Dryer-dehydrator Rommelsbacher DA 750

[Specifications]

Such a dehydrator dryer was provided to me for testing.

Specifications
Manufacturer Rommelsbacher
Rommelsbacher DA 750
Type Dehydrator
Country of origin China
12 months warranty
Declared power 700 W
Main unit body material plastic
Pallet material opaque plastic
There is a timer for 12 hours
Overheating protection is
Number of power levels 3
Number of pallets 4
Cord length 1.7 m
Device dimensions (W × H × D) 33 × 34 × 33 cm
Net weight 2.8 kg

Equipment extremely laconic:
heater block with power cord;
base with a pin in the middle;
four trays for drying;
instructions in Russian, as well as German and English.

What struck was the pallets: - they were solid, not mesh:


It is assembled simply: we put the bottom on a flat surface, put the drying trays on the pin in series, crown the structure with a lid with a control panel and an engine block that dries and ventilates.

Control
The dryer is controlled using two rotary levers: the right one is responsible for the drying mode (from 1 to 3), the left one is a timer with a maximum value of 12 hours.


The instruction gives the following information:
level 1: about 20 ° C above ambient temperature;
level 2: about 40 ° C above ambient temperature;
level 3: approx. 60 ° C above ambient temperature.

I used a remote thermometer for testing. At ambient temperature = 23 * C, I received the following figures:
1 level - 41-43 * С,
Level 2 - 58-60 * С,
Level 3 - 72-74 * С.
The temperature of the lower pan was 1-2 * C higher than that of the upper one.
Works almost silently.
The testing began with the most essential product at that time - tea.

Added [time] Thursday 14 July 2016 16:39 [/ time]

Using these trays for tea seems to be just perfect. In the previous dryer, the bottom of the trays was mesh and you had to lay gauze or a fine mosquito net so that the product did not fall out. Here I boldly poured the granules directly onto the pallets:




I set level 2, because I needed a temperature no higher than 65 * C for manufacturing tea made from aromatic herbs... The temperature ranged from 58 to 61 * C, which suited me perfectly. Tea dried to a crunch in 5 hours. The granules were dense, so it took no less time. I swapped the trays a couple of times, because it seemed that the tea was drying faster on the lower tray than on the upper one. By this time, such a feature was drawn - the inability to use less than 4 pallets. That is, if I have fewer products, then I still have to put 4 pallets. This is due to the design. Well, then I will dry a lot at once.

Added [time] Thursday 14 July 2016 5:05 pm [/ time]

Now, given the solid pallets, I found it most convenient to dry something rather liquid in it. I don't eat pastila. Therefore, I decided to dry berry fiber in it. This dryer turned out to be perfect for that!
Here's how I just do now jam "preventive"... Well, I do not like to stand to wipe the mass to separate the bones, and I have no time. Now I am doing it with juicers... I have a yellow "pineapple" raspberry, a lot of it. I collected a bucket. Part of it was used for jams, part for concentrate, part for frozen compote. But there are not many red currants. The result was 356g of raspberry fiber and 136g of red currant fiber. In addition, the day before, I unscrewed the raspberry concentrate and I got about 500g of raspberry fiber, which I put in the refrigerator.Now I took out all the fiber and laid it in a thin layer directly on the pallets without any paper and without smearing anything. Took up all the pallets. Set level 3 and 5 hours. After 3 hours, she turned over the mass on each pallet, simply prying it with a spatula. This did not cause any difficulties. The mass easily came off in layers. I added another 1 hour, as I was leaving on business. The total drying time was 6 hours. When I returned, everything was perfectly dried. I did not change pallets in places. I removed the layers of fiber without any problems, they did not stick anywhere at all. I simply wiped the trays with a damp cloth and rinsed with water. Great care!


The fiber was ground into powder in a coffee grinder. The smell is breathtaking! I will add it to baked goods, pastries, curd casseroles, yogurt!

