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Hi there! So sorry for my delay - in this case I only used that ziploc to show the breastmilk and what it looked like going through the different stages. I would usually use the regular Mylar bags that I seal our products in regularly. Then you can just tenderly massage the bag to powder it down. When it comes to the oxygen absorber, if you are keeping your items sealed in a mylar bag and opening it every so often to get other product out as long as you were quick, I feel like you would not need to replace it but if you were going to just clip it and close it, that wouldn’t be enough to retain freshness. iIt would need to put it into some other type of vacuum, sealed container or just air locking Container if you were going to be using it quickly. Hope this helps, but let me know if you have further inquiries ♥️

Contrary to many other freeze dryer pages I have not changed the settings on our unit 🫠 in other words I just put things in and run a cycle, no temperature changes on my part. Pretty much the main difference I see is amount of time that it takes which is always different depending on how much moisture something has, and how long it takes to dry. Hope this helps but let me know if you have other questions 🤩

Sorry about my delay! Our total time was about 36 1/2 hours of run time and I had checked it midway when it said it was done and ended up at that longer time. Which to be honest happens often. Why it is always necessary to double check before really digging in. I did see somebody on here give advice of when you’re freeze drying and the cycle thinks it’s done let it stop, take it out weigh it, run it for one more hour and if you see any amount of decrease in the weight, you know that it’s still losing moisture and then just to keep checking like that. It is one of the longer cycles we have done, that’s for sure! Thanks for watching!

Congratulations! You are doing amazing work over there ♥️ it really is an awesome thing to have especially on the go if you were in a pinch. I would never say no to trying to help someone- I am not sure on the parameters for keeping everything travel safe to get it to us (dry ice maybe) but you let me know what you’re thinking. Keep up the hard work 🙌🏽

That is a great question. I would imagine that yes you could and would get a similar consistency as a powder but when it comes to the nutritional value I feel there would not be much. The freeze dryer provides different methods that the dehydrator cannot replicate. I understand the price, it was a serious investment! Let me know if you hear of anyone using a dehydrator so I can better educate myself ♥️

Understood! When we had our son I had no idea about such an amazing idea (we didn’t have a freeze dryer yet!) I definitely recommend because LADY that’s an INCREDIBLE amount! If your little one doesn’t use all of it and you end up not needing it for consumption, it is amazing for ALL THINGS SKIN! I would love to hear follow up if you invest and try this out!

I apologize with my delayed response, my account is failing to let me know when there are comments are posted… Anyways! Glad to help answer your question, this scraper is from a kit I purchased on Amazon a few years ago www.amazon.com/dp/B07S1NGH6J/ref=cm_sw_r_as_gl_api_gl_i_9MMM3R4NRBB2V9FVXKRR?linkCode=ml2&tag=betterthanide-20 If you aren’t interested in sourdough kits and only a variety of scrapers this would be a nice option for 1/3 of the price. Thanks for watching!

Hey! Sorry for my delay, TH-cam is not notifying me when comments are coming through. Anyways 🤩 If you are referring to when the trays came out and I was testing to verify completion, if your food/product feels cold to the touch it still has moisture in it, therefore needing more time. Now feeling the bottom of the tray is a different story. I usually try to defrost them, but sometimes forget about selecting that option 🤦‍♀️😅 human error and that’s why I usually only gage completion based on, in this case, the milk feeling ice cold or like nothing. Let me know if that cleared it up, I can try to reword that! Thanks for watching!

You’re so welcome! Thank you for watching! I love to hear that you’re helping her, what a wonderful dynamic ♥️ I would love to hear how this process goes for you and have no doubt that she appreciates all your help!

Great question! At this point when doing these cycles we were in our basement (standard below level basement) usually about 68° roughly. Low humidity overall and doing this in early fall season. Amazingly, we did not have issues with the prep for this cycle or the later ones. Not sure of your location but if you are having melting issues take into account the humidity, that might be causing some problems. If humidity is not a factor I might recommend gathering all of your “bricks” cut off the tops right below the ziploc and have them standing cut side up and keep them in the fridge as you are prepping them. At which point you could slide them out evenly onto your trays when you are ready to go or after you have them on the trays throw them back into your freezer to make sure they are good and solid before starting a cycle. Whew…that was a hefty response 😅 sorry so wordy! Thanks for inferring and let us know how it goes or if you have questions!

