What is the best way to preserve food?
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- The very best way to preserve food is freeze drying. Freeze drying is able to keep all of the nutrients since it removes the water from food at freezing temperatures, instead of using heat. Plus, freeze drying is easy and allows you to preserve all your favorite foods - fruits, vegetables, leftovers, soups, casseroles, you name it. And all of it will last years longer than either dehydrated or canned food.
If you’re looking for the very best way to preserve food for you and your family, you’re going to love the Harvest Right freeze dryer. Learn more at harvestright.com/
There are so many reasons to freeze dry at home with a Harvest Right freeze dryer. Preserve your garden produce, create the perfect emergency food supply, make camping meals and healthy snacks. Unlike other methods of food preservation, freeze drying does not shrink or toughen the food, and retains flavor, color, and nutrition.
Refrigerated, frozen, and canned food just don’t last very long. Freeze dried food will last up to 25 years and does not need to be to be rotated like other foods. Freeze dried food is perfect for home storage.
Freeze drying maintains 97% of the nutritional value of the food. Other methods of preservation, such as canning and dehydrating, use high temperatures that destroy much of the food value.
Freeze drying works great for fruits and vegetables, but unlike other options, it also perfectly preserves meat, fish, dairy, eggs, ice cream, and even fully-cooked meals.
If you can press a button, you can freeze dry! Simply press start on the touch screen, and the patented Smart Freeze technology senses when it’s done. Everything is automatic.
Not only will the food you freeze dry at home look and taste better than store-bought freeze-dried food, it’s much less expensive! Freeze dry all of your leftover meals, and you’ll save even more money.
There's a fairly common misconception that the terms "dehydrated food" and "freeze-dried food" are the same, but clearly are not. Knowing the difference helps when deciding how to store and preserve food for your family.
Freeze drying is a relatively modern process. Freeze-dried foods offer a longer shelf life, lower moisture content, and generally taste better than dehydrated or canned foods. Freeze-dried foods rehydrate faster and also retain their original shape, texture, and color. A far greater variety of foods can be freeze dried than can be dehydrated or canned. Imagine trying to use a home dehydrator to preserve an ice cream sandwich, a raw egg, or cheese. It would fail miserably. Not so with freeze dried. 
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Idea for some videos, like 3 to 5 minute. Do quick short videos of items from start to finish, with rehydration. Instant pot does these and they are very helpful and help not only the owners but I’m sure the manufacturer too.
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Chicken noodle soup leftovers, frozen in trays, put into harvest right, time it takes, end product, storage, rehydration how much water.
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Beef stew same highlights as all the quick videos. Chinese take out, hamburger meat.... right now bits and pieces are all over the Internet and RUclips you could have all these quick video guides.
I think the more information you put out the more interest will come.
There a half dozen YT channels that do freeze drying videos - start to finish. Just search home freeze drying.
I've had my large dryer and oil less pump since Dec. 2018 - love it. I run it almost 24/7.
@B B You only need to filter the oil after each batch. You do loose a little oil with the filtering and only need to top off the pump. You might use a gallon of oil in a year. A complete oil change isn't necessary unless it gets grungy or starts to smell bad. About every ten batches the front chamber of the pump needs to be removed and cleaned out. I have heard of other people speak of "Dairy Land" brand of oil that is so much better than the standard oil HR sends with the dryers. I found the oil pumps to be messy and just a pain in the neck to keep doing after each batch. For me the oil less pump has been worth the extra money ($1300) - no maintenance, no messy oil, it runs quieter.
But that is my choice - other people are fine with the standard pump. At my work, my time is billed out at $85 an hour (I make about half that) so I see my time as money spent when I'm fussing with the oil pimp. I save about an hour of time per batch not dealing with the standard pump. In that respect I have saved a bunch of money (time). I have done over 300 batches and that would be about $25000 worth of my time. That's just my logic - others may not see it that way.
Another fact that few are aware of - the large dryer will process more food than the small and the medium dryer.....combined.
@B B So what's you're point? Right - not everyone can afford a freeze dryer - I'm well aware of this fact. Even thought I never went to collage - I made much better life choices that allows me to have many things that others don't have. There are many that are much better off than I am even. I don't live in a million dollar home or drive a $250K car. I've spent my life working hard for everything I have and will retire soon. It's only a big deal to me - no one else cares.
The people you speak of making minimum wage have the same opportunities I had - I studied hard, and learned a skill. You want to compare a hamburger flipper to a 45 year veteran as a process controls repair specialist? There is a reason the hamburger flipper makes $10 an hour and I make $50 an hour.
What's your point? There will always be people with less and people with more.
I've really been wanting one. I've read mixed reviews that if something fails, the company is hard to get ahold of, virtually no customer service.. What's the warranty like?
@@KaytieBabooah The company has a great customer service and is easy to reach. They have a 3 year warranty.
I'm gladed found this video
Are you guys doing any more videos??? The last one was a year ago and with more people purchasing these expensive machines, I know I would appreciate info, tips, tricks and recipes. Thanks in advance.