[Lina]

Lina, with the purchase! And we are waiting for results and reviews.

And we are waiting for results and reviews.

Tanya, thank you! I'm very happy so far. More ideas using your recipes.

[Lina]

Lina, this is always welcome! "Do as I do, do better than me"

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, Lina! With your purchase!
Finally, such a dryer has appeared in Russia, which can be bought in Europe. And the price is quite normal.
I will follow the topic and most likely buy myself the same.

[Vika]

VikaVikus, already happy as an elephant. Now I'll do my plan, you'll see.

I have one too.
Happy !!! Only I bought a couple more pallets.

[Lerele]

Lerele, Ira, I saw your recipe for sun-dried tomatoes in this dryer. Vesch!

Here I found pictures



I often make tomatoes and apples, I wanted to try my tea, but I don’t know the plants at all, I’ll collect something else wrong
And so I really like it, nothing falls through the pallets, it dries perfectly, you can not rearrange anything, everything is dried.

[Lerele]

Lerele, Well, thank you! Ir, and you from garden sauces - apple trees, pears, plums, cherries ... make tea. It is difficult to confuse them.

Only I put paper under the tomatoes so that I don't wash the suckers later, and even the red ones.

I put paper under the tomatoes so that I don't wash the suckers later

I checked that nothing really dries up, and that which has dried is washed off just with water in a couple of minutes.

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, I'm all going, but now only by the end of August if, otherwise we are on vacation at the end of that week. Apple trees are full in our fields.

Added Thursday, Jul 14, 2016 6:37 PM

Linadoc, wow, well done, I won't do any more bedding either. If it really dries up completely, then you can soak it, but the water will not pour out here. I like it so much, and in general she is so ... solid, good plastic, not flimsy.

[Lerele]

Lerele, OOot I'm a sclerotic I completely forgot that you have such a dryer and you praised it very much.
And she herself was worn out in the choice

[Mirabel]

Mirabel, I wanted to take the staff and accidentally stumbled upon it in the store, it is straight flimsy, the pallets are plastic in the hole, then I chose this one, there were good reviews on it. She is solid, here! And the price is not prohibitive at all for it.

Just about, given the solid pallets, without a net, juicy products are simply asked here, which drip through the nets in ordinary dryers.

[Lerele]

Lerele, We have the most simple dryers in our stores. like Severin and that's it. You don't touch anything and look at them, when you start asking about them, they look at them as if they were mentally ill.
Domo also released a dryer, at the same price, but this one is much cooler. By the way, the same Domo only for on-line order, it was said, buy, try, if you don't like it, drag it back. We will not give you money, you will receive a Bon so that you can exchange it for something only in our network of stores.
Here on the forum are the owners of either cool Isidri, or Sukhoveevs and so on, which we do not have at all.
But now this problem has been solved, thanks to Lina (bought, opened the topic and reminded)

[Mirabel]

Mirabel, yes, they do not stand freely with us either, I accidentally saw the headquarters in Saturn, I had never seen dryers before. And this one, it seems to me, is how expensive, it has a super quality plastic, does not stagger, does not rattle. You won't regret it if you buy it. It dries well, there is nothing to compare with, but I am happy with the drying.

[Linadoc]

LinadocThanks for your review! I have been interested in this dryer for a long time (or rather, a dryer and a coffee maker of this company), but I have not found any intelligible reviews about it, and even so little information in the store.

[Yulia]

her plastic quality is super, does not stagger, does not rattle.

Here's nothing to add! Works so silently that I listened. And the plastic is really very high quality - it does not paint, nothing sticks to it, does not absorb odors. Very easy to care for - I wiped it with a damp cloth and that's it, I never even soaked it, although the raspberry fiber was sticky and wet.

I have been interested in this dryer for a long time

Yulia, and here I am not long ago, but she immediately surprised me with her pallets and a uniform blowing system. Well done Germans.

