We love our Harvest Right freeze-dyer and have had it running quite a bit this year. From carrots to pumpkin pie, to noodles and candy, we just love seeing what will freeze-dry in it. We grow a lot of peppers, onions and tomatoes on our homestead, and yearly I water bath can at least 100… Continue reading Freeze-Dried Salsa: Making and Using It
Category: Freeze Drying
Freeze-Drying Banana Bread Slices
All the rage in the fall was having freeze-dried pumpkin pie coming out of your freeze-dryer on the groups and forums of avid freeze-drying loyalists on Facebook and similar. Don't get me wrong, freeze-dried pumpkin pie is pretty phenomenal. The secret are those massive pumpkin pies, sold at Costco in the fall, thinly sliced, then… Continue reading Freeze-Drying Banana Bread Slices
Freeze-Drying Yogurt For The Trail
Freeze-dried yogurt is a great treat for the trail. Both adults and children enjoy it - and you can rehydrate it with cool water to make fresh yogurt as well. We made large ice cubes here, but you can make it into drops, for young children. They quickly melt that way in the mouth. It's… Continue reading Freeze-Drying Yogurt For The Trail
Revisiting Recipes: Blackberry Green Beans
When we first created the recipe for Blackberry Green Beans it was 2010, and freeze-dried food has come considerably far in these past 12 years. In 2010 though...just finding freeze-dried green beans was hard enough, to be able to find freeze-dried blackberries? That was not going to happen. So we developed this recipe for late… Continue reading Revisiting Recipes: Blackberry Green Beans
Freeze-Drying versus Dehydrating: Frozen Peas and Corn
We have been running comparisons with Freeze-Drying versus Dehydrating with various ingredients, to see what the outcome is. This has meant that we are running both our Harvest Right freeze-dryer and our dehydrator running nearly non-stop of late. We use the large size Harvest Right freeze-dryer for reference. This post is on drying frozen petite… Continue reading Freeze-Drying versus Dehydrating: Frozen Peas and Corn