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Posted: 11/25/2023 10:32:38 PM EDT
[Last Edit: TexRdnec]
didn't want to overtake the deals thread, so chime in if you've got one, used one or know anything about them
@BLK_MAJK i know you've got one, i just seent it. show moar pics, tell moar about what you know. as for me, i just bought one, know nothing about them other than what i've seen on youtube and bought from mountain house/augason farms/etc... 
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Posted: 11/25/2023 10:41:20 PM EDT
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VA, USA
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Posted: 11/25/2023 10:42:33 PM EDT
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Freeze dried candy is the newest farmers market side job out here.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 11/25/2023 10:43:59 PM EDT
[Last Edit: mikesid]
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I got one in 2020 and been using it non-stop...I dont want to eat za bugs so Ive been freeze drying a lot of beef. Kids like to make candy and give to their friends. I love it and got the large size with oil-less pump. I had to have a dedicated outlet installed for my unit as well.
this is the utility cart I got for it: https://www.harborfreight.com/36-in-x-24-in-industrial-polypropylene-service-cart-58323.html |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 11/25/2023 10:46:57 PM EDT
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Freeze-dried bananas are bonkers good. Greasy meat does not turn out very good. I'm not sure why but most fats and oils go through a weird flavor change.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 11/25/2023 10:47:23 PM EDT
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I’ve got one and it was great for 9 months. They don’t have technicians to work on them and they are sending me my second motherboard that has gone bad. Now I tell everyone to not buy one. Good luck and enjoy it while it works. Freeze dried skittles are good.
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Posted: 11/25/2023 10:48:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mikesid: I got one in 2020 and been using it non-stop...I dont want to eat za bugs so Ive been freeze drying a lot of beef. Kids like to make candy and give to their friends. I love it and got the large size with oil-less pump. how are you packaging it? mylar or jars i assume? mostly too fragile for vaccusucking so just oxygen absorbers? |
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Posted: 11/25/2023 10:48:37 PM EDT
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I’m interested… oil less.
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Posted: 11/25/2023 10:50:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 10mmillie: I’ve got one and it was great for 9 months. They don’t have technicians to work on them and they are sending me my second motherboard that has gone bad. Now I tell everyone to not buy one. Good luck and enjoy it while it works. Freeze dried skittles are good. well that's no fun. how's customer service? reckon they'll eventually make it right or ? |
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CO, USA
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Posted: 11/25/2023 10:50:38 PM EDT
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How many years supply for how many mouths is that?
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FL, USA
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Posted: 11/25/2023 10:57:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TexRdnec: how are you packaging it? mylar or jars i assume? mostly too fragile for vaccusucking so just oxygen absorbers? mylar bags with multiple O2 absorbers in each. then they are placed in large totes and stored in the A/C. Ive done a lot of fruit too. Pineapples are excellent. |
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USA
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Posted: 11/25/2023 10:57:37 PM EDT
[Last Edit: MidwestJ]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 10mmillie: I’ve got one and it was great for 9 months. They don’t have technicians to work on them and they are sending me my second motherboard that has gone bad. Now I tell everyone to not buy one. Good luck and enjoy it while it works. Freeze dried skittles are good. So much this. MIL got a crap unit that they FINALLY made right She had to have a 20amp circuit installed Freeze dried skittles are in fact the bomb Bananas are excellent Pineapple is RIDICULOUSLY good |
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Posted: 11/25/2023 11:01:44 PM EDT
[Last Edit: BLK_MAJK]
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We have a medium. We have the "upgraded" oil pump. We looked at oil-less but they are supposedly louder and not as reliable... Can't confirm or deny. Skittles and other candies are fun (and super popular to sell a you have seen). They are good about upgrading the firmware, including the candy cycle they added last year some time. It's much faster than a normal cycle. You can do a ton of powdered eggs easily. Break, whisk, pour onto trays, freeze (not required, but most people recommend it), then pop them in dryer. When done, put chunks into blender/Cuisinart and powder them up. Into Mason jars and they will be good for a LONG time.. Just add water. Tons of good YouTube vids. We've only scratched the surface with ours.