I know there are a lot of things that you can do to customize the machine to what you want but we have not changed any settings on the freeze dryer to dry anything it’s more been about changing and adjusting how long we freeze and dry. With my limited experience I feel like the lower the temperature for drying probably the more nutrients are kept in your food, but I do not have experience with that low of a temperature so far.

Oh my goodness! I just replied to your other comment and saw this. How exciting! I’m sorry that it took me so long to respond, we just moved across the country so I haven’t got back into the flow of videos and responses. How did your cycle girl!?

I am so sorry that it took me a while to get back to you. This is a very important question! We just moved across country and I have not been good about checking since we have relocated. If you’re using a similar size of capsule that I did, which was pretty close to the smallest, I would definitely say starting off slowly. Like you, we are large meat eaters but there is something about organ meat versus muscle meat that is very different in the body. I made sure when introducing that we had the supplement with food, since there are so many minerals and vitamins in liver. After that our focus was once a day for several days in a row and changed and updated to two pills a day, one in the morning, and then in the evening, and as we saw more tolerances we increased pill amount at time of intake. We have done no more than three at a time, and when it comes to our son, I am actually opening the pills and sprinkling it in food because he’s too young to take a pill orally. Hope this helps! And I would love to hear about your experiences if you are doing this as well!

Hey! I think it’s dependent on a few factors… 1. What is your ability of handling cold temperatures? And your climate? If you get a lot of sun even though it’s very cold and snowy it gets nice and warm in there! You could on a cloudy day run a small heater with an extension cord as well. 2. Weather conditions: if it got windy there were challenges (gusty winds) rain stayed out and it has vents if it gets too warm 🤩 I could have spent hours out there for sure but setting it up with options is necessary. Since we had it on grass it would get a bit squishy, if you were on a deck with a tarp or pavement you wouldn’t have that issue. You could get fancy out there definitely recommend a table (pop up) for easy breakdown/setup and a spot to put a blanket or jacket in the case you need to add or remove layers 👍🏼 Any other questions let me know! We love ours!

@@betterthanideserve3 Ty so much for the info and responding.

Hi there! I’m so sorry we just moved across the country, and I had not been paying good attention to our page here 🤦‍♀️ from all the things I have researched to doing this process - I tablespoon freeze dried breastmilk to 2 ounces of PRISTINE water. Recommended is to heat the water a bit to the temperature of what breastmilk would have been naturally which will help the product rehydrate better as well!

So sorry about my delay in response! They have held up amazingly so far. I usually make a two months supply at once (pulling everything out and precise work make it work it) but you could make more than that at a time. I think important details to consider would be how you are storing it once the liver is capsuled. We keep extra that we are not currently using in a linen closet (cooler) and complete darkness in a brown glass bottle and using one of those moisture packets. As long as there has not been moisture we continue to reuse the packets each time! To answer your question specifically, I think you could make enough for 6 months (packaged and kept stored as stated above) easily. Past that might result in less effective nutrition from the liver. Thank you for asking we love to hear the questions!

​@@betterthanideserve3not a problem at all :) thanks for the respons and sharing your knowledege! Greetings from the Netherlands

That's incredible! A place we would love to visit one day! Greetings from the United States, have a wonderful day and more knowledge to come!

Hey! In short, yes, there are two 💥 th-cam.com/video/bxFlb_syw3k/w-d-xo.html (the freeze drying) th-cam.com/video/NrrRu44F1mE/w-d-xo.html (shows the reconstitution after it was freeze dried) If you have any questions, let me know!

It is raw liver but in a previous video I freeze dried the liver in small chunks for more consistent and quicker freeze drying!

