anybody use a dehydrator? got any recipes for bread/crackers?

[Guest guest]

I bought a dehydrator to help me keep up with all of my CSA veggies

this summer (small apartment, little freezer space) and would love to

use it for more than just preserving food. I'm especially fond of the

occasional cracker and understand these can be made in a dehydrator.

In my research I'm finding most of them either contain oil or are VERY

heavily based on nuts. I don't mind a few nuts and seeds but most of

these seem to have way too much of those. Does anybody make a very low

fat bread or cracker in the dehydrator? I'd love to try some.

[Guest guest]

Hi Debbie

I dry wedges of whole wheat pita bread, and strips of corn tortillas for

fat free chips. Works great, and no burning or oil!

Carol

[Guest guest]

No, because the enzyme theory has been debunked about 100,000,000 x

 

From Dr. Fuhrman, but nearly identical to what McDougall, Esslysten etc say.

 

" The enzymes needed for proper digestion is supplied by our body, not by the

food eaten. Our body has the ability to analyze the food and secrete the precise

proportion and amount of enzyme needed for that particular food. We have to rely

on the body's genius to get just the right amount, not too much and not too

little. Enzymes in plants are put there for the plants needs, not ours, but some

plant enzymes do have nutritive benefits, not functional benefits. Some

nutrients, photochemical and enzymes which have photochemical benefits are lost

or destroyed in high heat cooking but many are also made more absorbable by

cooking. Water-based cooking as in soups, steaming, and cooking in a pressure

cooker results in very little loss of nutrients and a significant increase in

the absorption of phytochemicals. To fear eating a steamed vegetable, or

vegetable/bean soup is entirely unfounded and without scientific support.

 

Plaques of mucous do not build up on the wall of our guts from cooked foods.

Actually, thousand of people undergo colonoscopies each day, never do we see any

build up on the wall of the gut. I have performed my own scoping for years and

have never seen any build up in people, nor did I find it in cadavers in medical

school or in the morgue. However, certain alternative medicine practices are

potentially harmful such as ingesting bentonite clay which can be adherent and

solidify in the colon. I agree with the message of the raw food community that

raw food is essential for good health and I agree that certain type of cooking

is potentially harmful, especially fried foods, browned and burnt foods and

baked goods. The disagreement comes when you claim that steaming a vegetable

will hurt you, your diet should be 100 percent raw and nothing should be eaten

cooked. Then you are diminishing the nutritional quality of your diet and overly

restricting yourself without merit or benefit. "

[Guest guest]

I don't know what the heck you're talking about. Who said anything

about enzymes?

 

I'd just like some ideas of how to use my dehydrator for things other

than preserving food.

 

Sheesh.

 

mstrong56 wrote:

 

No, because the enzyme theory has been

debunked about 100,000,000 x

[Guest guest]

That's a great idea, Carol! I've got a stack of tortillas in the

refrigerator just waiting to be crisped up and I didn't even know it.

Thanks!

 

Debbie

 

left coast carol wrote:

 

 

Hi Debbie

I dry wedges of whole wheat pita bread, and strips of corn tortillas

for

fat free chips. Works great, and no burning or oil!

Carol