Making your own dried fruit and raw foods is a delicious and cost-effective way of preserving your own grub – that’s why I’ve fallen in love with my Optimum P200 dehydrator (and thus, fallen in love with dehydrating all over again). Having already owned a Optimum 9200 blender and Optimum 400 slow-juicer, so I knew the kind of quality I was up for, yet even I was surprised by just how amazing this machine is. […]This machine is practically foolproof in getting you from drying novice to dehydrating master! The dehydrating trays are large and widely spaced, to accommodate both a large amount of food on each tray as well as items of a larger height. This aspect really appeals to me as I’m always having to remove or rearrange the trays from my previous dehydrator for different types of foods and products. To read more Click Here

My name is Ally, it's awesome to meet you! I'm a Real Food Blogger, Spiritual Healer and Naturopathic Student from Melbourne, Victoria.Passionate about naturopathic medicine and natural living, I love creating Real Food recipes that give you Unreal Health benefits!

LOOK:With a similar look to the excalibur, the Optimum P200 is a sleeker machine that is narrower and a little easier to find room for than the excalibur, which does look a little bulky in comparison. It’s light and easy to move around, if you want to store it out of the way when not in use.NOISE:This is where the Optimum P200 absolutely knocks the Excalibur out of the park. There is no comparison, one is irritatingly noisy and one is not.[…] The Optimum P200 runs like a dream with minimal noise disturbance, it sits in our open plan kitchen and living area without annoying the heck out of me! This is Froothie’s biggest advantage with their new dehydrators and makes it the better machine for us.To read more " Click Here

Born in New Zealand, I have been living in London for the past 14 years with my daughter Ruby and husband Liam, who both contribute to my blog occasionally. I have a Diploma in Nutrition and the Plant Based Nutrition Certificate through Cornell University and the T Colin Campbell Centre for Nutrition Studies. While I am a keen student, spending a lot of time researching, reading and studying as much as I can about health and fitness, my goal is to simplify what I have learnt to help ordinary people live a more natural, balanced and healthy life.

The Froothie dehydrator was easy to programme and we’re away. The first thing I noticed was how quiet it was. Of course, it makes a noise – it’s fanning your food dry – but it was slightly quieter than I’m used to. I also think the drawers fit more tightly, so more of the warm air stays inside the machine. The bread and almonds certainly dried quicker than in my previous machine, which is good news for energy efficiency. AND it costs about the same price as my previous smaller one. I am sold. I LOVE it. It’s big thumbs up from me Froothie To read more… Click Here

I am fascinated by the power of food, lifestyle choices and natural therapies and started studying – long and hard. And I’m a Women’s Health Coach.I provide FREE online tips and support for women, who want to improve their hormonal health or fertility or just need more oomph.I also work in an online class or “programme” format, teaching you to help yourself tackle your hormonal health or fertility issues.

The dehydrator also comes with 2 x non-stick reusable meshes for placing on top or underneath the fruit and veg being dried, and 2 x non-stick reusable plastic sheets for fruit leathers/roll-ups, cookies and crackers, etc., along with a brush to clean the meshes and sheets with. Since receiving my dehydrator, I’ve made tofu jerky and mushroom jerky in it, which have both been amazing and only take a few hours. I’m Cathy White – welcome to Planet Veggie.To read more Click Here

I’m Cathy White – welcome to Planet Veggie. I’m not going to pretend I’m a professional cook – I’m not; I’m a home cook and on this blog, I’ll be posting recipes that are tried and tested. Anything I post on here, I’m happy to recommend and if you do try something I’ve posted and you liked it, please leave a comment letting me know – I love to hear from my readers.

"Dehydrators gently preserve the nutrients and flavours in food by low temperature drying. Because ingredients are dehydrated without cooking they leave enzymes and vitamins intact and the flavour also becomes more concentrated and intense.[…] It’s actually very quiet. It sounds like a gentle extractor fan so when you’re cooking other things you can’t really notice it.[…] The more I researched the more I got excited about having this machine.[…] I really didn’t think I’d like it but I’m becoming addicted! To read more Click Here

I have two gorgeous girls at secondary school. A husband who has just changed career paths, a lovely job in “marketing” and a little cafe in my local library – so there’s a lot going on ALL the time in my life! Baking is my escape from everything. With a glass of red wine in hand, and a shelf full of cookery books I embark on baking adventures most evenings (after Eastenders of course!). So that explains the baking part of this blog and all the baking related events and activities I’m getting involved in.

You can open the drawers to check how things are going with no ill effects. You can use the Optimum Dehydrator to make yogurt and also to prove bread! To read more Click Here

I have a new toy to play with in the kitchen, it’s a dehydrator made by those clever Froothie people.[…]The Optimum P200 Dehydrator is really easy to use, you just load up the trays, leaving space around each piece of food, set the temperature and time and leave it to do it’s stuff.

Janice is a well established food blogger from Scotland. Her blog Farmersgirl Kitchen is all about simple home cooked family food with plenty of inspirational recipes. Janice has won several recipe competitions and has also had her recipes published in the Guardian and on Wayfair. During a food tour of Novia Scotia, she received 88,782 Twitter impressions in 7 days

It makes cooking multiple dishes simple, due to the fast heating and compartmentalisation, you can boil potatoes, cook rice and steam veggies (or anything else!) at the same time! You can boil in the jug, adding another ingredient into the insert to cook two ingredients at the same time and place the steamer basket on top. The extra bonus is that you save on washing up, time, water, energy and all the goodness in the cooking water is steamed into the upper ingredients… The inclusion of a mixing tool attachment means you can sauté directly in the jug, before adding more ingredients to stew or make into soup. It took some experimenting to ensure things like onions don’t stick and burn to the base, there is now a sturdier mixing tool to really stir your ingredients and adding salt to your onions and other moisture rich veggies like celery and carrot combat this issue. Click Here

Poppy Velosa is the writer of Bunny Kitchen, a vegan blog ranked in the top 50 UK blogs by the Foodies100 index and has been featured in vegan cookbooks. Poppy is a passionate animal activist and student veterinary nurse with a special interest in natural remedies and works as a part time wildlife care supervisor in a wildlife rehabilitation hospital. Poppy has been vegetarian since she was six years old and believes that vegan food should be simple and delicious and always nourishing and this way it becomes more accessible to everyone. Poppy enjoys developing new recipes, practicing food photography and baking.

Sourdough is hardy stuff and can cope with the often rather low temperature in our house. But when it comes to baking with yeast, my doughs often struggle to rise. The Optimum ThermoCook not only has a knead function, but a proving one too. I tested this out with my mincemeat buns and the dough rose beautifully in the nice warm jug…I’ve had no need to use my food processor, stand mixer or even stick blender since I’ve had it. It would also be ideal for small apartments and bedsits where there is no stove top. Click Here

FEATURES OF THE OPTIMUM P200 FOOD DEHYDRATOR:

Dehydration is one of the oldest and most effective forms of food preservation, it allows preservation of food for extended periods by removing the moisture in meats, fruits and vegetables which enables them to last for months instead of days without refrigeration.

There are numerous health benefits associated with dehydrated foods, including concentrated taste, retention of valuable vitamins and minerals and no preservatives, additives or chemicals.

The Optimum P200 Food Dehydrator is specially designed to cater to the demands of a busy household thanks to the 6- or 10- tray design.

The Optimum P200 6- and 10-tray versions both feature an efficient Parallex drying system allowing an efficient and even airflow.

The easy-to-use and versatile design is equipped with a 40-hour digital timer, adjustable thermostat and comprehensive drying guide.