Please report back for sure on how it goes for you! Making the capsules is very simple, just a bit tedious lol, the best of luck!

Oh that is fantastic! If you plan on doing supplements it GOES REALLY FAR, so make sure you have tons of capsules on hand! The best of luck and congratulations!

Goes by so fast <3

Thank you!

Oh that's awesome! We are honored to have reach across the world :) We would love to hear about your experience with your freeze dryer and definitely look forward to sharing more with you (if you haven't please check out our playlist of freeze drying!) th-cam.com/play/PLm86iKd3G1cLKIJA_CdHCeh598uph0z8S.html Thank you for joining us with all of our adventures!

Oh I am so sorry about that issue, I know we have had issues in the past with some of our adventures using the freeze dryer. I have not tried a moisture meter myself, BUT I would love to hear your feedback once you receive and use. Maybe do some tests on it to verify it works and really try it out! We have not adventured into any meats quite like that yet, and have gone more into the meal area with it all ready to go and just add hot water to eat. Thank you for sharing your experience and hope it continues to get better from here!

Well I am glad to hear that there is a chance of it working because I know it would be awesome and absolutely helpful in our kitchen!

I will look into that group and see - obviously I always think it is user error but there is definitely a chance that some setting updates could help solve some of these issues, thank you for the suggestion and here is hoping that does the trick for the broth (among other things!)

Fantastic, thank you! When you did garlic and onion what did you do to prep before freeze drying and then follow up to that did you store in a regular spice/seasoning jar for your day to day use? If you did, does it keep well and have a good taste, this is something that I would like to do soon as I have done herbs and had great turn out but not vegetables for regular use. Thanks for your suggestion and commenting!

@@betterthanideserve3 I did not think to do those in a Mason jar and vacuum each time. I put each one in a glass Tupperware type rectangular container. So far, (almost a year later), the flavor is still good. As far as prep, all I did was roughly slice the onions, and smash the garlic. Once dry, I blended to powdered form and stored. I forgot to mention that I also did this to celery. Also only roughly sliced before drying, then powdered. Tastes great in soup.

Fantastic! I am glad to hear that it has lasted for you. This gives me hope to try this in a near future cycle since it would be so beneficial to have on hand. Thank you again for sharing your experience. The celery would be great to have, we do Tuna Casserole a lot and love that flavor in it too! Share anything else that you have tried, not sure what you have watched on the channel but we are up to try almost anything!

That seems to happen from time to time and I have not found out what the common factor is, if it’s something to do with the temperature outside the freeze dryer vs the amount of moisture pulled out, like you we are always learning too!

That’s a really good idea to do some pre measuring- especially for the idea of reconstitution! We were developing some ideas of use if we were out camping/over-landing but the jar would be great for use at the house! Thanks for the suggestion and watching 🤩

@@betterthanideserve3 measuring is still good because that is the age volume of those trays

From what I can tell, when the cycle has completed dependent on when you pull it out the freeze dryer cycles back and forth between warm/hot to cold freezing - we have opened it up at both times, but I’m not sure how long they are at those designated temperatures once the machine is “done” - I much prefer when the trays are nice and warm 🤣

@@betterthanideserve3 every time ours are very warm. This may be because I am retired, the machine is in the house and I check and watch it a lot. As soon as it’s completed, I am there ready to retrieve the trays. I’m kind of “OCD” so I am there waiting and watching. Also, thus the measuring. Everything gets measured to be sure I don’t overfill, causing delayed times, etc. . .

Understood LOL. Ours is in our basement and our son keeps me pretty distracted and usually adding time onto the freeze dryer and then coming down after the cycle has completed. All of your ideas are definitely great ones for making it an easy process. Sometimes I just throw it on and it is a complete guessing game, I love to hear about the things that work for you, it helps and gives ideas all the time!

