DIY wooden dryer for fish. Flake. Solar dehydrator with collector

Dryer for fish, dryer for drying the catch

For every fisherman, it is important not only to catch a fish, but also to properly save the catch. Drying for fish is very useful for you in any conditions, even if you are going to dry fish in urban conditions on the balcony. We offer various types dryers, from compact hanging ones for hanging on a balcony, terrace, tree, to frame-prefabricated dryers that can be installed outdoors, in the country. All dryers are easy to assemble so they are easy to carry, do not take up much space and are packed in waterproof cases, which will be very convenient if you are traveling by car. Dryers are washable, washable, do not fade in the sun, and are also protected from moisture and damage.

What are dryers?

The Dom Rybalki online store offers three types of dryers for drying fish:

Suspended frame made of polypropylene mesh. It is presented in various sizes, has three horizontal shelves for fish, a fine mesh of 3 mm, which prevents insects from getting inside. Also, this model has an additional lower compartment, due to which the lower shelf with fish does not come into contact with objects in any way and is protected from insects. The arched entrance with a zipper allows you to lay out the fish on the shelves and hermetically fasten the dryer. It is suspended on a special device from the cords that are included in the kit. Made in China.

Dryer prefabricated NPO KEDR St. Petersburg. It is a dryer for fish made of small-mesh nylon with mosquito net inserts. The frame is made of metal, mounted on flat surface or suspended depending on the desire of the fisherman. It has from 3 to 6 chains for hanging fish vertically and drying it. Hooks are not included. This model is very convenient to use, as it does not require turning the catch to dry, it is easy to wash.

Dryer team made of ECO-material. domestic production dryer, which has a convenient cube shape, can be hung, equipped with crossbars with hooks for drying fish, which is hung vertically in rows. The dryer is made of solid wood, which is why it has gained popularity among lovers of environmentally friendly products. Your catch in reliable dryers! The frame is covered with breathable thin breathable fabric and protects the fish from insects and damage. Packed in a box.

Large round dryer for drying predatory fish, herbs, mushrooms and roots. It has large shelves to accommodate large items for drying. Well ventilated and protected from direct sun rays thanks to the fine mesh.

Dryers are very popular not only in summer, but also in winter, since the safety of the catch is an important component not only of pride in the past fishing, but also safe way preparing fish for further consumption. Long gone are the days when the fish was dried on a newspaper, thereby often spoiling the catch or being subjected to laying eggs of the larvae.

Choose convenient, modern dryers for fish on the website of the Dom Rybalki online store. We will deliver dryers to every fisherman in any corner of Russia: delivery by mail and transport company.

Often, after successful fishing, the question arises of processing a large catch. What to do if you no longer want to fry and boil fish, and there is simply no drying device yet, it has not been before. But everyone loves dried fish, but in order to dry it, you need to make a dryer.

For such a case, this is just a video on our urgent fishing topic. This device is very simple and at the same time effective, it will perfectly show itself at home and is not afraid of flies. It is made very cheaply from plywood.

Vyalka is a parallelepiped fixed with aluminum corners. The mesh is suitable for the one used for curtaining windows from insects.

The mesh needs to be larger so that the elastic band presses it against the structure with a margin. Inside there are two plywood slats at the distance of the back mesh so that the flies cannot lay their larvae.

Window carnations are stuffed on the rail at a slight angle. Hats need to be bitten off, while the nails are sharpened. The fish simply puts on these hooks. Made two rails. One is located on top, it is convenient to use it for big fish. At the middle level, respectively, medium and small fish are hung.

Dryer collapsible for fish

The dryer is mobile, can be placed in field conditions on tree branches, etc.

An idea for anglers who spend a long time fishing.

Dryer for placement anywhere - for example, on the wall of a barn

Such a fish dryer can be hung on the wall of a barn or cottage. Very practical, because it does not take up much space, like a stationary one. Detachable design, easy to manufacture.

Dryer (dehydrator) for drying and curing fish

Dehydration dryer - in scientific terminology, but simply for drying and drying fish, in which fish is placed very compactly and massively. It is shown how tightly the fish can be hung so that a sufficient distance between them allows good ventilation.

