Shivananda
04-07-2006, 01:04 PM
Although my trusty ol' Excaliber Dehydrator has been living on my stove for quite a while, since I'm not using the stove for anything else, I've long wanted a rolling cart to put it on. This would allow several things...
1) I would like to be able to roll the dehydrator to my food prep area for loading, unloading, and flipping*.
2) I would like to be able to roll the dehydrator to the window when the weather is warm, to facilitate blowing the warm air out of my apartment.
3) I would like to be able to put a big flat screen TV on the stove in place of the dehydrator, so I can watch "Big Love" while I am making food for the starving hordes.
Ennaways, after my usual exhaustive search, I found a nearly perfect cart at Target that neatly does the job. This will work for the 5 Tray or the 9 Tray Excaliber. It is called a Chrome 3-Basket Kitchen Cart, or perhaps a Kitchen Pantry Cart, and currently sells for $50 It looks like the pic attached. It even has 3 nifty wire baskets for onions and stuff.
Here's the small modification (no tools required) I made to the stock cart. Instead of attaching the top shelf down an inch from the top to accomodate the wooden shelf that is supposed to sit on top of it, I positioned the wire shelf all the way up as high as it would go, and placed the wooden shelf at the very bottom, to hold extra dryer racks and teflex sheets. And I bumped the 3 wire baskets up a little closer to each other and to the top to make room at the bottom for that purpose. In other words, I made a very slight rearrangement of the order of things. God is in the details
Then the dehydrator sits on the wire top shelf facing the handle side (or the exact opposite, if you prefer), and the the feet neatly hold it in place so it doesn't squiggle around, and the door swings up and down freely as if the two were made for each other. Yeah, I know, the dehydrater sticks out 3/4" on each side, but I did say NEARLY perfect, did'le I?
Yes, yes, thank you, it IS another breakthrough project from Shiva's Test Kitchens (STK). - We do the thinking so you don't have to! (sm)
*Flipping - turning dehydrating food over by placing a spare rack on top of it, then flipping the entire "sandwich" over and removing the original rack (and Teflex sheet if applicable) , so that the bottom is now facing up.
1) I would like to be able to roll the dehydrator to my food prep area for loading, unloading, and flipping*.
2) I would like to be able to roll the dehydrator to the window when the weather is warm, to facilitate blowing the warm air out of my apartment.
3) I would like to be able to put a big flat screen TV on the stove in place of the dehydrator, so I can watch "Big Love" while I am making food for the starving hordes.
Ennaways, after my usual exhaustive search, I found a nearly perfect cart at Target that neatly does the job. This will work for the 5 Tray or the 9 Tray Excaliber. It is called a Chrome 3-Basket Kitchen Cart, or perhaps a Kitchen Pantry Cart, and currently sells for $50 It looks like the pic attached. It even has 3 nifty wire baskets for onions and stuff.
Here's the small modification (no tools required) I made to the stock cart. Instead of attaching the top shelf down an inch from the top to accomodate the wooden shelf that is supposed to sit on top of it, I positioned the wire shelf all the way up as high as it would go, and placed the wooden shelf at the very bottom, to hold extra dryer racks and teflex sheets. And I bumped the 3 wire baskets up a little closer to each other and to the top to make room at the bottom for that purpose. In other words, I made a very slight rearrangement of the order of things. God is in the details
Then the dehydrator sits on the wire top shelf facing the handle side (or the exact opposite, if you prefer), and the the feet neatly hold it in place so it doesn't squiggle around, and the door swings up and down freely as if the two were made for each other. Yeah, I know, the dehydrater sticks out 3/4" on each side, but I did say NEARLY perfect, did'le I?
Yes, yes, thank you, it IS another breakthrough project from Shiva's Test Kitchens (STK). - We do the thinking so you don't have to! (sm)
*Flipping - turning dehydrating food over by placing a spare rack on top of it, then flipping the entire "sandwich" over and removing the original rack (and Teflex sheet if applicable) , so that the bottom is now facing up.