Does Anyone Here Freeze Dry Food
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Sounds like a great post for the "Out of context quote" thread.
Years ago my chef buddy was making fruit flavored meringue for a dessert. They went into a regular dehydrator. The foam crunch reminded me of that. The meringues proved problematic and never again were they made.
Years later and I took the dehydrator home for drying brass after ss pin tumbling. I guess I really should be using it for some foods!
The videos by “Retired at 40” are pretty good. We learned a few things from him. Betty’s Harvest Right Freeze Dryers Group on Fakebook is almost worth going there.
Bad food does not get better by freeze drying. The interwebz are full of dicksniffers acting the fool.
“I have 10 cans of cream of mushroom soup that expired in 2015. Can I freeze dry them?” Yes, chaude-smoker, you can, but they’ll still taste like ass.
“Has anybody freeze dried hotdogs?” Uhhh, yeah, and they were all disappointed with the tray full of failure nuggets because fat won’t freeze dry.
“I’m thinking of mixing up a big batch of pancake batter and freeze drying it to take camping.” Great idea, Copernicus, Spend your lunch money, destroy the kitchen, run the freeze dryer for a couple of days and you’ll get what? A bag of Krusteaze.
Bad food does not get better by freeze drying. The interwebz are full of dicksniffers acting the fool.
“I have 10 cans of cream of mushroom soup that expired in 2015. Can I freeze dry them?” Yes, chaude-smoker, you can, but they’ll still taste like ass.
“Has anybody freeze dried hotdogs?” Uhhh, yeah, and they were all disappointed with the tray full of failure nuggets because fat won’t freeze dry.
“I’m thinking of mixing up a big batch of pancake batter and freeze drying it to take camping.” Great idea, Copernicus, Spend your lunch money, destroy the kitchen, run the freeze dryer for a couple of days and you’ll get what? A bag of Krusteaze.
We have a dehydrator and make stuff like jerky. Wife dries chicken or beef livers, makes a powder and takes them as supplements.
(It smells so bad we have to do it outside)
But now I get to Google the differences between freeze drying, and dehydrating…
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(It smells so bad we have to do it outside)
But now I get to Google the differences between freeze drying, and dehydrating…
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Here’s a hint. Freezing liquid or semi liquid is a problem. They tell you to put the trays in and then add the liquid, but then you can’t run a pre-frozen cycle and it takes forever. And it's a pain to stack trays full of liquid in the freezer.
What you can do is measure 3/4 of a pound of food into a quart Ziploc, and then flatten and freeze that on a cookie sheet in your chest freezer. When it is time to load, peel the bag away and place two of those chunks on your tray and go to town. They lay flat and it’s a pound and a half. They fit perfectly.
Here are some making the meal run. 8 large eggs per bag. Other bags are venison chili and venison stew. All ready to freeze dry.
What you can do is measure 3/4 of a pound of food into a quart Ziploc, and then flatten and freeze that on a cookie sheet in your chest freezer. When it is time to load, peel the bag away and place two of those chunks on your tray and go to town. They lay flat and it’s a pound and a half. They fit perfectly.
Here are some making the meal run. 8 large eggs per bag. Other bags are venison chili and venison stew. All ready to freeze dry.
The difference is $1k
Think HiPoint and Les Baer
64 more eggs processing in 4 trays.
Wyman frozen blueberries were on sale in May. We bought 6 bags. A 3 pound bag fills 2 trays. Like I said, out of the deep freeze and slam them on the hard floor to rupture the skins.
We filled canning jars and sealed them with O2 absorbers. We have the Food Saver canning attachment to pull a light vacuum. Or, after the cycle and once the freeze dryer is clean and dry you can pull the shelves, put a tray in the bottom of the drum, and fill the unit with jars with finger tight lids. The test mode lets you seal the dryer and pull a full vacuum.
We moisten the berries, roll them in flour, and add them to pancake or muffin batter. The flour keeps them from turning the batter purple.
Wyman frozen blueberries were on sale in May. We bought 6 bags. A 3 pound bag fills 2 trays. Like I said, out of the deep freeze and slam them on the hard floor to rupture the skins.
We filled canning jars and sealed them with O2 absorbers. We have the Food Saver canning attachment to pull a light vacuum. Or, after the cycle and once the freeze dryer is clean and dry you can pull the shelves, put a tray in the bottom of the drum, and fill the unit with jars with finger tight lids. The test mode lets you seal the dryer and pull a full vacuum.
We moisten the berries, roll them in flour, and add them to pancake or muffin batter. The flour keeps them from turning the batter purple.
Just working this bitch.
Ran more loads of venison stew and venison chili from last year’s harvest. Clearing freezer space and putting down pouches we can enjoy in deer camp this year.
Ran 8 pounds of strawberries we flash froze during the last big sale at Randall’s. 4 lbs for $5. I bought 32 pounds, cleaned and sliced them, and then froze them in a single layer on half baking sheets. The silicone mats are a godsend for keeping them from sticking.
Another 2 loads of 64 eggs each and with that we’re down to 1 load left from the sale eggs.
With green bell peppers at $.79 each, I bought, diced, and froze 8 pounds that are now ready to go in.
Lucked into an overrun sale on hot guacamole and small avocados. The avos were 10 for $5. Sliced the fruit and dipped it in a weak water and lime juice bath. The slices came out green and perfectly crisp. The guacamole looks great too.
Ran more loads of venison stew and venison chili from last year’s harvest. Clearing freezer space and putting down pouches we can enjoy in deer camp this year.
Ran 8 pounds of strawberries we flash froze during the last big sale at Randall’s. 4 lbs for $5. I bought 32 pounds, cleaned and sliced them, and then froze them in a single layer on half baking sheets. The silicone mats are a godsend for keeping them from sticking.
Another 2 loads of 64 eggs each and with that we’re down to 1 load left from the sale eggs.
With green bell peppers at $.79 each, I bought, diced, and froze 8 pounds that are now ready to go in.
Lucked into an overrun sale on hot guacamole and small avocados. The avos were 10 for $5. Sliced the fruit and dipped it in a weak water and lime juice bath. The slices came out green and perfectly crisp. The guacamole looks great too.
7 to 8 pounds of food every 2 days is what we’re getting.
A full load seems to take 40 hours or so, and then 2 hours to defrost and dry the drum. Then it takes about an hour to get the chamber down below freezing to put in the next pre-frozen load.
Our freeze dryer crapped out after 3 batches of berries.
Our freeze dryer has been at Harvest Right for over 2 weeks now and they have not even looked at it( this tells me that they are so backed up with shit units they can’t keep up)
and they have no idea when we can expect it back.
We are charging it back and getting ready for a fight with them as they want to charge us a 15% restocking fee on the lemon unit they sent us.
I would not use, nor would I recommend their products to anyone.
Our freeze dryer has been at Harvest Right for over 2 weeks now and they have not even looked at it( this tells me that they are so backed up with shit units they can’t keep up)
and they have no idea when we can expect it back.
We are charging it back and getting ready for a fight with them as they want to charge us a 15% restocking fee on the lemon unit they sent us.
I would not use, nor would I recommend their products to anyone.
thescoutranch
TN Transplant - We love living in TX
Wow.
Just that response from the company will drive customers away in the future.
Just that response from the company will drive customers away in the future.
Every freeze dryer thread I see in the future will have me posting our experiences with harvest right with email screen shots.