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Posted: 11/25/2023 11:06:16 PM EDT
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We have had 2 (started with a small and moved to a medium) and they run dang near non stop.
We only have one now. Eggs, milk, garden vegetables and berries are our main uses. All from our farm. We vacuum seal in mylar bags using a vacmaster vp215. Stored in metal garbage cans in the basement. Heard to many stories about mice getting in the plastic totes. We’ve had no problems with our Harvest Rights. I think the machine we have now has over 200 batches. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 11/25/2023 11:07:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TexRdnec: well that's no fun. how's customer service? reckon they'll eventually make it right or ? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TexRdnec: Originally Posted By 10mmillie: I’ve got one and it was great for 9 months. They don’t have technicians to work on them and they are sending me my second motherboard that has gone bad. Now I tell everyone to not buy one. Good luck and enjoy it while it works. Freeze dried skittles are good. well that's no fun. how's customer service? reckon they'll eventually make it right or ? They seem to be trying to make it right but I’m not an E-tech and them trying to do it by telephone and pictures just isn’t working. |
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USA
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Posted: 11/25/2023 11:23:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 10mmillie: They seem to be trying to make it right but I’m not an E-tech and them trying to do it by telephone and pictures just isn’t working. Same experience my MIL had with it. Eventually they got it right. Delivery man told her he takes back (returns) about half as many as he delivers out. |
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Posted: 11/25/2023 11:33:01 PM EDT
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well my wife didn't flip her shit or even ask the price and when my daughter heard what it was she asked out skittles
evidently some girl at school had some but didn't want to share with her |
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Posted: 11/25/2023 11:34:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MidwestJ: Same experience my MIL had with it. Eventually they got it right. Delivery man told her he takes back (returns) about half as many as he delivers out. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MidwestJ: Originally Posted By 10mmillie: They seem to be trying to make it right but I’m not an E-tech and them trying to do it by telephone and pictures just isn’t working. Same experience my MIL had with it. Eventually they got it right. Delivery man told her he takes back (returns) about half as many as he delivers out. damn, they've got like 4.8 stars on tractor supply's website |
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Posted: 11/25/2023 11:35:07 PM EDT
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Only way I could get into freeze drying would be by providing the energy from solar.
You're talking about a oil-type vacuum pump and a freezer run for hours. It'll make your meter spin fast. |
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Posted: 11/25/2023 11:41:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By webtaz99: Only way I could get into freeze drying would be by providing the energy from solar. You're talking about a oil-type vacuum pump and a freezer run for hours. It'll make your meter spin fast. We pay around ¢14 per kWh. Usually uses around 20-25 kWh. So around $3 per batch. |
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Posted: 11/25/2023 11:53:41 PM EDT
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Some friends and I pitched in and split one 5 ways. We just move it from house to house as people's crops come in or they buy stuff they want to dry. I just had my apple crop come in so I have it now. The standard pump for lack of a better word, sucks. You have to change the oil, a lot. It works just fine but you can run up a pretty big bill on oil changes. You can filter it and get a couple of more runs before oil changes. The premium pump is much better. Just Pm me if you want and we can discuss it via phone.
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Posted: 11/26/2023 12:11:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By buckshot_jim: Some friends and I pitched in and split one 5 ways. We just move it from house to house as people's crops come in or they buy stuff they want to dry. I just had my apple crop come in so I have it now. The standard pump for lack of a better word, sucks. You have to change the oil, a lot. It works just fine but you can run up a pretty big bill on oil changes. You can filter it and get a couple of more runs before oil changes. The premium pump is much better. Just Pm me if you want and we can discuss it via phone. mine came with the PREMIER pump  whatever the hell that means, i'll have a little better handle on everything tomorrow when i get it out of the back of my truck 
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Posted: 11/26/2023 12:26:11 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TexRdnec: mine came with the PREMIER pump whatever the hell that means, i'll have a little better handle on everything tomorrow when i get it out of the back of my truck We bought the premier a couple of years ago. |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 1:54:46 AM EDT
[Last Edit: ScottyPotty]
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We have the regular vac pump. It works fine, I made a oil change station with wix hydraulic oil filter and it only takes a few mins to drain and re-fill.
