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4.5
I have only just received this (quickly, too), but please be aware that the item does not come with spice packs as one of the pictures shows. It comes with the instruction/recipe book, one fruit leather tray, and the dehydrator. I will review how good the item works as soon as I go out and buy some apples!!! I'm excited!Update: It does what it's supposed to do! I small-diced about 9 peeled apples, and ended up with a couple quart ziplocs worth of dried apples. It seems to work best if you give it a few hours, then stir each tray and wait a few more hours, then repeat until the item is dried. The cookbook says that the items dry in an amazingly-short period of time, which I don't find to be true. I have checked my clocks, and they seem to run at the normal speed, and according to my friends I am located outside of any sort of time warp, but my items still tend to dry at about 1.5 times the estimations in the book. Please take that into consideration.I also bought a few extra solid trays,and mesh trays, which I think are essential. With the mesh trays, you can lift the tray out, and easily clean or remove without making a huge mess. When using the solid trays, I find that rubbing a paper towel dotted with some oil aids in removal of things like fruit leather. Where the oil is rubbed, the fruit leather pulls away from the edge as it dries, and dries more evenly. Where there is no oil, the fruit leather will start to pull apart, leaving little fruitless rifts in your future treats. Also, if you add a little oil, they tend to store a little better, as the oil keeps them from sticking together as much as oil-less leathers do.
