Hi Melissa,this has been an interesting video.I love how you show us what to do.Melissa I made your stuffed salmon & it was so very delicious.I couldn’t get the beautiful salmon steaks you had BUT it worked & thank you for sharing your recipes.The salmon is a keeper recipe! 👏🥰👍
I got a freeze dryer in February and I’m having a blast, milk, bone broth, candy,onions, garlic and tomorrow I will start left over sloppy joes meat and mix
Interesting video. I bought my wife some freeze dried candy for Christmas and she absolutely loved it. Gummy worms and Skittles were her favorite. Pretty wacky how it looks after the process and freeze dried milk is no exception. Take care and thanks for sharing.
Great job Melissa, looks like you're having a good time with the freeze dryer and all the savings you'll be able to do with the gardens. Stay safe and keep up the good work and videos. Fred.
Very cool. You are only a 5 hr. drive from Thunder Bay, Ont., and we are still completely buried in snow, and cold. Another 40 cm. coming this week, and there is no where to put it. Thanks for sharing.
Wow!.......although me and milk no longer get along, the process looks very interesting!. I'd love to do that too with fruit and veggies, then gradually get the meats. Gotta save a few more pennies before I can start. Love your show !
That freeze dryer is awesome. It's so cool that you can get ahold of raw milk and make powdered like that. I grew up having powdered milk as a standard source for milk. We lived in the mountains and my parents would go all the way over to the next county to shop for groceries so they only went once a month. Thus, powdered milk was usually the only milk we had. And I still buy it! Force of habit I guess lol.
I think this is a great idea. I would love one but... I think that they are too expensive for my budget. t is amazing how easy it is. Maybe a group could go together and buy one??? Thanks for showing how it works. Have a good week.
I think it is fantastic! I am just getting into dehydrating foods, but this looks even better than that! Thank you for showing us this! It will be wonderful for berries and rhubarb too won't it?
it sure will, I've already done berries many times, you have to pierce blueberries and cranberries or they won't freeze dry. I will be doing spaghetti soon
Are you still doing videos? We started following your channel because we follow Joes channels and have seen some of your cooking and canning. However there hasn’t been much activity. Are you still active?
Wow this type of stuff amazes me and really considering getting one of those machines especially because of times we live in but I’m really curious how do you rehydrate the flakes? Water?
Thank you, i love it. What will this milk be used for ? general drinking , cooking? Do you know the weight of a gallon of dried milk? I make pre packed meals for hiking and camping and i am very interested in getting some of this equipment, this was very helpful.
Very cool and interesting to watch Melissa. Will we get to see you make the butter? I missed this one, I don't know how but I'm very glad that I found it. TC Vicki from Iowa
a dehydrator and a freeze dryer are NOT the same thing. That smoker that Joe built? that essentially is a dehydrator. not the same thing as Melissa's freeze dryer.
Thank you Melissa, We are waiting for our second freeze dryer to be delivered tomorrow. We are so excited! I was wondering about the raw milk. Can you do a video showing how to skim the cream off the milk and how to make butter? I am new to raw milk and noticed you said you pasteurized your husbands milk and I was wondering why. Do you have to do this to raw milk and if so how do you do it. Thank you again, hope to hear from you.
I pasteurized his milk just for him but you dont have to. Freeze drying kills all bacteria as it cannot live in an oxygen free environment. You do have to skim the cream because of the fat content, it will go rancid. I need a second freeze dryer
I believe you simply add water. It's my understanding adding hot water will rehydrate quickly while cold is more slowly. although with milk it's probably pretty fast either way. I'm pretty sure Melissa will show us in future videos how she rehydrates freeze dried foods. Fingers crossed. Looking forward to more videos...
its lightweight, we can take it camping, to the tent, on trips and you know what's in it. What I freeze dried is just raw milk straight out of the cow that I skimmed the fat off of. AND it is cheaper than buying powdered milk... I get this milk for 3.00 a gallon
@@astheroostercrows6435 well, I can't know how your milk tastes rehydrated, but I do know that I have never tasted a commercial powdered milk that tasted good.
I think it is a very awesome process, so would you drink it? Or just use for cooking? I guess I do not understand how it all works but I find it really interesting way to keep food for time or and shortages that seem to be here. What the heck, never seen a time with no soda crackers….
I put some in a mason jar just in case we ran out of milk, I rehydrated some yesterday and drank it, it actually tasted pretty good, would have been better super cold but I just rehydrated it with tap water. They say shortages are going to get worse. I know pork chops went up 50 cents in one day at walmart this weekend. Its past time to start stocking up
I have found that meat in freezer bags, wrapped in freezer paper (not butcher paper) really looks just as fresh months later when you get ready to cook it. Freezer paper has a coating on inside that really works against freezer burn.
Very informative. Would like to know a few things. How long did your machine take to complete, U did mention 29 hours in at one point. Also, would like to know with the machine,vac bags, the keep dry pkts and the 29+ hours of electricity, how much did the 2 gallons of dehydrated milk cost??
I've seen others calculate the cost of electricity out and I don't believe it's over 100.00 a month if ran everyday, the milk cost me 3.00 a gallon raw from the cow and I would guess the bags are maybe .25 each. I would say that 2 gallons of milk to freeze dry was less than 10.00
Very interesting. Didn’t know Milk could be processed like this. Can’t find powdered milk in stores anymore. Seriously thinking about getting one of these. How did you choose Size and Options? My family is grown and gone but maybe Medium would be good choice?? Why did you choose OulFree… is it really better? Thanks. Sorry for all the questions. New Subbie. ❤️
I chose the biggest one because I would rather have too much room rather than too little. We have the garden, the fruit trees, you can do whole meals, candy, etc. I really wish I had 2. I chose the oilless pump because with the other pump you have to change the oil frequently and I would rather not have to worry about it. Hope that helps
Awesome Video as usual. Can I ask if that is a Harvest right Freeze dryer? And if it is did you go with the oil free pump? Oh and have done gummy worms yet? That is crazy how they come out.
Yes it is the Harvest Right and I did go with the oil free pump. The only problem I had was in the middle of the night it cut off and tripped the breaker. We discovered it was a bad switch and a new one was sent out right away. That is the only problem I've had with it. It's basically a set it and forget it appliance. I do add extra time on some things just because I want to be extra sure its dried. I haven't gotten into meats yet but I did buy a bunch of ragu for .99 and I'm going to add chicken and turkey ground meat to it this weekend and freeze dry it. We will see how that goes
Yes, I will have to do a rehydration video, I guess I should have thought about that before I ended the video with just the process. I made some yesterday and did 50/50
Turning on a light bulb makes your light bill go up. As for 5 gallons of freeze-dried milk, never will pay for the power and time unless the cows died.
Freeze drying food isn't about saving money, per se. It's about preserving food for long term storage. Canning food also incurs expense. If you produce more food than you can eat (gardening, livestock, harvesting eggs, etc.), you'll need to store it (or sell it, or give it away, or throw it away). All food preservation incurs expense. Either time, space, money, supplies, etc.
