Great idea using canned fruit. We are heading into winter here in Australia.. So I will do this. Thanks as always for showing the reconstitution as well.. I didnt think they would reconstitute so well… Wesley is a great taste tester :).
I'm so glad you did this, I have done canned pineapple in its own juice, (rinsed with water before putting on the tray) and holy smokes, it's delicious! Now I'll try doing these
This seems like a start to baby food in some way. Making freeze dried fruits into powder and adding a bit of water to make baby food. Usually you would blanch the fruits and veggies for baby food so I'd start there. 😊
I have a question just about checking food when your close to end I seen another person and only one so far wondering if this is the right way or not This guy opened valve drain than turned pump off and opened the door is this how you check your food when closed to the end Thank you I love that you reply to people so many others don’t Thank you I just got my freezer dryer I have had it 4 days I’m learning and your great thank you Norma
Oh thanks for watching I appreciate the nice comment 🥰 So when I want to pause the freeze dryer and check the food, I usually press the leave in the upper left corner, then open the drain valve, that allows you to open the door. If you want to have the food go longer the screen gives you options and I select “add more dry time” then increase how much longer I want it to go. If it’s done I you can choose defrost your machine or no defrost. That usually works great for me! Good luck with your new machine!
New to you today . You’re so smilie and sweet . I’m gonna do the cheese n fruit also thank you . Just got my freeze dryer 2 weeks ago love it so much .
Cool idea. I dont eat a lot of fruit, but now that my cousins are having babies I’m thinking these would make great snacks for the kids when they are over for a visit. And every once in a while it is nice to have a different flavor in something sweet as a treat as well so I’m really curious what this would be like as simple desert like rehydrate the fruit to be chopped and served with whipped cream. It looks like the texture would hold up from what I saw here.
I wonder if it would have been a shorter time if you had froze them before putting them in the FD?I just had a conversation with my husband about doing canned fruit, thank you for sharing. Now to open some cans of fruit 🍎 😊
Yes it would have shortened the freezing portion so definitely would cut some hours down; not totally sure how many. But try it out let me know how it goes!
I’ve always done the opposite - normal mode for candy and fast for food. No idea why just was thinking would help the drying time go by faster with the long freeze dry runs. But I’ve never tested doing it the other way, I’ll do it next time!
Just remember, you can always powder your Freeze Dried Food & use it in Ice Cream, Baking, Protein Drinks, etc. When I make Homemade Almond Milk, I take the Almond Pulp & Freeze Dry it & then use the Freeze Dry Almond Pulp in my Protein Drinks. You can even use powdered Freeze Dried food items such as pickles, to make Dips, or put it on popcorn or Cottage Cheese, etc. Think Smoothies, Pies, Ice Cream, Lattes & anything really you want to add a certain flavor too, Hope I have just blown your mind with creativity - LOL!
This is awesome!! Love the homemade almond milk idea. And the powders would be so good in shakes and all the things. I’ll have to try that for sure. Thank you!
I’m heading to harvest right for about two months now and it takes me over a day to do a batch of fruit. In your initial settings, you had it sit for six hours and then you said it took over 24 hours. What is the six hours for a different process I’m not aware of?
@@jasonkustra5671 the 6 hours is extra dry time - so the machine does its full process and senses when the food is done (which is the 24 hours or whatever the timing was) then the 6 hours I set is extra on top of that bc a lot of times the machine thinks it’s done when it’s really not so it will continue to dry as long as you set it for
Unless you are camper, this completely defies the wonderful seasonal possibilities of harvesting fresh produce at it's peak with all the vitamins and health benefits. This only adds to the robbery going on online. Selling freeze dried when it's really dried canned or frozen. If you all think that's ingenuity good on you.
Maybe I’m misinterpreting your comment ? I appreciate her testing this for us. Unless I missed something I didn’t hear her mention anything about selling it. She explained with her location fresh fruit is very expensive and this is a cost saving way to eat a slice or two while having it stored long term. The comment just seemed negative for no good reason.
@@TobyMichaelPortableTechReviewYes you are 100% right. I think I over reacted to all of the people online selling freeze dried products that they get from a freezer or canned. I am frustrated that pulling us further away from our food source is concerned creative or innovative.
