On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Micki Fraser wrote: > My dehydrator which I purchased 5 years ago for about 60 american dollars has > paid for itself over and over again. They're even less expensive now. I recently decided to get a dehyrdator and my first web searches turned up beasts going $150 and up. Ouch. Happily I was able to later find the cheaper ones ($40). I can't wait till it arrives :) > I encourage this route instead of buying readymade which is hugely overpriced > and excessively seasoned. I took a look at the ingredients in grocery store jerky. The first ingredient was beef. So far, so good. Next was water. WTF? I thought the idea was to dehyrate this stuff. Now things really go downhill - third on the list was brown sugar. Next was corn syrup, followed by preservatives and dyes. Yech. It was actually labelled "natural". Julie