Imagine that, a freeze dryer seller says freeze drying is the best :p
I use lacto-fermentation for preserving my surplus garden vegetables. You don't use any energy other than water and a teaspoon of salt. Bang. Job done. Fantastic for your probiotic gut bacteria and the taste is better even than it was when fresh. You ever tried freeze-dried tomatoes? Yuk! You tried laco-fermented tomatoes? You can eat them months, even a year later and they're flavoursome, tangy and crispy as the day they were harvested. And when there's an energy crisis there isn't a better or cheaper way to preserve your vegetables. But it's pretty much shit if you want to preseve ice cream...
Can you cancel a final dry phase and continue it hours later without harming the produce?
I want to buy it... is it possible to buy it in australia ?
Do you have to keep the foods in the freezer after freeze drying? Especially if you freezed dried ice cream.
No, freeze-dried food requires no refrigeration, not even ice cream. :)
What changes have you made to the warranty for your machines?
It's a 3-year limited warranty. More details here - harvestright.com/return-policy-warranty/
Can you freeze dry beans? As in cooked black beans from a can or made in the instant pot? Do they taste good rehydrated? I can’t find any videos of someone who has tried it. I want to freeze dry black beans and great northern for a soup mix. I have also noticed you can only buy dehydrated beans from sites that sell freeze dried foods. Is there something weird about freeze drying beans?
Nothing weird about freeze drying beans. I've done all types. They all dry well and reconstitute very well. One of my up coming batches will be ham and Navy bean soup.
Just add back hot water and you have bean soup ready to eat. One of the best things of doing your own FD foods is that you know what's in it and how it's made. I have been using my large dryer since Dec. 2018 almost 24/7 and have foods of all types in my preps.
The key tip about doing any foods is not to overload the trays - it will still dry but it may take a long time. Just experiment with it - it will become easy before you know it.
@@jerrysmith372 Sad thing is that shipping to europe would be to expensive. And if something is malfunctioning... Get a lot of Monday products...
Don't see why you can't. However you don't really need to, most dried beans in mylar bags with oxygen absorbers will last many years as they are.
I need this in my life 🤣👨🏿🔬
we need heat to COOK food, very little particles gets destroyed
This video makes no sense! There are no sources on how nutrients are getting destroyed!?? How?
Heat harms the potency and effectiveness of a variety of vitamins and other nutrients - like the heat used in canning and dehydrating. The freeze drying process causes very little damage to the nutritional value of the food.
There are many studies on the subject actually. The higher the heat and for longer is what the worst. Even normal cooking destroys nutrients but it isn't long term exposure or in the case of canning, double cooking.
@@harvestright yeah, you have to cook your food with heat, its gonna get destroyed anyway, even if you take meat out of your stupid freezer you have to cook it, guess with what? WITH HEAT
@@crazygunix1223 It doesn't use heat, it uses sublimation. You know that triple point graph in chemistry? The freeze drier freezes the food, and then holds it at low pressure which is what allows the water to be driven out.
Can you freeze dry medication?
Do realize you're never going to get an official response on this since it's based on medical community acceptance and licensing costing potentially millions. That plus the fact that there are too many variables to consider makes it a loaded question.
@ContentsOfTable well someone could answer in a indirect answer 🤪
@@jenniferbunker2757 well then my response to that is that Your Mileage May Vary!
Praise the LORD for creating freeze dryers!
Do NOT get the oil free pump. I spent $1500 on it and it lasted less than 2 dozen uses. It is just out of warranty and they won't even talk to you without paying $45 just to talk to support. I already took it apart and know what part of the scroll pump failed and sent pictures, but it does not matter. Not a very reputable company.
I’m gonna call bs to the fact that canning lasts less longer than freeze drying because in my great grandparents house there are jars of fruits and veggies from the 50s that are probably still good
You have got to be joking. 🤦🏻♀️
Darwin Awards will be handed out on a need basis.
Nice video but salt
Not impressed by this video because of you guys knocking down other ways of preserving food. Canning and dehydrating are incredible (and affordable) ways to preserve food. I got to this video after looking up freeze dryer machines but this feels very "holier than thou". Not a great marketing standpoint. I guess your market is people that have never dehydrated or canned food? :'( :-/
I agree. I do all three. All three have a valid place in food preservation, not to mention Botulism is so ridiculously rare, the mention seems more like a scare tactic. As impressive as HarvestRight has been, this was a big disappointment.
I don't think there necessarily knocking them, there not wrong..but yes you cant do everything with them. Jams for example. You can even store things like dried rice and beans without heating and they last just as long in some cases. Things like Hard tack and pemmican can be made that will last many years. If you don't have the cash, Don't feel pressured into buying these things as you have a lot of options. Only reason I bought one is because of the stimulus money. Thankfully still have my job and didn't need it for bills, so with the already inflated food prices this just seemed practical for my needs. Buying pre-made long term stuff was adding up, even stopping me from buying as much as I wanted. Also at one ponit you couldn't find any!
They’re telling the truth. Why is that wrong? I can and dehydrate as well, but I’ve had my FD’r since 2016 and FD’ing is indeed much easier, and I’ve got my FD’d foods still put up going back to 2016, but we’ve had to consume the canned and dehydrated going back that far.
There is nothing wrong with being Honest. Which they are. 🤦🏻♀️
dehydrated and canned food is definitely doable, but it is inferior to freeze drying. There is a reason the military moved away from dehydration and canning compared to the C rations.