dehydrator
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- noun
- /ˌdiːhaɪˈdreɪtər/
- Specialized
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deshidratador
- We were buying the premade trail mix at WF and decided to buy a dehydrator for $50 and are now dehydrating our own fruits and then just adding bulk raw almonds and sunflower seeds to make our own cheaper version of trail mix.
- a food dehydrator
- dehydrator tray
- an electric dehydrator
Examples
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You can easily make dried fruit by placing slices on the dehydrator trays and setting the temperature.
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While you can use an electric food dehydrator, it's also relatively easy and cheap to construct a solar one that runs for free.
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Home drying can be done with a dehydrator, a microwave, or an oven.
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Remember all that corn I was drying in the oven on the dehydrator setting?
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I bought a dehydrator, and while I love it, the humidity levels outdoors have a great deal to do with how well things turn out.
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The dehydrator is also used to dry soybeans to feed the farm's cows.
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So, I tore the pumpkin skin into chip-size pieces, threw it in the dehydrator, and the results were amazing:
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Let's say that you wanna slice down zucchini squash with the electric food dehydrator.
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" We are in the process of adding a dehydrator to handle sludge that we can't process in the digester," says Phil Hayes, who supervises the facility.
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If you want to make the sugar more of a "raw" food, to prevent loss of the nutrients found in dates, you can slowly dehydrate them at a low temperature (100-110 degrees) either in a dehydrator or in the summertime—in a hot car, inside a (turned off) barbecue, or just out in the sun.
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Synonyms
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1.0
A machine that removes water from clothes by blowing warm air
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9.9
A machine that removes water by freezing and drying to keep samples for a long time
A machine that keeps food or lab samples from spoiling by freezing and removing their water
A sealed container that keeps things dry by removing water
Antonyms
How Preserved
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word dehydrator breaks into de- ('remove') and hydr- ('water'), the same root you see in hydrate. So a dehydrator is a machine that 'removes water', which is why it dries and preserves food.