It is truly incredible how intense the flavors become. Sometimes it is a benefit and other times it makes it taste terrible LOL. Very interesting and whenever we do a new food I am always interested to see this very characteristic. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Oh wow, I guess I will have to check the temperatures (they should be at factory settings as we haven't adjusted anything) but I will say that making it as thin as possible on your tray is definitely key and if you want to sample how it works just throw a small section on a tray with your other food, you won't be disappointed! I will let you know if we starts tinkering around and making adjustments, good luck!

This brought such a smile to my face! I had not done much research with freeze drying sourdough and as you saw just dove in and brought it back to life, it worked so well and I am currently fermenting a loaf from the same starter right now :) If you have any questions about the supplements, don't hesitate. I wish I would have done it sooner as implementing this in my day to day supplement regiment has been a game changer but make sure to TAKE WITH MEALS, whew I learned the hard way. We are so glad to have you and if you want us to experiment with anything let us know, we have a new series coming out soon and I can't wait to share the next adventure!

@@betterthanideserve3 I am glad, I know when my daughter started her small youtube channel, it was so nice when people commented and asked things. Interaction with people can be lots of fun 😊 Surprisingly there isn't a ton of stuff out there for freeze drying. Yours was very unique as I had never even thought of sourdough starter, so that was very interesting. My mom loves her sourdough and kefir, so was very happy to get a video on it. My parents have the pill maker but it didn't cross my mind to do that either. We are trying to prep for the craziness going on in the world and the cost of things....so some things are very important to keep our health good. I took a break from freeze drying videos for a bit as it has been none stop for weeks. But gotta get back to it as hopefully our freeze dryer will be in soon. Have you ever tried doing tumeric? My immune system was so low and I was catching everything for a while. I started making a tumeric/ginger/lemon drink and I have not got sick in a year now....even though my daughter has been sick 3 times. This drink is amazing. I would like to freeze dry it. I do a concentrate, it is very thick and then I just add 1Tbsp to water. I am hoping it will work freeze drying, not sure if you tried something like that. I plan on using the small ice cube molds that HR has. 1 oz should be enough for one drink. If I could have this drink when times get tough and I can't afford it anymore, that would be awesome. I haven't thought of anything I could ask you to experiment with, but I am excited to see all you have and will put out. You will have me as a regular watchers, thanks for the great videos. 💜

@Better Than I Deserve oh okay, I do have a question for you. Have you tried freeze drying powders? When our freeze dryer comes in, we have a bunch of bulk ground seasonings, powdered gravy, even flour or pancake mix we would like to freeze dry. I have asked freeze drying groups if it could be done and if I had to add some water to everything. They said no water, but add parchment on top or paper towels so the powder doesn't fly everywhere. I am worried maybe the powder would get into the oil when the vacuum turns on. So wondering if you have any experience. Thank you

@@shellic5166 Well we appreciate it and love that we had some unique items and processes to share that caught your eye at first! I get doing things in bulk to you have them for the "rainy days" ahead. We have not done tumeric before but I would think if you were doing and handling fresh tumeric it would be like what we did for ginger! Then you could incorporate it with your other items into your cubes. You might get bubbling with the lemon juice dependent on how much you use, but I have made the cubes with our adventures on creating a healthier pumpkin spice latte cube with real pumpkin and spices. As I continue to see the more dense an item it is in a cube form the longer it takes and sometimes doesn't work but I always encourage trying because ya never know what will work sometimes! You will have to report back if you try it and I will do the same, thanks for watching!

@@shellic5166 Ooooooo! This is an interesting one and I have not tried freeze drying powders. I do find it interesting that they said to not add water if they have not tried it before. My gut would say to put what you would want on a tray and then spritz the top so it holds its form, but not get it soaking. I am not sure how much air movement happens in that space and completely understand those concerns about it getting into places it shouldn't. I guess putting the parchment on top wouldn't hurt as we use parchment often, but I don't see how that would keep the powdered items from air contact. Maybe a test could be done with a paper towel and watch how much it moves with your other items in the freeze dryer. Those are so light if you saw it move around I would probably be a bit concerned about trying something in straight powder form at first. There is always another item to try always and now my mind is starting with ideas! Again report back if you have attempted when your freeze dryer comes!