@@jessicawessica1412 i did not know this is a problem? i agree thats frustrating, i do like this porcess for my own use, I get overwhelmed by the peeling/blanching part of processing fruit
ABSOLUTE USE THE WEIGH OUT METHOD EVERYTIME. The last thing you want is get down the road in an emergecy or you just want a snack and you open up your bag and there mold or something wrong with the food... Which would be because they were NOT absolutely dry. Spend the extra time to do it right.
How people think it saves money is strange to me . A small one $2800 plus electric, maintance no way you will get cost back. It would take years before one would see any savings so I will stick with dehydrating. A guy does a review and tells us not to buy and why.
I can’t wait to go pick fresh peaches and fresh apples, and blueberries and strawberries, over our way
Fresh picked peaches would be sooo good. All the fruits are so yummy freeze dried
Those would be good to powder and use to flavor quick bread also. Maybe even to put in smoothies. Pancakes or waffles!! That would be good also!
That’s a great idea! I need to try that out 😄😄😄
Great idea using canned fruit. We are heading into winter here in Australia.. So I will do this. Thanks as always for showing the reconstitution as well.. I didnt think they would reconstitute so well… Wesley is a great taste tester :).
Wesley is always up for trying just about everything - my best eater! I love that the canned fruit turned out great, it’s a nice option to have!
I've been wanting to do fruit cocktail, then process into a powder for fruit smoothies.
Ice cream is a GREAT IDEA!
I'm so glad you did this, I have done canned pineapple in its own juice, (rinsed with water before putting on the tray) and holy smokes, it's delicious! Now I'll try doing these
Oooo totally want to try the pineapple
Wow - looks like you can freeze-dry anything!!
Yessss practically!!!
Just here to say your hair is luscious
Well you’re so nice thank you
Looks delicious! One good thing about canned fruit is its canned when ripe, so sweet and delicious always.
Yes totally!! They turned out great!
This seems like a start to baby food in some way. Making freeze dried fruits into powder and adding a bit of water to make baby food. Usually you would blanch the fruits and veggies for baby food so I'd start there. 😊
Yes that is such a great idea to get purées for baby food 🙌 thanks for sharing that!
I love the weighing idea. I had some watermelon I lost due to not being quite done! Thank you.
Came across your video. Thank you so much. We love fruit and this is helpful for our freeze dryer. 2024. Theresa here.
Such a great idea! Canned fruit is always canned at high ripeness so very sweet👏💯
Just got my freeze dryer and so excited for easy freeze drying! Thank you for sharing!
Oh yay I’m excited for you! Hope it all goes well, have fun!!
Good to know you can use a #10 can
Cannot wait to try this!! Thanks for sharing.
Yes! It worked so good!!
I did the peaches and they turned out perfect everybody loves them
Oh yay!!! That’s awesome 👏
I have a question just about checking food when your close to end I seen another person and only one so far wondering if this is the right way or not
This guy opened valve drain than turned pump off and opened the door is this how you check your food when closed to the end
Thank you I love that you reply to people so many others don’t
Thank you
I just got my freezer dryer I have had it 4 days I’m learning and your great thank you
Norma
Oh thanks for watching I appreciate the nice comment 🥰 So when I want to pause the freeze dryer and check the food, I usually press the leave in the upper left corner, then open the drain valve, that allows you to open the door. If you want to have the food go longer the screen gives you options and I select “add more dry time” then increase how much longer I want it to go. If it’s done I you can choose defrost your machine or no defrost.
That usually works great for me! Good luck with your new machine!
New to you today . You’re so smilie and sweet . I’m gonna do the cheese n fruit also thank you . Just got my freeze dryer 2 weeks ago love it so much .
Thanks for watching!! I’m excited for you 👏
Kiwi is my favourite, strawberries 2nd. Haven't tried canned fruit. Thanks for video.
@@zhippidydoodah I need to try kiwi! That sounds so good 😊
Awesome I’ll need to try this
Yes let me know if you do!
Cool idea. I dont eat a lot of fruit, but now that my cousins are having babies I’m thinking these would make great snacks for the kids when they are over for a visit. And every once in a while it is nice to have a different flavor in something sweet as a treat as well so I’m really curious what this would be like as simple desert like rehydrate the fruit to be chopped and served with whipped cream. It looks like the texture would hold up from what I saw here.
