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FOOD DEHYDRATOR
Model：：：：FD880B
220-240V~50/60Hz, 400W
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Instruction Manual
Pls keep the instruction manual for your checking and consulting in the future.
Parts Instruction ........................................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
Safety Tips ...................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Handling Tips ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
The Do's and Don'ts ...................................................................................................................................................... 4
Food Dehydrator ........................................................................................................................................................... 5
Cleaning and Maintence ............................................................................................................................................. 11
Technique Data ............................................................................................................................................................ 12
Manual
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Parts Instruction
handle
cover
trays
control panel
wind outlet bottom
In order to ensure the safety of using process, pls read the instruction manual carefully before use,
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Safety Tips
Food Dehydrator machine must be put on the heat-resistance flat surface like tiles, plank etc, which is in
case of initiating a fire.
1. The maximum working hour must be less than 40 hours. After continuous working for 40 hours, you must turn
off the machine and unplug the power cord.
2. Attention: incorrect using will damage the machine.
3. Food Dehydrator is used for drying food. Don’t use Food Dehydrator in other purpose, and use it strictly under
the guide of instruction manual please.
4. Please unplug the power cord after use.
5. Please don’t touch water with the bottom, and don’t turn on the machine when the bottom toughed water.
6. Don’t use the electrical appliance if any following situation happens:
The power cord or the plug is broken, the machine breaks down or broken.
7. Please don’t hang down the power cord from the sharp edge or put it near or onto the overheated object.
8. The product is not suitable to use for children, the psychophysiological disorders and people who is not familiar
with the products should use under guiding by people who is responsible for his or her safety. The gown-up
should teach juveniles not to play the machine.
9. Please unplug the plug before you clean the food dehydrator.
10. Please unplug by holding the plug instead of pulling off the power cord to unplug.
11. Food dehydrator is only used as household appliance instead of commercial using.
12. Please don’t cover the product when it’s working.
13. Please note that this food dehydrator must work on the water level surface.
Handling Tips
1. Attention: please use food dehydrator under the instruction of the following operation instruction.
1) Open the package.
2) Pls check the master power supply if it matches with the rated voltage on the food dehydrator.
3) Please clean the lid and trays. Please clean with warm water mixed with a little of mild detergent; Please clean
the bottom with wet cleaning cloth. (Please don’t put the bottom into the water or wash it with water directly)
Use or storage the food dehydrator after it’s dry.
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2. Function instruction:
To dry food is the best and effective way to storage food.
Under an adjustable temperature controlled, the cycling hot wind can flow freely between each tray. This is the
reason why food dehydrator can dry food and keep the lose of food nutrients in the minimum range at the same time.
You can easily store different food and vegetable in each season only with one food dehydrator. And you can
freely enjoy nutritious, healthy and delicious food with all kind of fruit and vegetable. Besides, you can also use food
dehydrator to dry flower, herb, grain etc.
3. Handling Tips:
1) Put food on trays with fittable gap, so that the cycling hot wind can flow freely between each tray. Therefore,
we suggest not to pile food one on another one.
2) Put the trays into food dehydrator.
Tips: put the tray with food on food dehydrator. All the trays must be put onto food dehydrator when food
dehydrator is working even some trays are empty. And please put the tray with food onto food dehydrator firstly
and then put the empty trays in the next.
3) Starting food dehydrator by turning on food dehydrator by press the “ON” button.
4) After food is dry, press “OFF” to turn off machine. Put food into the sealed container after food cools.
5) Unplug it.
Attention! All the trays must be put onto food dehydrator when food dehydrator is working even some trays are
empty.
For example,
1）Food is put on the top tray, and the bottom 4 trays are empty. Always cover with lid when it’s working.
2) Food is put on the top 2 trays, and the bottom 4 trays are empty. Always cover with lid when it’s working.
4. Tray Adjustable:
Trays are adjustable for different food. For drying thick food, you can adjust trays to 36mm height of each tray.
