99295 - Food Dehydrator TREBS - Free user manual and instructions

Product type	Food dehydrator
Brand	Trebs
Model	99295
Dimensions (L x W x H)	approx. 35 x 35 x 25 cm
Weight	approx. 3.5 kg
Power supply	220-240 V ~ 50/60 Hz
Power	500 W
Number of trays	5 trays
Tray material	Food-grade plastic and stainless steel
Temperature range	Adjustable from 35°C to 70°C
Timer	Yes, up to 24 hours
Main functions	Drying fruits, vegetables, herbs, meats and fish
Maintenance and cleaning	Trays washable in soapy water; wipe the base with a damp cloth
Safety	Automatic shut-off at end of cycle; overheat protection
Spare parts and repairability	Additional trays available; Trebs after-sales service
General information	34-page user manual included

Frequently Asked Questions - 99295 TREBS

How to start the Trebs 99295 dehydrator?

Plug in the appliance, place the food on the trays, set the desired temperature and timer using the buttons, then press the start button.

What foods can I dehydrate with the Trebs 99295?

You can dehydrate fruits (apples, bananas), vegetables (tomatoes, mushrooms), aromatic herbs, meats for jerky, and fish.

What temperature to use for fruits?

For fruits, set a temperature between 55°C and 65°C. Juicier fruits like citrus require a lower temperature, around 50°C.

How long does it take to dehydrate apples?

The time varies depending on thickness and water content. Generally, allow 6 to 10 hours at 60°C for 5 mm thick apple slices.

How to clean the dehydrator trays?

Remove the trays and wash them in warm soapy water. Use a non-abrasive sponge. Dry them thoroughly before replacing. The base must not be immersed.

The dehydrator makes noise, is that normal?

A slight ventilation noise is normal. If the noise is loud or irregular, check that nothing is obstructing the ventilation and that the trays are properly in place.

Can I layer wet and dry foods?

It is best not to mix very wet foods with dry foods, as moisture can slow down drying. Organize the trays by food type.

How to know if the foods are sufficiently dehydrated?

Foods should be dry to the touch, with no residual moisture. Fruits should be pliable but not sticky, vegetables brittle, and meat firm without being hard.

What to do if the appliance does not turn on?

Check the electrical outlet, power cord, and switch. If nothing works, contact Trebs customer service.

Where to find replacement trays for the Trebs 99295?

Replacement trays are available on the official Trebs website or from authorized dealers. Use the correct reference for model 99295.

USER MANUAL 99295 TREBS

• Do not use the appliance longer than 40 hours at once. If the appliance is used for 40 hours, turn o the appliance, unplug it and let it cool down.
• Improper use of the appliance can cause damage and injury to the user.
• Use the appliance only for its intended use and always follow the manual guidelines.
• Unplug the appliance when it is not use.
• Keep the power base away from water. Do not switch on the appliance if its surfaces are wet.
• Do not use appliance with damaged electric cord or plug, aer it has fallen or with other damages. If any damage has occurred, please contact the service center.
• Do not allow children to use the appliance without close supervision.
• Unplug the appliance before cleaning it.
• Never pull the cord to disconnect it from the outlet, instead take the plug and pull it to disconnect.
• Use the appliance only for household purposes, it is not designed for commercial use.
• Do not cover the appliance.
• Do not leave the appliance unaended while in use.
• Put the appliance only on to the at surface.

2. The product

3. The use

3.1 First use

• Unpack the appliance.
• Wash lids and seconds of the appliance. Wash seconds in warm water adding a small quantity of detergent for washing dishes. Clean the power base with the help of a wet rag (do not put it into water and do not wash it).

3.2 Funconing

Drying products is an eecve way to conserve them.

Warm air of a xed adjustable temperature circulates freely inside the appliance between the upper and lower lids, separate controllable removable seconds and power base. In this way the products inside the appliance are dried evenly and the loss of vitamins can be reduced to a minimum. You can enjoy fruits, vegetables and mushrooms prepared without unhealthy substances throughout the whole year.

Flowers, medicinal plants and cereals can also be prepared using this appliance.

3.3 the use

1. Prepare the products you want to dry. Make sure the pieces are thin enough to t into the drying drawers
2. Divide the prepared products into removable seconds. The products should be placed in such way that the air can circulate freely between them (regulaon of height of the seconds is possible).that is why you should not put too many products to the seconds and put the products on to each other.
3. Put the seconds on to a power base.
4. Put the upper lid on the appliance. During drying the upper lid should always be on the appliance.

Temperature mode advices:

• Herbs 50 °C
• Greens 50 °C
• Bread 50 °C
• Vegetables 50 °C
• Fruits 50 °C
• Meat, Fish 70 °C

NOTE: You should dry products following the guidelines of this manual.

1. When you nish using the appliance turn it o by pung the switch to the posion "OFF". Let the products cool down. Put dried products into a container/package for keeping food and put it into a freezer.
2. Unplug the appliance.

