On that point, I was first introduced to home freeze dryers while overseeing the guard force at the Embassy in Baghdad.

With that said, I’m married to a woman who puts me to shame with her mechanical maintenance abilities, so after a couple of struggles with changing the oil she now has it down to an art.

Granted, most of that time is the freeze dryer doing all the work, but the process is not without effort. Once the food is ready it must be put into appropriate containers with oxygen absorbers and sealed properly so they can last.

the "real" vacuum pumps on those machines, with ultimate vacuum levels a few more demial places over. I've chased many a leak in my time,but it was: A.

It freezes the product and lowers pressure to remove ice by sublimation. Sublimation is the transition of a substance directly from the solid to the gas phase without passing through the liquid phase.

Adopting such technologies puts these businesses in a better position to meet regulatory standards and makes them more viable in the market.

And once you have resolved your issue I hope you will stay around and talk to us all about what you have been drying in your machine, etc. 1

The initial cost can be high, they require adequate space and power supply; also, they can be noisy during operation.

AN8 male fittings are 3/4 X 16tpi. Should be able to get one that will work in this application. Also, there filters that use metric threads, might be easier to deal with.

With their assist, it is possible to maintain uniform thickness and Room amongst food slices, advertising and marketing even drying and optimum texture.

Posted January 21, 2016 (edited) On 12/1/2015 at 0:16 PM, Jenipher said: Tony, if you see this, I went ahead and purchased the catch can. Do you think it's okay to just purchase a reducer to go from the size of the exhaust to the size of the hose that came with the can? Hopefully I said that in a way that makes sense! As well, does it matter which port is used as "in" and which as "out"? Thanks so much, Jen Buy home Freeze Dryer Hi Jen, Sorry to be gone so long. I did exactly as you proposed. I purchased a brass reducer and pushed the blue hose over it.

5 Posted September 16, 2015 Thanks dsheidt. I was afraid that the AN8 fittings I could find might not be long enough to provide the space needed so that the oil could flow over the top of the filter, especially given my "disk" method of holding up the can.

Control of the amount of time a material is held at the ultimate freeze temperature before the drying cycle is started.

If you have gluten sensitivity and not Celiac or a gluten allergy, you might be ok with gluten and gluten-free in the same machine.