Missed you and your Wife and Daughter!!!! It's been a HOT MINUTE since I checked in with y'all! Many Blessings and I'll have to catch up on your videos, I just love watching the process of things!!! THANK you!!! Please tell your family Hello from Texas!!

Do you show somewhere where you empty the oil out of the hose - how to clean it? We bought a new pump and I don't want the hose oil to taint my food ANYMORE! So tired of the oil taste on everything . . .

Yes, I care! I’m an instruments technician and musician so nerding out! Fairchild made the most revered tube compressor of all time so interesting to see the lathe. Isn’t it incredible how Arduino is like the new tech Lego. That 10 turn pot is super cool, where did you get that?

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It’s amazing such complex systems became mass producible. I’m experimenting with cutting vinyl again on a converted 3D printer machine after three decades of audio engineering and having fun designing a cutting head. Holding the torque tine so it doesn’t move in the wrong direction and cause distortion and noise is a challenge. Lathe Trolls is a great resource. Thanks so much.

Where you been?

I thought it was the worst one i ever tried. Edit: I just tried one with some really bland mashed potatoes and that was what it needed to tone down the herbs. I changed my mind. Not bad. Next time I'll try it with some rice.

Can you send me the part number for the Teflon ball please? I bought a unit from a friend, I’m experiencing just what you had here.

i know this is an older video but how are you finding that pump to work. i have the same pump and it barely moves any oil through it. mine barely drips out of the hose.

try thinning out some of them 50-50 water

You have to be a idiot to not understand you have to remove the contents to a microwave safe container before putting it in a microwave. How stupid are Americans?

Why not just put a small piece are the end if it's just about reducing the inner diameter of the fitting? Why go through the trouble of forcing in an entire length of tube?

Hi I wonder what they taste like?

This is great, pretty much validates what I was going to build with some shelly devices, ESP32s, or other ideas I have. How do you handle the vacuum if for example you already have two freeze dryers with a vacuum and you want to add a third? A better way to ask, how do you balance the vacuum between the two with a vacuum and the one without a vacuum?

No, it doesn't happen to everyone. And if it does it would be much simpler to shorten the hose.

Hahaha I made a meatloaf it came out perfect! And rehydrated perfectly also.

Well, the thing is this food if packaged right will last for many years, and if you are out in the wilderness camping, you’re going to be pretty darn happy to have it. Plus, if you can’t get food from the grocery store and you need to get into your, freeze dried stash, you won’t be comparing, because you won’t have those other choices. I am so thankful for my freeze dryer and the ability to preserve food for years. Thank you for this video! It’s really nice to know that I can freeze dry shrimp

Found on the Net: In German (on packaging): Zutaten: 71% Erbsmehl, 7% geräucherter Speck (Speck, Speisesalz, Rauch), jodiertes Speisesalz, Geschmacksverstärker (Mononatriumglutamat, Dinatriuminosinat, Dinatriumguanylat), Speisesalz, Palmöl, Aromen, Hefeextrakt, Stärke, geräucherte Hefe (Hefe, Rauch), Curcuma, Raucharoma. Kann Spuren von Gluten, Milch, Ei, Sellerie und Senf enthalten. Translated in English: Ingredients: 71% pea flour, 7% smoked bacon (bacon, table salt, smoke), iodized table salt, flavour enhancers (monosodium glutamate, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate), table salt, palm oil, flavourings, yeast extract, starch, smoked yeast (yeast, smoke), curcuma, smoke flavouring. May contain traces of gluten, milk, egg, celery and mustard. I make my own tablets, according to my own recipe, with fewer weird products than in the list above 😁 A real pea soup, according to my country traditional recipe, should cook for about 48 hours (!), and with a pig's tail. Yes... Hence the advantage of these tablets.

whynot give a link to the modded code ? .

The cook was brilliant!

Ok, the one lady who's tasting everything she's a snot

The green is better more like split pea soup but adding a xouple cubes of chicken bullion makes it taste more like homemade soup

Wouldn’t the osmolarity of the filtered water be higher than seawater? Isn’t that how forward osmosis works?

