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The best prepping is a balanced approach that saves you money on stuff you use everyday.

I'm loving my freeze dryer. I got it about a month ago, and already have quite a bit stored. What appealed to me most was being able to preserve food that I like, and being able to put away products that can't be safely canned, like sausage gravy (made with the sausage we have custom ground to be low fat and that we love the flavor of), or things like pasta that merely needs boiling water to reconstitute. And cheese. Shredded cheese is delicious even not reconstituted. So is sweet corn. I'm also a backpacker, and took one of my meals of grilled pork loin, green beans, and mashed sweet potatoes, out on the trail last week end. Much better than the typical backpacker freeze dried fare.

I like your channel because you educate and give tips for being self sufficient. A lot of the other prepping channels are now going to doom and gloom scare tactics. Keep up the good work one thank you for all you do!

I saw this company 2 years ago with the intention of buying one then I forgot about it. Thank you for reminding me. This is a great investment. Also, freeze dried taste awesome

I also bought a vacuum sealer. I think that would be great with a freeze dryer!

I purchased mine with the oil-less pump just over a year ago, and while it was very expensive, I still think it was/is the best prepping investment I've made! I agree with all 8 of your reasons! Thanks for the video. Just followed you on Instagram.

Nice summary of reasons to freeze dry. I would add a couple more to your list: 9- Easier to maintain a vacuum seal. The vacuum seal in canning for, instance, can be broken due to temperature fluctuations. If you live in an area of more extreme temperatures, a Mylar bag will maintain the vacuum seal much better than traditional canning. 10- I came upon an article which mentioned the possibility of food prices to increase up to 300% due to more extreme weather events. These were particularly highlighted for grains such as wheat, rice, and corn. Freeze drying allows you to eat tomorrow at today’s prices.

I used to work on pharmaceutical freeze dryers I have had a idia for years to make one for myself at home it's not very difficult. Especially if you pre -freeze the items going in and just use a coil from a dorm freezer to help keep the food frozen during a run. Vacuum chambers are relatively easy to Build and I then all you gotta do is hook a pump to it.

I live in an air dryer called Nevada. America's driest state. When we have 4% humidity it's easy to dry foods out.

We did well during a power out time that lasted for 6 days because of our chest freezers that had no power but stayed cold and could be opened without losing the cold inside....... it may not be the best solution but I would not have a stand-up freezer -- chest freezer is SO much better

i hope that the technlogy will become more affordable in the near future. more households need a freezdryer machine

I started a veggie garden this year, potatoes, celery, chives, peppers, carrots, garlic (all from kitchen discards but the carrots!) All doing good but the garlic, learning through trial and error but quite encouraged and determined! Gives me hope, pleasure and security! Recommend everyone to try it, by the way, everything is in pots as I live in an apartment! I also got a pineapple that's growing beautifully, has one year yet to give fruit but looking forward to harvest everything in two months! Good luck and NEVER give up!!!! And recycle everything!!!!! 😉👍😆

I just sold my 2015 “Knob Model” HRFD. Now saving up for the current model. I built quite a large stockpile in my 4 urs of F’Drying.

Plant some moringa trees. Very healthy! Dry and powder the leaves 👍🏽

I also love that I can seal my canning jars in my freeze dryer, if u want to know how , remove tray holder , put a tray inside , place ur jars with the led on & ring left lose , use just ur pump & run for 3 minutes u to have sealed jars with ur FD stuff , don't need to add oxygen absorber, quart jars add 1 minute longer

Kris I’m glad that you are able to afford a freeze Dryer. If people are like me, that’s a pipe dream. You’re wonderful freeze dryer cost more than my entire monthly retirement check! Goes to show how much a schoolteacher makes in retirement! So many of the KZfaqrs are slapping me in the face with the freeze dryer I’ve got to where I don’t want to watch you anymore. I really enjoyed you before! I am going to just pass this session. I’m happy for your family to have this wonderful machine. Don’t forget the rest of us and leave us in the dust! We use dehydrators because we can avoid them. Thank you for always looking for an alternative for those of us that are not able to buy the expensive gadgets.

Oil free pump? Didn't know that was now an option. I know this vid was looking at the practical reasons for freeze drying but I can't help but mention the problems globally with the upcoming food supply. Flooded croplands in the Midwest and overseas many countries are suffering from drought. Australia, an exporter of wheat, is now importing. Cattle, chickens, and hogs will be impacted as well. This should definitely be in everyone's home. Thanks!

Looking good, that growing beard gives u character, once is full keep it trimmed! 👍😉

I just bought a freeze dryer and excited to get started. You look so young in this video.

