I'm so happy I stumbled across your videos. I use to dehydrate tons of stuff but haven't done it in long time. Now having a little girl and the state of things in our country I've been super interested in freeze drying. Thank you
Hi, I love your videos.😊 And I want to know if you could try freeze-drying a roasted marshmallow vs a normal marshmallow and see if there is a difference. I think it would be fun🥳
I think chicken is best. Beef isnt great especially if its steak, but all can be fine. Theyre really good in stew or if you too much water when your making enchilada stuffing etc. they absorb a decent amount of moisture back up, but not necessarily as much as other things. Its better if you put them in something not just eating them separately as meat. As you can definitely tell its structurally off if you try to eat it just in its own after rehydrating
I was getting so excited watching these videos until I started doing some research and then I learned about the price. I would absolutely love to do this, but there is no way I could afford it.
Why does Fahrenheit still exist to this day, like I get it america #1 world power and all but is it that hard to switch to what the rest of the world uses and is making more sense? 😁
@@Petrzmolik Well... Yes, it is. It was estimated that back in the 80's, changing to Metric would cost us multiple Billions of dollars JUST FOR THE FREEWAY SIGNS.
@@itsmilan4069yeah it’s not like we don’t use the metric system for scientific purposes. Imperial is used because it is what everyone understands. It’s what we grew up around and it’s very hard to switch because a lot of contextual understanding is on that systme
Freeze dryers use more electricity than a dehydrator because they have a larger capacity, they also require oil changes. Even if you account for the size difference it still costs more per square foot. Also a website that literally sells freeze driers has a FAQ section that says "You may have read that freeze drying retains a lot more nutrients in food products over dehydrating, however, this is actually a large misconception. The main reason for this school of thought is that the size and color of the product does not change much during the freeze drying process compared to that of dehydrating. There are many recent studies that show that the ice crystals formed during freeze drying actually causes heavy cell damage and disruption. During the freeze drying process, food is brought down to -40 to -50°C (-40 to -58 °F). From the literature of these studies, we’ve found that drying food at either really high temperatures or really low temperatures has a similar negative effect on the bioavailability of macro and micronutrients found inside of food products."
Have you tried using the square shaped thing on these cereal bars? I feel like it would be better than cutting it after it’s freeze dried. I want to try some so bad 😂
Funny story 😂. In this batch we did 4 other cereal bars, and in one of those we put the dividers in but we didn’t like how it shifted all the fruit around so for the rest we said “let’s just push the dividers through it after it’s frozen!” …it didn’t work.. at all. Definitely use the dividers first! Cutting them wasn’t terrible but the tray with dividers worked the best!
so nesquick is made with coco, powdered milk & powdered sugar. i was wondering if you could make different nesquick mixtures by replacing the coco with freeze dried fruit powders.
freeze dried food has a shelf life of about 90 years if you vacuum seal it in foil and then irradiate it. (its perfectly safe, dont worry, all youre doing is exposing it to powerful enough radiation to kill bacteria, not enough to make the food itself radioactive, its the same way MREs are made, as well as why you can store them for so long).
Considering every video you upload mentions that it is shelf stable for 25 years, what is the world ending event you subscribe to? Personally mine is skynet
Freeze dry our "waste foods" before they become unusable, then use that to reduce food waste. I'm sure non-profits would benefit greatly from access to this food, so long as they can also get access to water to rehydrate it where it is needed.
“…back to its original state”. Bit of an overstatement don’t you think. Pretty sure you can’t make a fried over easy egg, or a juicy fresh picked strawberry.
Freeze dryers are exceptionally expensive. You have to have uniform cut shaped food AND you have to freeze all freeze dried food before. Its a big pain in the arse. Also the expense of running a freeze drier is outstandingly expensive.
@@kitsin326 I grow so much during the summer months and I end up wasting a lot of it because of several different reasons but this machine would pay for itself in the first year easily. Taking a produce and reducing its size like that is one of the most important things I’d use it for. This machine would make it possible to eat fresh food everyday sorta. Last year I grew 3-400 pounds of tomatoes I ended up tossing out half cuz I had nowhere to store them and no time to can them. Plus I didn’t have space to store the canned tomatoes anyways.