Oh wow that is such a great idea! I didn't even think of that and it is something we enjoy. That really opens some doors and ideas in my mind for recipes, thank you for sharing that thought. I hope you try pineapple soon, it takes a bit longer but it is a wonderful treat to have on hand. I will look into some other community websites for inspiration and get baking soon, thank you for watching and sharing :)

Oh my gosh, thank you for the tips we really appreciate it! That is what we both thought on the door and Brad was unable to tighten it so we did kind of assume that it needed all that ability to move because of the suction and rubber seal. Thank goodness we have only done this one time - hoping that there has been no damage to the filter with what we have done. That is a great idea to place it on top of a container (we have plenty of those!) If you have any suggestions on filtering the oil please let us know- it still is not done filtering through the container that is provided and we are well beyond a week now, I never would think this is normal, so obviously there is something we have missed or done incorrectly. I appreciate you watching and giving us new information, great community!

I have done this raw, in this situation I took frozen liver and sliced it into small pieces and freeze dried it. Once that was completed, between a small hiatus I continued as you saw in this video and crushed then encapsulated the liver. I am sure you could do cooked but the health benefits are better and more beneficial if it is done raw! If you are interested to see that process you can watch this video to see the prep! th-cam.com/video/1hBubT45b5o/w-d-xo.html Thanks for watching and hope that you are enjoying the content!

Intresting :) how long can you store freeze dried?

No ignorance here, we are always here to explain, show and teach! The marshmallows (in this situation) are not going to be like other food where you add water and it comes back to life, unfortunately. They are delicious in this VERY CRUNCHY state but are quite good in freshly made Hot Cocoa. They have a bit of bite to them still but last the entire enjoyment of your beverage. In the future when we do them again, I will be cutting them to 1/4 of their size for smaller more manageable sized marshmallows. They will store better and will melt even better into beverages! The lemons are seriously incredible, popping one out into your cup and then pouring some hot boiling water over it, just comes back to life before your eyes and the smells are fantastic. Also for a recipe you can crush a slice up and add it peel and meat right to your recipe and it is amazing! Lots of delicious lemon flavoring without all the fake flavor. I hope you enjoy all the upcoming videos we have ready to roll out and you get a good chuckle! Thanks for watching :)

I REALLY want to like them, but just haven't found a way that they taste good! Maybe I should just encapsulate them like the liver supplements LOL. Let us know if you find some awesome way to enjoy them!

I definitely feel the same about the blueberries but I can tell you without a doubt that the wild blueberries ARE INCREDIBLE, I caught Brad and Filson inhaling them, it is just so much more flavor! Here is hoping that your new growth bushes provide a better product :) It was amazing to see them come together, as I was mixing them up I was amazed to see how it changed form before my eyes, I would love to do some seasonal marshmallows like peppermint for winter, spiced for fall and maybe like a lemon for spring or something that is in the citrus area. Tiny will for sure be perfect going forward haha because they are huge Thank you so much, we love hearing from everyone and are so happy to share what we are learning and hear everyone else's experiences, thank you for being here and a Happy New Year to you too!

We are wishing you the best year ahead with your freeze dryer! Stay Warm up there and continue reaching for your goals! Thanks for being here :)

Thanks! LOL, would be pretty awesome if that happened!

That is a very good idea! I will keep that in mind for future cycles if we continue to run into issues - here's hoping we continue in a good direction LOL! Thank you for the view, subscribe and comment :)

Thanks! Yes we have definitely received some good suggestions and John in bibs is always at the top! He has some great videos! We appreciate the view and comment!

That is the sweetest, we so appreciate another person to continue these adventures with of all the freeze drying fun! A great uncle of mine used to ALWAYS say that growing up and it just stuck with me, and like you, it is a great motto to live by each and every day! Thank you for the support and if you have any suggestions or want us to try something out, let us know!

We had a leak in our pex frost free hydrant and we didn't have access to the main water turn off

@@betterthanideserve3 oh oh i see thats nuts.