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How a Freeze Dryer Pays for Itself

How a Freeze Dryer Pays for Itself

A home freeze dryer earns back its cost in three main ways: cutting down on food waste, preserving a garden harvest that would otherwise go unused, and building a real emergency food supply — often faster than people expect. 1....

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How to Store Freeze Dried Food

How to Store Freeze Dried Food

How to Store Freeze-Dried Food for Maximum Shelf Life Freeze drying can preserve food for years—but what you do after the freeze-drying cycle is just as important as the process itself. Once food comes out of your freeze dryer, it...

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Make-Ahead Food for Your Next Summer Party

Make-Ahead Food for Your Next Summer Party

Summer means burgers on the grill, corn fresh off the cob, homemade salsa, potato salad, and lemonade. A home freeze dryer makes it easy to prep most of these ahead of time, and to save whatever you made a little...

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How to Freeze-Dry Cheesecake and Its Ingredients

How to Freeze-Dry Cheesecake and Its Ingredients

Cheesecake is one of the most popular things to come out of a Harvest Right test kitchen, second only to ice cream. Whether it's a homemade cheesecake or a store-bought one, cutting it into bite-size pieces and freeze-drying it turns...

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Is a Home Freeze Dryer Worth It? A Buyer’s Guide from the People Who Build Them

Is a Home Freeze Dryer Worth It? A Buyer’s Guide from the People Who Build Them

We manufacture home freeze dryers, so we obviously believe they can be valuable appliances. We also know they are not the right purchase for everyone. A home freeze dryer is a significant investment. It requires dedicated space, electricity, packaging supplies,...

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Healthier BBQ Turkey Meatballs for National Meatball Day

Healthier BBQ Turkey Meatballs for National Meatball Day

National Meatball Day falls during National Nutrition Month, which makes it a good excuse to make a batch the healthier way. Traditional meatballs can run heavy on fat, salt, and sugar — this version, built around ground turkey and a...

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5 Practical Nutrition Tips for National Nutrition Month

5 Practical Nutrition Tips for National Nutrition Month

March is National Nutrition Month, which lands right around when many January resolutions start to slip. Rather than another restrictive diet — repeated crash dieting and yo-yo restriction can backfire, slowing metabolism, raising stress, and often leading to more weight...

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5 Reasons to Own a Large Home Freeze Dryer

5 Reasons to Own a Large Home Freeze Dryer

A large home freeze dryer (roughly 32.5"×22.5"×25.5", handling 12-16 lbs of fresh food per batch, or around 2,500 lbs a year) isn't overkill for every household — but for a handful of situations, it's exactly the right size. Here's when...

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How to Build a Nutritional Safety Net

How to Build a Nutritional Safety Net

Major disruptions to everyday life aren't rare, even if they don't feel likely until they happen. Natural disasters, public health emergencies, and supply chain shocks have all interrupted access to groceries and basic services at different points in recent history...

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