@@BioshockDrill a freeze drier is pointless for the average consumer however, I did fail to realise that it could be incredibly useful for people who growth their own produce but again I know zero people in real life you would benefit from the product because the average person simply does not need to store food for such long periods of time.
Look at the ingredients in Cheerios cereal.Some of the ingredients cause infertility.I would not be feeding that to your young children. Investigate the ingredients on the packaging. It's scary.Just thought I would let you know in case you didn't . They are different now.I grew up eating Cheerios.My small children were given Cheerios.The food companies have added some things over the years. Go take a look for yourself.I'm just trying to be helpful. Don't come for me.🙂❤ By the way, that looks delicious .
The key difference is that dehydrators will gently cook the food (affecting both flavor and nutrition) while a freeze dryer won’t at all.
Thanks!
Un-cooks :)
I think it's both concerning and way more important he just made egg powder
@@chickencancanyt8804 no...
weil you can dehydrat at as low as 35 C, so that´s no cooking, but it takes longer
You should make a video showing a week of dinners or meals using food you’ve preserved with the freeze dryer.
Great explanation and appreciate you using the word sublimation rather than saying it drives the moisture out.
I'm so happy I stumbled across your videos. I use to dehydrate tons of stuff but haven't done it in long time. Now having a little girl and the state of things in our country I've been super interested in freeze drying. Thank you
I’m happy you found us!!
So expensive but worth it in the long run. You can also sell some and make your money back. Enjoy
This is new for me thank you for the information
You’re welcome, thank you for watching!
Loved your video. Thanks so much for all the great information you shared with us.
Hi, I love your videos.😊 And I want to know if you could try freeze-drying a roasted marshmallow vs a normal marshmallow and see if there is a difference. I think it would be fun🥳
Freeze dried chicken! What?!? Wow!!! Did it effect the consistency?? What other meats work well?? Love all your videos!
I think chicken is best. Beef isnt great especially if its steak, but all can be fine. Theyre really good in stew or if you too much water when your making enchilada stuffing etc. they absorb a decent amount of moisture back up, but not necessarily as much as other things.
Its better if you put them in something not just eating them separately as meat. As you can definitely tell its structurally off if you try to eat it just in its own after rehydrating
Fats and oils dont freeze dry, and fats and oils are what go rancid. So the leaner the meat the better it will dry
the texture changes
Thank you for making this video. I just asked that question on one of your other videos. Awesome.
Love watching your content..great way to preserve some of the excess harvest..thanks for sharing…
Thank you for the knowledge.
I was getting so excited watching these videos until I started doing some research and then I learned about the price. I would absolutely love to do this, but there is no way I could afford it.
Would make sense for a big house with a big garden or a farm, but average people better off just using a normal freezer or dehydrator for some snacks
I've seen some as low as the $500 range, but, small capacity.
So coooool!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!!
In case anyone's wondering, it's -40 degrees in both Fahrenheit and Celsius.
Neat
Why does Fahrenheit still exist to this day, like I get it america #1 world power and all but is it that hard to switch to what the rest of the world uses and is making more sense? 😁
@@Petrzmolikfunniest part is in cooking and for space related stuff Americans use metric system
@@Petrzmolik Well... Yes, it is.
It was estimated that back in the 80's, changing to Metric would cost us multiple Billions of dollars JUST FOR THE FREEWAY SIGNS.
@@itsmilan4069yeah it’s not like we don’t use the metric system for scientific purposes. Imperial is used because it is what everyone understands. It’s what we grew up around and it’s very hard to switch because a lot of contextual understanding is on that systme
What’s your electric bill like? I imagine a freeze dryer costs a lot to operate. But maybe I’m wrong
Freeze dryers use more electricity than a dehydrator because they have a larger capacity, they also require oil changes. Even if you account for the size difference it still costs more per square foot.
