What is the best way to preserve food?
What is the best way to preserve food?
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 https://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.
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 $45 just to talk to support. I already took it apart and know what part of the scroll pump failed and sent pictures, but it does not matter. Not a very reputable company.
This video makes no sense! There are no sources on how nutrients are getting destroyed!?? How?
PICKLE EM ALL BOIZZZ
I want to buy it… is it possible to buy it in australia ?
What changes have you made to the warranty for your machines?
Idea for some videos, like 3 to 5 minute. Do quick short videos of items from start to finish, with rehydration. Instant pot does these and they are very helpful and help not only the owners but I’m sure the manufacturer too.
Like
Chicken noodle soup leftovers, frozen in trays, put into harvest right, time it takes, end product, storage, rehydration how much water.
Or
Beef stew same highlights as all the quick videos. Chinese take out, hamburger meat…. right now bits and pieces are all over the Internet and YouTube you could have all these quick video guides.
I think the more information you put out the more interest will come.
Can you cancel a final dry phase and continue it hours later without harming the produce?
Can you guys make a micro verson that cost ~200$? Like 1 tray style? Since really I’m using it to freeze dry ice cream and that pretty much all and I don’t need like 20 of them for a day.
Do you have to keep the foods in the freezer after freeze drying? Especially if you freezed dried ice cream.
I’m gladed found this video
I am glad how everyone has such positive experience with HarvestRite. Unfortunately I did not have such an experience. The pump stop working 3 months after the warranty ran out and asked to pay $45 to talk to a technician and to find out I need to buy another $1k pump (or a cheaper refurbished pump for $300) so my machine will continue to freeze dry all of our wonderful goodies. Other than that I loved it!
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
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?
Praise the LORD for creating freeze dryers!
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.
Can you freeze dry medication?
Imagine that, a freeze dryer seller says freeze drying is the best :p
Nice video but salt
I need this in my life 🤣👨🏿🔬
I’ve had my large dryer and oil less pump since Dec. 2018 – love it. I run it almost 24/7.
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…
we need heat to COOK food, very little particles gets destroyed
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? :'( :-/