NOTE: It is recommended to put all 6 seconds on to the appliance during use, no maer how many seconds are empty. If there are empty seconds, place the lled seconds on top of the appliance.

PLEASE NOTE: Wash and dry products before pung them in the appliance. Do not put wet products into the appliance.

You can change the posion of the seconds if not all products on it dried well. You can put upper seconds down, closer to the power base, and lower seconds more upwards. Some of the fruits can be covered by their natural protective layer and that is why the duraon of drying is higher. To avoid this maer it is beer to boil products for about 1-2 minutes, put them into cold water and rug them aer that.

3.4 Drying me

The duraon of drying depends on the temperature and humidity of the room, the level of humidity of products, the thickness of the pieces etc.

Fruits

• Wash the fruits.
  • Take out the pit and cut o the spoiled parts.
• Slice into pieces which you can place freely between the seconds.
  • If you want your fruits to smell pleasantly, you can add cinnamon or coconut.

Vegetables

• Wash the vegetables.
  • Take out the pit and cut o the spoiled parts.
• Slice into pieces that you can place freely between the seconds.
• It is better to boil vegetables for about 1-5 minutes, put them into cold water and then rug them dry.

(Medicinal) plants

• It is recommended to dry leafs and propagules.
• Aer drying it is beer to put medicinal plants in paper bags or glass cans and place them in a dark and cool place.

3.5 Storage of dried fruits

• Containers for storing the dried products should be clean and dry.
• For beer storage of dried fruits, use glass containers with metal lids and put them into a dark and dry place where the temperature should be between 5 and 20 degrees.
• During the rst week aer drying you should check if there is any moisture in the container. If yes, this means that the products are not dried well and you should dry them again.

ATTENTION! Do not place hot place hot or even warm products into containers for storage.

3.6 Preliminary preparaon of the fruits

Preliminary preparaon of the fruits saves its natural color, taste and avor. Below you can see some useful recommendations of how best to prepare fruits for drying:

• Take 1/4 glass of juice (natural preferably). Remember that the juice, which you take, should correspond to the fruit you prepare. For example for preparing apples you should take apple juice.
• Mix the juice with 2 glasses of water. Then immerse preliminary processed fruits(see “table of preparing the fruits for drying” into prepared liquid for 2 hours.

3.7 Table of preparing the fruits for drying

Name	Preparing	Condion aer drying	Duraon of drying(hours)
Apricot	Slice it and take out the pit	So	13-28
Orange peel	Cut it to long stripes	Fragile	6-16
Pineapple (fresh)	Peel it and slice into pieces or square parts	Hard	6-36
Pineapple (nned)	Pour out the juice and dry it	So	6-36
Banana	Peel it and slice to round pieces(3-4mm thickness)	Crispy	8-38
Grapes	No need to cut it	So	8-26
Cherry	It is not necessary to take out the pit(you can take it out when cherry is half-dried)
Pear	Peel it and slice	So	8-30
Fig	Slice it	Hard	6-26
Cranberry	No need to cut	So	6-26
Peach	Cut into 2 pieces and take out the pit when the fruits is half-dried	So	6-26
Date-fruit	Tale out the pit and slice	Hard	6-26
Apple	Peel it, take out the heart, slice it into round pieces or segments	So	4-8

NOTICE: Time and ways of preliminary processing of the fruits which are described in the table only fact-nding. Personal preferences of users can dier from the described values in the table.

3.8 Preliminary preparaon of the vegetables

1. It is recommended to boil green beans, cauliflower, broccoli, asparagus and potato, before drying them and aer that pung them into the fruit dryer.

2. How to boil: put the preliminary prepared vegetables into a saucepan with boiling water for about 3-5 minutes. Then pour out the water and put the vegetables into the appliance.

3. If you want to add a smack of lemon to green beans, asparagus etc., just put it into a lemon juice for about 2 minutes.

NOTICE: THE RECOMMENDATIONS ABOVE ARE ONLY FACT-FINDING AND IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO FOLLOW THEM.

