Review: Nesco Snackmaster Pro Food Dehydrator

Is it time to take your snacking to new levels? Would you love to have a versatile kitchen appliance that will let you dehydrate multiple foods without their flavors mixing? With the Nesco Snackmasater Pro, your days of having to rotate your trays or have your food affected by the incoming light from your kitchen are long gone. You simply put your preferred foods on one tray, repeat for the next tray even if they’re different foods, and then continued until the appliance is full! It’s not a bad deal on Amazon either, priced under $75.

What Are the Features of This Kitchen Appliance?

Instead of a bottom-mounted fan like many food dehydrators tend to have, the Nesco Snackmaster Pro delivers a top-mounted fan that eliminates the bothersome updrafts that can affect the quality of some foods. You can control the thermostat on this kitchen appliance as well, ranging from 95F to 160F depending on your needs. You’ll also get 2 solid sheets, 2 mesh sheets, and even three spice packets so you can make your own jerky.

There are these additional features to consider with this kitchen appliance as well:

• this food dehydrator is powered with a 600 watt motor so you can have a consistent result every single time over years, not just a few weeks;
• you don’t have to worry about liquids dripping into the chamber of this food dehydrator because of the top-mounted design; and
• this kitchen appliance can be expanded up to 12 trays from the stock 5 trays that come with its initial purchase.

The trays are made of a food grade plastic, keeping the weight of the unit down without compromising the integrity of the food. It’s BPA free and you’ve got about 1 inch of clearance space in the trays for larger items as well.

Does This Food Dehydrator Have Any Advantages?

Unlike other food dehydrators that tend to leave food stains that you can’t just clean off, this appliance is incredibly easy to clean and won’t cross-contaminate your food. You just take the items apart, wash them down, and then reassemble the appliance to be able to use it again.

There are a couple places where the design could be improved. The first is that there isn’t an on/off switch – it powers on when you plug it in. There’s also no timer included on this food dehydrator, so you’ve got to manually watch your times and then unplug the unit in order to turn it off.

If you’ve never had the opportunity to dehydrate food, however, and you want a low-cost way to experiment with what you can do, then this is definitely the appliance you’ll want to use. It could be a little more convenient, but it does offer some nice features that will help you get to know the pleasures of dehydrated food.