Save the Magnolias...

[Sea Draggin]

I would defer to someone else with more experience to answer the dehydrator question. I just got the cheapy.

[clt_capt]

The little electric dehydrators work well - you can even make fish jerky (don't laugh until you try it) - One of my friends started to get in to lots of jerky - he quickly found out that it was easier/more cost effective to ship it to a commercial jerky company to process it for him...