Probably a good idea if you have a freeze drying business like yours, i aways pre freeze everything, But even though my freeze dryer aways tells me ( needs more freeze time) and turns off the vaccume pump over and over and over even though its -10 degrees or lower ,so now I have unplugged the vac pump from freeze dryer and i plug it into a electric outlet and leave it plugged in a hour after I put food in and it has bypassed the (needs more freeze time) loops.
I prefreeze food before freeze drying. It does shave time off, but mostly because it went below 32 degrees. I do veggies. Freezing them ruptures the cell walls, I feel this aspect allows the water to sublimate much easier. It's almost like prureeing them before hand. Just not sure a -35 freezer will do much more than 10-15 which my current freezer is set at. Maybe it will freeze a little faster, but not sure it's worth the cost. So glad the cost of this freezer was omitted too, always tells you that it's going to be in the 5 figure range.
when people say it takes over 24 hour to freeze dry meals is this including the machine freezing the food? So if I froze it first in the freezer would it cut the time by half or something?
So pre-freezing yourself is recommend and does cut down on FD time, but id say you should expect, at the very least, 24 hrs for an entire load of fruit/veggies/meat/meals. Oh and never mix fresh and frozen. Best to just freeze everything to begin with since it has to freeze anyways.
@@carolclarkson4859I am fairly certain most things that are made now a days have a lot of components made in China it's hard to get away from it. It sucks but that's the reality. I'm sure harvest right has a lot of there components that come from China. It's just a guess but I'd be surprised if everything they had is 100 percent made in USA
Hey Carol, it would be hard-pressed to find a company that is not sourcing any products from China. It's just not financially doeable to build a product in the USA like a freeze dryer without sourcing components from a cheaper manufacturing country. If you are looking for a USA made freeze dryer, I don't know of any but most of these freeze dryer manufacturers are based in the USA and employ hundreds of people so that's what I like to support.
@@carolclarkson4859 It's actually owned by an American😉😉. It is 100% an American company. They do get some of their parts like the compressor and condenser from China but that certainly doesn't make them a Chinese company.
why not put the vacuum chamber in the wall of the freezer then you could have a bank of freeze driers using the freezer to cool all of them at no extra cost.
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Probably a good idea if you have a freeze drying business like yours, i aways pre freeze everything, But even though my freeze dryer aways tells me ( needs more freeze time) and turns off the vaccume pump over and over and over even though its -10 degrees or lower ,so now I have unplugged the vac pump from freeze dryer and i plug it into a electric outlet and leave it plugged in a hour after I put food in and it has bypassed the (needs more freeze time) loops.
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I prefreeze food before freeze drying. It does shave time off, but mostly because it went below 32 degrees. I do veggies. Freezing them ruptures the cell walls, I feel this aspect allows the water to sublimate much easier. It's almost like prureeing them before hand.
Just not sure a -35 freezer will do much more than 10-15 which my current freezer is set at. Maybe it will freeze a little faster, but not sure it's worth the cost. So glad the cost of this freezer was omitted too, always tells you that it's going to be in the 5 figure range.
It’s about $17k from what they have listed on the website
Can't really fit a walk in freezer in my home.😢
Haha, it’s definitely more for commercial use
when people say it takes over 24 hour to freeze dry meals is this including the machine freezing the food? So if I froze it first in the freezer would it cut the time by half or something?
So pre-freezing yourself is recommend and does cut down on FD time, but id say you should expect, at the very least, 24 hrs for an entire load of fruit/veggies/meat/meals.
Oh and never mix fresh and frozen. Best to just freeze everything to begin with since it has to freeze anyways.
Ive had loads in the dry stage for 40+ hrs before. I have a large FD and if you do a lot of blueberries, those take extremely long.
I always pre-freeze whatever I'm going to freeze dry. That does cut down on the time. But I don't do it commercially.
If its down to than freeze level why not just go ahead with a vacuum pump and be done with it.
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I would love to hear more about the stayfresh freeze dryer.
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Stay Fresh is a Chinese company
@@carolclarkson4859I am fairly certain most things that are made now a days have a lot of components made in China it's hard to get away from it. It sucks but that's the reality. I'm sure harvest right has a lot of there components that come from China. It's just a guess but I'd be surprised if everything they had is 100 percent made in USA
Hey Carol, it would be hard-pressed to find a company that is not sourcing any products from China. It's just not financially doeable to build a product in the USA like a freeze dryer without sourcing components from a cheaper manufacturing country. If you are looking for a USA made freeze dryer, I don't know of any but most of these freeze dryer manufacturers are based in the USA and employ hundreds of people so that's what I like to support.
@@carolclarkson4859 It's actually owned by an American😉😉. It is 100% an American company. They do get some of their parts like the compressor and condenser from China but that certainly doesn't make them a Chinese company.
why not put the vacuum chamber in the wall of the freezer then you could have a bank of freeze driers using the freezer to cool all of them at no extra cost.
Not sure how that would work, I’m not an engineer
They probably aren’t designed to operate in such low air pressure and as a vacuum chamber. They would probably clause.