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Quick Answer For most households, a food dehydrator requires a much smaller initial investment than a freeze dryer. However, comparing purchase price alone rarely tells the whole story. The better question isn't: "Which machine costs less?" It's: "Which preservation method...

Quick Answer For most households, a food dehydrator requires a much smaller initial investment than a freeze dryer. However, comparing purchase price alone rarely tells the whole story. The better question isn't: "Which machine costs less?" It's: "Which preservation method...

Quick Answer If your goal is preserving food for the longest possible time, freeze drying generally offers greater long-term storage potential than dehydrating when food is properly packaged and stored. That doesn't mean dehydrated food has a short shelf life....

Everyone has their reasons for wanting a pantry full of a year’s worth of food. If you are still on the fence about the benefits of having food storage for you and your family, here are just a few reasons...

Will the cost of a freeze dryer be going up or down soon? Freeze drying technology has, unfortunately, been very expensive. The initial freeze dryer we introduced just a few years ago was $5,000, but we keep doing our best...

Thanksgiving means getting to indulge on turkey, potatoes, stuffing, and pie and the days after Thanksgiving mean eating the leftovers. Turkey sandwiches, turkey soup, turkey casseroles - even with getting creative, it can be sometimes difficult to eat all that...

If there’s one thing Brigette Petersen knows a bit about, it’s stretching a dollar – and an hour. The busy wife and mother of three knows what it’s like to look for the cheap and fast solution when it comes...

As the days count down to retirement, we have spent countless hours looking at numbers, comparing expenses to expected income, and finding ways to make the most of our remaining years. While we won’t be forced to subsist, we also...

Oh, how I used to dread Tuesdays. Trash day was Wednesday, and every Tuesday evening, after dinner, I would rummage through the fridge shelf by shelf, pulling mystery containers, bits of leftovers, and forgotten treats. I would sort through the...