At 05:56 PM 8/4/99 -0700, you wrote:
>When I dry my beef or venison jerky, the dehydrator seems awfully hot. It
>has only one setting, ON or OFF, no temp adjustment. Should I dry the meat
>with just a regular fan and no heat, because if it is hot to the touch,
>isnt' that too hot?Aren't I coooking, rather than drying the meat, with a
>dehydrator like this? I think it is a mr Coffee or something like that from
>Kmart.

According the the directions that came with my dehydrator (American
Harvest) deer and other wild game jerky should be frozen for 30 days below
0 degrees F to kill any parasites.

Mine gets hot too (no thermostat either)  I don't know if it gets hot
enough to kill parasites.