hey guys thanks for tuning in It's Retired at 40 I'm gonna try something that I've
never tried before in the harvest right and that's doing a soup and today I'm
doing chili which is technically not really a soup but since it's my first
try I wanted to try something that had a little bit thicker consistency instead
of the watery consistency so I loaded up my trays just kind of in a
line and didn't load them all the way up to the top because I'm afraid that it's
not gonna it's gonna take a really long time to dry so maybe I don't know a
third or half way up to the full top of the up to the top of the tray
if the soups work out well in the freeze dryer it would be ideal because usually
when you make soups or chili you make a whole bunch and it ends up either being
leftovers or doesn't get eaten so let's try this out
if you haven't checked out my suggested dry
time cheat sheet video make sure you check that out and please take a moment
to subscribe while you're there in the meantime my sheet says 9 for the freeze
time and 7 for the dry times
Chili's done 26 hours and 59 minutes just shy at 27 hours I'm real curious to
see how this turned out
very interesting
so it kind of just made this whole thing one big piece see if I can make it
but all its all dry, I can pull it up in chunks I've got a feeling this is gonna
rehydrate really well and pretty much just be exactly the way you want it to
be but looks like you can fit a lot in to a mylar bag and this is you know an
entire crock pot full of chili this would be really great for camping you
just throw some water and heat it up or hot just add hot water I want to note on
the chili that I just came down and changed the oil on this and more than
usual this is really really cloudy and it has a chili smell actually so not
sure what is in the chili that makes it so cloudy but I'll probably have to
filter the oil quite a few times to get back to clear again all right so that's
what our chili looks like it's about I don't know half a bowls worth we're
gonna add some water very slowly and mix it up and see what kind of time it takes
so I've heated up two cups of water and I think that should be plenty to do what
we need to do I'm gonna add this in real slow and just give it a mix with a spoon
you can kind of see it almost melts it
and that might even be too much already
really condenses it down it seems like yeah actually not bad didn't really even
use I only used about half a cup there we go it looks good well the chili
reconstitutes really well definitely a thumbs-up in my book something I'll be
doing a lot more often now that I know it works well this is retired at 40
reminding you to live life simple we'll catch you next time