it sucked, but we had to send ours back due to the compressor going out. They fixed it under warranty and sent it back. It did the same thing.....right out of the box. We sent it right back again and they got it fixed the second time. They paid all the shipping. Wife runs it quite a bit and we like the cheese and ham....good thing because we just got done with a couple 40# blocks of cheese and a 5gallon bucket of sour cream.....  Get extra trays and some tray stackers. |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 2:52:20 AM EDT
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I used to work for Oregon Freeze Dry. Mountain House is their retail brand. I ate plenty of freeze-dried food while I worked there.
That Little Freeze dryer looks like it dries about as much as a single tray in the chambers I worked around. My BIL has one of those Harvest right units. He seems to like it. |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 10:51:16 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By TexRdnec: didn't want to overtake the deals thread, so chime in if you've got one, used one or know anything about them @BLK_MAJK i know you've got one, i just seent it. show moar pics, tell moar about what you know. as for me, i just bought one, know nothing about them other than what i've seen on youtube and bought from mountain house/augason farms/etc... https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/30587/IMG_5708-3040103.jpg I lost one in my house fire but it wasn’t mine-I borrowed it for close to 2 years from a friend and really made hay while the sun shined with it. Prior to gettting it I had spent more on Mountain House thru group buys here in the 2000’s than a freeze drier cost. When they came out, it didn’t make sense to get one as I was already pretty stocked up… then I got married and started thinking about retirement up at my cabin and how chicken on sale today is much, much cheaper than full price 20 years from now…. I freeze dried a LOT of food. Raw scrambled eggs, goulash, meat of every variety, fruit, vegetables, you name it. It made a huge dent in our long term needs for sure-but it gets to be a chore keeping it running. My wife had to make a lot more food or do double the prep on doubled batches etc. and she burned out. If I were to replace it, I would be on my own as far as keeping it running. There were a few things that were inconvenient about keeping it running, mostly that you have to be Johnny on the spot when it finishes a cycle to use the time efficiently-that might mean pulling food out before leaving for work at 5am. You can temorarily store the product in zip lock bags, but especially on humid months you can’t afford to wait too many days before packing in Mylar bags or the food sucks up water from the air. Then there is the noise-the novelty wears off quick and you won’t want to keep it in the kitchen. Your power bills will go up about $1.50 a batch, but what does a #10 can of meat cost from online suppliers? $55? The biggest lesson is that you need to keep it running to have it pay for itself. Find out what freeze dries the fastest (pasta dishes, meats etc) and try to double up where you can. Give yourself the occasional break by doing something like eggs and finding ways to reduce the handling workload like blending them both wet and dry to make packaging easier etc. |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 10:53:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 10mmillie: I’ve got one and it was great for 9 months. They don’t have technicians to work on them and they are sending me my second motherboard that has gone bad. Now I tell everyone to not buy one. Good luck and enjoy it while it works. Freeze dried skittles are good. Not the first I have heard of this-Covid wrecked their parts supplier base hard. |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 10:57:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mikesid: mylar bags with multiple O2 absorbers in each. then they are placed in large totes and stored in the A/C. Ive done a lot of fruit too. Pineapples are excellent. Eeeeeverybody loves and asks for pineapple…. It also happens to be the slowest cycle time food I have done-80 hours one time. The slices become a really good thermal insulator as soon as they dry next to the tray so the rest of the slice is slooooow to dry-remember guys this is a vacuum process so direct thermal contact is the only way to heat the frozen food. The trick is to use canned crushed pineapple-much faster to run because the membranes of the fruit have largely been ruptured and it has better tray contact than slices. |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 11:01:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By webtaz99: Only way I could get into freeze drying would be by providing the energy from solar. You're talking about a oil-type vacuum pump and a freezer run for hours. It'll make your meter spin fast. I’m