Good evening everyone (but in fact, night). The other day I decided to buy a dryer, because this year again we didn't buy a freezer chest, there is no more space in the freezer, we don't eat jam, and now I have no desire to roll compotes. At first I wanted an infrared dryer, as if it was impossible to dry food in it, but after reading the reviews, I realized that this was exaggerated. In addition, we live in the outback, so I choose IM only with pick-up points in the city, since the delivery to us of the TC is sooo expensive.
And it turns out that apart from Rommelsbacher you can't buy anything particularly worthwhile.
Of course, the thoughts about Isidri are embarrassing, because of her trays with side airflow (as I understood, there is no such thing in 750), but it is necessary to dry it as soon as possible (or rather, even yesterday), so I'm sitting looking for reviews of 750 and hope , by the morning I will order already, otherwise I was exhausted choosing.

[Dina]

Dina, yes, there is a side airflow, but in the center.

Confused, of course, by thoughts of Isidri, because of her trays with side airflow

Isidri has double airflow - in the center and from the sides "Tray design - Double wall"

All infa is here:
Ezidri Snackmaker Electric Dryer
Ezidri Ultra FD1000 Dryer Testing - Results

Yes, I've already read it all, but ... I have to take what they bring to us. And so my husband grumbled that I was buying an unnecessary piece again. And I have only 5 cherries, this year I even had to sell them, and they just threw them on the tree - no one wanted to look at it anymore. I don't see any sense in freezing it - ice cream is good except in compote (in baked goods / porridge, etc. - no one eats this here). Next year I plan to dry it. And dry the cherries too. And in this I have a yellow plum ripens, small, but weak aaaaad. For compote, it is pale, but wilted, according to your, Admin, incomparable recipes!
And grapes this year, I will collect and dry all.
By the way, I'm a wonder in the Vladimir region and our cherry grows well, and the grapes are quite tolerable. This is what selection means.

The dryer will be delivered on July 25th.

[Moose]

They brought my Rumpleshtitskin today. The Shaitan machine, however. When unpacking the trays smelled a little of "plastic" - a kind of chemical smell. True, I have a VERY fine sense of smell, for most people it does not smell of anything, in any case, neither my husband nor my son have smelled anything "like that". After washing, the smell disappeared completely.
I did not have time to run the device for 2 hours, I did not have time, I worked for 15-20 minutes and that's enough.
In general, the quality of the plastic / assembly is very even, but ... there is a nuance that can only be noticed by a person who bought equipment 15 years ago, when it was still being made in Europe, and today's technology, made in the era of cheap production in China. I had a Bosch kettle, bought in 2004, made in Slovenia. In 2016, he ordered to live long. We bought exactly the same. It is already made in China and there are some reductions in price and some little things give out deterioration, which, however, do not apply to the operation of the kettle. For example, the lid peels off worse, you have to open it with your hands (although the husband promised to tighten the spring), the wire slots on the pallet of the old teapot are smooth, smooth, molded, the new one is cut out, respectively, not the same look. The coasters also "got sick".
In short, if the old kettle was 5+, then the new one was 4. Maybe I'm finding fault with the quality, it seems that all these are trifles, but these are the little things that "make the brand." However, the current trend is that this is observed in almost all firms.
I do not know how long these dryers have been on the foreign market, maybe they were also 5+ before, but I will put mine 4+, because I see places where it could be better. BUT! This has nothing to do with functionality, nitpicking only for appearance.
Dries, well! Set to dry at 15 o'clock:
top pallet (let's call it the first) -in bulkMoose up to the very sides of the black currant (it piled on itself, I didn't want to apply so much, but I had to leave the currants back and forth, it was already fraught: it would start bursting like that) and a dozen whole cherries.
Level 2 - pitted cherries in syrup, 2 apples from kindergarten (no one wanted to eat them, they will disappear), a banana, cut in half (from the same place).
Level 3 - the same cherry in syrup (the cherry is located on both pallets in one layer and even with small intervals)
Level 4 - blueberries from a plastic bucket (like mayonnaise), 1000 ml is written on the bottom. The bucket was almost with a slide, on a pallet about 2/5 of the height of the berries were occupied.

