[music] Alright! This is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com,
today we have another exciting episode for you, and no, it’s not about juicers, it’s
about dehydrators, another one of my favorite appliances that’ll allow you to eat more
fresh fruits and vegetables in a more wholesome state than how you would get at the grocery
store, and man, there’s been a lot of dehydrators coming out new lately, first we had the Excalibur
all stainless steel body and trays on the inside, that unit is $1000, it’s definitely
worth its weight in gold. And then we had the Aroma six tray dehydrator that came out
with five year warranty and works pretty great, my girlfriend has been using it and loves
it. Then we had the all-new Sedona Express more recently, with stainless steel trays
and precise computer controls and good airflow and really solid nice space-saving design.
And now we have the Samson Silent dehydrator. And what we’re going to do in this episode
is give an unboxing for you guys to show you guys what comes with the dehydrator, and share
with you guys how it works and what makes it different than some of the other dehydrators
on the market. So if you guys are looking at this and you guys have done any research
on dehydrators lately and you’re thinking “John, that dehydrator man, it looks awful
like the aroma dehydrator,” and if you guys thought that you would be right, these are
actually made in the same exact factory, but the Aroma dehydrator is actually the older
model, with just a mechanical non-digital controls. Now this has full digital controls,
so this is the upgrade from the Aroma. It has the same five-year warranty, as well as
the Aroma. So I don’t know why anybody would want to buy the Aroma at this point with the
new Samson Silent Dehydrator now on the market. So without further ado, let’s go ahead and
open up this box and show you guys what we got.
Alright, so here’s the bad boy right here, so this is the Samson Silent Dehydrator, and
this is what’s known as a horizontal airflow dehydrator, which means the fan assembly and
heating element are at the back, and they push the warm air gently across the food on
the top and the bottom to dehydrate your food and basically remove the moisture, and this
is why I like dehydration over many other preservation methods that may involve high
heat, because this is at a low heat it preserves more enzymes and nutrition in the food, that’s
very important for me and hopefully it’s important to you as well. Many other dehydrators
on the market are vertical airflow dehydrators which means there’s a heating element at
the bottom, and the heating element and sometimes with a fan, sometimes just through convection,
the heat rises, and it dehydrates the food, but the thing is as the air goes up, it gets
a little bit cooler. So by the time you reach the top of your dehydrator, the air is not
quite as warm, which means you will have to rotate trays which means you’re going to
have to work a little bit harder. It also means that food will take longer to dehydrate
and you will get uneven dehydrating if you do not rotate your trays. On these units because
this is a rear airflow, it gets constant air over all six trays so that you get even dehydration
without tray rotation every single time. So this is pretty much the unit, there is a little
fan opening on the top, this will not open or close it’s just fixed, that’s how it
is. This allows some of the hot air with some of the water vapor that’s being dehydrated
off your food, to come up and out, because the front is actually sealed fairly well unlike
some other dehydrators on the market that have big gaping holes where the door is. So
I guess let’s go ahead and take a look inside. One of the things I like about this unit is
that it has a nice clear door here, so you can actually look inside the dehydrator without
having to stop and turn it off to see the progress of what you’re dehydrating, so
this will save you some time. And as you guys can see, we have six trays. Here’s the tray
size, now each tray comes with a mesh sheet, so this makes clean-up a breeze. You could
put sliced tomatoes on here, and when the tomatoes are ready to come out you can bed
this and the tomatoes will fall off and you just need to wash this. Because let me tell
you, cleaning the tray like this and getting all the gunk stuff unstuck from it is significantly
harder than cleaning off one of these guys. And this is BPA free. Now there are six trays
in here, and the tray heights are adjustable, and there’s probably at least 12 different
adjustments you can make so you can really fine-tune the height between the trays so
if you want to really dehydrate something tall you can put the tray up there, or you
can remove a couple trays and have a lot of space in between them.
Now besides just the trays and the mesh sheet that you get, you get six of those guys, you
get a few other things with the dehydrator, you get the instruction booklet, and you also
get a handy-dandy drip tray. So the drip tray actually just goes on the bottom of the unit
to catch any drips so it doesn’t fall into the bottom, so this is going to make clean-up
easier, and that’s pretty much how that works. You could also use this tray actually
on top of one of the solid trays if you want to dehydrate something that’s a solid. Now
I don’t necessarily recommend this because it’s going to take longer to dehydrate,
because this tray is actually so thick I would recommend instead getting some non-stick [inaudible]
sheets that release very easily, and are very thin so they will dehydrate much better, and
those are reusable and we sell those at discountjuicers.com when you buy your Samson Silent Dehydrator.
Next what I like to do is go ahead and show you guys inside the unit, and this is a nice
unit. I don’t know if you guys see that in the back, I’m going to pull that up to
the camera for you guys, but inside the back of that, there’s a nice solid fan shroud.
This is something that many other dehydrators actually simply do not have. Imagine if you’re
a gentleman out there, and you had a car without a fan shroud, you know it’s just not as
efficient pulling the air through to keep your car cool. As a matter of fact my car
used to overheat because it was missing a fan shroud. So this actually has a fan shroud
so it directs the air where it needs to go without wasting the warm air. So this really
cool, I actually haven’t seen this on dehydrators before. Also the fan has nice metal fan blades.
