We understand that purchasing a freeze dryer represents a significant investment in your future. Whether you're looking to enhance your food preservation capabilities at home or expand your business operations, the initial cost can feel substantial.
Most freeze dryers have a powder-coated steel exterior with a food-grade stainless steel vacuum chamber. A few brands or options have aluminum and stainless exteriors.
Patience is a virtue when it comes to freeze-drying. Each batch can take anywhere from 20 to quarenta hours to complete. This means if we’re running back-to-back cycles, the process can easily span multiple days.
Just in case. There are a couple of reasons why freeze dried food makes sense if things go south in a hurry.
While not absolutely necessary for all operations, temperature monitoring tools can significantly improve the quality and consistency of freeze-dried products.
We did not include those riser racks in our capacity calculations and comparison since they aren’t true tray capacity.
Some freeze dryer models will come with all of these included (even the impulse sealer) as a way to help you get started.
As soon as we opened the package we could feel how flimsy the bags were compared to those provided by Harvest Right and were not convinced they would exclude the oxygen as required for long term storage.
Freeze drying reduces food waste – The average American wastes nearly a pound of food every single day (7). That includes unfinished meals tossed down the garbage disposal, food left to go bad in the refrigerator, and uneaten food we leave behind in restaurants.
Freeze dryers need to run a vacuum and get very, very cold in order to preserve the food. It uses a lot of energy to do this and can take a long time to freeze-dry a batch of food.
You can speed this payback period up even more buy saving on food costs, one of the largest delays to the break-even point. Getting your veggies and fruits from gardens and your meat from hunting would drastically lower the costs, as we used average shelf prices for food in our analysis.
With its powerful 600-watt motor and six stainless steel trays, this dehydrator can handle a wide variety of foods, from fruits and vegetables to meats and jerky.
Growing and eating our own organic fruits and vegetables always feels so rewarding, and with the Harvest Right freeze dryer we can enjoy our homegrown produce long after the growing season is over.
We’ve got a great stash of organic, spray-free food we can trust because, let’s face it, even “organic” from the store more info isn’t always what it seems.