The Freeze Dryer Video
Added 2024-10-31 06:13:32 +0000 UTCJust barely sneaking it in before November! I've been working since I got up this morning, committed to finishing this edit. And, well, it's done!
So. This will be a really quick turnaround. I'll be pasting the script in soon but fine tweaking of the captions will wait until tomorrow morning/afternoon. And as soon as that's done, the video's going pubic. Barely made it before November, but we did!
OK, so I'm going to bed. Hope you like it!
Comments
The fact it starts with ya just being terrified of the term influencer and the warning about the recommendations just makes me curios :>
Cap H Cat
2025-01-09 13:49:48 +0000 UTCThe problem with the candies is that they lose their taste appeal after a handful or a bag. There is no strong lasting desire to keep eating freeze dried candies imo.
Timothy Conard
2024-12-26 19:26:56 +0000 UTCNote to self: Don’t buy one of these!!!
Brian Deschene
2024-12-22 02:05:40 +0000 UTCBack as an undergrad research assistant, we used this same freeze dryer. It was definitely finicky with the seal. That was 8 years ago, but those memories came right back by hearing the whirling noises of the freeze dryer in the video! I should have put a McDonald’s cheeseburger in it when I had the chance, lol.
Brittany Sommerville
2024-12-19 23:21:51 +0000 UTCThat's our use case as well down to the bumper crop of tomatillos this year. Also although they don't talk about it much there are copious logs that you can obtained by attaching a USB thumbdrive during its startup procedure. I've thought about writing a web app that presents the log data graphically but it has never reached the top of the todo list. It's sad that it is such a low volume item. If the market were bigger and the cost of goods was lower they could invest more in R&D and come out with a WIFI enabled version that would make the process much more enjoyable and predictable.
Geordie Korper
2024-12-01 22:52:22 +0000 UTCWhat a great way to end No Effort November by finding out if a Midwest retailer can sell the lights people are looking for or just put them in a box with labeling of what people are looking for.
Laurel Carty
2024-11-30 02:01:26 +0000 UTCYou mentioned some foods having an aerogel-like insulation quality and HOW HAVE YOU NOT MADE A VIDEO ABOUT INSULATION GENERALLY AND AEROGEL SPECIFICALLY??
cmrcmk
2024-11-21 01:48:05 +0000 UTCVisited an Amish Store in rural Pennsylvania today... Freeze Dried Madness Alec 🤮 https://photos.app.goo.gl/T1zz9FhDfwoka8446
Dustin Greene
2024-11-19 05:18:14 +0000 UTCJust noticed they sell pre-freeze-dried sour skittles at the store now, which is ~93% of the reason to buy one of these.
Tony
2024-11-15 23:35:47 +0000 UTCYo if you have any egg left (or feel like making more) could you try making french toast with it? I'm curious if it's just as good (the bread can be normal though)
BrandEver
2024-11-13 09:04:10 +0000 UTCThank you so much for somehow reaching into my mind and pulling out something I have been annoying my partner with for the better part of 2 years. Half of my reddit ads in 2023 were for freeze dryers. Your title is probably the most accurate thing I have ever seen; I was very skeptical that I would be dissuaded, but by the end of the video I was convinced I didn't want one anymore. Also, I glady await a 4 hour connextras video on this subject.
Joe Guasparini
2024-11-11 18:31:46 +0000 UTCI started watching this and my wife commented “oh, I’ve been wanting to get one of these, I’ve seen them on [social media app].” By the end of the video she was like “yeah, no”.
Josh Bernstein
2024-11-09 03:11:20 +0000 UTCRemember how in the Connextras video about DIY milk glass you said that you don’t have a vacuum chamber yet?
Juho K
2024-11-07 12:52:07 +0000 UTCI just leave the food on the outside of the space ship. And gently rotate in partial sun shade. When you say it tastes like a mcdonalds burger you say it like that's a good thing.
Jim Hewlett
2024-11-05 18:51:32 +0000 UTCI'm losing it over the sound the McDonalds hamburguer makes while eating it. Sounds like you're trying to chew some rocks hahaha
Marcos Del Sol Vives
2024-11-05 14:00:15 +0000 UTCI've heard you mention that you don't keep fresh milk around because it spoils quickly. Have you tried shelf-stable (ultra high temp pasteurized) milk? It comes in a carton and only needs to be refrigerated once you open it :)
Z
2024-11-05 04:19:40 +0000 UTCVideo idea: float switches and their applications. Interesting internal mechanism. Saves pumps and eaquipment, saves basements from sludgy sewage spills.
