Rehydrating Freeze Dried Chopped Celery
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- Опубліковано 26 січ 2024
- Rehydrating a sample of freeze dried chopped celery.
- Because a viewer asked about celery!
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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.
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Here is the list of Freeze dryers I've heard of: (If anyone knows of any others, please add to the list) (as of July 23rd 2023)
harvestright.com/ (The only one I've used. We been very happy with it - affiliate link in description) All the others might be great, I've just never tried them.
p4lfood.com/ "The Cube" Same machine as the 4Patriots one? (Facebook page only a few months old?)
4patriots.com/products/4patriots-home-freeze-drying-system - Maybe built by Prep4 Life?
stayfreshfreezedry.com/ - One person start-up import business? (Judging by the corporation papers listing a home as the Registered Address)
www.cuddonfreezedry.com/products/ - Big - Probably not really a home unit. At least 20 times bigger than medium HR
wmmachinery.com/products/freeze-dryer-for-home-use - Lower priced. Shipped direct from China?
www.labrotovap.com/portfolio-item/large-home-freeze-dryer-lyophilizer-for-sale/ - Knockoff? Even used some of Harvest Right web page photos.
www.usalab.com/freeze-dryers/ - Two models? Do they make or rebrand.
freezedryco.com/equipment/food-cannabis/ Freeze Dry Company - more commercial
www.hudsonvalleylyomac.com/stratus-mp3-series-floor-model.html Hudson Valley Lyomac - not really home size units
d-freeze.com/ D-Freeze - Not out yet, being built in Canada
www.freezedryfood.de/en/ FreezeDry® German
bluealpinefreezedryers.com/ Blue Alpine Freeze Dryers - Idaho - Very new/Start-up - Looks promising
For me the takeaway from this video is that many FD vegetables actually benefit from a longer rehydration time. Many fd'ers complain that they are not impressed with FD veg but possibly they don't give enough time for rehydration. Thanks for sharing.
Exactly! It took hours to get the water out, but a lot of people expect everything to rehydrate in 5 minutes. Some foods take longer, some a lot longer. For pickles, I'd plan 1 or 2 days minimum. Another part of it may be expectations. I never assume that frozen food will be the same as fresh, and freeze dried foods have been frozen as part of the process.
I've heard from viewers telling me that they had been told that carrots won't rehydrate, that pickles just don't work, and a number of other items.
Rehydrating Carrots Freeze Dried - ua-cam.com/video/-OiemWzNe5A/v-deo.htmlsi=ojstnbJan6oIOJAg
Freeze Drying and Rehydrating Pickles - ua-cam.com/video/fWkK0rfRfq4/v-deo.htmlsi=ghtbCKe14ClEXKC_
Thank you
I love your freeze dried videos
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Nice! Celery is definitley worth FD'ing. It will add so much flavor to so many things!
Thanks!
Interesting. Thanks!
Awesome, I have some in the garden and was just wondering about FDin celery!
so happy to see this, I love celery. raw and crunchy. I have canned celery, onions, carrots for soup bases and other recipes. I have freezed dried some celery but blanced it . I will definitely be doing this way, much easier. I also do the leaves if any are on mine stalkes. I use to cut them off and throw away until I discovered what flavor they had. not everyone is a celery lover. Thanks for the video.
While it's nowhere near as crunchy as fresh raw celery, I was surprised that celery that had been frozen could be crunchy at all. Definitely usable in tuna salad. Now that I know that plain celery can rehydrate okay, I'll do my own batch and test different times/methods of prep and rehydrating.
the it is still crunchy really got my attention. I'll be watching for your next experiment and also thank you for the video on apples and pairs, I never thought about cubing them that way . will have to a batch of apples if I can dig out my thingymajig. I think I forgot where I put it. @@SchoolReports
Good to know the long rehydration worked - i felt unsuccessful when it was tough and chewy after a short rehydration- only half hour or so. Thank you!👍
Now that I know it can rehydrate okay, I'll do my own batch and test different times/methods of rehydrating.
I just did a batch of celery two days ago.
Hot water, and if your wanting it for chicken salad you will have to let it sit for at least 30 min. then drain off the excess liquid and use it
I used cold water this time because: 1) I knew it was going to be overnight, and 2) I didn't want to cook it. I wanted it to have the best chance of still being crunchy.
I did let it drain at least 30 minutes. At 3:18 you can see it's in a paper towel lined colander.
That would go good in a tuna or chicken salad
I have freeze dried tuna salad with chopped celery & onion already mixed in and it did well. So your probably right, it should work about the same it I were to put them together _after_ freeze drying.
Haha..."It's celery". It was good that it still is crunchy to add texture to things like chicken salad and such
Could you put it uncooked in tuna salad or potato salad?
I'm pretty sure that should work fine. We have freeze dried tuna salad with chopped celery and onions already mixed in, and it did well.
Freeze Drying Batch 635 - Tuna Salad With and W/O Miracle Whip - ua-cam.com/video/uFYPbu0iI5E/v-deo.htmlsi=VYN1r8T99vvsqMF3
Rehydrating Tuna Salad From 2020 - Batch 335 (and flowers in the yard:) - ua-cam.com/video/krgxN8F9r3Q/v-deo.htmlsi=3z8Ur4y55GFDKN1F
Eggs and cheese and it would have made a delicious omelette.
Except it still would have had celery in it. 🤣 I don't put celery in _my_ omelets, ever. Maybe cheese, bacon, ham, mushrooms, but never celery. 🥚🥚🥚 Or just the classic 3-egg french omelet.
@@SchoolReports sometimes ya just have to use whatever you have and call it an omelette lol. Of course that concoction would have also made a soup base as well.
Yep! 😁 If only I'd had some onion I would have had the Cajun trinity, the basis for so much good food! This would still have been good with some rice.
@@SchoolReports it’s funny how bacon makes everything better lol.
@@timothychristian9140 Bacon, butter, and cheese! 👍👍👍
(My doctor said I should eat more bacon. - At least that's the way I heard it)
🙂 🙃 😇 😋 😛 ❤ 🐸
Typical man, you could have dropped a few eggs in there and made an omliet.
🤣 I would _never_ put celery in one of my omelets! I've put a lot of things in my omelets, but never celery. (But mostly cheese, bacon, or ham; maybe mushrooms) Or just the classic 3-egg french omelet. 🥚🥚🥚