Your pronunciation is perfect. Thank you for the video. Love you from India (Now in Egypt)

Bryan are you the same Bryan at Leybold? I will be running a single Harvestright unit and just need the fittings for that operation. Can you ID the ones I need?

hi picked up a E16 as parts to fix up 3 x M80 decks i got 3 working note the last M80 had a bad play bad head heavy wear i have a E8 100% working note i did find the B16 decks are better i did move i move the L E D UNITS out of the E16 and move them to the b16 i have 2 x b16 working 100% i know there's alot of tape deck fan's on the i had a new pulley made for the b16 so i could run it at 7 1/2 1 hr at 7 1/ 2 for audio work i pulled the play back heads out of the b16 and sold the rest as parts

I have the older model, I keep getting vacuum errors, everything seems sealed and tight. Do I manually have to open the drain valve during the dry process? This is the time I get my vacuum error. Thanks for any help

Are you getting the correct pressures when running all 3 freeze dryers at once? Maybe running 3 at once causes the freeze dryers to take longer to reach pressures?

Chicken breasts that large are not normal. I don't eat that hormone pumped sh*t.

Thank you! After watching other reviews and now your review, I'm going to buy some mountain house to add to my surplus food supply. I add picante sauce to my breakfast so flavor definitely shouldn't be a problem. I bet both Peak and Mountain House would make decent breakfast tacos.😁

Thank you Bryan that video scratched a huge itch I've had for years!!

I am freeze drying grilled chicken. I marinate with herbs and spices, leave it overnight and then grill/bake it for about 40 minutes at 350F. I then freeze dry it in my medium HF Freeze Dryer. The results are a bit inconsistent. Some of the pieces rehydrate pretty well (nice and tender) but the others are hard - almost to a crunch even after rehydration for 30min in hot water. Any suggestions here to get even and consistent results?

ŴHAT HAPPENED TO CANNED BACON?!?!?!? I NEED IT!!!

Hola ...puedes darme más información....??

I loved this video! I think you are the only one that has FD cod. I would love to see you make "Poor Mans" lobster with the cod.

Where is the best place to get parts

Can u tell me about your canning equipment. Where you get it, what's it called? I can't find it. I know I'm not in the states but if you can tell me where you get it it may make my hunt easier :)

Thanks again Bryan!

Hello Bryan, I’ve just seen your video, and now I’m a bit worried about my batches… I haven’t noticed anything too out of the ordinary… but how would I know if the oil has been sucked up into the chamber? I bought the FDer about two years ago in 2022 and I use the premier pump. The hose is black… so I’m unable to see what’s inside of the hose… if it were sucked up into the chamber what would the signs be? I took off the side of hose that attaches to the machine and didn’t notice any oil residue on the sides, but did notice a bit of residue on the other end which connects to the actual pump itself. When I remove the hose I can see the white ball bearing inside as well, but your video has me a bit concerned…. Thanks so much in advance!

Where is the headphone jack on this unit?

Great review as I chose Mountain House myself just because of the flavor😊

Bryan: Interesting video. I am freeze drying some non-food items where I need more control over times and temperatures. Have you ever thought about how one could change out the control system to enable more traditional freeze drying recipes. (Times, temps, vacuum, ramp speeds, etc). I already have a Harvest Right XL that I bought to experiment with, and it works well enough that I would like to try to modify and use. Traditional lyophilizers are an order of magnitude more expensive. Thanks for any thoughts!

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I gagged watching that hamplanet crunching a twinkie

You got it going ON! Wow. I can see how you would be in a business sort of venture. But it does do wonders when you have more than one dryer to keep up with the loads you have. WOOH

Shelf life. No one ever wants to talk about that difference.

Very smart! great work and fantastic video, thanks!

hi everybody, can somebody put the link to see more of this like brian said?

A lot of these comparison videos fail to pull the food out of the bags. I like that you pull all of the food out of the bags and compare the look, as well as the quantity of food in both. It really makes the difference in portion sizes apparent. The Peak skillet is also visually more appealing (for those of us who don't mind bell peppers). It's got some color pop and you can see the different textures in the blend. The Mountain House skillet looks like mash. I think I've actually had both of these while backpacking, but when you don't see or taste them side by side, it's hard to compare. Regarding the flavor deficit for the Peak (or any backpacking meal) part of my cook kit is a small container of Cajun seasoning. If something is a little bland, the Creole seasoning gives it a little kick and some savory saltiness. Seeing your review, the Peak really is a two person meal. I don't think I could finish that off. I tend to want lighter breakfasts on trail anyway. I would probably be more inclined to try to eat a meal like the Peak for a dinner. I mix it up like that sometimes. Curry for breakfast and breakfast skillet for dinner. Haha. The forest doesn't complain. Hahaha

Brilliant!