hey everybody good morning it's retired at 40 I hope you slept well and to help
you brought your appetite this morning because today we're doing
breakfast, freeze-dried breakfast so spring is near and we love to do outside
things in the spring one of which includes camping freeze-dried food is
awesome for camping because you don't need any refrigeration and it doesn't
take up that much room and you can usually just add heat and water so today
we're gonna do all of the most common breakfast foods all of which will
rehydrate very well if you're camping or in many other situations we've done all
the other types of eggs we've done scrambled we've done raw so today we're
gonna do fried eggs we're also gonna do sausage we're gonna do patties and links
and which will also kind of redeem part of my meat video which we couldn't get
the hot dogs to turn out so I'm gonna try something different on the sausage
links that I think will work we're gonna do hashbrowns we're gonna do bacon which
I'm also gonna redeem myself from the meat video because I think I know how to
how to solve the bacon problem pancakes of course and a little OJ
to drink alright so let's kick it off with the
eggs I think one thing that's going to be something that we need to keep in
mind for all of the food that we do today is keep the oil level as low as
possible because oil does not tend to do well in the freeze dryer so the less oil
you can keep in the food the less oil you can add to the food the better so
I'm just going to do a very light spray on the on the pans just enough to keep
it from sticking but we don't want greasy oily eggs make sure you save
these guys for your garden alright our eggs are getting finished up here
oh hey next we're gonna do our bacon we're gonna go to 350 and just keep an
eye on this until it's done okay while our bacon is cooking I'm gonna do our
sausage patties and I'm gonna do our potato hash browns once again on the
hash browns use as little oil as possible I know it's kind of hard
sometimes on potatoes I'm just gonna try and do low heat the sausage patties
should be fine they should just be able to use their own fat once they heat up
to cook so while we've got those going I'm gonna put the OJ into the freezer
and just go ahead fill up the tray for the freezer and I'm also gonna take a
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the bacons coming along real nice once it starts to heat up I like to take a
paper towel to throw over the top and it just keeps it from splattering
a greasy mess all over your oven alright our hash browns are going low and slow
cuz I don't want to burn them because we can't use much oil the sausage patties
are doing really well I'm just doing the same on those just low heat grill and
slow so I'm sure you remember from the meat video that I didn't really have
that great of luck with the bacon and this bacon is actually it's a side pork
bacon that I made on the traeger so no matter what kind of bacon you're doing
you really want to make sure that it's cooked but I really think that you need
to render all that fat as much as possible off of the bacon
so transfer your bacon to a piece of paper towel take another paper towel and
you're really going to want to blot all that stuff off of there as much as
possible you want that bacon to be as crisp as possible
now that most of that fat is it's kind of rendered off of it all right so the
rest of our hash browns are done we got lots of hash browns
they turned out great even with very little oil
and then with the bacon I think I'm actually going to take it a step farther
because I learned a tip from one of the viewers and they actually put paper
towel down before they put the bacon down so if there's any leftover grease
the paper towel will soak it up
now that our sausage patties are done I'm going to do the same thing I'm gonna
transfer them to a paper towel next I'm going to get these breakfast sausage
links going and if you remember from the meat video the the hotdogs which
obviously would be similar to a link which is a food that's in a casing so
like hotdogs brats sausage links so I'm gonna try and cook these first and then
we're going to cut the casing after it's cooked because I think the the reason it
did not turn out well is because the water could not escape through the
casing so if the casing is penetrated and there's a way for the water to
escape I think we'll be fine while we're waiting on our links I'm
gonna do our last thing which are pancakes flapjacks
hotcakes and I really tried to water down the batter because I think if we
have any chance of this working they need to be really really thin because a
real thick cake like or bread type substance doesn't really tend to to turn
out very well so you can't have pancakes without maple syrup so I'm not sure if
this is gonna work or not but I'm gonna just throw a couple of these ice cube
trays in the freezer and we'll see if we can freeze the maple syrup if it freezes
we should be good so my whole goal of freeze drying this breakfast is I want
to be able to take this camping
make a video of camping for a couple days just completely unfreeze dried food
as soon as it starts to warm up in the mountains I'll go up and I'll do a
freeze-dried camping video before we put these sausages on the tray remember we
need a spot for the water to escape so I'm just gonna cut the casing long ways
like this here's the final flapjack okay we're in the deep freeze we've got our
flapjacks sausages sausage patties potatoes a little bit of maple syrup for
the pancakes that'll fit right in here once they're frozen some bacon some eggs
and some OJ you know what else would go good with this some coffee the links
down below for the video we're gonna let these freeze overnight and we're gonna
get two freeze-dried alright good morning again I think everything got
frozen overnight aside from one thing the maple syrup still just a little bit
drippy so I think I'm gonna leave it out cuz I don't think it's gonna work but
everything else looks great so I'm gonna go ahead and get my 30 minute proof
restarted and then we'll load up the freeze dryer all right so I think we
should be able to get away with seven hours of dry time even though the OJ is
a liquid I think it'll still be fine so I'm gonna hit customize adjust my cycle
time it should be at seven anyway and go ahead and hit sir
so I'm a little bit disappointed that maple syrup didn't turn out because I
think that would have been really cool to be able to put one cube with one
pancake and then you just have syrup ready to go when you open it up and
you're ready to use it everything else froze really well so I think it's
probably gonna do really well but I'll see you guys in a little bit all right