Alex
2024-11-05 03:38:09 +0000 UTCI used to work in R&D at a large food manufacturing company. You probably eat foods on a daily basis that using ingredients that have gone through the freeze drying process. Lots of stuff we'd do would involve a freeze dryer. The one that was in our lab was huge and the trays were significantly larger but I honestly didn't have any idea how that worked so thank you for that.
ethospathostacos
2024-11-04 05:16:14 +0000 UTCA dehydrator makes excellent dried fruit. I was a little doubtful about how it would turn out but am very happy I bought one. Total control of what goes into the fruit, yes no extra sugar and also if one wants then no added citric acid (which I cannot have lots of).
Lumo
2024-11-03 19:23:37 +0000 UTCExcess produce during the growing season - from our own garden or from good sales at the farmers' market during a glut - is most of the reason I want one too. To add to your list, packing and unpacking a chest freezer is pretty unpleasant compared to stocking and unstocking a shelf of powders in jars. Yes, I could get more chest freezers and put ingredients in them, but that won't convince my family to put gloves on and dig to the bottom for tomatoes from last season. (I admit I bristled at the prepper stuff. There's a lot of room between "prepper" and "no meal prep, no food preservation" - we just like to turn what's cheap and abundant right now into food for the next little while, and we prefer to cook when we have time and reheat frozen meals from our no-generator-backup chest freezer.) I also dream of using one for freeze-dried backpacking meals (tried and true recipes like you can buy for $$$ in chain stores, not wacky stuff like burgers of course). That may be less practical, but I don't know. So I'm actually really interested in the freeze dried refried beans experiment! It would be great to be able to rehydrate ingredients for burritos instead of needing to carry around entire cans.
Purple Coneflower
2024-11-01 15:17:45 +0000 UTCI was kind of surprised that the various cost comparisons (what else you can do with $3000, stacks of chest freezers and a generator, etc) didn't mention how it compares to the cost of packaged freeze-dried food that's available retail, whether from backpacking suppliers or the prepper cinematic universe. How many mediocre but long-term-stable meals does $3000 buy?
Nathan Williams
2024-11-01 14:28:14 +0000 UTCAlec, you didn't mention what are you gonna do with the freeze dryer now. Are you gonna sell it or will you keep it? (If you said it in the video then sorry, I lost that part ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
Fer
2024-11-01 11:58:06 +0000 UTCFor the ham, try submerging it into cold water then pulling vacuum on it. This method works really well for quick-pickling because it pulls the brine into the food. I bet it would quickly rehydrate some foods without making them soggy.
Quinton Wilson
2024-11-01 05:02:26 +0000 UTCA little advice on cutting small fruits in half. Hold a bunch of them between two plates or other trays and cut in between.
Mario Siemroth
2024-11-01 03:47:55 +0000 UTCI wonder if you would have better luck mixing the milk powder with hot water and then cooling in the fridge. You would still have separation, but it would work around the clumping.
Purple Coneflower
2024-11-01 02:55:42 +0000 UTCSemi-related to freezing food, when do we get a Paco Jet Video? :)
Chris Satterfield (Compgeke)
2024-11-01 02:19:23 +0000 UTCI don't think YouTube will appreciate the video "going pubic."
Martin Schleehauf
2024-11-01 01:58:43 +0000 UTCPerhaps the reason we have no smallpox is because of freeze drying. The 'dryvac' preparation enabled the vaccine to be sent around the world without refrigeration, had it needed refrigeration, the worldwide campaign would not have been possible. To many, freeze drying is not about food, but about getting supplies to places without a freezer or electricity.
Lumo
2024-10-31 22:51:36 +0000 UTCJust finished video, 100% agree with the statement that most people have no need for this and its being treated as the next air fryer. That said, there are cases where it makes MORE sense, but maybe not total because dang is it expensive. We own the Medium sized one, and have a large garden where we endeavor to grow much of our own food. We do canning, and have a dehydrator for certain foods, but freeze drying produces the best results and makes sense for some specific cases: -Excess produce takes so much less room freeze dried in a jar I can put anywhere in the house than in limited freezer space taken up by food not suitable for freeze drying -herbs especially do wonderfully freeze dried, and I have fresh everything year round as a result, without the lost flavor of dehydrating. -Fruit preserves very well (except grapes) and for people who dont like the texture of canned (jarred) fruit its a good way to have healthy snacks(onion too, TJ's charges too much for that stuff). -Powders! We had 40 quarts of salsa verde more than we meant to this year due to happy Tomatillos. We freeze dried it and now have a boatload of salsa verde powder for meat rubs, or flavoring taco meat, etc. -Eggs so when the chickens lay less we still can bake and cook -more I cant think of right now. On another note, lets talk about usage. We run ours more often in harvest time than the rest of the year, but still, maybe only 10 runs maximum, so something like 20$ in power, clean it when we finish the season and change the oil. I cannot imagine a situation where someone uses this "often". I'm not sure if the manual says you can mix items or not, but my perception was when buying a 3000$ piece of hardware I do my research, and the research I did firmly stated to do runs of similar products at a time, and if you wanted to do candy update the firmware to use the new Candy mode, which is brilliant. Your understanding of different things finishing at differing times throwing it off is absolutely correct, and can endanger the safety of the food produced. Much like canning, it is a complicated process and needs the operator to be educated. It will likely take several seasons to pay for itself, but thus far it has been a great help in preventing food waste and helping us have certain things fresh year round (and not buying herbs that are full of lead and cost a fortune). Not sure about using it for prepping, I'm a bit more optimistic than that.
