The ideal Dehydrator: A desert.*
Typical small-scale food processor Dehydrator: A small machine used in the home to reduce healthy, well-adjusted fruits and vegetables into little bits of hard plastic so that they can be carried far into the wilderness where they are found to be completely inedible, indigestible, and are discarded.
The actual Dehydrator: A person who either creates deserts or tortures vegetables with one of these machines.
After-dinner wobblies Plans for making your own * All natural, folks.
From: Fire In Your Hand About ultralight backpacking stoves. (print)
PDF: Fire In Your Hand (The same, but now paper-free.)
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