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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...

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,...

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...

Stacy Lyn Harris is an author, speaker, gardener, mother of seven, sustainability expert, and guest chef on broadcast and cable television. She's written two books, Stacy Lyn's Harvest Cookbook and Tracking the Outdoors In, both built around hearty, healthy, family-oriented...

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...

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...

Ham, spring vegetables, bread, and cream pie are Easter dinner staples — and also exactly the kind of leftovers that go bad in the fridge within a few days. A home freeze dryer turns all four into shelf-stable food instead,...

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...

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,...