The number you see everywhere is 25 years. It is on the boxes, it is in the ads, it is the first thing anyone says when freeze drying comes up. I want to tell you where that number comes from, where it holds up, and where it quietly falls apart, because I have been running […]

Strawberry season is short and a little bit cruel. You get about three good weeks of berries that actually taste like strawberries, and then they are gone and you are back to the sad pale ones in the plastic clamshell. The first year I had my freeze dryer, I bought a whole flat of berries […]