They were abusing the keyword function on Walmart.com and putting freeze dryer in the title to get hits, and maybe tricking people into buying them AS freeze dryers. They are not.
loading hay into the curing shed this morning. It's awesome out, but the air handlers stay on in the house. It is nice out today after this morning's blow.
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.