When using a food dehydrator, can you replace teflex paper with wax paper?

A friend gave me her dehydrator, but she doesn't have the owner's manual. I was looking at a bread recipe which requires dehydrating instead of baking - it's a raw food bread recipe. The recipe calls for the use of teflex paper in the dehydrator. I don't have any and was hoping to use wax paper instead.

Since you asked this in the V&V section you should know that wax paper is made with wax that almost always contains ingredients made from animals! It is NOT veg-friendly!

You can use lightly oiled baking parchment paper to replace the plastic sheeting without any problem at all. If you can't find parchment paper you can use (abuse<g>) sheer drapery cloth. Seriously! That's what we used before those fancy teflon sheets were invented (and I still use it on occasion).

BTW; your dehydrator should NEVER get hot enough to make anything smoke inside it! And the paper or cloth won't blow around because the food will weigh it down.

it doesn't get hot enough for it to catch fire, but it could smoke a bit which wouldn't be nice, also as it's too light it will make a mess and be blown about inside

You can get the sheets for most the popular models on amazon - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000H6WC94/?tag...
that's the one for the excalibur, but if it's a different model these are the biggest sheets and you can cut them easily to fit

Under no circumstance use wax paper, it will mess it up.

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