The large H R freeze dryer is on sale for $3099 now for black Friday sale. If a person only buys it to freeze dry meat and eggs and diligently uses it three times per week, you will see the payback within three months or less if compared to buying freeze dried food. May of 2019 we got the best deal available for $2800 for the large size. It has paid itself back over twenty times. We freeze dry what we grow and meat we buy. Ours only came with the standard pump at that time, so now you get the premium pump for only $300 more. Plus all the kinks have been worked out with the software. BUY IT! We saved up for ten years before we got it. We knew it was going to come out years before it became available.
Wow! Didn't think about the holiday sales. I have a link in the description for Harvest Rights's website but also heard Costco is selling them now. Thanks for sharing!
It certainly is an investment. Food storage being the number one reason to get one. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns and I'd be happy to help. 🙂
Very informative video. And yes there is a lot of things that I wish I would have known ahead of time. We have spent over $7,000 so far. And I'm wondering have you checked out any of the other freeze-drier companies? Do the other companies pumps interchange with the harvest Right freeze dryer? I like the product it produces also but I am finding that the repair work that we spent several hundred dollars sending our machine back to them is not holding together And they had us to take it apart several times ourself which my husband was not happy with. And the repair work seem to be on the shawty side and not holding together.
No, we haven't looked into other companies. We live off the beaten path so in our circumstances we may be in the same boat of finding a place to make the repairs. I feel like I've spent too much already to start fresh with another company.
After a lot of videos about problems with harvest right, I chose Blue Alpine. I called direct to the number and spoke to the owner, and bought my freeze dryer. Beings I didn't know anything about freeze drying I had a lot of questions and would email to blue Alpine for awhile almost daily, the owner responded within a couple of hours. I found that most of the time it completes the drying in half to ¾ of the time the harvest right videos are saying it takes.
Of course! Settings for the eggs is pretty much the same with the soup, I add extra time on freezing, drop the temperature more than normal, and add more time to drying. I'm working on another video that will share our favorite recipes for the freeze dryer.
Sorry it took so long, tis the season to be busy! I just posted a video with the recipe. Here is a link for the mac and cheese powder: th-cam.com/video/91F1iZL5HWQ/w-d-xo.html
The Premiere pumps are much less expensive and much quieter than the oil-free pump. A small freeze dryer like yours (but upgraded) is now $1599 at Costco, and comes with the pump and accessories.
@FrancisMicroHomestead I have large with the xlPremiere pump. The oil gets filtered every 20 batches but it doesn't need to be changed anywhere near that often.
@@jodyanderson6491We bought one at Costco in Lake Stevens, WA a couple days ago. We ran our 1st batch last night. We were in Mesa, AZ recently and the last time we were there, they did not have them.
Too expensive for us. I waterbath, pressure can dehydrate and purchase freeze dried #10 cans from LDS storehouse . The math works best for us as when all said and done $7000 is too much and better utilized on food. I have 35 Jumbo Cornish Cross Hens to process in 3 weeks so our freezers are full. I’ve thought long and hard and any leftover foods goes to our laying hens. Thx for your content as it fortified my reasoning to save my $7000
We are all about saving food. I hate wasting so if anything can go to our chickens or cats, it will. Good luck with those 35 hens! Hopefully you will have decent weather for it.
@ , yes I tried to fit it in as we had a Bahamas Cruise for a week and had to wait to get back first week in October so yes here in Northern Utah, I hate processing chickens in the cold and snow but it is what it is here on our 4 acres. I know I blew it. We don’t waste food and that’s been a problem in the past but we have calculated to make smaller portions here in Eden, Utah. Our garden production has been fantastic even though we have a short growing season as we live on a ski resort. I may change my mind on freeze drying as the results are fantastic but with 22 grandchildren and 8 kids, $7000 comes in handy. Keep up the great content.
The large H R freeze dryer is on sale for $3099 now for black Friday sale. If a person only buys it to freeze dry meat and eggs and diligently uses it three times per week, you will see the payback within three months or less if compared to buying freeze dried food. May of 2019 we got the best deal available for $2800 for the large size. It has paid itself back over twenty times. We freeze dry what we grow and meat we buy. Ours only came with the standard pump at that time, so now you get the premium pump for only $300 more. Plus all the kinks have been worked out with the software. BUY IT! We saved up for ten years before we got it. We knew it was going to come out years before it became available.