How to dry and dry fish on a fire

Shown how with simple actions and fixtures, you can dry and dry the fish on a fire. Place the fish at a sufficient distance from the fire to ensure the desired regime.

A dehydrator is a device that is a dryer for products (greens, fish, meat, mushrooms, nuts, vegetables and fruits). Also, this device can be used to cook healthier (dried, without any other processing) food, such as various desserts, sprouted cereals, cookies, chips and more. Needlework lovers create dry flower bouquets, items from papier-mache, herbarium and others decorative crafts. Dehydration of products in the device occurs due to the action warm air, infrared or sunlight.

Store-bought appliances are quite expensive. They allow you to maintain a constant set temperature inside drying chamber. Making a dehydrator with your own hands is an opportunity available to everyone to save on the device and get a device that allows you to quickly dry products in the required quantity.

A homemade dryer can be made from an old refrigerator. This will make a good dehydrator for fruits and vegetables.

Manufacturing algorithm

The process of manufacturing a drying plant from a refrigerator occurs according to the following scheme.

1. Carefully dismantle the compressor, radiator and freezer so as not to damage the pipes and avoid leakage of the working substance (refrigerant).
2. Take off inner lining and a heater, leaving a sealing gum on a door.
3. In the place where the compressor was installed, a fan is mounted.
4. On top (on the roof) of the refrigerator, a hole is made for a pipe (a two-meter section with a diameter of 100 mm is enough) or an aluminum corrugation 3 m long, which is fixed with glue.
5. A hook is attached to the door to securely fix it.
6. Attached to the side walls of the box from the refrigerator with self-tapping screws or bolts wooden slats after about 10-20 cm, then to put shelves on them.
7. If any holes remain, they are closed.
8. To speed up the drying process, an exhaust hood is placed on the pipe or corrugation.

The final design is shown in the photo below.

The nuances of creating a structure

The inner lining and insulation are removed, because plastic and foam plastic decompose when heated, releasing harmful substances.

The insulation should be dismantled with gloves and a respirator to protect against glass wool (if it served as a heater).

Since the remaining tin cabinet is not very rigid, it may be necessary to increase its degree by installing spacers or a galvanized inner casing.

For blowing products, it is allowed to use a conventional exhaust fan power 18 W, diameter 125 mm, only installed to blow air inside. Installing a fan heater will significantly speed up the whole process, increasing the productivity of the installation. Instead, one or two can be attached to the back wall. electric heating elements with a total power of up to two kW - then the device will work as an electric dryer. In this case, a second exhaust fan should be installed in the upper part of the box.

The created unit can be used all year round. But if a conventional fan is installed, then painting the case black, as well as installing the device in the sun in warm time year contributes to an increase in the temperature inside, which speeds up the entire process of drying products.

In order for the created dryer to work efficiently, it is necessary to provide good blowing of the product laid on the sheets. This is achieved by leaving a gap of 2 cm between the box and the door on one side, and back wall box on the other.

When using a refrigerator with conventional fans without installation heating elements it is enough to remove only the compressor with a freezer and a radiator. Thus, the grooves for installing shelves on them remain, but if necessary, you need to add more. as shelves can be applied:

• grates designed for grilling, but with cut off handles;
• metal sheets with holes drilled in them;
• grids with different size cells;
• old mesh shelves from the refrigerator;
• lattice structures made of wire or wooden slats.

It is easy to come up with a variety of options for creating shelves for vegetables and other products on your own and make them from improvised materials.

If the compressor is in working condition, and the cooler circulation system is not damaged, then these parts may be useful for creating.

Creating a dryer from a refrigerator takes several hours with the necessary parts and tools. Design can be improved different ways, equipping, for example, temperature sensors and the simplest system automation, or experimenting with the location of the fans. To prevent insects from getting inside the dryer, ventilation holes close mosquito net or gauze folded in 2 or 3 layers.

