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Is my dehydrator broken?

Vegan GoddessVegan Goddess Raw Newbie
in Food Preparation

I read somewhere that you can "warm up" foods by putting it in the dehydrator for a half hour.

Well, I just got my dehydrator off Ebay and it's been working great. Then, today I put a clay plate full of dehydrated raw chili and some raw cornbread I made yesterday for about 40 minutes. It came out COLD!

I checked and sure enough, the temperature read 115 degrees. Did I do something wrong or did I burn my dehydrator out?

Feeling worried about my D : (

Comments

  • Vegan GoddessVegan Goddess Raw Newbie

    Thank you so much for your thoughts. Actually, yes the food had been in the refrigerator. I hope that it isn't broken. To be quite honest, though, I think it is broken because when I put it at the highest temperature (140 degrees) it still feels like there is cool air, not warm, inside. Isn't it supposed to be warm?

  • Vegan GoddessVegan Goddess Raw Newbie

    oh and the plate was not warm at all. it was a steel bowl.

  • Vegan GoddessVegan Goddess Raw Newbie

    I checked the website and they have a bunch of replacement parts. I'm not sure which one is the heating element, but I'm going to have an appointment by phone with an Excalibur tech guy next week so maybe he can explain what to do.

    Thanks so much for the suggestion!

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