Uhm Mu
2024-10-31 21:38:01 +0000 UTCAlec now has most of the ingredients to make WWII Powder Cake: https://youtu.be/rrrCnk1QItQ
C222
2024-10-31 21:35:56 +0000 UTCVery glad you made this.. I had been considering one of these for a while. Now I'm wondering if a regular food dehydrator might be a better option. My main goal would be to make dried fruit, which I do consume a lot of. But it is hard to find dried fruit where the manufacturer doesn't add a bunch of sugar to it, making it unhealthy.
The 8-Bit Guy
2024-10-31 20:49:54 +0000 UTCPuntastic!
jh_in_sf
2024-10-31 20:30:57 +0000 UTCYou're an influencer to us, and that's all that matters. As long as we don't have to use code TCONN at checkout for our first month free, that's fine by us.
Colin Cogle
2024-10-31 19:10:46 +0000 UTCI was stocking the shelves at Menards this morning and saw some C7 and C9 lights labeled Vintage and couldn't help but think about No Effort November. Great way to end October with a Huge Effort Halloween special.
Laurel Carty
2024-10-31 15:39:45 +0000 UTCFor the things you want to rehydrate, you could weigh the filled tray before and after to calculate the amount of water needed.
Richard Glickman
2024-10-31 14:42:34 +0000 UTCoy
Technology Connections
2024-10-31 14:26:24 +0000 UTCThree thousand dollars?! Damn... however, it's a good size freezer, with a quality vacuum pump and other things, in probably a very niche market... named "Sublimey"
Crash Cash
2024-10-31 13:48:24 +0000 UTCMUST RESIST purchasing another item i didn't knew i was needing before watching a TC video... like the rice cooker, the typewriter with correction tape, the pressurized hurricane lantern, the touch lamp circuit and so on...
adorfer
2024-10-31 13:36:13 +0000 UTC"Ope! There it is!" Alec giving us a little Midwest Tag Team in the video.
Alice Wonderchek
2024-10-31 11:26:47 +0000 UTCTo avoid using the bit of cardboard on the latch, it looks like the latch could be removed from the door, and fit a suitably sized shim (washer) between the latch at the front of the door as you refit it. That would push the whole latch further out and make it fit closer against the seal. That's obviously more faff than should be needed on a $3000 device. The manufacturer could easily have popped a few of these on the inside of the door under the nut and let you just move them between the inside and outside to adjust it.
DrumBrakes
2024-10-31 10:25:37 +0000 UTCWhen you made that first video about Bell and the invention of artificial sound, who could have dreamed that in just 9 years later it would lead to you eating a steaming then eating a freeze-dried McDonalds cheeseburger on camera? You get full marks for Maximum Effort October.
DrumBrakes
2024-10-31 09:22:10 +0000 UTCWell, he did say he was going to bed. Whatever floats his boat, I guess...
Tom Gidden
2024-10-31 08:34:09 +0000 UTC"It's quite sublime" sniped me Instantly rip me
Stavro
2024-10-31 07:58:34 +0000 UTC"the video's going pubic"? I don't think I'm ready for that...
Trevor Clement
2024-10-31 07:11:08 +0000 UTCHappy early Halloween!
saridout
2024-10-31 07:04:52 +0000 UTCCongratulations!
AngryPanda
2024-10-31 07:04:17 +0000 UTCJust got the notification while I was rewatching "The Weird World in RGB" and related videos, which are really interesting. In "TC2: More RGB Weirdness" you talk about how flourescense was interfering with some of your shots for the main video. I would be interested to know more about florescence. You also mentioned "phosphor-coated LEDs", and that they help with color rendition; I would be interested to know more about that as well.
Eliott Wiener
2024-10-31 06:47:39 +0000 UTCSleep well, will watch after dinner Thursday, which is now here in NZ :)
Robin Capper
2024-10-31 06:40:36 +0000 UTCThis channel is seriously the best "home technology" channel, it's always both informative and useful at the same time. Awesome work, I love it ❤️
JB Bongrand
2024-10-31 06:31:21 +0000 UTCIs it me or is the audio out of sync with the video? Not by much, but something seems off. Yes, more than normal! 😊
Vegasguy
2024-10-31 06:30:26 +0000 UTCThis is exactly what I needed tonight to wind down to bed, wishing for sweet dreams of having my own infinite source of astronaut ice cream
Yakkers
2024-10-31 06:18:45 +0000 UTC