For drying thin food, you can adjust trays to 25.5mm height of each tray. And you can save a lot space to storage
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after you adjust the tray to 25.5mm of each tray. For the details refer to the following picture:
The Do's and Don'ts
1. Please dry food in food dehydrator after cleaning and drying food. Please don’t put the food with water into
food dehydrator.
2. Attention! Please don’t dry food with flow of liquid.in food dehydrator!
3. If the food is with soft and rotten part, please clean it out firstly. And put food with fittable size onto food
dehydrator. The size of food will influence the time needed to dry food .
4. During the process of drying, please adjust the trays position up and down if you found any food is dried
uneven. You can move the top tray to the bottom and move the bottom one to the top position. Some food is
with skin to prevent the lose of water, which is one of the reasons why it need more time to dry. The best way to
solve the problem is to boil food for 1 to 2 minutes and then cool them into cool water. And then put them onto
food dehydrator after draining water.
5. Drying time is influenced by room temperature, air humidity, food type, food size and quantity etc.
6. Drying note: time for drying in instruction manual is only for your information.
Food Dehydrator
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1. Dry food
1) Clean food
2) Clean out the soft and rotten part of food, also clean out seed.
3) Chop food to fittable size and put food onto trays.
4) It’s suggested to add lemon juice to keep the color of fruit.
2. Dry vegetable
1) Clean vegetable
2) Clean out the soft and rotten part of food, also clean out seed.
3) Chop food to fittable size and put food onto trays.
4) It’s best way to to boil vegetable for 1 to 2 minutes and then cool them into cool water. And then put them onto
food dehydrator after draining water.
3. Dry herb
1) It’s suggested to dry with the fresh leaves of herb.
2) After drying herb, store them into paper bag or glass of bottle. And keep them out of sunlight.
Food storage
1. The storage container must be clean and dry.
2. It’s suggested to storage food with glass of bottle covered by metal lid. And keep them in the place with 5-2
temperature and avoid sunlight.
0℃
3. Please check the dried food if they are 100% dried during the first week. If any undried food found, please put
them into food dehydrator to dry again.
Attention! The dried food must be 100% cooled down before you store them in sealed container.
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Tips for drying fruit
soft
Fruit
Name
Preparation Drying
Effect
Apricot Cut and clean out the seed. Cut into 2 or 4 pieces, face up
on trays
Tangerine
Peel it into strip crisp
Peel
Fresh
Peel and clean out the middle part, slice or cut into bulk tough
Pineapple
Canned
Drain canned pineapple firstly, and then dry them on trays soft
Pineapple
banana Peel and cut into round with 3-4 cm thickness. crisp
grape Clean and destem. It’s better to boil it first before dry. soft
cherry Destem before dry, no need to take seeds out, you can
tough
choose to take seeds out when it’s half dried.
Time（hours
13-28
8-16
6-36
6-36
8-38
8-38
8-26
）
pear Peel and cut out the middle part, cut into bulk, 2 pieces, 4
soft
8-30
pieces or 8 pieces.
fig Cut before dry. tough
bilberry Clean and slice before dry. Or dry with whole bilberry. soft
peach Peel first, clean out the seed when it’s half-dried. And then
soft
6-26
6-26
10-34
cut into 2 pieces or 4 pieces.
date Clean out seeds and slice tough
apple Peel and clean out seeds, slice or cut into round or bulk
soft
6-26
5-7
size. Dip for 2 minutes in water, and then put it on trays
after draining.
Attention； time for drying and preparing food in above table is just for your reference. Customers can adjust time
according to your personal preference.
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Bean
Preprocess for drying vegetable
1. It’s suggested to biol firstly for 3-5 minutes before drying some vegetable like beans, broccoli, broccoli,
asparagus, potato etc. And then cool and drain before drying on food dehydrator.
2. If you want to add some lemon taste to beans and asparagus, you can add some lemon juice into these
vegetable for 2 minutes before you boil them.
Attention； time for drying and preparing food in above table is just for your reference.
