In today's video,
we are going to see if we can powderize a steak.
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Guys, in the past, we've dehydrated a number of things,
but all of them have been liquid,
or at least mostly, liquid.
We want to move on to something a little bit different.
So today, we've got steak.
If you take steak, and you put it in a normal dehydrator,
you basically get beef jerky,
and that's not what we're going for.
We want to just completely dry it out,
and for that, we have a new toy.
Guys, this is our new baby.
This is a freeze dryer.
We're gonna do so many weird things with this.
So a freeze dryer is like a dehydrator on steroids.
It's crazy what this thing can do.
The general idea is that this machine first,
you put the food in,
and it can do all sorts of things.
It gets cold.
It gets really cold,
50 to 70 degrees below zero in Fahrenheit.
After it gets down to that temperature,
it starts pulling a vacuum.
You put your food in these trays,
and everything in there gets pulled into that vacuum,
and once all the air is pulled out,
it starts warming back up.
At that point, in the super low pressure,
all of the water that was in food,
it's frozen because super cold,
and then as it warms up, it starts to sublimate.
It goes directly from ice into water vapor
in the air without going through a liquid stage.
So it does kind of what dry ice does normally,
but water only does
that when it's under such low pressure.
So you've probably actually had freeze-dried food before
and didn't know it.
Fruit and cereals, marshmallows in Lucky Charms,
and if you've ever been backpacking,
I'm sure you've had a freeze dry backpacking meal before.
So it's very useful.
So here's the basic idea.
We have got a new freeze dryer, and we want to play with it.
So the first thing that we're going to try,
some raw steak and some cooked steak,
and see what happens.
Let's go cook a few steaks.
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Lovely.
Germs will survive the freeze drying process.
So this is not like cooking
or even dehydrating with salt on it
where you can then eat it.
Like this, this is not going to kill germs.
So if we freeze dried these steaks,
and then tried to eat the raw freeze-dried steak,
we're just as much risk as if we're eating the steak raw,
which isn't a ton, but it is something.
Oh yeah, it's good.
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Our steaks have now been freeze-drying for quite a while.
We actually gave them two full days,
because they're pretty thick steaks,
and we wanted to hopefully,
get them freeze dried all the way through.
So now, I think we needed to find out if it worked.
Oh, product from dryer.
Here it goes.
Oh, that's cold.
I guess that's the point.
It keeps it--
That is well below the temperature
of a regular freezer.
Those are some frozen steaks.
Oh, well, they weigh nothing.
They are so much lighter.
So I actually,
I actually have a scale over here just for this reason.
I, unfortunately,
didn't think to weigh these beforehand,
but a steak this size would normally weigh,
you know, easily over a pound.
So I'm curious to see what it weighs now.
So less than half a pound now.
That is probably a pound of water lost honestly.
What's he difference between a cooked one and uncooked?
It's even lighter.
That's even lighter.
So it probably lost some moisture
when we're cooking it.
Yep. And I don't know.
We didn't compare
the weight of these two before we dehydrated them,
freeze dried them.
There we go.
So we've now got three raw steaks
and three cooked steaks.
So now, we need to do some experiments.
Well, I want to know if the cooked ones are edible,
and if we can save the raw ones at all.
I think we can.
They're supposed to be rehydratable.
Rehydratable.
Rehydra--
We say rehydratable is a word now.
It's like--
But actually, even more than that,
I'm curious what it looks like on the inside.
So I want to cut in half one of each of these.
Wow.
There we go.
It just looks like a frozen steak...
But it sounds like a cracker.
It's kind of powdery.
Small piece of freeze-dried steak,
see how this goes.
It's like a steak cracker.
I actually like it.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Not a lot.
I want more.
Tastes like roast beef, but one
that you've overdone by about four days.
Okay, well..
This will be my snack now.
That's good.
Got a little piece here.
I'm going to see what happens if I dip it into some hot water,
see if it'll sort of reconstitute into cooked steak.
