Not exact matches
If you're looking for a more pure approach, you can do as some
other readers have suggested... purchase raw cashews (find them in the bulk
foods section of your local grocery store / whole
foods), soak the cashews for 4 - 6 hours in water, then place them in either a counter-top
dehydrator or your oven @ 200 - 250 F until they're dry.
If you're familiar with raw
food, you'll know that a
dehydrator is a magical device that enables you to make
foods which are still 100 % raw and which therefore retain all their natural goodness and flavour, yet have the texture of cooked
foods: Raw cookies, breads and crackers, tart crusts, pizza bases, kale chips and
other veggie chips, burgers, fruit leather... the list goes on.
Think: Experimenting with spices and herbs to capture specific flavor profiles you would get with cooked
foods; using a
dehydrator to «bake» your own breads, crackers and
other snacks; and creating «cheese» sauces and nut - based milks with a
food processor and cheese cloth.
Alternatively, you can dehydrate them like you would dehydrate any
other food — in a
dehydrator like the Excalibur.
You will not need a
dehydrator, there will be no opening of young coconuts or any
other techniques specific to raw
food making.
You're looking for a
food dehydrator for jerky, but that doesn't mean you won't also want to use your new model for
other snacks.
As for Mercola and his marketing, I think that if his clinical outcomes supported the idea that everyone should be on a raw, vegan diet, he would simply sell blenders,
dehydrators, ceramic knives and advertise for CSA's and import the best of the best superfoods like David Wolfe and
others, and convince ranchers to raise livestock for the purpose of selling high quality manure and ecofriendly - harvested seaweeds so we can all grow our own
food in healthy soil.
Alternatively, you can dehydrate them like you would dehydrate any
other food — in a
dehydrator like the Excalibur.