It dries the fastest at the inner edge of the pallet (of course, the laws of physics have not been canceled). 2,3,4 the pallet has already dried up significantly, at the first progress, however, there is also, despite the accuracy.
I will say right away that it will most likely not be possible to find out the exact time - for me this category is not very significant, since the spread due to various factors can be several hours.

Added Wednesday 20 Jul 2016 08:19 PM

I will add a couple more points about the dryer.
It works quite quietly. At least much quieter than a running dishwasher. After 5 m, nothing is heard at all.
It heats up when working medium - you can pick it up and be tolerant. It is convenient to watch how the process is going at levels 2,3,4, which do not have a transparent top.
In principle, there are a couple of ideas on how to dry on a smaller number of pallets, that is, this problem can be solved if desired.

Added Wednesday 20 Jul 2016 08:21 PM

If you sniff, then from each pallet it smells of being dried on it, but in the kitchen, of course, there is a general smell.

2,3,4 the pallet has already dried up significantly, at the first progress, however, there is also, despite the accuracy.

Yes, Dina, I also noted that the upper level heats up less than the lower one by 2-3 * C.

It works quite quietly.

It works very quietly, I listened to hear.

each pallet smells like drying on it

Thanks to the solid pallets, odors do not mix, which is very convenient.
)
I also dried flowers for tea on it. Dried at the 1st power. After 4 hours, it did not dry completely, not to a crunch. Therefore, I turned on 2 power and dried it for another 2 hours. I did not like the 1st power (40 * C) in the previous dryer either, I considered it unnecessary. And here I stayed with this opinion. Here I took a picture on my mobile phone (forgot the camera down):


It can be seen that the flowers retained their color, which was required.

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, Lina, thanks for the very useful Temko. I will follow. Recently I ordered a Travola dryer on Ozone ... but for some reason I CANCELED THE ORDER, it didn't work out ... Now I think, maybe it's not in vain? Maybe I am destined to have another?)))
And now I read VPS, girls, with curiosity ... thanks. The dryer LIKE it.

I CANCELED THE ORDER, it didn't work out ... Now I think, maybe it's not in vain?

I, too, read and ordered! Now I look forward to it with no patience, I should arrive at the end of the month.

Oh, what an interesting topic. and this dryer has been working in my country house for the third summer. I can't describe the nuances, but my mother annually processes the harvest of apples-pears-plums-mushrooms with her help. There is, however, still a small Bohmann, but the bulk of it passes through Romelsbacher. I've already thought about buying a second one for the city, having read the recipes for sun-dried tomatoes.

I left it for the night on 2 modes, I was afraid for 3. Well, somehow there are no special results, that is, drying is going on, but not as fast as we would like. Mmyaya, in general, drying is not freezing. Not done quickly.
Today I dry plums in quarters and halves (depending on the state of the fruit). I put it on mode 3 for 12 hours. I put the dryer outside, it's a breeze and not as stuffy as in the kitchen. After 1.5 hours, the first wasp arrived. Poor fellow, circling near the holes in the walls, trying to sit down, hot.
Eh, there are a lot of drains, how to manage to dry everything. I decided to dry the plums until they are soft, I will be the first to eat them. By the way, do you think it's okay to start using drying from October? ...

As for the pallets: what sticks is removed, as described above, very easily. The only thing I do not understand is why the slope in the pallets goes outward? After all, the hottest air is just at the inner wall.

Added Thursday, Jul 21, 2016 01:45 PM

Oh, I still have such a question - how long can the dryer work without stopping? That is, it worked on a timer for 12 hours, a break for a change of cuts (say, 30 minutes) and can you put it again?

can I put it again?

