Walleye]

Hey guys.... one more question.

How is the unit for cleaning? I see it has some sort of drip tray, is this helpful?

Mike

[Mr Walleye]

Holy crap guys!  >:(

I just tried to order it. I thought great, they have it on sale for $249, so I run through the online order, everything looks good, get to the shiping selection and I select surface, it comes back and says it's too big for surface, I change it to internation air and my bill is $485.96!!! Needless to say I guess I won't be getting it.  >:(  >:(  >:(

Man that sucks!

Mike

[NePaSmoKer]

Holy crap guys!  >:(

I just tried to order it. I thought great, they have it on sale for $249, so I run through the online order, everything looks good, get to the shiping selection and I select surface, it comes back and says it's too big for surface, I change it to internation air and my bill is $485.96!!! Needless to say I guess I won't be getting it.  >:(  >:(  >:(

Man that sucks!

Mike

Yeah Mike its a pretty good size box.

nepas