A lot of air bubbles.
It lost all the pretty color.
I think it was--
It's too hot.
This water is hotter
than you should actually cook a steak so...
So you're going to put it in your mouth?
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Again, I would say it tastes more like roast beef,
but I did just eat it up with water that was too hot.
Next, I think we're going to take this freeze-dried raw steak,
and we're going to try branding and grilling it
while it's still freeze dried,
and then we'll see if we can reconstitute it.
Okay then, you never really get any sound.
Really didn't.
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The whole steak just melted.
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That's a--
That's a lot more of a burn than last time.
Curious, have we already started like burning the--
Oh, there you go.
That's only been on there for like a minute
and a half probably.
It doesn't feel hot though.
You should not eat raw freeze-dried meat.
However, with a steak,
the danger is the germs that are on the surface.
The germs don't travel down inside the meat.
So by cooking the entire outside of this,
we should be creating something that's safe to eat.
I don't know if it's good to eat,
but if safe to eat.
We're gonna try either way.
I smell-- I say it smells like burnt bacon, overcooked.
Like it's not a good smell.
So that's concerning.
Oh my gosh.
That really softened back up.
## this off.
What is happening here?
Well, we disconnected the fat from the rest of the meat.
That's..
That's a nightmare.
This is a nightmare.
Oh no.
This is just like a blue rare steak,
but freeze-dried.
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It's softer.
Not as bad as I was expecting.
We've got a couple more cooked steaks.
These are safe to eat.
Yeah.
They're also very dry.
To the point
that you can literally just break in half.
I want to see if we can blend this into a powder.
And what are we going to do with that powder?
That remains to be seen.
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I mean, people make shredded chicken spreads.
Why not a shredded steak spread?
This is very very shredded.
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It's like mulch, but made of steak.
Okay.
Now, you can tell
that there was moisture in it once upon a time.
It's molding.
It's like sand.
Gross.
But you know we have to do, right?
What do we have to do?
We have to try it.
We have to add water back into this.
You really want to make a protein smoothie.
We're gonna make a steak smoothie.
Say when.
Let's start with that.
Okay?
Good.
That looks great.
Wait, I had salt.
Add a little bit of salt.
There's no way we're not gonna regret this.
All right.
Here goes the grossest thing
that has ever been done on this show.
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I call that the consistency of salsa.
Yeah, I'd say it's alive, but it is very dead.
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Guys, we got the Hacksmith here with us, and apparently,
he is very brave,
because we now have two textures.
We've got one that had some water,
and it's sort of like a...
You described this is cat food consistency.
Yeah, it looks like cat food.
I, to be a little more generous,
I'm going to say it's about the consistency of
like tuna fish.
And then we have a thinner consistency.
It's actually been mixed with more water,
and it's about consistency
of a thin milkshake or a smoothie.
So you may want to give us a 3, 2, 1 on our death.
Three...
I'm going for it.
One.
No.
You know.
I thought I'll be worse.
Oh.
Okay, actually,
if you put that on a cracker, I can get through it.
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Cheers!
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Aint it great?
Oh my gosh.
Did you want to--
You want to take a gulp there?
You know you wanna?
Yeah, it's warm.
I like my smoothies cold.
Nah, this would be worse cold.
I'm pretty sure.
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Oh, ew.
Ew.
[Inaudible].
You got a couple of swallows down.
That was...
That was more than either of us.
I don't know if I'm impressed or disgusted.
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Well, I'm going back to Canada.
That's fair.
I approve.
We're weird. We know.
>> Yeah, he's out. >> He's-- Bye.
Hacksmith is out.
That was too much for him.
We scared him off.
He's gone.
Like I just had breakfast.
So I'm not even hungry.
This would taste better if I was hungry.
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It is overcooked.
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All right, you want something to wash that down with?
It is warm.
And not warm enough to be like a hot drink.
It's just like--
That's warm-ish.
Quick [inaudible].
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