Freeze Dryer Tips! 3 Top Pointers To Save Food And Your Oxygen Absorbers!
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- Опубліковано 5 лис 2022
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One small comment. First lots of helpful practical information here. My suggestion is based on the knowledge of the surprising amount our hands sweat. It’s constant. While handling your freeze dried food to put in your bags, may I suggest wearing vinyl gloves? They’ll keep the moisture that’s always leaving your hands away from your food.
Thanks, good advice. One thing I do, is use parchment paper under the produce you are freeze drying. Then after they are dryed.....you can curl up the paper with the stuff inside and pour into the bag, without even touching the produce. It's much easier and quicker. I use the paper for several freezings before changing it out.
Yes! I do this as well and it really helps streamline the process.
Very cool. Great tip!
Very helpful and much appreciated!
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent suggestions! The ziploc bags are really smart... not only for when you are waiting to heat seal them, but when you open them in the future, you have a way to seal them up again until the contents are used up. Love the individual packets of oxygen absorbers. Thanks for sharing! 🤠
Thank you. Absolutely!
Great help - thank you.
Glad it was helpful
Great video! Thanks
Glad it was helpful
Great tips on storage! Thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome
Nice tip with the straw..il be doing that in the future
Great tips. Love our freeze dryer. Thank you for your videos about your freeze dryer. They give us great ideas on what to freeze dry.
You are so welcome!
Freeze dried organic Pink Lady apples are awesome. I like to use parchment paper in the trays for fruits, veggies and scrambled eggs because I don’t have to touch the food when putting it in the bags. If I’m doing the same items, I reuse the parchment paper more than once to save waste and expense.
Very cool
Excellent content.
Much appreciated!
Nice video, but wonder if you really meant to say at 8:12 when you said, "....place this in our bucket with our Gamma seal and this is (Not?) going to prevent anything Additional bugs to get into these bags or rodents to get in here..." ? 🤣
I vacuum pack my food in jars. Easy to see the food and easy to seal.
Are you afraid that they will degrade quicker with light getting to them?
@@CountryLivingExperience I keep them in a dark storage room. I also like seeing what I have on hand.
I use a vacuum sealer after putting the oxygen absorbers in. Works great and gets all the air out of the bags.
Does is crush your food?
Thanks for sharing. I don't have $4k to spend on a freeze dryer, but this was interesting.
You’re welcome. They are $2500 and have a no interest layaway program.
Good tips. I use mason "jelly jars" to store my o2 packets. Put the lid on, twist the ring until its tight and back off the ring a degree. Drop those jars in the harvest right or chamber vac, and you now have jars of o2 absorbers. They are convenient, and I can get volume/bulk discounts. The same can work for other mason type jars, where the harvest right doubles as a chamber vac with the right size cutting board as a base (chamber is round on the bottom, so a flat base is helpful). Mason jars can break, but they are really easy to use/reuse. Where light is a concern, I keep the jars in lunch bags - been good so far since 2012. All that being said, I also use LDS bulk mylar bags for other dry goods including green coffee.
Thanks.
I tried the mason jars but then realized how much air was in the jar after every opening. They are sucking up a lot of air every time.
@@CountryLivingExperience Cool - this is the reason why I use the small, 4oz jelly jars.. Once opened, they will not have very long, but the jar is small so I can get through it quickly. Also I use the o2 indicator tabs (those pink dots) - all are still pink. I keep bulk absorbers with original packaging inside 50 cal ammo cans.
Ever since watching this last week, I have wondered if anyone has tried to make their own freeze dried coffee (and/or pre-sugared, creamed, creamered, flavored)? I'm not sure it would be worth it, but it might be interesting to experiment with.
That would be an interesting experiment.
Good content, but if Air cannot get in to the sealed bags, neither can bugs and rodants.
You’re welcome. Bugs and rodents can chew through bags.
Do you portion the food you freeze dry according to how much you would use at one meal? For instance, when I freeze dry green beans I try to put the amount in each bag that we would prepare and eat at one meal. I wasn't doing this in the beginning and then after putting some thought into how I will use the food I'm preserving I began to. I pick a lot of black berries, cherries etc in season. Once they're freeze dried I package them according to how much I would use in a pie. Then when the time comes to use them I'm not exposing the ones I don't need for my recipe, to air and I'm not potentially wasting a bag. I'm WILDLY curious is anyone out there has come up with an organized, thoughtful method for storage. I'm using tubs and buckets right now but I feel like there has to be a better way.
I have not focused on portioning yet. However, with the ziplock bags you don't have to worry about it as much since you can reseal it and save it for a few more days.
Depends what your use needs are. We have a Medium 4 tray, for the first batch of a food item, usually I will fill a Gallon bag, then Quart bags, then at least one vacuum Jar.
I use the Jar as a gauge so I can "see" whats going on inside the bags of same batch without opening them. If I see degradation or negative changes in the jar, I know I need to get the bags open and cook the food right away. Never assume.
Once I have a solid base of "safe" gallon bags of a certain item, I will putting batches into smaller bags for regular use. I open them, put the food into ziplocs, tupperware, jars etc and they stay on the counter/fridge for regular use.
Stay gold.
How about using moisture absorbers ???
The food should be dry already when coming out of the freeze dryer. If it is not, it needs to run for longer. Oxygen absorbers preserve the food for decades.
Can you vacuum seal the storage bags?
No. They are not made for that.
@@CountryLivingExperience Would it be possible to forego the oxygen absorbers if the food was vacuum sealed?
@@moaski You cannot vacuum seal freeze dried food in bags. It is too delicate and will be crushed. You can vacuum seal them in jars if you have the correct attachment.
Since dehydrated food absorbs moisture, not oxygen, should you use a desiccant?
This is freeze dried food, not dehydrated. The process is very different. To the best of my knowledge, desiccant's are completely unnecessary for freeze dried food.
As far as I understand, the oxygen absorbers also use some of the moisture to activate and rust the iron shavings that in turn absorb the oxygen. By using the straw, most of the air is pulled out leaving some for the absorbers to use. I don't think a desiccant is necessary.
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Great video, we do the same procedures you do🖖😎
Thank you.
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Could you purge the bag with nitrogen instead?
Potentially. Not sure of the cost of doing that.
I'm really thinking of getting one but there's only two of us
For me, it is not about the amount of people but the longevity of the food.
It is my understanding that the sealed unused oxygen absorbers only last for around 6 months so it isn't like you can save them for next year's harvest. True or not?
I have not read that or come across that information.
Or, get a chamber vacuum
Those are great but expensive. I would think that they would crush the freeze dried food when sealing though.