@OriginalDankmaster96 , i have absolutely used a standard food dehydrator to quickly dry my buds and no it didnt destroy them. i unwired the heating element and set it up on a cycle timer so it runs for a few minutes, pauses for a few, then repeats. after a few months in the jars youd never know it was dried in such horrid conditions. if you did a side by side comparison with slowly dried bud its fair to say the dehydrated but would be less terpy for sure but i havnt known it to cause a “hay smell” or anything like that. also the thc content seems entirely unaffected.
i know im going to catch a ton of shit for admitting that. while its for sure not ideal its not going to ruin your crop. its like those ice creme buckets that were allowed to thaw and were refrozen.