just have been just over 22 hours our process is complete I actually added a
few hours on to it last night so if you're ready for when I woke up this
morning so let's check it out and see if it got done bacon and eggs potatoes
sausages and pancakes and our OJ all right I want to look at the bacon first
because that was the one that I was really trying to get done I was really
disappointed in the meat video that it didn't even come close to getting done
but it looks a lot better this time being cooked I'm still not sold that it
would do well long term but definitely short term it'd be okay
her eggs shrunk just a little bit and weird enough though the whites actually
turned kind of a yellow color our potatoes did really well I didn't have
any there was no question that was gonna to deliver we're going to turn out well
the sausage patties still have some grease on the top for the breakfast
sausage that I thought actually were greasy er it looks like all the grease
escaped on those so those look like they're pretty good pancakes they were
real interesting because they're just a
solid the OJ is actually soft to the touch so it did not get done let's take
it upstairs and give it a closer look so just in the few minutes that the orange
juice has been out of here it's actually thought and become a liquid again which
makes me think that it may just not have been done so if you've had experience
with orange juice and doing orange juice let me know in the comments section I
think that maybe I'll try it in another video and maybe put it with some other
liquid okay so the bacon I'm a little unsure
about and the sausage patties I'm a little unsure about and possibly the
breakfast sausage as well so I'm gonna do something that I like to do when I'm
not sure about something or if I'm using something short-term I always go into a
ball jar and I know people like the mylar bags but to me the ball jar is
great for a lot of reasons you can see what you're putting into the ball jar so
if something starting to go bad or if it doesn't get a proper seal or whatever
all the negatives are with a mylar you completely eliminate that with the ball
jar and another thing that I like about the ball jar is that you can vacuum seal
it in the harvest rate which not a lot of people know that you can do I do have
a video on it I'll put a link to it in the description make sure you check it
out because if you've not vacuum sealed in the harvest right before it's a huge
thing that not a lot of people know about and I use it all the time and it
makes the ball jar get an incredibly good seal it pulls 100% of the oxygen
out of the ball jar whereas on a mylar bag you're you're just completely
dependent on whether that oxygen absorber is actually working and you
never really know until it's too late now that our trays are empty I want to
show you what I was talking about earlier why it's so important that we
use as little grease as possible because even though there wasn't much grease
used there's still a lot of leftover on here okay in order to reconstitute these
I'm gonna reconstitute him like I was camping because that's my goal is to be
able to take this all camping the potatoes are easy an easy one you just
want to dunk them in water the pancake is gonna be a little bit tricky without
getting it mushy so I think the easiest one for that is probably just a couple
of wet paper towels and just as slow as possible and I think eventually it will
probably just absorb that moisture everything else I think can probably
just be dunked in water okay I've got my all the meat in a pool of water the
potatoes are in a pool of water they're actually
going really fast I think they're probably done already the pancake and
the eggs I'm just gonna set on this wet paper towel and then drape it with
another wet paper towel I'm gonna let these chill for a little bit and then
we're we're gonna try and cook them up
so these have all been sitting for about 20 minutes now potatoes I did I actually
drain them a little bit earlier because I didn't want them to get completely
mushed I think I'm actually gonna leave a lot of the water on here while I'm
wreaking them because I think the hot mixed with the the water that's on them
will actually help reconstitute them let's take a look at the pancakes and
eggs so these have been sitting for about 20 minutes as well the egg is
starting to take some of the moisture in and the pancake is very slowly if I if
you have a good way to reconstitute these in anything that's bread like let
me know in the meantime I'm gonna let these hang out for a little bit longer
I'm actually gonna add a little bit of water back into this I think while I'm
cooking it and I think that'll help all of this reconstitute better so
adding some water to these into the pan definitely help bring these back to life
now at this point like for the potatoes and the bacon if you want to get it back
to that crispy consistency I think if you added oil it'd be fine but these
guys are surprisingly pretty good the breakfast sausage there they're a little
bit smaller than they would be when we put them in and then the patties are
doing well that also gives me hope that if the pancakes don't do well in the
paper towel and the eggs and we can just throw them in a pan with a little bit of
water and just add water slowly alright the bacon looks good I'm gonna call it
bacon a success the potatoes are really good they work well alright they're both
still pretty crunchy I'm adding some more water to the pan so I'm just gonna
add these into the pan the water in the pan kind of creates steam especially if
you have a lid on it and I think it helps reconstitute it pretty quick
all right I think our sausage is done now and the pancake surprisingly is
perking up I think if you're if you're real careful when you take your time
I think the pancake is actually fine which I didn't think would turn out the
egg is actually the worst thing I think definitely as far as the eggs go because
the other kind of eggs turned out really well the fried egg i I just don't the
consistency of it is not good it changes it a little bit especially the whites I
think we're ready for breakfast the campfire breakfast turned out great I
think the worst one of all of it were the eggs surprisingly which I thought
would be one of the best fried eggs I would not do it get do again I would
always do scrambled I would do powdered or I would try and separate yolk and
white and then try and reconstitute him that way raw the pancake actually did
really well all the sausage did well the bacon got crispy again the the
hashbrowns did well looks like I'm going camping with some freeze-dried food if
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you next week I'm gonna have some breakfast