When Microwaves first came out they were huge but with a tiny cooking area and they were not affordable, and were mostly in business kitchens and a few restaurants. I would love a freeze dryer but the cheapest I have seen is $1600 and they only have 4 small trays.
Probably not. They aren’t mass produced to the same extent because while there is a market for them, that market isn’t even close to as large as the microwave market.
Also, I highly recommend Technology Connections’ video on freeze dryers, as it highlights why it’s not as useful as they may seem - They have their uses, but freeze drying is not the ultimate food preservation method.
The video goes in depth into how freeze drying works (and doesn’t), and I recommend watching the entire thing and evaluate whether you actually need one.
Watch this episode. It will cure most people of wanting a freeze dryer. The only thing I would get one for is if I did a lot of backpacking or expected the zombie apocalypse after I had 5 years to freeze dry enough shit to trade for concubines.
My sister has one specifically to sell novelty foods at craft fairs.
Well, I guess she’s not in the potential concubine pool. That’s a shame.
I’m missing something here…
Yeah if you backpack you can make use of it.
Otherwise: no.
It depends, some things, like freeze dried fruit may not necessarily need to be rehydrated.
For things that need to be rehydrated, you may not need as much water to rehydrate it to be edible as would be in the regular ingredients. Hypothetically if you were to make soup from scratch, you’d lose some of the water to evaporation as you cook it. If you were to premake and dehydrate soup, it wouldn’t need to be cooked as long or to as high of a temperature - everything is already cooked you just need to rehydrate it and warm it up to your liking, no need to get it up to a boil and simmer it for however many minutes or hours so less is lost to evaporation.
And depending on the area you’re backpacking in, you’re probably going to be refilling you water from streams and such several times along the way so you can plan around that. In the areas I normally backpack, you’re probably going to cross over or hike along a few different streams every day, running out of water isn’t a major concern.
One time in particular comes to mind, where I did have to plan around having enough water to cook my meal. Normally we plan on our lunch being cold- jerky, trail mix, etc. and we do a freeze dried meal or something similar for dinner that requires water. Around lunch time we were by a stream, and looking at our map the area we were planning to camp for the night wouldn’t be near a water source (pretty much at the very top of a mountain) so we decided we’d have our hot meal for lunch so we could refill our water to make sure we’d have enough to last us until we were able to refill later the next day.
It kind of sucked though, as we were getting closer to our campsite, the temperature started dropping, and a thick fog rolled in. By the time we made camp, we were all kind of cold, everything was damp, and we were generally pretty miserable, and we didn’t even have a hot meal to look forward to. So we pretty much just scarfed down whatever jerky or crackers or whatever we had and went right to bed. The next day though, everything had cleared up, and when we made our way to the summit to enjoy the view. We looked down into the valley below us and we saw a cloud, and we realized that the fog from the night before wasn’t just fog, it was a cloud passing over the mountain, and we hiked through it, so that was pretty cool.
But the next time you go mattress shopping and the salesperson is telling you “it’s like sleeping on a cloud” run away, clouds suck and don’t make for good sleep.
Yeah, I was going to say “nice try posting here, Alex”
Freeze dryers are much less useful day-to-day so the market is much smaller which won’t really drive much of a scaling up of production like happened for microwaves I imagine
Consumer goods become cheaper through innovation and economies of scale. Freeze drying is a mature technology with limited appeal.
No. For every one freeze dryer that is sold 1000 microwaves are sold. The consumer demand simply isn’t there outside of niche communities like survivalists
And freeze dried food is so expensive as well :/ cries in absolutely loving freeze dried fruits over regular ones
Freeze driers? No no no…you want REAL dryers! It’s winter time, maaaan! Don’t you want your clothes coming out fluffy, and warm??? You ever put on a pair of snug warm underwear immediately out of the dryer? It hugs your buttcrack and makes it feel like christmas for your balls!
Stay warm!
“Ever try doing laundry before you run out of clean underwear?”- your mom, maybe.
“I suppose I should be glad you’re doing laundry at all.”- also possibly your mom.
I always wondered if freeze drying my clothes would be better in any way.
Also, for a period of my life, I used to put clean underwear in the freezer. That way, if the morning shower didn’t wake me up, getting dressed certainly would. 1/10 would recommend.
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