Gummy Things: The Final-er Chapter!
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- Опубліковано 27 лис 2019
- Freeze drying a batch of miscellaneous gummy things. I thought I was already done with gummy bears and things. So, one last time?
Greatly sped up. The trays flex up and down due to the heating cycles.
Freeze dried food will stay fresh for many years and be ready and waiting when you need it.
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Before buying a freeze dryer, perhaps research to find out more about the downside of the machine; some people have problems with their machine and it's big and heavy and hard to return!
When trying to decide what to freeze dry you can start by asking why.
Start by asking yourself this question. Why are you freeze drying food? Knowing this should help you decide what you should freeze dry first.
I'm freeze drying because:
Just to freeze dry leftovers?
You want to make your own food for camping/backpacking?
For if/when the SHTF?
For a short term emergency?
You have your own garden and want to freeze dry the food?
You love Costco but don't have a family of 6?
You are good at finding the food sales but only have 1 freezer?
When you cook homemade chili just for yourself you make 10 gallons? Because you have 3 full freezers and are worried about power outages?
If I knew then what I know now, I would have freeze dried things in a different order. Or maybe not, because I started freeze drying because we had 3 full freezers, I was thinking of getting another one, and I decided I should buy a walk-in freezer instead. I started looking into walk-ins and realized they were expensive to buy (even used ones) AND expensive to own and operate. Then I found out Harvest Right was making home sized freeze dryers. One of my first thoughts was "I like Mountain House!" I have used their food for backpacking almost 45 years and we even kept some in our travel trailer, for just in case.
Freeze dried food will stay fresh for many years and be ready and waiting when you need it.
We do videos showing how we are using our Harvest Right Freeze Dryer to freeze dry food for long term storage. (We have the medium size machine that we got in August of 2017) We talk about how to load and unload the freeze dryer, how to know if the food is dry, is it better to freeze dry raw food or cooked food, and do a few taste tests. Freeze dried food is also great for prepping or just for camping and snacking!
Music used: Blue Danube by Strauss
Best music for this, ever! 😆
this video is amazing.
Yum! Make more videos of this!!
So satisfying to watch, where did u get ur clear cover compared to the black cover that comes with machine.how many hours?
It's a tight fitting disc I cut out of Acrylic. ua-cam.com/video/erH1VDqNi80/v-deo.html The disc seems to work better than the pad that came with the freeze dryer for lowering heat transfer. I'm basing this on the fact that the front of the door does not get as cold with the plastic disc in place as it did with pad. I love how good of a job it has done and have not experienced ANY downside yet. And it's better for monitoring the freeze drying items too.
Sorry, I don't have time information for that batch.
I've considered telling people, when asked "how long did that batch take?" that it was 32 hours. And then explain that if you adjust the conditions right, that every batch COULD be run in 32 hours. Otherwise it's kind of like asking how long does it take to go from point A to point B. The only good answer is: That depends...
I hardly track the total times anymore because it's almost worthless, just a ballpark number, except the freeze time and final dry which depend mostly on food type. It's done when it's done. 99% will somewhere between 18 hours and 70 hours.
Even if I load the freeze dryer the same way, with the same amount of the same food, for two consecutive batches, the total time can still be a few hours different. All I can do is generalize about total freeze dry time because there are so many variables to the dry times; type of food, water content, sugar content, temperature of the food, ambient temperature, how much food in a batch, more than one kind of food in a batch, food volume, how tight it's packed, thickness on the tray, how well it contacts the tray, how porous the food is, how the food was sliced (this made a huge difference with citrus and pineapple), how clean the vacuum oil is (if it's an oil pump), age of the vacuum pump, and I'm sure there are more.
Curious if you use the default tray temp of 125° or change it to get the gummies to kick so well?
I set my machine for a default of 120 f. I think the biggest difference in how the puff/react is the brand of the gummies. Some do a lot, some do almost nothing.
I'm wondering if you took a nail meat tenderizer and poke holes in the gummy before freeze drying them ...would they hold their shape better?
Ha! I never thought of stabbing the little guys. They might hold their shape better, but one of the goals with these is to have them blow up some (but not too much) so they won't be too solid and too hard to eat. Trying to make most candies a bit fluffy and light.
It could be an interesting experiment. 🤔
Great video - I am going to try some "nutritional" fruit gummies soon, very curious about their possible expansion and your examples give me less trepidation about a mess! 😋 (ps I have found that ceramic knives work best with a slicing motion rather than a chopping motion...)
Thanks. If I ever get a ceramic knife I'll know. :) Ours is just painted stainless steel.
Most gummies seem pretty well behaved in the freeze dryer, just don't overload the trays.
@@SchoolReports lol, your knife surely looked ceramic to me 🤦🏼♀️ Do you pre-freeze gummies?
@@MM-oc3sb After your comment, I had to go and check the knives to make sure!
Gummies are one of the things we don't bother to prefreeze. There is just so little water it didn't make a difference.
@@SchoolReports 👍
where did you get the thing you used to freeze dry?
This is where we got our freeze dryer: harvestright.com
What settings to you use for gummies?
Sorry, I don't really know because I wasn't tracking any of those things back then. Gummies dry pretty quickly.
Do you remember what brand of sour gummy worms you used?
No, not really. Probably bulk from Winco and or Albanese brand.