at my off grid cabin right now and it would take a gargantuan increase in my battery bank to make running a FD possible. Those nights are long and I ain’t running a generator while I sleep… |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 11:07:31 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By TexRdnec: didn't want to overtake the deals thread, so chime in if you've got one, used one or know anything about them @BLK_MAJK i know you've got one, i just seent it. show moar pics, tell moar about what you know. as for me, i just bought one, know nothing about them other than what i've seen on youtube and bought from mountain house/augason farms/etc... https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/30587/IMG_5708-3040103.jpg We had nothing but problem after problem with our HR. After several weeks of nothing but crickets, Mrs. Hoji said “ to hell with it, just replace it with a new one” This is the email we received from HR  Attached FileThat email prompted us to just say fuck it. You sold us a $4200 broken machine. Refund our money. They did , but kept a 15% restocking fee. Fuck those people with a rusty chainsaw. @TexRdnec Hope y’all have better luck. Hope you looked here before purchasing. We , unfortunately , did not. https://www.bbb.org/us/ut/salt-lake-city/profile/food-processing-equipment/harvest-right-llc-1166-90013730/complaints |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 11:14:48 AM EDT
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I had one before the EX stole it.
They are a pita. Buy compressor oil by the 55 gallon drum if you didn’t get the oil less one. They are noisy, take 24 hrs to freeze dry stuff (an hour or more of prep time before) and prone to leak and give you trouble. Enjoy. |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 11:25:07 AM EDT
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I'd love to have one!
Alas, it's not a viable option at the moment. Our dehydrators get a workout, though. |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 11:27:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BTccw: I had one before the EX stole it. They are a pita. Buy compressor oil by the 55 gallon drum if you didn’t get the oil less one. They are noisy, take 24 hrs to freeze dry stuff (an hour or more of prep time before) and prone to leak and give you trouble. Enjoy. 55 gallon drum? You’re supposed to filter it….. and reuse it. |
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SD, USA
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Posted: 11/26/2023 11:28:09 AM EDT
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We have 2 machines from Harvest Right, a medium and a large.
We sold candy at vender/craft shows until we got the costs of the machines back. We ignored our labor in making candy to sell. Now candy id available everywhere, but we wanted the machines for our produce. Depending upon what we are drying dictates how we store it. Long term, mylar, short term vacuum sealed jars. We do raw ingredients as well as full meals. Poultry is always dried cooked, beef is raw. We will do cooked burger. If you have seen it for sale as freeze dried, chances are we have done it. With the exception of butter and peanut butter. If both machines run 24/7 they will add a $100 to our electric bill at .11 per KH. They both run full time starting in August through early Oct. Then part time after that. If we make a canned sauce we also make a dried version. This allows us to very the consistency of any sauce we have. Such as; spaghetti, pizza, nacho cheese, plain tomato, etc... We also do soups, so when out camping all you have to do is add hot water and in 5 minutes a batch of soup is ready with the only dirty dish being the pot used to boil the water (so no dishes to clean). Doing this allows us to rotate what is grown in the garden and will allow us to take a year of growing off next year. Food for SHTF is so far down the lists of needs that it doesn't even count, for us. |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 11:37:40 AM EDT
[#34]
I would love one these, but cant really justify the cost. I wish there where some locals whom I could split the cost with, even a 3 way split would be good.
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Posted: 11/26/2023 11:46:29 AM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By StaccatoC2: I would love one these, but cant really justify the cost. I wish there where some locals whom I could split the cost with, even a 3 way split would be good. Yeah, between high cost, lots of parts failures reported, and high electrical usage, I'm in the same boat. I would love to store produce I grew indefinitely, but that's a very large buy in. |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 11:50:48 AM EDT
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There are two competitors to Harvestright now, can’t vouch for either of them but there is an alternative.
