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Freeze-dried and Rehydrated Pulled Pork
Freeze Dried Pulled Pork At Home! Harvest Right Greg at Ballistic BBQ has done it again. In May we shared Greg's video of freeze drying raw ground beef, chiles, cheese, and onion rings. Then he rehydrated the ingredients to make...
Stacy Lyn Harris is an author, speaker, gardener, mother of seven, sustainability expert, and guest chef on broadcast and cable television. Her two popular cookbooks, Stacy Lyn’s Harvest Cookbook and Tracking the Outdoors In, feature hearty, healthy family-oriented meals made...
Summer is the season of burgers on the grill, corn fresh off the cob, spicy homemade salsa, creamy potato salad, and tangy lemonade. If you have a home freeze dryer, everyone's favorite party foods are easy to make ahead, and...
Can You Freeze Dry a Cheeseburger? How to Freeze Dry and Rehydrate Burger Ingredients
Yes, many of the ingredients you use to make a cheeseburger can be freeze dried and used later to prepare a meal. Ground beef, cheese, peppers, onions, and even bread can be freeze dried. Rather than thinking only about freeze...
Freeze Drying Easter Leftovers
Ham, spring vegetables and cream pies are the traditional staples of Easter dinner. If you're like most enthusiastic holiday cooks, you've made enough for an army. If you have a home freeze dryer, all that extra food can actually serve...
Celebrate National Meatball Day the Healthy Way
Well what do you know? National Meatball Day falls right in the middle of National Nutrition Month. And who doesn't love meatballs? Meatballs done the old school way can be full of fat, salt and sugar. However, meatballs done right...
Cooking for One With a Freeze Dryer
Cooking for one household comes with a built-in tax: grocery stores price around family-sized packages, and bulk pricing rewards buying more than one person can realistically eat before it spoils. The usual solutions are eating the same leftovers for days,...
How to Rehydrate Freeze-Dried Meat
Freeze-dried meat rehydrates back to close to its original flavor and texture, which makes it a genuinely practical way to buy in bulk, preserve leftovers, and avoid losing food to a power outage or a freezer failure — since freeze-dried...
How to Save Your Thanksgiving Leftovers
A big Thanksgiving spread almost always makes more food than one meal can use up, and the usual choices are eating the same dinner for a week straight or watching good food go to waste. Freeze-drying gives you a third...