You get to build and manage a farm left for you by your late grandfather inStardew Valley. You’re free to choose how to live out your days on the farm, be it by growing various crops, catching all kinds of fish, mining valuable gems, or more!

While your farm starts out full of weeds, branches, and rocks, you can work your way towards making it a productive place. You can upgrade different parts of the farm, and you can craft various machines that will help process your produce to make it more valuable to sell. One of these machines is theDehydrator.

How To Get A Dehydrator

The Dehydrator isan item you can craft, and you’ll need the recipe in order to create it.

The recipe is available at Pierre’s general store, and you can purchase it for10,000 gold. It’s a steep price to pay, but you can make the gold back by selling the produce made with this machine.

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There are other ways to get your hands on a Dehydrator without the recipe. You can alsowin this as a prize in Mayor Lewis' prize machine.

The last way to get this machine is by picking the option to grow mushrooms when Demetrius approaches you regarding the cave on your farm.The machine will be given for freeshould you choose to have a mushroom cave.

5 of the same mushroom (except Red Mushroom)

5 of the same fruit

Raisins

5 grapes

The five products you’ll be putting in the Dehydratormust be of the same quality.

After putting in the fruit, mushrooms, or grapes, you’ll need towait one full dayfor them to dry.

Once they’re ready, simplypick them up from the Dehydrator, and you’ll find that the produce has been dried and bagged!

What To Do With Dehydrator Produce

Once your dried products are ready, you cansell them, consume them, or give them away.

The best thing to do with your Dried Mushrooms and Dried Fruit would be tosell them at either Pierre’s General Store or the shipping bin.

The Raisins can be sold too, butthey’re a great gift to give to Evelyn, who loves this item.

If you have no need for the extra gold or the relationship bonus with Evelyn, you can simplyconsume them for energy and health.

You should take the time to put your products through the Dehydrator when you canto make them more valuable. Dried Fruit and Dried Mushrooms cost7.5 x base produce price + 25 goldwhen sold. Raisins also sell for a high price of600 gold.