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Cdorsey, I can’t give you all the answers to your questions, but I will do my best:
1) If you dehydrate below 115-120 degrees, it maintains the “life” in the food, therefore it is not “cooked”. Many raw fooders, especially in transition phase, use dehydration to make crackers, breads etc. to ease in the transition to raw. Dehydrators are also a good way to slightly warm foods such as raw soups and drinks.
2) A better way to dehydrate if you don’t have a dehydrator is to just put the food in your oven with the pilot light on. This usually heats the oven to around 90 degrees and you can just dehydrate to desired texture, consistency, etc. depending on the recipe.
3)Most high raw people do not eat cooked beans, rice, oatmeal, etc. People transitioning to raw do though. There are also people who never intend on being fully raw, and then of course those foods are options for them.
Thanks, spiritedmama,
My oven is an electric oven, therefore no pilot light. I’ll have to research this a little more. I might just have to splurge for a dehydrator.
I think I heard on this site that one person leaves they’re electric stove open just a bit with a dishcloth and that the oven light warms up the oven enough to dehydrate.
I meant the oven light not the pilot light, sorry for the confusion.