Dehydrators

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>> On another note, has anyone used a Nesco

dehydrator for making yogurt. I'm looking at

purchasing one because it's going to be tough to

keep a constant 105 degree temp for 24 hours

using the methods I've used previously for making

8 hour yogurt. I've never used a dehydrator

before. Does anyone know if this unit will allow

me to take out the trays and use mason jars to

make yogurt? If so, what size jars and how many will fit? <<

No, it won't. It has the heat / fan unit on the

bottom, and you stack trays on it and put a lid

on it. You need an Excalibur 9 tray dehydrator

with the heat / fan in the back, and which has

trays which can be removed from the " box " . You

can read more about them at http://www.excaliburdehydrator.com/

I've used a Nesco -- you have to keep trying to

change the positions of the trays to make sure

the stuff dries evenly, and even then, I always

ended up with some stuff gummy and some stuff

over-dried. AND, you can't make yogurt with it! I was glad to give it away.

>> Maybe the book will better describe WHY

cooked foods would be easier to digest than raw,

since, as I've previously understood it, enzymes

are a large part of that digestion process. If

that is actually the case, how could killing

those enzymes make a food easier to digest? Like

I said, maybe the book lays this out more clearly than I've so far read. <<

The enzymes in raw food work with a HUMAN

digestive system. One that works with enzymes to

break down the food and let it be absorbed by the

villi. Unfortunately, those of us who need SCD

have a RUMEN digestive system, where the bacteria

break down the food we can't (and produce acids

and by-products which continue to damage our guts).

The goal of SCD is to starve those beggars out,

let our guts heal, and THEN we can develop a

digestive system that works the way it ought to.

At that point, you can have all the raw legal foods your guts can tolerate.

— Marilyn

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

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