Freeze Drying Carrots & Rehydrating

Freeze drying about 7 lbs of frozen carrots and doing a rehydration test.

This is part of our Freeze Drying The Alphabet from A to Z series.

I assume the bagged frozen vegetables that we have freeze dried have been blanched before bagging. When we do fresh, raw vegetables we do blanch them ourselves before freeze drying. (like we did with the asparagus https://youtu.be/_cPblGY8Zfw ) If they are not rehydrated for enough time they will be soft and spongy. Ours did the same thing until they had soaked in the cold water for at least 2 hours. They really needed a lot of time; time is your friend when it comes to rehydrating. They were even better after overnight in the fridge. Pickles got better for 2 or 3 days!

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We have the medium freeze dryer with the original vacuum pump.

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Music:
Airline by Goegrapher
Pink Flamenco by Doug Maxwell