A couple family members and I recently bought a total of three American Harvester food dehydrators in a really good buy on eBay. The dehydrators were used, and apparently they were missing the nonstick Teflex mesh sheets that help keep food from sticking to the trays. I've looked on various websites to try to see about buying replacement sheets, but they're going for about $5 apiece, plus shipping. None of us wants to shell out that much per sheet if we can get around it, and we got to wondering if it's possible to buy food-grade Teflex mesh by the roll. Or if it can't be bought by the roll, what would be the least-expensive place to buy pre-cut sheets?
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hello pixx - I have often used my silicone sheets prior to getting the teflex/paraflex sheets. They work perfectly fine. They don't fit as well on the dehydrator trays (size is just a little different), but no big deal! The teflex/paraflex sheets are much thinner & they are soft, not stiff. The texture of the sheets reminds me of those plastic overhead projector sheets, but with more flex & with an almost waxy-coating finish to them.
Teflex is the name given to the non stick sheets which are in fact flexible Teflon or PTFE. According to wise GEEK a Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is a synthetic material accidentally invented in the late 1930s while a chemist was endeavoring to develop a new type of perfluorethylene-based refrigerant. Rather than achieving a chlorofluorocarbon, the scientist was surprised to find that the perfluorethylene used in the process reacted with the iron content of its container and polymerized under pressure. Less than a decade later, this new material was being distributed on a commercial scale and was eventually patented under the name Teflon®. However, it would be another 20 years before PTFE would hit the frying and become known as the first non-stick coating for cookware. In fact, this material was used for a variety of other purposes at first.
