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

Eben wrote a good book. More than ever, we all need to shrink our food budget and our bellies at the same time. Moreover, I HATE to cook, so food can get ready that is done for me by sunshine is a great deal, especially where I live in Hawaii. Tasty pictures of dried food, plus plans to build your own food drying along with photos of tools and techniques. Good job!

I live in a sunny, hot, high desert area and was looking for simple instructions on making a solar food dehydrator. This book has all the instructions you will need. Gives you a list of materials; where to find them; how to take advantage of recycled material; materials to stay away from; easy to follow instructions and foods and how to prepare them. Can't wait to get

the wife read the book and tried a couple of drying techniques. we tried pinapples out of the can and it did ok. could be a little more specific for width of cut for what you are drying. over all this is a good book to have if ub a dryer fan. the reason for only 4 stars is we want to try out more ideas in the book.

We used this book to build a bigger dryer that suits our needs it was what we needed to get the design and make a fully functional solar food dyer. We have 3 large screens in ours and didn't add the lights since we live in Utah and have alot of sun. I dry fruits and vegetables all summer for winter food, backpack food, preserving food...

Another great book. I purchased it the same time as the solar food dryer and am anxious to experiment with it. Unfortunately, I live in the great Pacific NorthWET...s left out intentionally. As soon as it quits raining, I'm going to "play"! Seriously, great ideas in this book.

Book is helpful, but I was hoping it would address drying difficult foods for best preservation, but it is more about how to make a solar dryer.

Great book, theres really not much to say about the book, if you want to know how to build a Solar Food Dryer this is the book for you. It is well explained each step and you don't need a lot of previous knowledge to know how to use it.

And then I ordered the paper copy. This is definitely one of those references you want on the shelf. We start building this weekend. Its detailed enough to explain not just why you should have one, but how to make the most of the conditions wherever you live.