Homemade dehydrator

A dehydrator can be made from homemade wardrobe in a manner similar to the previous one. Only instead refrigerator compartment here is a plywood cabinet. For this you will need the following materials:

• plywood or chipboard, fiberboard;
• wooden slats;
• metal corners and screws;
• aluminium foil;
• electric heater;
• 2 fans;

It is better to use a fan heater instead of a separate heating element. The other fan will be normal, while working on the hood.

The cabinet must be designed in such a way as to provide unobstructed air circulation. It is collected in this order.

Fans can be connected in parallel and switched on with a switch. Also, the design can be additionally equipped with light bulbs showing the operation of the installation. The fan heater is equipped built-in thermostat. It will automatically turn on the heater heating. If necessary, you can turn off one spiral to reduce the power of the installation.

Simple solar dryer for fruits and vegetables

The solar dryer can be made in various ways. Wherein no electricity costs: vegetables or fruits are dried by the energy of the sun's rays. Suitable for summer residents simplest design, which can be done with a hammer, saw, stapler and scissors. The work on creating the installation is performed in the following sequence.

1. Assemble the frame right size, based on the required volumes of workpieces, for example, from wooden bars 50 by 50 mm.
2. Sheathe it from the sides and back with plywood or boards.
3. The back wall is sheathed from the inside with a metal sheet.
4. coloring inner part in black to make the air warmer.
5. At an angle that provides the best exposure to sunlight, shelves made of mesh, wire, plywood, tin, plastic and other materials are installed.
6. Ventilation holes are made in the upper and lower parts of the structure, the size of which must correspond to the dimensions of the installation.
7. They are covered with gauze or a mosquito net to prevent insects from entering the drying cabinet.
8. The front part of the box is made in the form of a frame fixed on canopies.
9. It is covered with glass transparent plastic, polycarbonate or plastic wrap(fixed with a stapler).
10. A stand for a box is made from bars or metal pipes.

Also, the created design can simply be supported on something. Possible appearance shown in the photo below.

In such a cabinet due to heating sheet metal achieved temperature 40-50 degrees. Ventilation ensures the removal of moisture released from the fruit.

Solar dehydrator with collector

More difficult option solar dryer (demonstrated in the photo below) consists of two departments:

• air heating zone, consisting of a collector;
• drying zones where products are located.

The front parts of both zones are covered with a transparent material, for example, glass, polycarbonate.

Collector is a box, the bottom of which is covered with a thin sheet of metal painted black. A heat insulator is laid under it ( mineral wool or sawdust) to minimize heat loss. Air enters the heating zone through the ventilation openings. Then it enters up through the shelves with products and exits.

By installing black tubes as an absorbent, for example, painted aluminum corrugation, you can increase the temperature of heating the air with a collector.

For the device to work effectively, it must be constantly kept with a directional collector towards the sun.. If the collectors are installed on three sides, then there is no need for rotation, such a drying unit will work all day. All cracks are sealed with sealant.

Solar dryer with fan and thermostat

To create a working automated model with a length of 1 m, a height of 0.6 m and a width of 0.53 m, the following materials will be needed:

• glass;
• wooden bars and slats;
• plywood;
• metal corners;
• aluminum sheet;
• fan with a diameter of 120 mm with a voltage of 12 V;
• mosquito net;
• thermostat (for example, W1209), consisting of a temperature controller and a thermostat;
• voltage stabilizer with a KR142EN8B chip;
• a solar battery that produces a voltage of 12 V;
• metal mesh for pallets.

The scheme of the apparatus is shown in the photo below.

The construction algorithm is as follows.

1. According to the scheme above, a frame is assembled from beams and plywood, connecting individual elements self-tapping screws, metal corners.
2. The body is sealed.
3. Wheels (40-100 mm in diameter) are attached to the bottom, so that it is convenient to turn the structure in the sun.
4. They make the back door of glass so that you can stack the products, as well as observe the drying process.
5. Install after 7 cm seven shelves.
6. Make shelves from mosquito or steel mesh and rails.
7. An aluminum sheet is laid on the collector panel, pre-painted with black heat-resistant paint.
8. Mount the fan on top.
9. Gather electrical circuit, connecting the stabilizer to each other, solar battery, thermostat and fan as shown in the diagram below.
10. Set the controller to the desired operating temperature.