I really want to get a Freeze dryer Just need to keep saving my pennies...ooow strawberries look good

I have spent so much on freeze dried food during the last 6 mths that I could have purchased a freeze dryer 6 months ago and would be money ahead. meals in a jar is a wonderful book. I got that when I started buying thrive life, author left honeyville farms and is now with thrive life. tons of youtube videos on how to the meals in a jar. Also I am learning to garden have been watching videos and have learned alot

Very true I joined the group for a whole year I followed the posts and took notes from everyone’s experiences and recipes Finally when I had the money saved up I bought a freeze dryer and I just got it I still haven’t used it because I need to find a spot for it I’m so excited and I wish I could have gotten it sooner lol

We love our freeze dryer. It is our best prepper tool. We use it everyday. Was definitely worth the investment. Really excited to learn from you and see what you freeze dry. We are continuously impressed with how good the food tastes.

wise to have good reads when internet goes unavailable !!!

Well out of my price range, sadly. I will be dehydrating and maintaining a seed bank. I just need to build a dehydrator so I can work in larger quantities. looking forward to watching you experiment though.

I'm a Library Director and I approve the first 3 minutes of this video! All great books! I have many of them on my library shelf. Thank you for this list. I love my freeze dryer and I'm always looking for different things to do with it.

My first year using the ‘Square Foot Gardening’ was a bust because I started everything from seed, and that takes more time than I realized. So now we get starts from our local nursery. I may try starting with seeds again someday, but right now we need a sure thing.

I would love a freeze dryer, it makes so much sense. Greetings from South Africa

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Great video. One thing I look at when considering a freeze dryer is that one true years worth of quality long term food storage for a single person is about the same cost of a freeze dryer. Why not have both by buying a freeze dryer and then making your own.

I have the medium freeze dryer coming next year. Reason one is to convert all of the freeze dryable canned foods into light weight, long term food only needing water added to them before they can be eaten depending on the food.

The meals in a jar are great preps. A quart jar will hold enough rice or dried potatoes, dried vegetables and bouillon to make a gallon of soup. There’s a FB group, Stocking our Shelves, with numerous recipes for Soup in a Jar. It’s the closest thing to fast food that I have put up.

I have cooked the deer meat and the meat that I have caught on sale, and I'm running it through the freeze dryer. That way if a power outage comes one less thing to have to worry about. Harvest Right is the bomb.

Love freeze dried raspberries

I'm pretty excited about buying the cheap 10# bags of legs & thighs, boiling them all up in the nesco slowcooker, canning the broth & freeze drying the MEAT, which will fall off the bone and have most of the fat cooked off into the broth. The 10# bags are SO MUCH WORK to split up, trim, & freeze pieces separately, and that's done before I even COOK. So this project is one of the first I'll try - ordered a Medium-White FD 3 days ago, cannot wait to receive it!

thanks for info, im in nyc and getting ready

My family is after 7 years progressing in the homestead. We live in a climate where the whole year food grows. Still I am considering a freeze dryer. This because there are still seasons. For example now the avocado tree has avocados. About 200 or more if I guess. When freeze drying you can eat avocados the rest of the year

Love my FD, but man, I have bad luck with it. In the year I've had it, the vacuum sensor went bad. The oil vacuum pump seized. And now after less than a dozen batches, my oiless pump is broken and they can't troubleshoot it.

I bought mine about two years ago with just prepping in mind, but nowadays we use it more for every day usage. We still prep with it but we get a lot of food from farmers markets and grow a lot of extra not to mention how much ground beef, chicken, lamb, and turkey we have on hand. I can make a burrito in less than two minutes. The machine is awesome. I think it’s a great investment. I wish I would have bought it much sooner. Also the harvest right people are great. I would advise anyone on the fence about buying one get it you won’t regret it.

Love the videos. Technical note: You are not releasing pressure. You are relieving a vacuum. This is the direct opposite.

How did I miss this video from 2 years ago??? I been a sub for years! Lol. Dude! You have come a long way!!! You were good back then but even better now. It’s a true production now in 2022! I am trying to buy a freeze dryer ASAP. Once again late to the party. Lol. Thanks for always sharing and teaching. 🧐🏆🏆🏆🧐🫡💡🥕🥬🥩📺

I love my freeze dryer , i also freeze dry for my dogs too , Alley loves freeze dried meat balls

I hope to get a FD. I like to garden and put up the harvest. I am getting older children are going and I hope to freeze dry food for times when I can't garden and can so much. To think of not having to buy food when you have very little income appeals to me.

