Wow. Sad to see you made the mistake of not freezing the liquid first. Very surprised this was not part of the instructions. Maybe you should have watched deep south homestead

@@randallanthony6138 : Your comment does have a bit of bite to it, but your point is an important one. The information is just not offered to new users from the factory, and every user needs to know what can happen, and what to do about it. It’ll take me a few minutes to make a contribution here, but your concerns are so important that I will take the time to do it: If you read the manual, it says that pre-freezing decreases the processing time. Nothing about this stuff happening. The other thing the manual has to say about pre-freezing is that if you choose to do it, it’s good to have things frozen and not overnight, but for 48 hours in advance. A discussion with actual factory personnel, and not so much of the outsourced-to-the-3rd world, offshore Customer Service Department, is that there are a few foods that will do this, and the list may be surprising, because they’re not all dairy, but can include eggs, and candy will do the same thing. If we work together to get some of this information out, fewer people will have to have major cleaning happen with their machines. For those who load their machines, and come back later to check on them, as statistically most people keep them either in a shed, or basement, it is possible to come back to find the machine frosted, and eggs expanded covering the window, and then blown back to where they turned ice in the back and clog the drain, and even the port on the inside of the back. The machines can actually then have the sensors confused, and they will try to sublimate the ice that’s forming as a result. If the machine goes more than three or four days in that case, it may have to be stopped just to defrost, clean up, and break the cycle. There are no instructions for clearing that, but if I get a chance later I’ll come back and make a contribution here, because food can get in there, and it can become be a rich food source for mould to colonize the system. And it can be far worse, because if a person doesn’t know this, and food ends up in the system and causes mold, everything that’s processed in that machine going forward could end up producing contaminated food, if it doesn’t actually compromise the mechanical function of the machine. The fact that this happens, for those who know what to expect, what to look for, and how to clean it up effectively, it’s just a minor inconvenience; but, since the manual doesn’t cover it, and the people manning the help lines don’t use the machines themselves, it can become a real problem. Thank you for bringing up this very important point.

A gracious answer. And important you did post your mistake so others can learn. I’ve seen video of soup going in the drier and not frozen and came out. Maybe just filled to full? How awful that happened and you two were good sports about it. Kudos to husband there pitching in with clean up!!

And Randall here has never made a mistake. Lol

Where i can buy this mechine???

Thanks for showing us how to clean up the freeze dryer. Now I can give it try. Thanks.

Or you put your trays in that you're going to fill with liquid, BEFORE you add the liquid to the trays. Just pull them out far enough to add the liquid, so it doesn't spill while you're sliding the tray back in, as invariably, it will catch somewhere, so do it SLOWLY! But this IS an alternative if you can't get it pre-frozen in the trays in the freezer ahead of time. Yep, it's a learning curve.

Can I have a link too? We just bought one too.

@@AndyKrayenhagen If you search my name on facebook groups, its there.

Where do you find level space in the freezer? (Sincere question; I’ve heard people saying this often, but I don’t know where in my freezer I’d put them.)

@@lindalockhart1266 I have a wire rack in the freezer above the refrigerator. I can put trays on it and have room under and around for other things I want to keep in there.

One of their last videos they said fatty stuff doesn't freeze dry right. Milk okay, cream... no

I've done store bought cream (prefrozen to -20 in my deep freeze prior to putting it in the machine)and it FD well but I've never done fresh.

You can't freeze-dry cream as it is a high-fat content item... just like Harvest Right states... butter, oily, high sugar content (such as honey, syrup, et al)... do not freeze dry at all. The extreme heat in the drying cycle, as well as the low water content of the high fat items, is not doable. That's why they say not to do bacon, or hamburger, because both have a high fat content, unless you pre-cook the bacon and then drain it, pat it dry with paper towels. Ground beef isn't doable very well, either, unless you pre-cook and drain the fat off. Ground chuck, ground round, ground sirloin (80/20, 86/14, 93/7%, respectively) do much better because there's a higher ratio of meat to fat.

A jaccard?

@@drummerlovesbookworm9738 Yes!!! Thats it, THANK YOU!!! ❤️

@@Eyes2C. I love ours. Use on everything that doesn’t behave. 😂

@@drummerlovesbookworm9738 😂😂😂

And im glad you can laugh through that disaster, I would have straight up cried 😢

FFS, they messed up. It happens. Why thanking god or any other thing for them all?

Harvest Right says not to put high sugar liquid content into the unit, as it has a very low water content, so not much is going to happen to it. Cream has a high-fat content in it, so it's not recommended. High-fat items like butter, bacon, ground beef (uncooked), etc., are also not recommended.

@@rhondaalbrecht How about cooked ground beef?

@@ritamccartt-kordon283 Yes, you can freeze-dry cooked ground beef. Just remove as MUCH fat as you possibly can... drain it well, pat it dry with paper towels. A little prep work, but doable.

I watch them too, and I'm saving up for my freeze drier.

Why would you freeze dry a plant?

It's not that the freeze drying didn't go well... they tried to put in liquid into the trays and then carry the trays over to the machine to insert them into the machine. That's when the spillage happened. Either put the liquid in the trays, with the trays IN the freeze dryer already, or put the trays empty flat into a freezer, and then add the liquid to the trays. That's the trick to getting it done without spillage. This is just a part of the learning curve for everyone... trust me, I know.

Freeze drying is definitely preferable over dehydrating both in nutrient quality and palatability of all foods. Lessons learned only help fewer future mistakes.

I ordered my Green Stalk today. 💞