The door must be hermetically sealed so that insects do not enter inside.

A stabilizer is needed to maintain constant voltage on the fan contacts with a value of 12 V. Further improvement of the created design is possible by fan speed control. It is recommended to rotate the device so that the collector and the battery are constantly illuminated by sunlight.

Assembling the infrared dryer

Suitable for mushrooms, vegetables, nuts and fruits infrared dryer. Making it yourself is pretty easy. For this you will need the following materials:

• iron wire with a diameter of 5 to 8 mm;
• cardboard box, for example, from a vacuum cleaner;
• aluminium foil;
• metal mesh;
• bulb holder;
• awl;
• screwdriver;
• self-tapping screws;
• cartridge for an ordinary light bulb with fasteners;
• thermometer;
• infrared lamp;
• aluminum tape or glue.

The installation is created in the following sequence.

1. The inside of the box is glued aluminum foil using tape or glue for this.
2. Shelves are made from a grid according to the size of the box.
3. On any wall near the bottom, a hole is made for the supply wire and the cartridge is fixed with self-tapping screws.
4. Screw in the infrared lamp.
5. A thermometer is attached to any sidewall.
6. Cut the wire into pieces that are approximately 5 mm longer than the width of the box.
7. Pierce holes in the sidewalls for the rods for the racks.
8. They insert a wire into them and seal its protruding ends with adhesive tape from the outside.
9. Laying shelving.

As a result, after all the manipulations, you will get an installation similar to that shown in the photo below.

The side parts of the box can serve as a lid, or it can be made separately from the same cardboard. If you want to automate the design, then you should use temperature sensor. Under his control, the light bulb will turn on automatically.

Also, in the created design, you can use an incandescent lamp (its sufficient power is 60 W) or heating film used to create warm floors. In the latter case, at home, a piece of 50 by 100 cm with a power of 110 watts is enough. In the general case, the length of the fragment is chosen according to the box used.

When using the film, you will also need:

• insulation, for example, bituminous, used to create underfloor heating;
• a set consisting of 2 clamps, two eyelets and the same number of ring terminals, which is designed to connect the power to the film.

Lay on top of bituminous insulation pvc tape. To connect the film, you will need to solder wires and contacts.

This dryer allows temperatures around 60 degrees. It can be rolled up and laid on the bottom of a box made in the previously indicated way.

Do-it-yourself dehydrator for meat and fish

Dryer for meat and fish is easy to make from plastic container. For this you will need:

• fan;
• a plastic container with a lid;
• steel bars with a cross section of 5 mm or threaded studs with washers and nuts;
• pipe cut or coupling.

The whole process of making a dehydrator for drying fish, meat and drying other products from a plastic container is shown in the video:

It is easy to assemble a dehydrator for fish, meat, vegetables, fruits and other products from improvised materials: plywood, boxes, a refrigerator. Various working old fans are suitable for blowing. In each case, it will be necessary, of course, to think over a way to secure them, but economic costs will be reduced. In small installations, you can use a fan from a computer, having previously provided the right voltage nutrition. If you automate the dryer, then in terms of functionality it will be able to compete with factory counterparts. When drying meat and fish, be sure to prevent flies from entering the interior of the appliance so that they do not spoil the food.

In the process of evolution, mankind has invented many ways to prepare products that allow them to be preserved for a long time. One of them is drying. Today we will dwell in more detail on the process of drying fish, the devices used for this and some of the nuances and features of the process of their self-production.

With a successful combination of circumstances, the angler's catch can be calculated not in pieces of fish caught, but in kilograms of its weight.

And in this case, there is a need to preserve the extracted product. Of course, a refrigerator can come to the rescue. But what an incomparable pleasure you experience when eating your own caught and dried fish.

When harvesting a catch, you should remember some features. First, before drying the fish should be well salted.

