You may have thought about using kegs vs. dehydrator. The reality is that in the early game, you should buy the dehydrator recipe and start putting in blueberries and cranberries. In general, use multi harvest crops that would require a ton of kegs or preserved jars instead. This can be a great early game source of money. You can get 400 gold per dried blueberries. In the end game, dehydrator is not recommended to be used instead of kegs except for when creating raisins. This is because you'll likely have more materials for kegs and more available space to place them. So instead of the 2.1x + 7 multiplier with dehydrator+artisan, you can get a 4.2x multiplier with kegs