Also a website that literally sells freeze driers has a FAQ section that says
"You may have read that freeze drying retains a lot more nutrients in food products over dehydrating, however, this is actually a large misconception. The main reason for this school of thought is that the size and color of the product does not change much during the freeze drying process compared to that of dehydrating. There are many recent studies that show that the ice crystals formed during freeze drying actually causes heavy cell damage and disruption. During the freeze drying process, food is brought down to -40 to -50°C (-40 to -58 °F). From the literature of these studies, we’ve found that drying food at either really high temperatures or really low temperatures has a similar negative effect on the bioavailability of macro and micronutrients found inside of food products."
That's what I came to ask
Can you share the study?
I would like to compare them. For example this one says the opposite www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7602416/
@@zues121510that's funny because most meat once butchered benifits from freezing for tenderness because of that ice crystal formation
$2 a day
Ok bro you got me needing a freezed drier.
Can you make freeze dried dehydrated fruit leather?
The cereal bar looked so tasty
Man I really want one. 😎
Please do freeze dried plants! We are curious to see what they’ll look like after they are freeze dried!
Have you tried using the square shaped thing on these cereal bars? I feel like it would be better than cutting it after it’s freeze dried. I want to try some so bad 😂
Funny story 😂. In this batch we did 4 other cereal bars, and in one of those we put the dividers in but we didn’t like how it shifted all the fruit around so for the rest we said “let’s just push the dividers through it after it’s frozen!”
…it didn’t work.. at all. Definitely use the dividers first! Cutting them wasn’t terrible but the tray with dividers worked the best!
@@WhitepepperFarmhaha that's often how my FD adventures go... Can I ask what is in the milk mixture that you poured over top?
so nesquick is made with coco, powdered milk & powdered sugar. i was wondering if you could make different nesquick mixtures by replacing the coco with freeze dried fruit powders.
The Mr. Wizard of freeze drying ❤
Gryffindor for sure!
where would i be able to purchase such machine?
Where do I get 1
freeze dried food has a shelf life of about 90 years if you vacuum seal it in foil and then irradiate it. (its perfectly safe, dont worry, all youre doing is exposing it to powerful enough radiation to kill bacteria, not enough to make the food itself radioactive, its the same way MREs are made, as well as why you can store them for so long).
Where can I buy some plutonium? Amazon is out of stock
I want one
So it will freeze food minus 40⁰ .. then fire it way up to what temperature? To make ice go away?
If you dehydrate something and then freeze dry it, will it last longer than 1-3 years?
There is a vacume. It is freezing yes. There is also a small amount of heat applied to the trays.
Man I need to get me one of those
It’s in their names, one dehydrated food, taking out the moisture, and the other freeze dries it, just making it dry.
Can we freeze dry ourselves?
Yes.. but I didn't tell you that.
I mean.. you won't come back from it.. but you can.
@@WhitepepperFarm well that's only partially disappointing 😂😂
More power to you guys, but i dont think i can ever eat freeze dried chicken. lol that just me though
That chicken well be soo good in a soup
YES
Why "only" 25 years, what happens afterwards?
Man i wanna try freeze dried candy but im broke as hell xD
Same! It's so expensive!
Freeze dry water
It would leave me with an empty tray 😂! Well.. maybe a few particulates but not much!
Great thing about -40° is that you don’t need to specify Celsius or Fahrenheit
Where do you get your numbers-eg 97% of nutrition retained?
The actual main difference is without any fancy machinery and some simple techniques you can dehydrate food for longer term storage
Depends what "nutrition" you look at
Sublimation is turning from a solid to a gas
Yes, it is.
Water can sublimate before it becomes ice under pressure.
2000 dollars? 💀 aint no sale low enough for people like me to consider that.
99% off?
@@EternaSoSleepy lol
Why do you wet breakfast cereal and dry it again? I'm sure there's a reason, I just can't think of it.
Considering every video you upload mentions that it is shelf stable for 25 years, what is the world ending event you subscribe to? Personally mine is skynet
Freeze dry our "waste foods" before they become unusable, then use that to reduce food waste. I'm sure non-profits would benefit greatly from access to this food, so long as they can also get access to water to rehydrate it where it is needed.