I don't know, but I did. It's okay.

My dryer has arrived. The first impression is good, it is made really well, the trays are deep. But in the box I did not find a warranty card and a list of service centers, the store said that there would be a guarantee for the check. I'm interested in everyone so?

So I got to the Internet and I'm telling you. This year, well, I just have a lot of cucumbers and zucchini. And what am I only doing with them. I decided to make candied fruits as well and did not regret it. She regretted that she had done little. But I didn’t prepare - I didn’t have a recipe, but I couldn’t look it up on the Internet (I don’t have it at my dacha). So, there were some general ideas and memories. In short, I cut the zucchini into cubes, blanched the zucchini in boiling water with soda for 2 minutes, covered it with sugar and put a little citric acid. After 2 hours I already had 2 "soups", boiled in this syrup for 10 minutes, put the sprigs of mint, poured star anise and cardamom into the zucchini and left to cool overnight. In the morning, I added more citric acid and boiled for another 5 minutes, thrown in a colander. An hour later, she laid out the future candied fruits directly in trays, did not grease anything, did not lay anything. Each pallet would fit candied fruits from 1 kg of cucumbers or zucchini, but I did not know this then, so I was empty.


Dried cucumbers on 2 positions for 6 hours, zucchini for 8 hours. After 3 hours, I just turned them over with a spoon. Some stuck a little, but came off easily with a spoon. Then she easily removed the bulk, there were 10-15 pieces of stuck in total and they were easily faked with the same spoon. And I filled the trays with water and after 10 minutes I easily washed and wiped them with a brush. All . It is very easy to clean!
And she boiled the syrup with mint and poured it into bottles. The syrup is very pleasant to the taste, refreshing sour cucumber-mint. I will use it to soak a biscuit.


And here are the candied fruits. Super! Zucchini - like candied papaya from the store, only with anise-mint flavor. And cucumber with a clear taste of cucumbers, but sour-mint, so refreshing. Only the skin gets in the way. I'll clean it next time. And I will definitely do it! It's so delicious! And more, more! I took a picture of them right away, and then dusted them with powdered sugar and put them in jars. And I also took a picture ... what was left








And you will need a recipe to make this healthy yummy.

[Lina]

Lina, very cool!
And if you issue it with a separate author's recipe, because it will be lost in the wilds of the topic

[Tanyush]

Tanyush, I think it is necessary. I took a photo of the process, wrote down all my thoughts and how much I put in. I will try to do it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. But I will do a lot more - that's for sure.

[Lina]

Lina, we wait ...

Well, the recipe is ready

Candied cucumbers and zucchini (Linadoc)

Aha, I already saw it! Thank you!

I continue reporting as I arrive from the dacha. I also made candied zucchini with berries, mint and spices. Again I collected the syrup. Made with raspberries, black currants and apples. Berry-mint-anise flavor. The result is this beauty:



In addition, I made juice from zucchini with an apple, pure apple is hard to drink. She put the squeezes into action. I added oatmeal, candied squash syrup, mint and basil. Here are the muesli bars:


She dried in a dryer for 3 degrees for 6 hours, stirred once an hour 4 times, then formed a dense disc, dried for another 3 hours, turned the disc over, easily prying it with a spatula, divided into slices and dried for another 6 hours by 2 degrees. Together with candied fruits. Were eaten in 20 minutes

Then she dried the tomatoes.It turned out that if you cut it into slices and put it on the skin, placing it "in the sun", then almost a kilogram fits on each pallet. Sprinkled with fresh basil and salt on top. Dried for 8 hours at 3 degrees, after 4 hours changed the periphery and center of each pallet. The slices came off easily. The dried juice went away without any problems, I filled the trays with water for 10 minutes and rubbed it with a brush.