FWIW, older HR were GTG. It’s the post COVID units that are a total crap-shoot. I can’t believe the .gov hasn’t stepped in and forced them to tighten their shit up. |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 11:55:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TheOtherDave: There are two competitors to Harvestright now, can’t vouch for either of them but there is an alternative. FWIW, older HR were GTG. It’s the post COVID units that are a total crap-shoot. I can’t believe the .gov hasn’t stepped in and forced them to tighten their shit up. We bought ours primarily due to friends of ours owning one ( pre rice rabies) and it works great. I think you are spot on with the post covid quality control. We are waiting for more reviews ( both good and bad) from HR’s competitors before diving in that pool again. |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 11:56:02 AM EDT
[#38]
I’ve had mine since late 2018. I did have a two month lag while a bad vacuum pump got sorted out but it ran fine after that. I’ve got 12 55 gallon steel drums of fd food in Mylar bags put away not to mention about another drums worth in quart jars.
My machine is running a little wonky now. I bought a premier pump to see if that will unwonky the machine. If that doesn’t work then I may consider a new machine but now my big problem is decent temperature controlled storage space for all those barrels plus more if I can process more food. It’s been a reliable machine once I learned its foibles which was mainly ensuring a good door seal. I’m glad I got one. Cost was about $5,50 a run for a large machine at 15 cents kWh. |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 12:18:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dash1b: I’ve had mine since late 2018. I did have a two month lag while a bad vacuum pump got sorted out but it ran fine after that. I’ve got 12 55 gallon steel drums of fd food in Mylar bags put away not to mention about another drums worth in quart jars. My machine is running a little wonky now. I bought a premier pump to see if that will unwonky the machine. If that doesn’t work then I may consider a new machine but now my big problem is decent temperature controlled storage space for all those barrels plus more if I can process more food. It’s been a reliable machine once I learned its foibles which was mainly ensuring a good door seal. I’m glad I got one. Cost was about $5,50 a run for a large machine at 15 cents kWh. The FD’d food doesn’t have to be treated with a temperature controlled storage spot to keep it. Granted, there aren’t a lot of oils/fats in MH food, but there was a story a few years back about a family that has to move their dad across country as he got elderly and he had an attack of it someplace like Georgia…. It was early production MH in #10 cans and it was fine. YMMV, but the worst that could happen is oils go rancid but that is unlikely as it’s an oxygen deprived environment if you packed it properly. |
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USA
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Posted: 11/26/2023 12:33:40 PM EDT
[Last Edit: YXZ1000R]
[#40]
Happy with our Harvestright. We have a medium "pharmaceutical" version. I ordered a regular one, but the pharmaceutical showed up. I like it because it's stainless. Has 7 drawers instead of 4, so there is less room for stuff that might stick up taller than normal. But it works fine for us. Everything goes into mylar bags and is sealed, then stored in totes.
Doing remainder of our Thanksgiving dinner today. Lots of turkey, casseroles, gravy etc. We've been doing a lot of leftovers lately. |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 12:36:05 PM EDT
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What’s the cost to enter this realm these days?
I’ve had the idea to get into this for a long time, haven’t priced it out in 15+ years. |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 12:48:01 PM EDT
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Do you think these are cost effective for anything?
