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Why Freeze-Dried Food Gets White, Crystallized Bubbles
If you've pulled a tray out of your freeze dryer and found white, crystallized bubbles coating the food — or ended up with a bubbly mess instead of a clean ice cream sandwich — nothing is wrong with your machine....
Eat Less Salt: Freeze-Dry Your Own Meals
Sodium is essential to how the body functions, but most Americans get far more of it than they need — and the biggest source usually isn't the salt shaker. How Much Sodium Is Too Much? Health guidance generally recommends staying...
What Is Mylar, and Why Use It for Food Storage?
Mylar bags are the standard for storing freeze-dried food long term, and there's a real reason why: the material blocks the three things that break food down fastest — oxygen, moisture, and light. What Mylar Actually Is Mylar's official name...
10 Ways to Eat Better and Eat Together
Eating better and actually eating together as a family tend to run into the same obstacle: time. Pre-prepping proteins, produce, and full meals with a freeze dryer removes a lot of the day-of effort behind both goals, so neither one...
How to Freeze-Dry Apples for Year-Round Snacking
Freeze-drying is one of the few preservation methods that doesn't shrink or toughen apples — it keeps the aroma, flavor, color, shape, and nutritional content close to fresh, which is more than most preservation methods can claim. Canning and dehydrating...
Freeze-Dried Mac and Cheese with Stacy Lyn Harris
Stacy Lyn Harris — cookbook author, gardener, mother of seven, and a guest chef on RFDTV's Rural Heritage — grew up in the South making hearty, from-scratch macaroni and cheese for family dinners. Her version, adapted from "Served Up With...
Granny's Garden Vegetable Soup, Freeze-Dried
Stacy Lyn Harris — cookbook author, gardener, mother of seven, and a guest chef on RFDTV's Rural Heritage — shares a soup recipe passed down from her grandmother and father. "I could live on this soup forever," she says of...
Stacy Lyn Harris's Stuffed Turkey Breast
Stacy Lyn Harris — cookbook author, gardener, mother of seven, and a guest chef on RFDTV's Rural Heritage — uses her Harvest Right freeze dryer to preserve turkey, venison, and other meats for fast weekday meals. This stuffed turkey breast,...
Freeze-Dried Pulled Pork at Home
Greg at Ballistic BBQ has done it again. After freeze-drying raw ground beef, chiles, cheese, and onion rings for a New Mexico-inspired cheeseburger, he moved on to pulled pork — one batch of pork shoulder dry-rubbed and smoked, another marinated...