Wow! Didn't think about the holiday sales. I have a link in the description for Harvest Rights's website but also heard Costco is selling them now. Thanks for sharing!
The review was a fair review and I have been the fence with buying one as I would be l myself.
It certainly is an investment. Food storage being the number one reason to get one. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns and I'd be happy to help. 🙂
Great review. Thank you. I'm trying to figure out how to fit one in my apartment. My kitchen is small. 😊
Good luck!
Really great video, very informative and well produced. TH-cam needs more content like this!
Thank you! We are certainly trying.
Very informative video. And yes there is a lot of things that I wish I would have known ahead of time. We have spent over $7,000 so far. And I'm wondering have you checked out any of the other freeze-drier companies? Do the other companies pumps interchange with the harvest Right freeze dryer? I like the product it produces also but I am finding that the repair work that we spent several hundred dollars sending our machine back to them is not holding together And they had us to take it apart several times ourself which my husband was not happy with. And the repair work seem to be on the shawty side and not holding together.
No, we haven't looked into other companies. We live off the beaten path so in our circumstances we may be in the same boat of finding a place to make the repairs. I feel like I've spent too much already to start fresh with another company.
After a lot of videos about problems with harvest right, I chose Blue Alpine.
I called direct to the number and spoke to the owner, and bought my freeze dryer. Beings I didn't know anything about freeze drying I had a lot of questions and would email to blue Alpine for awhile almost daily, the owner responded within a couple of hours. I found that most of the time it completes the drying in half to ¾ of the time the harvest right videos are saying it takes.
Could you post your mac and cheese powder recipe, please? Also, when you do raw eggs, what are your settings?
Of course! Settings for the eggs is pretty much the same with the soup, I add extra time on freezing, drop the temperature more than normal, and add more time to drying. I'm working on another video that will share our favorite recipes for the freeze dryer.
@FrancisMicroHomestead Thank you.
Sorry it took so long, tis the season to be busy! I just posted a video with the recipe. Here is a link for the mac and cheese powder:
th-cam.com/video/91F1iZL5HWQ/w-d-xo.html
The Premiere pumps are much less expensive and much quieter than the oil-free pump. A small freeze dryer like yours (but upgraded) is now $1599 at Costco, and comes with the pump and accessories.
I like not having to worry about oil, but I am starting to think that the work of changing the oil may outway the cons of having an oil less pump.
@FrancisMicroHomestead I have large with the xlPremiere pump. The oil gets filtered every 20 batches but it doesn't need to be changed anywhere near that often.
What Costco did you see that at?
@jodyanderson6491 I've seen it posted many times. I'm not a Costco member.
@@jodyanderson6491We bought one at Costco in Lake Stevens, WA a couple days ago. We ran our 1st batch last night.
We were in Mesa, AZ recently and the last time we were there, they did not have them.
Too expensive for us. I waterbath, pressure can dehydrate and purchase freeze dried #10 cans from LDS storehouse . The math works best for us as when all said and done $7000 is too much and better utilized on food. I have 35 Jumbo Cornish Cross Hens to process in 3 weeks so our freezers are full.
I’ve thought long and hard and any leftover foods goes to our laying hens.
Thx for your content as it fortified my reasoning to save my $7000
We are all about saving food. I hate wasting so if anything can go to our chickens or cats, it will. Good luck with those 35 hens! Hopefully you will have decent weather for it.
@ , yes I tried to fit it in as we had a Bahamas Cruise for a week and had to wait to get back first week in October so yes here in Northern Utah, I hate processing chickens in the cold and snow but it is what it is here on our 4 acres. I know I blew it. We don’t waste food and that’s been a problem in the past but we have calculated to make smaller portions here in Eden, Utah. Our garden production has been fantastic even though we have a short growing season as we live on a ski resort. I may change my mind on freeze drying as the results are fantastic but with 22 grandchildren and 8 kids, $7000 comes in handy. Keep up the great content.
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