Home 
The Solar Food Dryer: How to Make and Use Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator
The Solar Food Dryer: How to Make and Use Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food DehydratorThe Solar Food Dryer: How to Make and Use Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator
New Society Publishers Product Details - Ratings and reviews for the solar food dryer: how to make and use your own low-cost, high performance, sun-powered food dehydrator.
Enlarge View
by: Eben V. Fodor
List Price:
Featured:
Compare:
$9.44
$9.44
Sales Rank: 54763
New Society Publishers
Released: 2006-01-01
Avg. Customer Review: 
Media: Paperback (1)
TODAY'S BEST DEALS
allnewbooks
Price: $9.44
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
thermite-media
Price: $9.47
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Product Features
The Solar Food Dryer: How to Make and Use Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator
- ISBN13: 9780865715448
- Condition: New
- Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
Product 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.
Product Details
The Solar Food Dryer: How to Make and Use Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator
- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: New Society Publishers; 2006-01-01
- Label: New Society Publishers
- Studio: New Society Publishers
- ISBN: 0865715440
- Average Customer Review: based on 10 reviews
- Sales Rank in Books: #54763
Customer Reviews
Avg. Customer Review:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: No info on what the basic concept of the dehydrator is, no sale 2010-01-18
Customer Rating:
Summary: Inspiring, but not so simple! 2009-10-13
Comment: I bought the book as I have had trouble getting plans to build a solar food dehydrator. When reading the book, I got very inspired to build the dryer, but I have run into problems getting drying racks. Ebon eludes to the fact that they're a problem to obtain, but I am left searching for suitable racks and can't build the dryer until they are sourced.
Apart from that, It's a nice book to read.
Apart from that, It's a nice book to read.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: excellent resource 2009-09-20
Comment: Excellent resource for building a solar dehydrator. Complete easy to follow instructions. Can't wait to get mine built.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good, but will it work outside the desert? 2009-06-15
Comment: Lots of useful information. It does not address whether solar dehydrators are effective in more humid areas of the country. Plan to give it a shot to see how it works.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Food Drying 2008-08-17
Comment: Book 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 because it is past it's selling quality. I am happy with the book and plan to read it again.
You are currently viewing
The Solar Food Dryer: How to Make and Use Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator
With so many free plans drifting around the Internet, I'm not going to buy a book that doesn't even state what the central idea is. Otherwise, I don't know if it's a suitable design for the humidity and solar input conditions of my region of the country.
No info, no sale.