To improve the taste of the future product, it is better to use not only salt, sprinkling rows of caudate ones in a voluminous container, but also add a few handfuls of black peppercorns and grind a dozen leaves of lavrushka.

Some gourmets mix salt with sugar in a ratio of 3/1. In the case of salting the catch directly at the fishing spot, especially in the hot season, it is recommended to gut the fish to avoid spoilage. In this case, the amount of salt can be slightly reduced.

Secondly, in the process of drying, the fish is very attracted to flies, striving to plant their eggs in each carcass. Naturally, this "seasoning" is not to many tastes, so measures must be taken to prevent free access insects. Consider several options for household fish dryers, made by hand from a variety of improvised materials.

Wooden fish dryer

It is a rectangular wooden box in which a fish hanging system is made. As building material take a few slats of wood with a section of 20x40 mm, file a sufficient number of parts from them.

Connect the resulting bars at the corners with nails or self-tapping screws, trying to prevent splitting of the ends.

To protect against insects, you can use a synthetic mosquito net, which is not difficult to purchase at any hardware store.

The cell size should be minimal and not exceed 1-1.5 mm. Fastening the mesh to the frame can be done using small nails, but it is much more convenient to use a furniture stapler for this purpose.

To save cellular material, one of the walls of the drying chamber can be sewn up with a sheet of thin plywood or fiberboard.

Hanging the fish during drying can be carried out on wire strings or nylon cords stretched between the bars of the dryer cover. It is convenient to attach the catch directly to hooks made of stainless paper clips.

Homemade collapsible dryer made of plastic panels and corners

This option is suitable plastic lovers. You will need the following materials:

• 2 trimming sandwich panels 250x400;
• corner for connecting panels;
• edge profile;
• frames with a mesh according to the principle of removable mosquito nets for plastic windows.

The advantage of this model is mobility, easy assembly, low weight, as well as the small volume that it occupies when stored unassembled. For assembly, it is enough to insert the frames into the connecting brackets without using adhesive compositions. We will get the side railing of the dryer.

Then we will install the same corners on the lower edges of the frames and put the bottom on them - a piece of the panel.

The next step is to make a fastening system to hold the fish from pieces of a plastic corner profile. For this with inside vertically install the corners in the corners of the body and lay four more on them.

We put salted fish strung on wooden skewers or pieces of steel wire on the prepared suspension.

It is better to cover the bottom of the dryer with paper towels to collect the flowing brine. We close the top of the structure with a lid assembled from the second piece of the panel and four pieces of the edge profile. Top cover can be non-separable, fastened using glue or a stapler.

Dryer for fish from plastic boxes

A dryer variant made on the basis of two fruit boxes is quite simple to manufacture. In the device, the container is located one above the other in an inverted form. At the top box, you must first remove the cellular part of the bottom.

It is convenient to do sharp knife or side cutters. The boxes can be connected to each other with glue or self-tapping screws.

To provide protection against insects from a mosquito net, sew two bags equipped with an elastic band in the neck. The lower bag is stationary, and the upper one will be installed after loading the next batch of fish.

To fix the catch during drying, you can use wooden slats with a section of 15x20 mm, into which nails with removed caps are driven in with a certain step. Depending on the size of the fish, the slats can be set higher or lower. If it is necessary to dry pike, pike perch, one more intermediate box with a completely removed bottom can be added to the structure. In working condition, drying from a container will look like this.

Other dryer options

Human thought has no boundaries. To solve the problems of drying fish are used various options dryers from various materials. Stationary based on plastic window grids can be made in another version, different from the collapsible described above.

For a welder, a more convenient option is made entirely on a non-separable metal frame.

At the same time, the device can be used both suspended and installed on the ground in the shade. garden trees or canopy. It has been noticed that drying fish (drying) is best done in a semi-shaded place, and not in the open sun. In this case, the product will be more tender, soft and oily.

In places characterized by large volumes of fish caught, it is advisable to use stationary dryers large volume, allowing you to load large batches of fish up to several tens of kilograms.

