After I slice my bananas, I put them onto skewers, which IS tedious, but it really ups the quantity of banana that you can get on a tray, AND maximizes the area exposed in the chamber. Plus it's easy to de-skewer into a container or bag.
@thefreezedriedbuisness I have the same slicer and love it! However, I find cleaning the cutter quite tedious to thoroughly remove all the banana gunk from it. Any suggestions on how to clean this device?
PEEL THE BANANA FROM THE OPPOSITE END AND IT WILL OPEN EASIER AND COME OUT WHOLE EVERYTIME. THIS WAS LEARNED AFTER STUDYING MONKEYS AND GORILLAS. YOU'RE WELCOME.
WOW, thank you so much. I'm a 1970 disabled veteran who lives deep in the mountains of NC/TN my bride and I work the land, have many chickens and a 3000 sq foot garden on 4+ acres we own a freeze dryer and you are a wealth of great ideas. We have been doing all of this just to be a blessing to our church and small community, but you have opened this old mans eyes to be a blessing to so many more. May God bless you, yours, and your business, well done!! :)
Me too! In Idaho we are experiencing a huge heat wave so the test runs in the StayFresh have not been ideal but I'll be coming out with more videos of those tests as soon as the heat starts going down so I get a more accurate cycle.
So roughly 40hrs for 13lbs of bananas. How do you monetize that if you're using one machine? Is it just one vs multiple simultaneous batches? Sell premium bags of just dried bananas or incorporate them into a more complex product?
Yes but the dry time is dependent more so on total weight of food and ambient temperature in the room of your FD. In the winter time, 12 pounds would freeze-dry in 24-28 hours (excluding freeze time because I pre-freeze them).
Congratulations! If you buy online, use my referral link so that Harvest Right knows I sent you. affiliates.harvestright.com/1974.html. Make sure to ask for some additional trays, they usually are pretty good about added some freebies to the orders.
Try quail egg scissors for candy or maybe cigar scissors? I didn’t get banana scissors, instead I got a device that looks like a soap cutter you put a whole peeled banana on it then close the top and metal strings cut the whole thing in slices all at once also you can make banana fries by separating them into the 3 parts they grow in naturally
Yes, not necessarily the drying but you won't need to have the machine freeze the bananas first which could take a 12-14 hours. I prefreeze to save time between cycles.
What are the pros and cons of using something like pineapple juice to keep the the bananas from browning? Has anyone seen a differnce in how well the bananas sell or taste using doffernt methods?
Freeze dried fruit is one of the reasons I love my freeze dryer even for personal use. It's easy to travel with and the nutritional value is still intact. If you end up exploring a freeze dryer look at Harvest Right and Stay Fresh. I've included a few links to their websites: affiliates.harvestright.com/1974.html. Stay Fresh: stayfreshfreezedry.com/?sca_ref=3292008.4uBi4MIG3W&sca_source=RU-vid
i have used this for strawberries. it works well if i'm doing just a small amount. however i have a big slicer for large batches of strawberries. If i don't want to get out the big slicer and all its attachments etc, then i use the banana slicer for strawberries. Also, the banana slicer doesn't accommodate larger strawberries. So, yes, it works for strawberries in certain circumstances.
Hey David! Love the content. Might I suggest taking an audio sample of your space for post processing noise reduction? Could help provide a cleaner audio for your videos with very little effort to post process. Let me know if you want a sample of before and after I can send.
