Teflon or Silicone dehydrator sheets?

[Addams]

On the verge of buying "fruit roll" sheets for Excalibur Dehydrator, but am all flustered over whether Teflon or Silicone would be safer? :confused: Any thoughts, anyone?

[lissomllama]

silicon would be safer. Teflon is very bad. Birds often drop dead from the fumes that teflon gives off when warmed. Birds are more sensitive than humans of course but teflon is unnatural and dangerous. It causes cancer and you don't want that stuff anywhere near you or your food.

[AICgem]

I read somewhere that by 2015 they won't be making teflon coated pans anymore...I'll try to find where I saw it...

[Veganforlife]

Go to the Excalibur site and buy the sheets directly from there.

http://www.excaliburdehydrator.com/cat7.htm

Premium Teflex™ Sheets

Super flexible sheets are a non-stick solid surface for making fruit leathers, rollups, taffies. Reusable for years.
(Pictured here with fruit leather.)

11"x11" (4-tray model) $8.50 ea.
14"x14" (for 5&9 tray models) $10.50 ea.

[Tirza]

I read somewhere that by 2015 they won't be making teflon coated pans anymore...I'll try to find where I saw it...

I heard maybe last month that Canada has banned it. I am not sure when it goes into effect...but when CANADA bans something, I take notice. I could be wrong, but I think my country is notoriously slow in taking stands like that.

[Addams]

[QUOTE=Veganforlife]Go to the Excalibur site and buy the sheets directly from there.

http://www.excaliburdehydrator.com/cat7.htm

Premium Teflex™ Sheets

Super flexible sheets are a non-stick solid surface for making fruit leathers, rollups, taffies. Reusable for years.

Thanks for the info, but Excalibur's description of the Premium Teflex sheet reads "a Teflon coated fiberglass flexible sheet". Excalibur also offers a Silicone coated sheet. I guess my question is which one would be the safer choice? :confused:

[James]

I was concerned about the teflex/paraflexx sheets so I ordered some of the heavy duty orange-colored silicone sheets. They were terrible. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, stuck to them. I was hacking off chunks of flax crackers with a knife. I've gone back to the teflex sheets.

[Tirza]

So if we really should be wary of the teflex, how does the parchment paper work? I only know about it from lining pans for baking in conventional oven.

[NoGMO!]

Teflon is very bad.
yeah, I stopped using my excalibur teflex sheets last year because I am suspicios of teflon (and too bad bc they were expensive - but good health is priceless!)- but then I was told that the teflex was only toxic at high temperatures - which ofcourse it never reaches. hmmm... so I'm puzzled? I sometimes use partchment paper, but hate the idea of throwing it away every time. is their a reusable NON-teflon sheet? btw, what's the deal with the teflex? does it have to reach high heat to be dangerous??? :confused:

[rawbeliever]

I found this at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teflon#Safety