EP 442: What You Must Know About Freeze-Drying BEFORE You Get One
Pioneering Today
Melissa K Norris
4.9 • 931 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
If you've been curious about getting a freeze-dryer, then this podcast is a must-listen because we're diving deep into everything you'd want to know about freeze-drying before bringing one home! Today's podcast (episode #442) is special for me because it's with my best friend, Carolyn Thomas of Homesteading Family. In this episode, we share the behind-the-scenes of our freeze-drying journies and share some of the mistakes we made along the way. Plus, Carolyn shares her seven must-do steps when freeze-drying for the best success every time. For more information and any links mentioned in this episode, visit https://melissaknorris.com/442.
Grab Carolyn's book, Freeze Drying the Harvest.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey pioneers. Welcome to episode number 442. Today's episode we are going to be talking about the low down on freeze drying. |
| 0:16.7 | So this is going to be kind of behind the scenes. |
| 0:18.8 | For those of you who are watching this on YouTube, you will understand what that is because you're going to be looking at the screen and seeing |
| 0:24.8 | Carolyn Thomas from homesteading families gorgeous face and if you follow her you know she's been doing a lot with |
| 0:31.6 | freeze drying lately. |
| 0:33.0 | But I always really enjoy myself, podcast episodes |
| 0:36.6 | where you hear people and you're just like getting, |
| 0:38.8 | it's not scripted, it's just like the real lowdown on things. And that's what I really wanted to have today |
| 0:45.3 | with Carolyn and myself just kind of sharing all of our thoughts on a |
| 0:50.2 | freeze dryer is it worth? What we really think about it, some of the pros and cons after both of us |
| 0:58.0 | has had, have had our spread number of years and are very experienced food preservationists in all of the other methods. |
| 1:06.3 | Like we use a lot of them. |
| 1:08.0 | So in contrast with that and then freeze drying, kind of where we really fall and just kind of have a fun a fun conversation |
| 1:14.9 | because Carolyn and I for those of you who've been listening for a while you know you've heard this before |
| 1:18.9 | Carol and I are best friends in real life and so we have had a ton of conversations over the years where we'll be messaging each |
| 1:26.2 | other and chatting about freeze drying like, hey, have you tried this? Is your freeze dryer doing this? Those type of things. So I kind of just wanted to have |
| 1:32.1 | a space for us to be able to share those thoughts with all of you. So, |
| 1:36.9 | Carolyn, welcome to the Pioneering Today podcast. |
| 1:40.0 | Hello, it's wonderful to get to be here, so thanks for having me on. |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah, the low down on freeze drawing will get behind the scenes and into the dirty nitty |
| 1:52.4 | gritties of like there have been failures there have been a lot of failures |
| 1:58.5 | So we'll talk about that today |
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