DEHYDRATORS & THE RAW FOOD VEGAN DIET

I'm definitely going to order your books. I can't afford an expensive dehydrator though.. 🙁 I hope I can still use a cheap one..

I do have a dehydrator. I have sort of given up with it. I loved the idea of crackers, pizza crusts, burgers, et cetera. And I have no issue with it being a less water-rich food. My problem is that the cracker or burger always seems to take on a slightly sour fermented taste to it. The first few bites are okay because I'm hungry and have an appetite to endure it, but eventually that fermented taste catches up and I don't like it anymore. What I find curious is that no one else ever mentions it. Is it just me? Or am I doing something wrong? I don't think so. I had raw pizza at a potluck, and there it was again, that sour fermented taste that nobody else seemed to mind. Sometimes, I'd make a burger, and in order to eat it, I'd have to lard it up with dressing to hide that icky fermented flavor. Finally I threw in the towel. The flavor it just too off-putting. So no pizza or crackers for me. Disappointing because I want to love it, and strangely, it's an issue that no one else seems to have.

I heard that the Excalibur dehydrator is very loud – what is your experience?