Food Dehydrator
Optimized drying for fruit, vegetables, spices, and pharmaceuticals
Reduce Drying Time
Concentrated airflow cuts drying time to mere hours. Herbs like parsley dried in 72 minutes!
Food Dehydrator
Description
The Fusion Tech Food Dehydrator makes quick work of drying fruits, vegetables, spices, and pharmaceuticals — turning what normally takes days of air drying into mere hours.
We eliminated the breakpoint that cooks product in our popular smokehouses and protein dehydrators, to provide continuous, focused air movement throughout the cabinet. It’s like a standard drying room, with more power and faster drying times.
Exclusive features add versatility and convenience, allowing you to operate, clean, and maintain the oven in a fraction of the time of other dehydrators.
An oversized fan provides high volume air while air directing guards reduce velocity to provide a truly fast and efficient drying experience.
Combined with sanitary design and robust build, the Fusion Tech Food Dehydrator gives you high powered drying in a clean and durable cabinet.
Features
Benefits
Oven Features
Standard Features
Standard Features
- Stainless Steel 304 construction with interior seams fully welded (no gaskets)
- Walls, roof, and doors fully insulated with Rockwool Insulation (1,100° rating)
- Walls and roof have stainless steel structural tube and angle design
- Heavy duty stainless steel diamond floor plate
- All stainless steel internal piping
- Oven drainage
- VFD controlled fan (instead of single speed)
- High volume, forced airflow recirculation (minimum of 14 air changes)
- CIP piping and spray balls located in supply and return ducts, and machinery aggregate
- 480-volt power supply standard (step down voltages available)
- Single product probe
- Psychomotor pan in return airflow for accurate temperature and humidity readings
- Indu iMax 1000 controller featuring a color touchscreen that can hold multiple recipes, offline monitoring, chart recording, and documentation storage capabilities for HACCP standard
Heating Source
Fusion Tech ovens can come with your option of heating sources:
- Gas fired
- Gas fired with low-NOx required
- Electric
- Steam Coils
- Electric Coils
Power Supply
Fusion Tech ovens come standard with 480 volt power supply. A step-down transformer can be applied for:
- 208 volt power supply
- 230/240 volt power supply
- 380 volt power supply
Oven Doors
- Doors fully insulated with Rockwool Insulation (1,100° rating)
- Add an optional Pass-Through door on the oven
- An innovative vacuum system on the inflatable door seal allows the seal to deflate much quicker than a typical system as well as reduce the potential of tearing by retracting the seal into the protective door channel.
Supply Ducts
Supply ducts:
- Run the length of the oven side walls, providing airflow throughout the oven
- Strategically placed knives direct airflow across product
- Hinged to allow easy access for cleaning
Airflow Optimization (Red Dots)
The Fusion Tech Food Dehydrator includes these airflow-optimizing features:
- Oversized VFD fan produces high volume air to effectively dray a wide variety of products
- Lowered (V-Shaped) return duct lessens turbulence and air rotation for a more consistent dry.
- Supply duct air knives along the length of the oven side walls directs air over product for faster dry times.
Frame & Construction (Light Blue Dots)
Fusion Tech ovens feature the best in framing and construction:
- Stainless Steel 304 construction with interior seams fully TIG welded (no gaskets)
- Walls, roof, and doors fully insulated with Rockwool Insulation (1,100° rating)
- Walls and roof have stainless steel structural tube and angle design
- Heavy duty stainless steel diamond floor plate
- Sanitary design construction
Cleaning & Sanitation (Dark Blue Dots)
Fusion Tech Ovens are designed with sanitation in mind.
- Product shower piping and sanitary spray balls located in the main ducts and oven housing provide 360-degree cleaning — something you won’t find in ovens with the pig-tale spray nozzle. Our built-in cleaning system cleans all areas around the fan cabinet, supply ducting, return areas, and more.
- Sanitary welds and no metal-on-metal contact round out the easy-to-clean features of a Fusion Tech oven.