3.9 Table of preparing vegetables for drying

Name	Preparing	Condition after drying	Duration of drying(hours)
Archoke	Cut it to stripes(3-4mm thickness)	fragile	5-13
Egg-plant	Peel it and slice it into pieces (6-12mm thickness)	Fragile	6-18
Broccoli	Peel it and cut it. Steam it for about 3-5min.	Fragile	6-20
Mushrooms	Slice it or dry it in whole (small mushrooms)	Hard	6-14
Green beans	Cut it and boil ll become transparent	Fragile	8-26
Vegetable marrows	Slice it into pieces (6mm thickness)	Fragile	6-18
Cabbage	Peel it and cut into stripes (3mm thickness) Take out the heart	Hard	6-14
Brussels sprouts	Cut the stems into 2 pieces	Crispy	8-30
Cauliower	Boil ll becomes so	Hard	6-16
Potato	Slice it, boil for about 8-10min	Crispy	8-30
Onion	Slice it into thin round pieces	Crispy	8-14
Carrot	Boil ll becomes so. shred it or slice into round pieces	Crispy	8-14
Cucumber	Peel it and slice into round pieces (12mm thickness)	Hard	6-18
Sweet pepper	Cut it to stripes or to round pieces (6mm thickness).Take out the heart	crispy	4-14
Piquant pepper	No need to cut it	Hard	8-14
Parsley	Put the leafs into seconds	Crispy	2-10
Tomato	Peel it. Cut it into pieces or into round pieces	Hard	8-24
Rhubarb	Peel it and slice it into pieces (3mm thickness)	Loss of humidity in a vegetable	8-38
Beetroot	Boil it, let it cool down, cut o the roots and the tops.Slice it to round pieces	Crispy	8-26
Celery	Slice it into pieces (6mm thickness)	Crispy	6-14
Spring onion	Shred it	Crispy	6-10
Asparagus	Slice it into pieces(2.5mm thickness)	Crispy	6-14
Garlic	Peel it and slice into round pieces	Crispy	6-16
Spinach	Boil II it becomes fade	Crispy	6-16
Champignons	Choose the mushrooms with hats which bend inside. cut into pieces or dry whole	Hard and crispy	3-10

NOTICE: Time and ways of preliminary processing of the vegetables which are described in the table only fact-nding. personal preferences of customers can dier of the described in the table.

3.10 Preliminary preparing of meat, sh, poultry and game animals

Preliminary preparing of the meat is indispensable and necessary for saving the health of a consumer. Use meat without additives for eecve drying. It is recommended to pickle the meat, this helps to remove the water out of the meat and save it beer.

Standard pickle:

• 1/2 glass of soybean sauce
• 1 piece of garlic, cut to small pieces
• 2 big spoons of ketchup
• 1 and 1/4 dessert spoon of salt
• 1/2 dessert spoon of dried pepper
- All ingredients should be mixed carefully.

Poultry

• Before the beginning of drying, poultry should be preliminary prepared.
• It is beer to boil it or fry it.
• Dry it for about 2-8 hours or unl the moisture is gone.

Fish

• It is recommended to boil or bake it on a stove before the beginning of drying (bake it for about 20 minutes with a temperature of 200 degrees or unl the sh becomes friable).
• Dry it for about 2-8 hours or unl all moisture is gone.

Meat and game animals

- Prepare it, cut it into small pieces and put into the appliance for about 2-8 hours or 11 all moisture is gone.

4. Cleaning and maintenance

• Before cleaning check if the appliance is unplugged and cooled down.
• Clean the body of the appliance with the help of a wet sponge and rug it dry.
• Do not use metal brushes, abrasive and rigid purier for cleaning the appliance, because it can damage the surface.

5. Disposal of the old device

Old electric and electronic devices frequently sll contain valuable materials. However, they also contain damaging substances, which were necessary for their funconality and safety. If these were put in the non-recyclable waste or were handled incorrectly, they

could be detrimental to human health and the environment. Therefore, do not put your old device into the non-recyclable waste under any circumstances.

PLEASE NOTE

• Uulize the collecon point, established in your town, to return and recycle old electric and electronic devices. If necessary, contact your town hall, local refuse collecon service or your dealer for informaon.
• Ensure that your old device is stored safely away from children until it is taken away.

6. Guarantee

• We provide a 24 month guarantee for this product, commencing from the date of sale, for faults which are aributable to producon or material faults.
• Your legal guarantee entlements in accordance with § 439. BGB-E remain unaected by this.
• The guarantee does not include damages, which were incurred as a result of improper handling or use, as well as malfuncons which only have a minor eect on the funcon or the value of the device. Consumables, transit damages, inasmuch as we are not responsible for these, as well as damages, which were incurred as a result of any repairs that were not performed by us, are also excluded from the guarantee entitlements.
• This device is designed for use in domesc situaons and has the appropriate performance levels.
• Any use in commercial situations is only covered under the guarantee to the extent that it would be comparable with the stresses of being used in a domestic situation. It is not intended for any additional, commercial use.
• In the event of jused complaints, we will repair the faulty device at our discretion or replace it with a trouble-free device.

Any pending faults must be reported within 14 days of delivery. All further claims are excluded.

To enforce a guarantee claim, please contact us prior to returning the device (always provide us with proof of purchase).

7. Technical characteristics

Model number	99295
Power	350 Wa
Electricity	220-240 Volts, 50-60 Hertz

8. Service

If you have any further quesons about the product aer reading this manual, please contact the Trebs customer service: [e-mail].

Trebs BV

Thermiekstraat 1a, 6361 HB, Nuth, The Netherlands, Email: [e-mail], Internet: www.trebs.nl

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