Dehydrator

Dehydrator
Uses low, even heat to eliminate moisture from eligible Foods and render them shelf-stable. Dehydrated meals must be processed at the Rehydrator before they can be eaten.
Some of the eliminated liquid inevitably ends up on the floor.
Research	Gourmet Meal Preparation
Dimensions	3×3 tiles
Rotation	Nonrotating
Category	Food
Heat	+4 kDTU/s
Overheat at	75 °C
Decor	0
Ventilation	Input: Natural Gas
Requires	Natural Gas: -20g/s Duplicant operation (for loading and unloading)
Storage Capacity	Natural Gas: 5 kg
Effects	Wet Floor Carbon Dioxide: 5 g/s Fabricates: Dried Stuffed Berry Dried Mushroom Wrap Dried Surf'n'Turf Dried Pepper Bread Dried Mushroom Quiche Dried Curried Beans Dried Spicy Tofu Dried Frost Burger Dried Berry Pie
Auto In	Green: Enable Red: Disable
Other Properties	Susceptible to flooding
Materials
Refined Metal	200 kg

Dehydrator is a building the allows the creation of dehydrated food packs.

Usage

It takes 6000 kcal of any food prepared with the Gas Range and 12 kg of Plastic to create 6 packs each of dehydrated food.

The food and plastic must first be loaded into the dehydrator and Natural Gas piped in.

The dehydration process is somewhat long at 250 seconds (almost half a cycle). The unloading requires duplicant operation for an additional 50 seconds. When unloading, six dehydrated food packs and 6 kg of water are expelled at the bottom middle cell at 95 °C.

Dehydrated food packs never spoil. They need to be restored in the Rehydrator before they can be consumed. Each pack provides 1000 kcal.

Food that was spiced prior to dehydration will retain the spice upon being rehydrated.

History

• U50-581979: Introduced.

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