Excellent haircut! Looks good on you.

i have a medium freeze dryer i have had for several months now i love it i have the Premier Pump i don't mind changing the oil it can go longer with the Premier pump than the standard pump.

Just looked up the pump, almost 1600.00. Very pricy when added to the medium Harvest Right for 2195.00.

I definitely prefer the Premier pump

I’v been a beekeeper for 5 years now and beekeeeping for dummies is not a great book. It’s ok for some techniques but it doesn’t include all of the basic tips. Definitely invest in another book.

Great... Thanks a lot... Now I’ve got another item on my list to add to my preps. Very Cool... I also just ordered a few of the books you suggested.

I'm buying one just for boondocking. Imagine carrying enough food for several months that weigh next to nothing so all you do is add water.

sometimes ill find a recipe that hits a home run with the family. this weekend it was a burger recipe so i cooked up 45 burgers and am in the process of freeze drying them. with 80/20 burger meat, i find that cooking the fat out first makes freeze drying easier. thats what was on sale so thats what i used.

I watch ur vids almost everyday ;)

I am really thinking about getting one, but I would definitely want the oil-free pump. I just can't quite figure out how to convince the wife of it yet, lol. She is definitely not into prepping, she does not believe in storing any food at home and goes to the grocery store a minimum of 3 to 4 days a week to get food for basically that day and maybe the next if I am lucky. Unfortunately, that is the culture here in Hawaii, no one believes in having a pantry, so if anything were to happen they would not even have a 3 day supply of food to last them. I have been trying to stock foods up on my own that she doesn't even know about. If anything happens now she will be freaking out, but I know that I at least have a few months worth hidden away that she doesn't even know I have bought. But I hate buying cans of freeze-dried products to store when I could do it myself much cheaper, and without all the preservatives that most of those companies add in their foods. Plus there is the shipping costs of getting the food shipped to Hawaii which definitely is not cheap. Hopefully, I will figure out a way to approach her with the subject soon.

Another great in depth video about something I knew so little about!

Good Reasons To Freeze Dry.

3000 bucks and 30 hours still thinking about it. Can you talk me into buy one cost wise. Third year into garden still not feeding a family of two. Steak tree was a total failure just like the pizza bush. Hoping to get some hazelnut bushes going this year.

Great video! What are your pros and cons to the oil-less pump?

I've seen a few different people's taste test and reviews of Mountain House's Chili Mac and everyone raved about it. It re-hydrated well and was delicious ! So I thought I'd suggest that as an easy meal to double or triple if you have a good recipe ( there are plenty on Pinterest,just look at a bunch and combine the recipes that have ingredients your family likes )Then you could have one batch for dinner and freeze dry 2 batches, maybe minus one serving for your lunch the next day. As for your RV trip, I know what a pain they are to clean because I use to detail them for a living. I might suggest saving the amount of servings for how many people will be eating it, in a Mylar bag, whatever size leaves you enough room for the water to rehydrate the product, then do just what you would do if it were a mountain house meal and hydrate it in the bag and serve in the cardboard type of paper bowls found at most dollar stores. If you use plastic ware you might only have a stirring/ serving spoon to wash. I have watched lots of reviews of assorted freeze dried foods and the hardest thing is to figure out how much water to add.I might put one family serving amount on each tray then it's easy to know how much to put in each bag. I would love to have a freeze dryer but on disability I doubt I ever will. I can't even afford 1 mason jar ! LOL ! Have fun with your not so new toy .

As always great vid

Rumor has it that the oil-less pump is loud af!

Love my freeze drier I've only had it for a few months and I average about 3 loads a week. I agree that the oil less pump is worth it love the no maintenance part of it. I will however run a quarter cup of rubbing alcohol through it after about 7 loads very easy to do.

French onion soup (cheap) and Chili are super easy.

Expecting the Medium size Harvest Right soon. Combing through these kinds of vids to get a handled on what works, ideas, etc. Thanks!

You're right the oil free pump is not cheap, but it is worth the money. Just FYI - oil free doesn't mean maintenance free. Instructions from Harvest Right is after about 10 to 12 batches run the pump with suction hose disconnected from the dryer and pour 1/2 cup of alcohol down the hose and repeat (2 or 3 times) until the exhaust blows clear to remove any build up that may have accumulated in the pump. I bought my large unit in December 2018 and have done about 50 or so batches. I try to process a lot of meat, but you need to be careful how much fat is in you're meat and reduce that as much as you can. Meats with fat can go rancid and may only be shelf stable 5 to 8 years. Fruits, vegies, dairy, home cooked meals are also some I've been putting away.I really enjoy my HR dryer and the oil free pump makes it actually fun to operate. I bought it to store food and my research discovered that canning and dehydrating had 2 to 5 years of shelf life. Not what I call long term. Also to save money compared to buying store processed freeze dried foods. The HR dryer will pay for itself after 50 or so batches.Thanks for the video. Happy prepping.

