Original Commentary

The hardest part was figuring out what to have Patrick give them. It was "fancy kitchen item" for the longest time. I suppose that regular fruit dehydrators aren't that expensive. He got them a special one. In the original draft, it was mentioned that the Lounge Guys got them a model train, a large bag of peanuts, and a second model train which was a different scale than the first one - Terrence

Modern Commentary
You can get a food dehydrator for like forty bucks these days, and I don't imagine that the technology has changed much in the last twenty years.

The thing about appliances - any of them - is that you can always spend more money on them if you want. You can also spend a little less sometimes; once we thought we were getting a really good deal on an airbrush kit since it was $30 cheaper than the others. That was because it didn't come with a compressor, which was $50 if you buy it separately... - Terrence