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

Eben V. Fodor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2006

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.

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About the Author

Eben Fodor has a background in renewable energy, specializing in high efficiency passive solar heating systems and solar-heated saunas. His professional work is as a community planning consultant based in Eugene, Oregon

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: New Society Publishers (January 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0865715440
• ISBN-13: 978-0865715448
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #68,881 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #46 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Canning & Preserving

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49 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Killer Book, a MUST HAVE for the Homemaker/Homesteader!, November 2, 2006

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A. Turpen "militant libertarian" (Salt Lake City, Utah) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Solar Food Dryer: How to Make and Use Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator (Paperback)

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 will supply this, so it's not really necessary.

46 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very worthwhile book, July 29, 2006

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Edward Esch (Euclid, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Solar Food Dryer: How to Make and Use Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator (Paperback)

Fodor has written a book to be used, not simply read. The first part deals with the theory and physical facts of solar drying, while the second tells how to make a dryer. Next comes a section on preparing food to dry, followed by a brief group of recipes and, finally, some very handy appendices. Fodor writes clearly and handles details well.

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Solar Food Dryer: How to make and Use You Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator, August 20, 2006

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Miranda D. Sieh "PrincessPetal" (Hastings, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Solar Food Dryer: How to Make and Use Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator (Paperback)

This 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.