Look into companion planting it might make a differance.

I want this. And a chest-freezer.

I have had mine for just over a year. My compressor stopped working. I sent an email with my issue and a week later I got a reply with a bill for $45 that said once I paid it they would have someone answer my question. Then told me that I was out of warranty and if I ship them my freeze dryer and pay shipping ($378) they will fix it and send me the bill.

Do you still like this freeze dryer? Any major issues with it that ended up costing you extra money? For the price tag, I'm not overly impressed with their warranty

I was thinking about this at work today.. now this pops up....

Been watching videos on micro greens. I definitely interested in that as well.

Please demonstrate in a future video the processing and freeze drying of a complete main course dish

My friend is on a special organic diet every thing has to be eaten fresh. Could I juice veggies and freeze dry them?

I put a down payment for layaway through harvest right on the last black Friday sale. $1800 away from using mine.

Excellent video!!! I really appreciate your time and insight!!!! I am investing in the Harvest Right myself. I did subscribe to your channel!!! Many blessings....

Be aware that I hear those oilless pumps have a 10,000 cycle before you have to ship it back to them to replace the seals. And it’s expensive 300- 400 bucks a shot. Not sure if it really saves you money. Time maybe for awhile.

What is the nutritional value of freeze dried food ?You have children and if you are feeding it to them and plan to expand it well something to consider . Snacks are one thing meals quite different .

I am in love with this machine I really would like to have one... but I think they still don't ship overseas and I am from the UAE

I bought 4patriot freeze dried food. Pretty bland. Then I bought a freeze dryer and started making my own meals... I'll be using the 4patriot food for trade items and eating my own.

One day we’ll have a freeze dryer. One day....

City prepping My big question is... if you go to all this work to prepare how do you protect it? If the officials come knocking at your door how do you keep from having all your hard work confiscated? Can you please do a show on this please?

2 years later was it a still a good choice?

I read “Collapse...” pulled it out yesterday to see if there were any relevance of yesteryear to today...

Saw you got the oil less vacuum pump a few years ago. Would you still recommend it considering the extra cost? Are there any negatives associated with it? Is there any routine maintenance you need to do? Thx! Wade

I’m reading about raising mini goats 🐐 Great for milk, cheese, soap, wool for knitting or insulation, and later in life meat and the pelts. And they eat weeds not hay and corn which is unnatural.

Peas chips are so tasty.

For gardening, read anything by Eliot Coleman

Read "Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines and The Forgotten History" by Dr. Suzanne Humphries & Roman Bystrianyk.

I've been considering a future purchase of a Harvest Right, and the oilless pump sounds better! Does it come with that option only now, or is it an upgrade? I'm curious to try freeze drying my pickled veg and low sugar jams...and I live near a wholesaler with beautiful and inexpensive cases of fruit. I could keep REALLY busy with a toy like that!

Have you ever freeze dried Honey? Walmart is a big contributor to wasting food.

I received my small freeze dryer a few weeks ago. I'm still learning. Is the oil free pump any quieter than the oil type and does it make the area as hot. I have mine in an enclosed porch. I can't imagine having it on my kitchen counter. It's way to loud. Thank you!

The 10x Rule is even better on Audible. The author adds a lot of content ad lib.

You said release the pressure. It’s a vacuum in thar!

Hello City Prepping I have the large Harvest Right dryer with the 7CF oiled pump. I never reuse my oil because fresh oil works best and the pump I just large enough to pull a 500um vacuum in 20-25 minutes on the large machine. I was wondering if you have been using the new pump long enough to get a gauge on it’s energy usage. I have heard it pulls a vacuum more quickly. I would like to know if it uses less electricity also. I only tend to use my machine one or twice a month because of energy usage. And I have actually gotten letters and emails from my utilities complaining about my increased usage when I run the machine. Thank you.

What kind of device would you get to check if the food is done or not?

I've been thinking about getting one to preserve venison and other wild game. Have you tried anything like that? I do a lot of fishing too, so it would be great if I could preserve fish and shellfish with a freeze dryer.

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Buddy, if you're in Manhatten your biggest concern in WATER. Good luck reheating all that food if you don't have H2O when SHTF.

I think you mentioned a FB group that you would put in comments... ? Did I misunderstand that?

Hello, what kind of maintenance is associated with the freeze dryer?