Freeze-dried Food in Space

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Most likely, the first thing your average person thinks of if you mention freeze-dried food is astronaut ice cream. While in all likelihood freeze-dried ice cream never actually made it to space, NASA has extensively used the process of freeze drying to make space mission meals. The first meal ever eaten on the surface of Read more

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Freeze Dryers Perfect for Specialty Diets

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The best part of using a home freeze dryer from Harvest Right is the ability it gives you to freeze dry the foods you prefer to eat. People on special diets (or who just like to eat healthy) love the flexibility and choices that home freeze drying provides. Instead of purchasing store-bought freeze-dried food (along Read more

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Freeze Dried Strawberries Recipe With Harvest Right Freeze Dryer

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Freeze Dried Strawberries Recipe With Harvest Right Freeze Dryer Learn how to freeze dry strawberries with Harvest Right freeze dryer for home use. Freeze drying lets you preserve food for later, and it can last up to 25 years on the shelf! Freeze drying is the best way to preserve food for long term storage. Read more

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Wasted! The Story of Food Waste

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There is a documentary that looks at how much food is being wasted by people today and the problems that come with the waste. Wasted! The Story of Food Waste has helped change the way people buy, cook, preserve, and eat food. This informative and entertaining documentary takes you around the world, showing the 1.3 billion Read more

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Turning Your Freeze Dryer into Money

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As sales of Harvest Right Freeze Dryers skyrocket, many of the owners are using their machines to counteract the economic impact of Covid-related shutdowns and layoffs. Purchasing a freeze dryer isn’t like buying a dehydrator. This is a serious investment, and there are many ways to use the machine to pay for itself. While many Read more

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Missoula Brothers Launch Freeze-Dried Meal Company

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Brothers Ben and John Ritner loved going on hiking trips together, but what they didn’t love was eating bland, salty freeze-dried meals. One day while sitting around the campfire they came up with a plan – to make freeze-dried meals better. John, who attended culinary school, and Ben, who studied web development and business, decided Read more

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There is no better time than now to create a food storage

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Overall inflation rates rose to 6.8% over the previous year, marking the fastest annual increase in the inflation rate since June 1982, according to the latest consumer price index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The impact of inflation can especially be seen in grocery stores with prices for meat, poultry, fish, and eggs increasing Read more

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Methods for Storing Preserved Food

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When storing food long term, it is critical to not allow bacteria to destroy your food. Bacteria need moisture, oxygen, light, and warmth to grow. Freeze drying food is great at eliminating moisture, but it still needs to be stored properly to ensure long-term usage. Mylar bags are great at not allowing in light or Read more

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Getting Ready for the Appalachian Trail

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Gorgi Rigby not only turns 60 on June 22 but also starts a journey she has dreamed about for years – hiking the Appalachian Trail. Gorgi will be accompanied on this quest with her older sister Melanie. Melanie will turn 62 in August and is the mother of 5 children and 13 grandchildren. The Rigby Read more

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Backpacking and Burning Calories

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Have you ever wondered just how many calories you burn while backpacking? The short answer – a lot! Of course, to figure out an exact number is a little difficult and can depend on a number of factors, including body weight, pack weight, elevation gain, terrain, and more. But it is possible to come up Read more

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What is causing the white bubbles on some of my food?

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Have you ever taken trays out of your freeze dryer and noticed a lot of white crystalized bubbles coat your food? Or have you ever freeze-dried ice cream sandwiches and end up with a bubbly mess? This is common and there is nothing wrong with your freeze dryer. What is happening is just lyophilization, or Read more

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5 Candies to Freeze Dry

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Give your family a ‘sweet treat’ this summer! Freeze-dried candy is always a customer favorite and is by far one of the tastiest things your freeze dryer is capable of. Below is a list of some ideas to get you started! Skittles are a fun experiment to try with your freeze dryer. These small, chewy Read more

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Creating a Winter Emergency Food Storage Plan

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Well, as they say, Winter is Coming. The last two winters were brutal in nearly every state of the Union – even those without snowfall saw record colds and even some ice. Predictions are that this winter will be dangerously cold and that every state where it can snow, it will snow. Snow and cold Read more

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Busy Mom Loves Her Freeze Dryer

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If there’s one thing Brigette Petersen knows a bit about, it’s stretching a dollar – and an hour. The busy wife and mother of three knows what it’s like to look for the cheap and fast solution when it comes to preparing meals and feeding the family. But a nightly dinner of chicken nuggets and Read more

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Use Your Freeze Dryer to Create Amazing Rubs

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A great steak usually doesn’t need much more than salt and pepper for seasoning and it will still taste fantastic, but some meats are not very flavorful just on their own. These types of meats are a blank canvas that gives you the opportunity to get creative by making a dry rub to help with Read more

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Freeze Drying and Re-hydrating Crunchy Vegetables

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It’s the end of the final harvest time for many gardeners around the country. Cooling temperatures and more rain give vegetable plants a boost, so you’re likely to end up with more than you can handle. Traditionally, gardeners would either can or freeze their surplus for use in winter. However, those two methods tend to do Read more

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Freeze Drying Chili

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Chili is one of those meals we never get tired of, and we never get tired of experimenting with. In the winter we make thick, meaty, spicy chilis that are warming from the inside out. In spring, we lighten up our recipes – replacing ground beef, shredded turkey or cubed steak with vegetables such as Read more

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How to Store Freeze Dried Food

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Freeze dried food can be stored for up to 25 years! Its longevity depends on how you store it, however. Here are some tips for properly storing freeze dried food so they’re fresh and ready when you need them: Make Sure It’s Dry When you remove your food from the freeze dryer, break a large Read more

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A Freeze Dryer is a Traeger Grill’s Best Friend

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Since the dawn of fire, people have been using it to cook food. Cooking over fire is what makes us human, it’s part of evolution, and it simply tastes better. That is one reason why wood pellet grills such as the Traeger grill have become so popular. BBQ enthusiasts agree that wood-fired flavor is what Read more

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Rehydrating Freeze Dried Full Meals, Breads and Cakes

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Harvest Right freeze dryers make it easy to freeze dry full meals, even in one cycle. You can place different foods on separate trays (or on the same tray) and there won’t be any flavor transference (foods with strong flavors/scents such as onions, garlic, and jalapeños may have some flavor transfer and may be an exception Read more

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Rehydrating Freeze Dried Eggs

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To freeze dry raw eggs, whisk them before pouring onto a freeze drying tray. Freeze dried eggs will powder really easily and to rehydrate, just add water. You can also make delicious scrambled eggs and freeze dry them. Try adding cheese or bits of ham and you can easily reconstitute later with a little water Read more

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Rehydrating Freeze Dried Dairy

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Freeze-dried dairy products are some of the most versatile ingredients you can have in your pantry. Dairy is not only easy to freeze dry, it’s easy to rehydrate and use in recipes. For example, yogurt is high in protein, so adding it to your breakfast oatmeal adds to the nutritional content. Yogurt drops are a Read more

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Freeze Drying Apples

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Apple harvesting season is near and it seems apple-infused recipes are only second to pumpkin spice infused recipes. It used to be that in order to make apples last through the winter, they had to be stored in a cool, dark, dry place for several weeks. Root cellars were dug under houses just for that Read more

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Freeze Dried Pet Snacks

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February is the month when we delight the people we love with delicious treats. Dogs and cats can’t have chocolate, but that doesn’t mean you can’t surprise your furry family members with their own version of yu mmy snacks. With Harvest Right’s home freeze dryer, you can feed your pets the healthy, preservative-free, home prepared Read more

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