Presto 06306 Dehydro Electric Food Dehydrator Dehydrating Trays

Love,love,love my dehydrator. In the summer I put it on the porch so it doesn't create heat in the house. I have ran this almost nonstop at times and it works a dream. Very light weight,so easy to use, very durable,fits into itself so it doesn't take up lots of space, a little noisy inside so it was mostly used outside..

The Presto dehydrator with timer is a game changer. i use it all of the time to make fruit jerky and fruit rollups. The max number of trays that my presto dehydrator can have is 12. The trays are expensive but I purchased a few at time until I got to 12. The trays just look and feel like the originals. We wash them by soaking them in water and have them flipped up to fit into our sink then taking a fruit brush and scrubbing them. We put them into the oven to completely dry them. Oven is off but it still emits some heat because its gas.

It does the job.

Love that these tray are identical to the ones I have. Fit perfectly and will increase my volume of jerky that I make.

I got my Presto Model 6300 dehydrator about 6 years ago and love it. I use my dehydrator throughout the summer to dry peaches, nectarines, apples, and pears and sometimes in the winter, especially for bananas. The one drawback was that it only came with 4 trays. I have fruit trees, so I have an ample supply to use and 4 trays was not enough. To help with throughput, I bought 4 more trays 5 years ago. The manual says it can use up to 8 trays, so this would be perfect. In reality, I have found that 8 trays is too much, causing excessive drying time. I cap out at 6 trays normally, and sometimes spill over to 7. Having at least 2 extra trays is definitely worth it.The one drawback as others have noted is that they are a little difficult to clean. These are the same trays that come with the unit so the issue is with the original trays. Bits of fruit get into the crevices where the ribs meet. To clean them, I wash them in the sink and use a nylon vegetable scrubber to get into the crevices.

Presto is a family name because I've always used PRESSURE COOKERS by Presto, so I bought the four-racks dehydrator. If you use a peeler-corer for apples pears and Asian Pears, you get dried fruit in 4 hours or slightly more, just as the BOOK says. So if I do the work in the morning, I can put the fruit into wax paper bags and tins before I go to bed. WORKED GREAT.WHY it got 4 stars: In the book it says, not every dehydrator will do the BEST JOB with every fruit. And it recommends cutting grapes in half....ARE YOU SERIOUS PRESTO? I had over 2000 bunches of INTERLAKEN GRAPES, an excellent seedless that makes LOTS of raisins every year. I usually pick them about 100 bunches at a time, cover with a sheet and let them naturally wilt before pulling out the main stems as I put them on the trays to dehydrate. So I did the same thing....they burst with the 165 degree temperature, and they COOKED. The result was a gold colored very sweet fruit compared to the DARK BROWN flavorful raisins from last 7 years. So I would prefer to be able to adjust the TEMPERATURE to 145 for a day then 165 instead of NO TEMP adjustment on the Presto dehydrator.Also they do not mention rotating the layers after a few hours, and some spots dry too much if left with no rotation.

Works great for Jerky! Just what the doctor ordered! I kept running out of room making jerky and would often have to run 2-3 batches to dry everything out. Now I can get most of it done in 1.5 batches! I haven't noticed any difference in the quality of the jerky using 6 shelves instead of 4. They fit perfectly on the dehydrator and stack nicely as well. Seem to be the real deal!

This fit my presto dehydrator perfectly! My fiancé bought one for me to dehydrate fruit & it came with some trays but there wasn’t enough room for all that I was doing. Great price. Great product. It should come with a small thin tool though to lift the product or like small tweezers.