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partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

They’re REALLY expensive $3k for his unit which isn’t even the top end.
They’re loud
They run for an entire day for one batch
They consume a massive amount of electricity (1 day freeze dryer vs 30 days of a regular freezer)
The prep time for the food its VERY extensive.
If you don’t prep just right the food is wasted
the amount of actual food produced is really small
Even if you’re fine with everything else, shockingly few things actually taste good after freeze drying.

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MissGutsy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Additionally:

while the food will taste the same, in most cases the mouth feel is so horrendously bad it will be inedible

rehydration of most foods is very hard to impossible, limiting it’s uses even more

if you put more than one kind of food in a batch, the chance of error in process increase dramatically, because all food needs different amounts of time

I’m pretty sure the only actual use cases are berries and fruits. But those can all just be dehydrated normally or made into jam, so there is little to no purpose for a freeze dryer, except playing around with foods, which is not worth the price
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- deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  You can make killer hash with a freeze dryer too. The weed kind
  
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