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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 641.44 EAN: 9780865715448 ISBN: 0865715440 Label: New Society Publishers Manufacturer: New Society Publishers Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: January 01, 2006 Publisher: New Society Publishers Studio: New Society Publishers Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The Solar Food Dryer describes how to use solar energy to dry your food instead of costly electricity. With your own solar-powered food dryer, you can quickly and efficiently dry all your extra garden veggies, fruits, and herbs to preserve their goodness all year long-with free sunshine! Applicable to a wide geography-wherever gardens grow-this well-illustrated book includes: Complete step-by-step plans for building a high-performance, low-cost solar food dryer from readily available materials Solar energy design concepts Food drying tips and recipes Resources, references, solar charts, and more Eben Fodor is an organic gardener with a background in solar energy and engineering. He works as a community planning consultant in Eugene, Oregon. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Food DryingBook is short and easy to read. I am an engineer and the designs are good, however I feel that there can be some overall improvements not necessarly to the design only but to the consrtuction. I plan to draft a set of working drawings to check out my ideas and then make a "Throw-away" sample prior to building an actual working dryer. I have all kinds of scrap in the shop to do this with that wouldn't last long out in the sun all day. I can probably get some test food free from a local market ... Read More Rating:  - The How To of Solar DryingThe book explains the how and why of solar drying. I had been thinking about it as I dry quite a bit of produce/herbs each summer using an electrical dryer which is costly at this time. The solar dryers shown in the book would be for someone who dries small amounts at a time, but I have the concept and can build a unit(s) which could dry the amount of produce I process each year. Rating: - Drying foodI don't necessarily agree that the food dryer in this book is the most optimal design. Creating a hot plate, and then shading it with layers of fruit seems to be less then optimal to me. I am going to built a food dryer similar to the Mexican one described in the book. But that's of course a personal choice. The book is very very detailed in how to make the proposed fruit dryer. If you are not a handy type person, I guess you will still be able to make it. For me, personally it's far too much detail. ... Read More Rating: - Killer Book, a MUST HAVE for the Homemaker/Homesteader!If you do any kind of homemaking, preserving, growing of your own food, etc., then you absolutely need to get this book! This will give you low-cost and realistic way to preserve your food naturally and in a way that keeps it tasting great! The step-by-step instructions for building the author's food dryer are top-notch and easy to follow, even for the non-mechanically inclined. My only wish is that the author had included plans for the other food dryers mentioned, though a quick Google ... Read More Rating: - The Solar Food Dryer: How to make and Use You Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food DehydratorThis book is very informational about the food dryer design promoted in the book. I wish it had a little more information about the pros and cons of other solar dryer designs. 
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