- Hinged Supply Duct Doors allow for easy cleaning.
Maintenance Friendly (Green Dots)
Fusion Tech Ovens include the following features for ease of maintenance:
- Psychrometer pan located in return duct with access from a return duct port that makes replacing the wet bulb easy
- Sanitary spray balls are easily removed for cleaning if they ever get clogged
Customize Your Oven
Options
- Pass-Through Door (door on each end of the oven)
- Product shower spray nozzle system including valve
- Additional product probes (one probe standard)
- Stack lighting and alarms on either or both ends of the oven
- Handrail on top of oven
- Access ladder
- Interior drain / sub floor in oven
- Exterior trench or area drain
Smoke Generator
Fusion Tech Smoke Generator
Our Smoke Generator is a wood chip burner that gives you total control over the intensity and density of the smoke, resulting in a flavor-rich product you won’t be able to get anywhere else.
Other Smoke Generator Options
We can outfit your oven with other smoke generator options, including:
- Liquid Smoke
- Pellet Burner
CIP Skid
Our innovative and uniquely designed CIP Skid is a high capacity clean-in-place tank and pumping system designed to efficiently and effectively clean and sanitize a Fusion Tech Oven.
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Oversized Fan
An oversized, VFD controlled fan (instead of single speed) provides high volume, forced airflow recirculation (minimum of 14 air changes).
Plug fan shown. Other sytles available:
- Forward Curve Fan
- Reverse Curve Fan
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CIP Sanitary Spray Balls
Sanitary spray balls in the supply & return ducts, oven cabinet, and fan housing provide 360° cleaning of the oven.
Shown in yellow.
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Hinged Return Duct (Inside)
Hinged return duct allows for easy maintenance access and cleaning of all ducting.
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No Slides on Return Ducts (Inside)
Holes found in the return ducts eliminate the use of metal on metal slides, which causes bacteria growth and makes it easier to balance the oven.
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Lowered Return Duct
Returned duct is designed to lessen turbulence and air rotation. Flat return ducts do not allow air to return as efficiently as a lowered return duct. Shown in yellow.
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Psychrometer Pan Port (inside)
Access the psychrometer pan and wet / dry bulb through an access panel in the return duct. Replace the wet sock in seconds with this no tools required design. Shown in yellow.
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Interior Fully Seam Welded Skins
TIG Welded wall skins prevent the build up of bacteria found in ovens with seam gaskets.
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Rockwool Insulation
Walls, roof, and doors are fully insulated with Rockwool insulation, that has an insulation rating up to 1,100°.
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Tubular Stainless Steel Frame
Tubular stainless steel framing provides a more robust structure than other manufacturer’s ovens.
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Door Flush to Face
Door is flush to the face of the oven cabinet, eliminating bacteria harboring points.
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Supply Duct Knife Doors
Supply duct knives are on doors that hinge open for easy cleaning.
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Pitched Floor to Central Drain (Optional)
A pitched floor leading to a central, interior drain eliminates water, fluids, and bacteria from sitting on the oven floor. Other option includes sloping to exterior trench drain.
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Diamond Floor Plate
Oven floors are constructed of heavy duty stainless steel diamond floor plate for safety.
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Removable Face
Easily replace gasket and door seal.
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Vacuum Door Seals
A vacuum system provides quick deflation and reduces the potential of tearing by fully retracting the seal into a protective door channel. Removable lower face of the door allows for easy gasket replacement.
Red Dots = Airflow Features
Green Dots = Maintenance Features
Dark Blue Dots = Cleaning & Sanitation Features
Light Blue Dots = Construction
Control Panels
Fusion Tech Ovens come with two controller options. You can learn more about our controllers to the right.
Add On Features
Smoke Generator
Taste and intensity are key when purchasing a smoke generation system, and the Fusion Tech Smoke Generator gives you both in one system.
CIP Skid
A high capacity clean-in-place tank and pumping system designed to efficiently and effectively clean and sanitize a Fusion Tech Oven.
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