Been there. I chopped 20 pounds of onions one day. I had to move the operation to the deck. OMG, the tears were rolling and once they start, you can't stop them!
Not a dehydrator a freeze dryer - totally different process.
And you can't even compare the two for nutrition, food quality, and preservation time in storage.
They aren't bad. I've got mine down on the lower level right below me. I don't hear it. Cost to run depends on your power rates. Average batch runs for two days. I don't really notice a huge jump in my bill. I don't have a handy grocery store, so I used to can a LOT, and throw a LOT of that...
Too pollen laden, and dusty out here with haying to even bother opening the house.
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Spent the morning doing outside odds and ends and tying up some 8 foot tall tomato plants. I had no more 10 foot Tpost to add more cattle panel, so I just wove them left and right across the top.
I still...
OH ya, it's totally a thing. They also don't set fruit in certain weather either, which is why/how you can have an area of nothing on every plant in the garden.
I think we're just shy of 10 cents. We have a hyper efficient house and my bill runs about 135 a month in the summer with the AC on penguin habitat and all the barn and shop fans on HIGH.
Second hay curing shed was put up today. I'll paint it tomorrow. Some time next week I'll black jack the floor and paint the barn square for it.
Walked the garden.
Dug up a diseased apple tree.
Smoke so thick here from Canada you could cut it with a knife.