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ROVSUN DH-508 5-Tray Dehydrator DEMO & REVIEW
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Jun 22, 2024
Looking for a food dehydrator to make your own dried fruit, vegetables, tea, or even just turn flowers into additions for your next craft project? I check out the Rovsun DH-508 5-Tray Food Dehydrator and find that it's a sleek option with its pro-style rectangular design and digital control panel. How do I test it? By making a family favorite: Dehydrated apples. Watch and see how it goes... Then check it out at: https://bit.ly/3i4PpTG and use discount code "RV5" to save an additional 5% of the purchase price. Check out Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ #dehydrator #fooddehydrator #driedfruit #health #askdavetaylor
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Is this your next dehydrator? Let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out this. This is the Robson, DH-805, 5-tray food dehydrator
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It's pretty darn nice. As you can see, it is actually a rectangular shape
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A lot of dehydrators are round, but this one's actually much more
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sort of this square, very professional look to it, and it comes a part
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super easy. You can see each tray is a nice size. You use as many as you need. And then you turn it on and it's 800 watts. You can do 30 minutes to 24 hours and a temperature of 95 to 158 degrees Fahrenheit. It's all BPA free food grade plastic. So there's no worries about anything coming off of this onto your food. That would not be good. Dishwashers safe, non-slip feet. So it's not going anywhere. And
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It's actually just a really nice, simple design. Now, I always think of dehydrators as like a hair dryer in a box
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because in a lot of ways, that's what it is. It's a little warm, and it's just circulating air through your food
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Now, we eat a lot of dehydrated apples and a lot of dehydrated bananas
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Bananas are easiest because you don't need any special tools. You just cut it with a knife and then just place it on and turn on your dehydrator
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Apples, I use a mandolin. Mandolins are super sharp. to be super careful. Use their little handle so that you don't slice your finger. Not good. But you can
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use this for jerky. You can dry tea. You can dry flowers if you're a scrapbooker. Whatever
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There's a lot of things you can do. Now, I am going to use this with apples. And for apples and
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fruit given that moisture content the optimal temperature is between 125 and 135 degrees I going to opt for 125 And all that controlled by this digital panel on the front So it really convenient to be able to just punch in the digits and set it exactly as you want
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In fact, let me get everything cut, sliced, positioned on the trays and then I'll show you how this all works
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So let's jump into that cutting process. You can see one apple has given us two trays
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So one criticism I'll have of this is that it would be nice to have more trays given the size
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But that's okay. We got two trays. We're going to do another apple, get two more trays
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and then we'll get this turned on and we'll see how it goes. So let me just slice a little more
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But this time you probably don't need to watch me. It's holding about two and a half of these big apples
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These are pretty big apples. So that gives you a sense that like each tray is about half of an apple
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So you can see it packs pretty fine. And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and turn it on
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And this is where that digital interface is great. All right. We're ready to program our Dehydrator
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And it's pretty easy to work with. So turn it on. And then you can just barely see that's illuminated
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If I push set, then that's illuminated. And I want to dial it to the temperature
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I want. We'll do that first. So we're going to get it down to 125 or as close as we can get
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There's 124 and then we'll go to time and I'm going to increment the time all the way to 24 hours. It's going to take a while for this
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Do you dehydrate the apple? And that's basically it. That's all you got to do because now you can just sit back and let it do the work while you clean up after your cutting adventure
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and there we go So now it all good to go and after a couple seconds it stops as you can see and now my dehydrators ready to run for 24 hours and give us some delicious apple chips I be right back
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Well, I know I said I was going to wait 24 hours, but I sampled and I think it might be done now
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So as you can see, I have over eight hours left on this, but we're going to go ahead and give it a shot
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Now, it's super easy. When you're done, you can just start actually pulling off your dehydrated food, or better, you can go ahead and
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turn the device off. Now you're thinking you turned it off, why is it still running
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The answer is that there's a two-minute cool down cycle and that's what you're experiencing right now
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what I'm experiencing, I should say. And so it's going to cool the system down to make sure everything's fine
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And while that's happening, let's go ahead and I'll take all the trays off and just show you
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here's what the base looks like. And as you can see, unsurprisingly, there are a couple little bits that have fallen down
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So a good dehydrator er, we'll go ahead and give this a wipe down after every single use
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But for now, I'll put all the trays back on. And we'll just see if we're in a good shape and ready to go
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And that's easy to ascertain by trying to pull some pieces off
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And this is a tiny bit sticky. So I might be jumping the gun a little bit here
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So there's two things that I could have done differently, by the way. One of which is a lot of people when they dehydruth
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hydrate apples, they brush a tiny bit of a sort of lemon and water mix on it
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Ah, see, it's cooled off. And that stops it from turning brown. But honestly, I can guarantee that
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my kids and I don't give a hoot about the fact that it's turned brown. If that's an aesthetic thing to
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you, it's easy to do. The other one is sometimes it's really good to do a very, very light
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brushing of oil because then you guarantee that you don't have any issues with pieces coming up
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But I am seeing that I'm having a little bit of an issue here
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And that makes me think that maybe it needs a little more time Because when they perfectly done they do tend to pop right off without any problem Now I will say that nailing that time is something
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that's dependent on where you live. So humidity level affects that, altitude affects that
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and of course the moisture content of whatever it is your dehydrating is going to affect that, too
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For me, I'm thinking that this is not quite as well. crunchy as I like. It gets a little bit crunchier as it cools off, but I think it needs a little
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more time. I think I jumped the gun. So I think I'm going to go ahead and turn it back on
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but in the meantime, let me just tell you about the price, because that's really the only thing
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we haven't talked about. Now, before I get to the price, I'm going to ask if you could subscribe
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Also, give me some feedback. Thumbs up if you found this useful. Leave a comment telling me what else
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wish I would have demonstrated or what you found really interesting or helpful
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And with that, let's talk about the price. This is the Robson, D.H. 805, five-tray food dehydrator, and it's 6599 at shop. .robson.com
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You might poke around and see if you can find it somewhere else, but if you buy it from their store, you know you get the real thing
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And there's lots to like here. You know, is this the perfect dehydrator
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You know, is there such a thing? this is a really nice design. I really like the rectangular layout. I really like the digital
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display once you get the hang of it. And of course, I'm really going to like these apples once
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I finally get them fully dehydrated. With that, I will hope to catch you in my next video
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