Freezer Dryer Experiments and Recipes

[shell_waster]

Watching

 

[FreezeDryGuy]

Big fail on the Tomato sauce. I went against the recommendation to not try and dry something wider than the trays height. You can see when I pre-froze the tomato sauce in silicone molds they stuck up above the sides. This left the top and bottom of each one dry but the middle still wet/frozen. The bison and noodles turned out perfectly so I sealed them in mason jars to wait to be able to do another separate batch of sauce. Will follow up with pics.

 

[FreezeDryGuy]

Here's some interesting info. 2 lbs of cooked chicken ($4 worth) results in 7.75 ounces of freeze dried chicken. A total cost of $0.51 per ounce of freeze dried chicken. Mountain House sells 17 oz cans of dried chicken for $63. If you do the math that is $3.70 PER OUNCE. If you home freeze dried the mountain house equivalent (17 oz) of chicken, the cost would be $8.71. Tack on $5 for electricity costs and home freeze drying saves you $49 if you want freeze dried chicken.

 

[Falcon1]

HKMurkure

 

[LongNose]

Make sure you use it on candy, jolly ranchers and skittles come out the best. Also all types of ice cream come out amazing.

 

[HKMurkure]

Very interested, keep testing good sir!!

 

[diacnik]

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[StuP]

Fascinating stuff.

 

[FreezeDryGuy]

Very interested, keep testing good sir!!

Thanks! I've got a bunch of stuff stored up waiting to combine into a package-able meal. I'm finding it may be best to do batches of the same thing i.e. 4 trays of chicken, then do 4 batches of sauce, then 4 batches of noodles, temporarily vacuum store in mason jars, then combine into mylar. This makes it easy to do very accurate portions

 

[FreezeDryGuy]

I think one mistake may have been not adding a little butter to the noodles. They started sticking together on the tray. We'll see how it turns out once dry

Turned out fine with no butter. After dried there was no sticking.