Tips for drying vegetable
Vegetable
Preparation Drying
Name
artichoke cut into strips for 3-4 mm, 3-4 cups of water mixed with one
spoon of lemon juice, and then boil it for 5-8 minutes
Eggplant Cut out the stem, clean, slice (6-12mm), put it onto trays and
then boil them
Broccoli Cut, clean and boil for 3-5
mushroom It’s suggested to choose more the necked-in pileus, as these
mushrooms are more soft and tender. To clean the dust with
the brush or wet clothing. Chop or Cut according to the size
of mushroom. You can also choose to dry with the whole
mushroom
Cut and boil them till it looks translucent, please turn over
the bean during you dry beans to heat evenly.
Time(hours)
Effects
crisp 5-13
crisp 6-18
crisp 6-20
Tough 6-14
crisp 8-26
pumpkin Clean and slice (6mm)
Cabbage Cut the stem, cut into strip, cut the cabbage to 4 parts, and
then dry on trays
Brussels
Cut the whole sprout into 2 parts
sprouts
cauliflower Dip cauliflower into 1 liter of water mixed with 3 spoons of
salt for 2 minutes. And then boil them.
crisp 6-18
Tough 6-14
crisp 8-30
tough 6-16
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Carrot
(12mm), cool and dry on trays.
Celery
Potato You can choose to cut peel, keep peel, slice, shred, cut into
cubic, boil for 8 to 10 minutes.
crisp 8-30
onion Slice, cut or chop. Please turn over them during drying.
It’s suggested to choose tender carrot. Slice, cut into strip or
cubic, chop or shred. And then boil them.
cucumber Slice
Green
pepper
Cut into strips or round (6mm), clean the seed out, clean and
drain
Hot pepper Clean, drain, no need to cut. Please wear gloves to protect
your hands.
Parsley Tear, dry by air first, or to chop into smaller size
Tomato Clean out the base, boil to make the skin soft, cut into 2 parts
or chop.
rhubarb It’s suggested to choose tender stem, clean and slice(3mm)
crisp 8-14
crisp 8-14
tough 6-18
crisp 4-14
tough 8-14
crisp 2-10
tough 8-24
No too
much
8-38
moisture
Beet Cut the leaves of stems, clean, boil, cool, cut the base, peel,
crisp
cut or slice.
Separate leaves and stems, clean, cut the stem. You can take
crisp
out leaves at first, as it will dry faster than the stem, cut
leaves into small size which could be use to cook soup.
Green
Chop them before dry.
crisp
onion
asparagus Slice (2.5mm) （2.5mm）。 crisp 6-14
garlic Peel and cut before dry.
Spinach Boil until the color changes
crisp 6-16
crisp 6-16
Attention： time for drying and preparing food in above table is just for your reference.
4. Meat drying
8-26
6-14
6-10
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The preprocess before drying meat is necessary for your families’ health. To avoid the fat meat, the best way is to
cure meat first before drying, which can keep the natural taste of meat and make it looks more soft after drying.
What’s more, curing meat can dehydrate first to produce better effects. It’s suggested to choose lean meat to dry.
Standard Marinated sauce
1/2 cup of soy sauce
a clove of garlic and mince
2 big spoons of sugar
2 big spoons of tomato
1 middle spoon of salt
half spoon of onion power
half spoon of pepper
mix all above ingredient.
Poultry Meat
Clean first, and then cook or fry poultry meat.
Put it onto food dehydrator for 2 to 8 hours.
Fish
Boil fish first before drying or put it into oven (200℃ for 20 minutes until fish become brittle)
And put fish into food dehydrator for 2 to 8 hours.
Meat
Chop into small size after cleaning, put meat into food dehydrator for 2 to 8 hours to dry after curing.
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Cleaning and Maintence
Please check if food dehydrator is unplugged and cool down before cleaning.
Clean the bottom with wet cleaning cloth and then cleaning with dried cloth.
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Do not use wire ball and abrasive materials to clean, which might probably damage the machine.
Technical Data
Power 400W
Current
220-240V~ 50/60 Hz
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