Doesn't it cost far more to freeze dry stuff in time+equipment+food then just to buy the food and eat it? Or is this an end of the world prep stuff that people spend a lot of money on, use once or twice, then never use again? |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 12:52:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dance: Do you think these are cost effective for anything? Doesn't it cost far more to freeze dry stuff in time+equipment+food then just to buy the food and eat it? Or is this an end of the world prep stuff that people spend a lot of money on, use once or twice, then never use again? IF you have a unit that works, it can both make money and save money in the sense that just selling freeze dried skittles to neckbeards at gun shows can pay for the machine in very short order ( very over simplified, but you get the idea) and being able to store and not toss food that goes bad could have a significant impact on your grocery bill. If you do big gardens, raise chickens for eggs, etc, you can freeze dry eggs and produce and it will store until ready to eat for years. |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 12:58:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hoji: IF you have a unit that works, it can both make money and save money in the sense that just selling freeze dried skittles to neckbeards at gun shows can pay for the machine in very short order ( very over simplified, but you get the idea) and being able to store and not toss food that goes bad could have a significant impact on your grocery bill. If you do big gardens, raise chickens for eggs, etc, you can freeze dry eggs and produce and it will store until ready to eat for years. So $3000 to $6000 to make candy to sell at gun shows? Seems like a waste of money except in very limited circumstances. |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 1:25:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dance: So $3000 to $6000 to make candy to sell at gun shows? Seems like a waste of money except in very limited circumstances. Know someone that sold freeze dried skittles and store brand ice cream sandwiches at some kind of outdoor show ( may have been a gun show) Ran the machine nonstop for about 3-4 weeks ( theirs was a working one  ) and made a profit of over $4k in 2-1/2 days. You do not need to babysit the machines if they work, so their time investment was filling trays with skittles for one batch and alternating with the ICS. They also store a bunch of food / garden crops. Yeah, they are expensive, but if they work are well worth the money. |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 1:28:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By macman37: What’s the cost to enter this realm these days? I’ve had the idea to get into this for a long time, haven’t priced it out in 15+ years. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By macman37: What’s the cost to enter this realm these days? I’ve had the idea to get into this for a long time, haven’t priced it out in 15+ years. Got a scheels close by? Originally Posted By TexRdnec: ok, gather round. you know that mountain house deal that we all jumped on earlier? and you know that fridge overflowing with thanksgiving shit? know how most of it is gonna end up thrown away? it doesn't have to be. in fact, you could eat that green bean casserole 25yrs from now if you wanted to. and here's how you can do it on the cheap... freeze dry that shit. scheels already has these at the lowest prices they are anywhere but they're offering a $200 gift card with both of the medium and large size freeze driers https://www.scheels.com/p/harvest-right-home-pro-freeze-dryer-size-medium-%285-tray%29/85487700886.html#q=harvest%2Bright&lang=en_US&start=1 https://www.scheels.com/p/harvest-right-home-pro-freeze-dryer-size-large-%286-trays%29/85487700889.html#q=harvest%2Bright&lang=en_US&start=2 but wait, there's more! ebates is 10% back at scheels right now so that's another $270 or $340 back, respectively it shows in store pickup only for me and the nearest one is 8 hours away so if you don't already have ebates, use my referral link. you'll get $40, i'll get $40 and my $40 will help offset the one i just brought home from tractor supply  http://www.rakuten.com/r/TEXRDN?eeid=28187 voila, now that green bean casserole has the potential to last longer than we will https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/30587/IMG_5708-3040103.jpg |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 1:49:50 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dance: So $3000 to $6000 to make candy to sell at gun shows? Seems like a waste of money except in very limited circumstances. I bought my first one used. Dude bought it for his kids to freeze dry candy and take to school and sell. They paid him back for the $2400 machine in 14 weeks. |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 2:07:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Ohiogators: I bought my first one used. Dude bought it for his kids to freeze dry candy and take to school and sell. They paid him back for the $2400 machine in 14 weeks. Why would he sell it? |
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Posted: 11/26/2023 2:26:41 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Ohiogators]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Echd: Why would he sell it? Kids got bored with it. I bought it for $700. They had it for less than a year and sold about $6k in candy |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 11/26/2023 4:14:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TexRdnec: mine came with the PREMIER pump whatever the hell that means, i'll have a little better handle on everything tomorrow when i get it out of the back of my truck the premier pump still needs oil..the "oil-free" pump is about $1500 more |
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