Needa buy me a freeze dryer fr
bruh ready for 20 years in the apocalypse shelter with the amount of food he has
Did you try to freezedry something you dehydrated?
“…back to its original state”. Bit of an overstatement don’t you think. Pretty sure you can’t make a fried over easy egg, or a juicy fresh picked strawberry.
Also a freeze dryer will cost you 30x the cost of a dehydrator!
Dehydrator 1200 NIS
Dryer 28000 NIS
Just an ad
Damn it I’m getting it but next year I broke as a joke who moved from Texas to mass
Freeze dryers are exceptionally expensive. You have to have uniform cut shaped food AND you have to freeze all freeze dried food before. Its a big pain in the arse. Also the expense of running a freeze drier is outstandingly expensive.
Negative 40 degrees of what?
He's American, so we can assume it is in Fahrenheit.
Dont torture the kids with your creations😂
She didn't look like she liked it, get this kid a happy meal
It's no brainer for me i have to buy dehydrator for now
The difference is a cheep dehydrator will cost 70x less than a cheep freeze dryer
$3k is still too expensive for me. I have wanted one for about 10 years.
dont care how much you try to convince me. i dont think you cant take all the water out of food and the just re add it to make it just like before.
Ignorance
That’s literally how it works…
I believe that he said it is not exactly the same but similar enough to not be a big deal
you guys are really trying to defend a man who's just out here trying to sell you an expensive thing you don't need
@socialturtleman yes, that's exactly what we're doing
One costs rhe same as a car and is worthless unless the world is dying.
I want a freeze dryer so bad but can afford one :(
"A HUGE SALE" Do you mean there perpetual sale of upto $500 off?
That chicken is how boiled chicken tastes. Completely dried
2k…
as i said...
In the other video you said it retains 98% of nutrition :(
Freeze driers are 4 thousand dollars.
I found one for two in aliexpress, I wouldn't trust it, but it's there
Chem terms love 😝
That chicken looked so dry
Idk man, If I eat frozen dry meat (especially chicken) it's like I'm eating cat food.
Or you know you could just eat fresh food
You can't think for 3 seconds. How this could be useful? Like camping, survival or anything. Just nothing in your head at all.
@@chasegreaser1166 If you have enough money for a freeze drier survival isn’t an issue. Camping is a good point though
@@kitsin326 I grow so much during the summer months and I end up wasting a lot of it because of several different reasons but this machine would pay for itself in the first year easily. Taking a produce and reducing its size like that is one of the most important things I’d use it for. This machine would make it possible to eat fresh food everyday sorta. Last year I grew 3-400 pounds of tomatoes I ended up tossing out half cuz I had nowhere to store them and no time to can them. Plus I didn’t have space to store the canned tomatoes anyways.
@@kitsin326proving your ignorance once again
@@BioshockDrill a freeze drier is pointless for the average consumer however, I did fail to realise that it could be incredibly useful for people who growth their own produce but again I know zero people in real life you would benefit from the product because the average person simply does not need to store food for such long periods of time.
No way in hell this shit is worth 2k😂
What 2000 there sell at 6000😂
Im first?!
Yep
Cheerios is the most toxic cereal
I rather eat fresh food😂
Dry ahh chicken
yay let's make food depressing!
So you're a shill
I don’t like the way that baby looks…
He doesn’t like the way you look, so it’s fine.
Look at the ingredients in Cheerios cereal.Some of the ingredients cause infertility.I would not be feeding that to your young children. Investigate the ingredients on the packaging. It's scary.Just thought I would let you know in case you didn't . They are different now.I grew up eating Cheerios.My small children were given Cheerios.The food companies have added some things over the years. Go take a look for yourself.I'm just trying to be helpful. Don't come for me.🙂❤ By the way, that looks delicious .
Yeah didnt you say in all your other videos that it keeps 97% of its nutrition? So is 60-70 or 97 thats a pretty big difference
This video is talking about two different methods. A dehydrator vs a freeze dryer. A freeze dryer does keep it, dehydrator does not.