Even an ordinary umbrella, supplemented with a fine mesh sleeve, can be used by savvy anglers to harvest fish in field conditions. It is enough to hang it from the nearest tree and hang the pre-salted daily catch on the needles. In Soviet times, with a total shortage of mosquito net one could not dream, but the people easily got out of difficult situations. Disused tulle was used as protection against insects.

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A dehydrator, or dryer for fish or meat, is a must-have item for many fishermen and hunters to use as one of the ways to process their prey. In order not to spend money on an industrial design, you can make a fish dryer with your own hands with minimal financial costs.

Of course, the most inexpensive option for a dehydrator is an ordinary clothesline, on which a fish is strung and placed somewhere under a roof or on a balcony. With all its simplicity, this option does not exclude the infection of fish during the drying process with larvae. various insects, as well as from sitting flies. Therefore, the most practical and reliable dryers for food are always designed with walls that protect prey from flies, other insects and pollution from the street, but somehow promote free air circulation. According to their design, dryers for fish or meat are different:

• Suspended
• collapsible
• Stationary
• With fan

Hanging dryers differ from stationary dryers in that, in accordance with their name, they are suspended from the wall, thanks to which their height and position can be adjusted, which is convenient when choosing the most suitable place for the amount of sun or wind. Collapsible dryers very convenient in that they can be disassembled for compact storage while they are not being used. In addition, they are mobile, and during long-term fishing, the catch can be immediately placed in the dryer right on the shore of the reservoir. All these dryers are adapted to dry fish on outdoors. What to do if there is no such possibility, or dehydration of fish needs to be done in winter? In this case, a dryer for meat and fish with a fan will help, which is quite simple to do with your own hands.

In order to make a dryer with a fan, you will need the following materials:

• Plastic container with lid. Can be used plastic box for children's toys.
• Extractor hood with outlet grate. Sufficient fan power is 280 cubic meters. Instead of ventilation hood you can use a PC cooler.
• Threaded rod on M8 or M6, can also be used metal bars 3 mm in diameter.
• Nuts, washers, bolts.

The sequence of work on the manufacture of the dehydrator is as follows:

1. At the bottom of the box, on its short side, it is necessary to mark with a marker the place for mounting the ventilation hood. The place for fixing the grate for the hood is also marked, it is best if it is located on the lid. If this is not possible, it is built into opposite side from the fan at the top. Holes can be cut with a jigsaw, a circular saw-crown suitable diameter, or use a drill with a thin drill: holes are drilled around the perimeter of the circle, then the jumpers between them are removed with an ordinary knife. If you heat the blade of the knife, the plastic will be cut more easily.
2. The fan and the grate for the hood are installed in the prepared holes, fixed to the walls of the box with fasteners. The lattice can be planted on liquid nails.
3. Next, you need to mark the location of the holes for the rod, which will hold the fish or pieces of meat during drying. To do this, masking tape is glued around the perimeter of the box, and markings are already applied to it. Holes are drilled with a screwdriver or drill. Another option for attaching a drying rod is using duralumin corners. They are fixed on the long sides of the container with the shelf down, fastened with bolts, and on the shelves of the corners they are arranged through holes for the bar. With the help of such corners inside the dryer, you can make several rows.
4. The threaded rod is cut into required amount bars of the desired length with a hacksaw.
5. The rods are inserted into the holes, fixed with nuts and washers. If you need to dry something roomy, you can unscrew the nuts and remove the rods.
6. The fish is strung on rods through the eyes or clings to hooks and hung on rods. Then the container is closed with a lid, the fan is turned on, the box is placed in any comfortable spot for several days.

Such a dehydrator is universal, since it is used not only for drying fish, but it is also a dryer for meat, vegetables or fruits. In addition, if thick parchment is placed on the rods, you can dry small products - berries and mushrooms. The dryer from the container is quite capacious, airtight, protects products from the penetration of any insects. How fast the food will dry will depend on the outside temperature of the dehydrator. Modify similar dryer it is possible if you install a special adapter-timer to set the operating time, as well as a device that supplies warm air inside.