Freeze Drying Batches 656 657 Mini Marshmallow temp test
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- Опубліковано 20 тра 2024
- A month in the making!
In these two batches I just doing a "quick" test comparing freeze drying temperatures on mini marshmallows. The first batch was done at 100º f and the second was set to 130ºf.
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Start by asking yourself this question. Why are you freeze drying food? Knowing this should help you decide what you should freeze dry first.
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I remember as a kid the zoo sold marshmallows to feed "Mike" , the polar bear. Just did a 10lb load of tuna salad. Thanks for the video.
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Retired eng here, so I appreciate your extra attention in your vids. Did you make a spreadsheet or database for keeping inventory ?
Here is a glimpse of our inventory sheet during this video. - Dried Peas & Carrots - ua-cam.com/video/5tb6z2ENmMY/v-deo.htmlsi=tP_Qq0brFDk0g5Sg&t=89
We are using an OpenOffice spreadsheet to track our bags of food, and of course, we can sort by food, date, or location. Any fields wanted can be added. My I.T. person (wife) would rather use Excel, but I just use OpenOffice. 😁
Here is the inventory data from just the "50 Batch Series" where the plan was to do 50 batches in 100 days.
Freeze Dried Items - 50 Batch Series - inventory data 08 04 2022 docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sHHAC8glSfwq6hCo2cRxDAZ-8KikgcimJLYZ3-92LzQ/edit?usp=sharing
I never thought about the different sizes that different temperatures in the freeze drying process would produce, least of all with mini marshmallows. Old and stale ones taste pretty good compared to when they’re fresh, now I’m curious how these taste in comparison to fresh, or if there is a difference. Only you (in my opinion) “lies awake in bed thinking about these things.” 😂.
Of course your 2017 vs my 2024 models are different and you’re able to customize more than I can…or at least it seems that way.. plus you have more room on each shelf (even more when you fiddle with the height of the shelves 😂). You don’t have a “candy mode” but are able to program your machine to mimic this feature in mine. 130 degrees approaches the candy mode and 140 certainly is if 130 is not (I’m too lazy to get up and walk into the next room to look). You may have gotten an even bigger difference if you had bypassed the freezing portion and gone directly into the drying mode at 140 degrees for 4 hours, if this is possible on your machine, which I would think it is.
A month later!!!???!!!
When resealing the bags of marshmallows, did you put O2 absorbers in, since a month ago you didn’t (because they were only going to be sealed a short time)?
Marshmallows and most candies tend to get bigger at higher temperatures. (The candy mode is 150º) This is one of the reasons we don't use the "candy mode" very much, because I don't want most candies to get too big. I want my gummy bears to still look like gummy bears, just a little bigger.
Some time I'll do another set, starting the drying process without freezing the marshmallows to see if there is a bigger size difference. (Of course still prechilling the chamber walls) You can skip forward on the newer machine too.
These marshmallows came out tasting the same as the fresher ones we have done.
A month!🤣
Yes to adding oxygen absorbers when resealing.
I’m trying to find any videos you have of freeze drying herbs. I heard that flowers will go poof and not stay in the tray? Someone I saw put something on top of each try to keep them from going all over the place. What should I use that I could lay on flowers and herbs that isn’t toxic?
I've had a few people mention the idea of the food moving while in the freeze dryer. (Never flowers until now:)
I haven't done flowers, and the only herb-like things I've done is a little chopped chives and some chopped cilantro.
We haven't had anything "move" while freeze drying - except things like some candies that "pop" during the process, or things like these marshmallows, which expand but don't really "move." I honestly don't know how anything could be moving in the freeze dryer while freeze drying. Once the freeze dryer in under vacuum (almost the whole time), there is no air to move anything. Gravity holds everything in place. My sister has run some powdered tea stuff through the freeze drying process and it never moved. (I think she may have covered her trays with paper towels just in case) When first starting, the food will be "heavy" because of the water still in it. When it's done and the valve is opened to let the air back in, the sudden rush of air _could, perhaps,_ cause things to move, but the valve could be opened slowly to prevent even that possibility.
I would suggest freeze drying herbs at a lower shelf temperature to help lessen the chance of losing the flavor volatiles that may be in them. Maybe as low as 60 or 80ºf. I'm just guessing - I don't really know because I haven't done any testing on herbs.
If you're really concerned you could cover the trays with paper towels, like I did with this cheese Freeze Drying Your First 500 lbs of Food - Batch 10 - Cheese, Shredded ua-cam.com/video/Amsgh2gDazQ/v-deo.html
@@SchoolReports thank you! Eventually I will make videos about freeze drying stuff from our garden and I will refer people to your channel as the expert since I find myself learning so much from you!
@@SchoolReports the person was doing lilac flower petals. And thank you for the tip using a paper towel
We taught our kids to chew with their lips closed.
thanks for the video. They sound pretty crunchy, do they taste like marshmallow flavored mints?
I don’t know how SchoolReports will respond to this question, but having freeze dried mini marshmallows myself, in my experience they just taste like dried marshmallows. Better than stale, and the flavor is more intense, but marshmallows tend to have a vanilla flavoring more than a “mint” one. Though there may be mint flavored marshmallows out there, I doubt these were anything other than the normal vanilla variety.
In my experience freeze dried foods stick to your teeth while in the dried state. I’m curious how he responds to your question!!
They didn't start out as mint flavored . . . so hopefully they won't taste like mint now. (SchoolReports doesn't like mint😂)
I don't know the texture of mints. 😁
The texture is like Lucky Charms marshmallows! Very crunchy, but light and airy, not solid or heavy.