I don't pour sun-dried tomatoes with oil, but put them in a bag and in the freezer. They go mainly for pizza, with rice or pasta, and for soup. As such, they take up very little space. I also want to try to wilted in large pieces and close in oil according to Zachariah.

Another report, again about tomatoes. Now for Zechariah. On his recommendation, I dried plum tomatoes in halves, cutting off the "butts". Each pallet contained exactly one kilogram. Again, she did not lubricate with anything, did not add anything.



Dried in complex experimental ways. Started on the 3rd mode for 4 hours, the top was well aired and wilted. Then she turned the halves over and turned on the 2nd mode for 6 hours. I shouldn't have done it, during these 6 hours almost nothing has changed. Experimentally confirmed that the 2nd regime is not suitable for tomatoes. I switched on the 3rd mode for 4 hours, again turned the halves over and changed the center and periphery and dried for another 4 hours. I got the result I wanted.



I put it in sterilized jars, watered each layer with a mixture of purple basil, garlic, mint and chili pepper with salt, balsamic vinegar, sugar and olive oil, smashed with a blender. Warmed up and sterilized in the microwave.



Aromaaaat! I collected the aromatic oil spilled during sterilization, I will add it to pasta and rice.

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, Lina, I lick my lips at your tomatoes!)
Such a MNK dryer does not shine this year, I manage with Dry Hove. I have only one temperature regime, namely 60 * ...
What am I leading to ... Will I fail?
You have mode 3 ... what is the temperature? ...

[Margarita]

Margarita, this is 80 * C. 2nd mode - 60-65 *, not enough for tomatoes, or it is necessary to dry for a long time, very much. Then it's easier in the oven.

[M]

get around dry wind.

Dry winds M and 5 and 8 = good for curing, yes
but on the other hand, drying in them is convenient because you do not need to reposition the trays - it dries, as if it were on all trays

Added Saturday 13 Aug 2016 02:44 PM

and for filling, just dried ones are needed

Added Saturday 13 Aug 2016 02:48 PM

And I have only 5 cherry trees

there are no dryers
and under a canopy in the breeze, can't you dry? somehow our predecessors got along without electricity, dried by the free wind and the sun

ehh .. I would have my own yard ...

[Irsha]

Then it's easier in the oven.

Oh no! ))))
In the oven ~ No way!))) The heat is wild!
I'll try in Dry Hove ... I have nowhere to rush, Drying is in the attic, it makes me neither hot nor cold ... let me try ...

Irsha, Irin, have you tried tomatoes in Dry Hove ~ dry or dry !? Share in that thread ... I wanted a very SUCH DRYER LIKE Lina !!! But ... we couldn't this year ... circumstances.

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, and I have 20, 40 and 60 degrees in the instructions.

Tomatoes are chic !!!!!!!

[Lerele]

Lerele, Irish, 20, 40 and 60 * C MORE than the environment. That is, if I put it to dry at 3 positions at T ambient + 25 * C, then the dryer will be + 85 * C.

That is, if I put it to dry at 3 positions at T ambient + 25 * C, then the dryer will be + 85 * C.

Oh, I doubt such conclusions. What if measurements are made?
In the same place, the fuse should be set at degrees, in case of overheating, the stopper should work and turn off the dryer. In any case, this is done in the Orson dryer, there you will not be spoiled with overheating, it immediately beeps "turn down" and can be cut out.

I know from my dryer which one to set T *, and it will keep this, even in late autumn, on the balcony in the cold keeps its 60 *

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, oh, I'm silly, I saw the pace, but I didn't read it
And I was always sure that I have such temperatures

Tanya, here are the measurements:

I used a remote thermometer for testing. At ambient temperature = 23 * C, I received the following figures:
1 level - 41-43 * С,
Level 2 - 58-60 * С,
Level 3 - 72-74 * С.
The temperature of the lower pan was 1-2 * C higher than that of the upper one.

There, really not 85 * C, but 73-75 * C is also quite worthy!