Thank you you reply so fast and are so helpful
Thank you
Powder them and put into frosting or yogurt or ice cream
I wonder if it would have been a shorter time if you had froze them before putting them in the FD?I just had a conversation with my husband about doing canned fruit, thank you for sharing. Now to open some cans of fruit 🍎 😊
Yes it would have shortened the freezing portion so definitely would cut some hours down; not totally sure how many. But try it out let me know how it goes!
Why do you use fast mode? I've never tried using it.
@@debrawallace4542 I have heard fast mode actually doesn’t change anything…. I’m not sure 🤔
I don’t know if azure standard comes to Alaska or not. If they do, their frozen fruits are great.
I’ll have to look out for those thanks for sharing!!
Why the fast mode? I only do that for candy.
I’ve always done the opposite - normal mode for candy and fast for food. No idea why just was thinking would help the drying time go by faster with the long freeze dry runs. But I’ve never tested doing it the other way, I’ll do it next time!
What is it costing you roughly ro run your machine for say 24 hours, like ovwr a month have u noticed a big spike in your electricity bill?
Thank , as wondering if I could rescue can that expiration date is coming up! Would it be possible hel to pr freeze?
Yes you can pre freeze, it will help you have a faster run on the freeze dryer 😄
Are you in ER? I plan on doing thee same to my #10 cans
Just remember, you can always powder your Freeze Dried Food & use it in Ice Cream, Baking, Protein Drinks, etc. When I make Homemade Almond Milk, I take the Almond Pulp & Freeze Dry it & then use the Freeze Dry Almond Pulp in my Protein Drinks. You can even use powdered Freeze Dried food items such as pickles, to make Dips, or put it on popcorn or Cottage Cheese, etc. Think Smoothies, Pies, Ice Cream, Lattes & anything really you want to add a certain flavor too, Hope I have just blown your mind with creativity - LOL!
This is awesome!! Love the homemade almond milk idea. And the powders would be so good in shakes and all the things. I’ll have to try that for sure. Thank you!
I’m heading to harvest right for about two months now and it takes me over a day to do a batch of fruit. In your initial settings, you had it sit for six hours and then you said it took over 24 hours. What is the six hours for a different process I’m not aware of?
@@jasonkustra5671 the 6 hours is extra dry time - so the machine does its full process and senses when the food is done (which is the 24 hours or whatever the timing was) then the 6 hours I set is extra on top of that bc a lot of times the machine thinks it’s done when it’s really not so it will continue to dry as long as you set it for
@@DIYfreezedry so that’s what is manually added AFTER the freeze dryer auto senses when it’s done?
Unless you are camper, this completely defies the wonderful seasonal possibilities of harvesting fresh produce at it's peak with all the vitamins and health benefits. This only adds to the robbery going on online. Selling freeze dried when it's really dried canned or frozen. If you all think that's ingenuity good on you.
Maybe I’m misinterpreting your comment ? I appreciate her testing this for us. Unless I missed something I didn’t hear her mention anything about selling it. She explained with her location fresh fruit is very expensive and this is a cost saving way to eat a slice or two while having it stored long term. The comment just seemed negative for no good reason.
@@TobyMichaelPortableTechReviewYes you are 100% right. I think I over reacted to all of the people online selling freeze dried products that they get from a freezer or canned. I am frustrated that pulling us further away from our food source is concerned creative or innovative.
@@jessicawessica1412 i did not know this is a problem? i agree thats frustrating, i do like this porcess for my own use, I get overwhelmed by the peeling/blanching part of processing fruit
next time save the juice they are packed in, I'm sure your kids would love drinking it or add to something.
That’s a good idea! A good way to sweeten smoothies and other things too
ABSOLUTE USE THE WEIGH OUT METHOD EVERYTIME. The last thing you want is get down the road in an emergecy or you just want a snack and you open up your bag and there mold or something wrong with the food... Which would be because they were NOT absolutely dry. Spend the extra time to do it right.
Very Good point! - thanks for sharing. I love gotten a lot better now and making sure I weigh my food, it’s worth the extra step.
Have you tried canned pie filling? Is that too sugary to freeze dry?
How people think it saves money is strange to me . A small one $2800 plus electric, maintance no way you will get cost back. It would take years before one would see any savings so I will stick with dehydrating. A guy does a review and tells us not to buy and why.