This is not simply a cheap plastic fan like on many other dehydrators. In addition the
heating coil is behind the fan, so it pulls the warm air past the fan and onto your food,
plus there’s a nice solid grate on there so your fingers or food particles will not
get to the back. Next let’s go ahead and turn this unit around
and I want to let you guys know this is a CETL US, so that’s like UL certification.
This is 400 watts, and 120 volts, so for US only, and is made in China. So yeah, back
is nice and solid, all metal construction, and there is a two-prong cord, looks like
to be about four feet. So next I want to go ahead and measure the
unit for you to give you the exact dimensions. Now a lot of people get a dehydrator and they’re
quite surprised that it takes up a lot of room, and dehydrators take up a lot of room
just because you’ve got to put a lot of food in there when you’re dehydrating. If
you cut up one tomato or a couple of tomatoes might fill a whole tray. So first I’m going
to go ahead and measure the trays for you guys. The trays here are 13 inches by 12 inches,
so that’s a nice size there. Now the dehydrator itself from bottom to top that’s about 12.25
inches tall, and it’s approximately 13 ½ inches wide, and the depth is what’s really
going to get you, this thing is actually quite deep. The depth is approximately 17 ¾ inches
deep, and the fan inside there, let’s go ahead and measure that guy see how big that
fan is. The fan end to end is about six inches. So that’s a good solid fan for this unit.
Now the main thing about the dehydrator is that it has a good solid fan, but the special
thing is that it actually has this digital keypad on the top to do all the programming
of the dehydrator. So I want to show you guys how that all works. So when you plug it in,
it’s going to beep at you, and then what you’re going to do is you’re going to
go ahead and press it on, and as you guys can see, it just comes on and it’s preset
at 10 hours. We’re going to go hit the timer button, and we can actually just hit the timer
button up, and it’s going to go to a total of 19 hours and 30 minutes max, it’s going
to count down and then turn itself off. So this is literally a smart dehydrator. Most
other dehydrators in this price range do not have an auto off feature. Its like, could
you imagine a TV before they had a sleep timer? I mean I’ve used my TV at night and put
the sleep timer on so I don’t have it running all night. And that’s how most dehydrators
are, they just keep running until you have to turn it off. So I like that feature a lot.
Now the other feature this has, this has an adjustable thermostat. So right now its set
at 158 degrees, we could press the down button, and we’ll just go ahead and hold that button
down, and it goes all the way down to 95 degrees at the lowest, and all the way up to 158 degrees
at the highest. So it’s programmable temperature and time, and this is all computer controlled
electronics, so it’s going to be precise temperatures for you guys to dehydrate all
your food. So I definitely like that a lot. The other thing is that I don’t know if
you guys noticed, but that dehydrator is actually on. I can be quiet for a second, but it’s
pretty doggone quiet. Let’s go ahead and put the trays back in and close up the door
and see how much we hear it if at all, because right now it’s pretty doggone silent. And
some of the dehydrators on the market, doors rattle and they shake and make lots of noise,
because some of the dehydrators, the design has not changed in 20 odd years. So I’m
glad this is the latest and greatest state of the art dehydrator. And I want to mention
about the warranty, this has a five year warranty on all the major electronic components, so
including the digital control pad here, including the fan, including the heating element, of
course the trays and the plastic housing is not warrantied for five years, it’s warrantied
for a shorter amount of time. But those are the main things that are probably going to
fail unless you crack your tray or mess it up, I mean that’s not going to go bad. The
heating element, the fan, the digital controls are what will give you some challenges if
they do. This seems like a very solid unit and once I have the door on the unit, you
can barely hear this guy. So this guy will allow you make things like beef jerky, kale
chips, raw cookies, raw crackers, [inaudible] breads, dehydrated fruit roll-ups, dehydrated
fruit, I just dehydrated some amazing apricots to have my own unsulfured apricots. It’ll
allow you to make arts and crafts projects to dehydrate your flowers and herbs, I mean
a dehydrator is one of the best investments you can make if you’re a gardener so that
you can preserve your harvest. So this dehydrator works really good, it’s also been approved
by the Vibrant Living Institute in Michigan, they do a raw food style program, so this
is a raw foods certified dehydrator, so if you’re into that style diet, this is definitely
the lowest cost entry model that I would recommend for you to have an adjustable thermostat,
all digital controls. So last things I want to mention about this
dehydrator is that it has a total of five square feet of space to dehydrate, it’s
super quiet, one of the quietest ones I’ve heard, I mean the Sedona dehydrator has the
most affordable price, and I definitely would recommend this over the Aroma dehydrator which
is actually the same price, this has once again the digital controls and works very
well. And yeah that’s pretty much it, if you want to purchase this dehydrator, be sure
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other different raw food dehydrators that have adjustable thermostats that are available
on the market at this time, and I hope you guys enjoyed this episode, once again my name
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