thank you

Yes, I have been using wax paper as well, just be sure to buy the "unbleached" kind, which you can probably get at a whole foods market or other healthfood store. I order mine from shopnatural.com.

My mother uses "parchment paper" in her dehydrator, which she claims is better than wax paper. It looks just like my unbleached wax paper (brown), so I am not sure what the difference is.

Tina.

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Basically, the deal with teflex started when folks who cooked with non-stick bakeware and frying pans who had parrots, had their birds DIE from the gases emitted in high heat cooking...its a known fact that birds, which have a much more sensitive lung system can easily be killed by these fumes--for years i havent used teflon in anything, but when i got my dehydrator, i too got some teflex sheets cause the temperature you are using is much much much lower than the gas emission point--i also use it in a well ventilated room in the basement away from my parrots...

women working in the teflon factory has a much greater chance of birth defects--some of them horrific...but dupont denies it...as usual. they basically say its at the smoke point of oil that causes the gas emission...leaving a pan on the burner, or leaving a waffle iron on too long...

i think at 110 you are fine--but ALWAYS leave the windows open or use in a well ventilated area to be on the safe side.

thanks...

that's what I've been using.

C. (one who always loved twenties' to forties' clothes
and used waxed paper when everyone was *moving on*
to plastic wrap.)

:-)