Hey everybody, it's retired at 40. I've got some big news coming from the harvest right world
They've got some new software that's getting ready to drop
It's gonna save you some money and it's gonna save you some wear and tear on your machine stick around
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So I've heard quite a bit of feedback from you guys on my other videos
About asking me if I pre freeze my food
how much of a difference it makes and I really haven't put a whole lot of thought into it until
Really in the last few weeks. So I've been trying to pre freeze my food and put it into the freeze dryer
See if it makes a difference
Well, just out of coincidence. I had the opportunity to get some new software from harvestright which
Really incorporates that whole thinking into the harvestright machine
so what some of you may have never noticed is that there is a
USB here on the side of the machine and what that allows is a technician or you the buyer to be able to do a
software upgrade or
Basically talk to the computer
inside of the machine
this new software from what I understand is going on some of the new machines and
In the near future will be available as an upgrade to older machines
So the first major difference you're going to notice about the software is just your home screen is a different color
obviously your version is a different version and
if you go to customize and
then adjust cycle times
That's where you're going to notice your first major difference and you'll notice that there's not a freeze
Adjustment on here anymore. It's just a final dry adjustment
You used to be able to adjust the the first freeze cycle
you could adjust the time and then you could also adjust the final dry cycle so you could say like
9 and 7 were the defaults you could do 10 and 12 or whatever you want to do go up and down
Well now you're only needing to adjust your final dry
So if you click start
That turns your machine on and it's going to ask you if your food is pre frozen or not
Frozen and this is where you're gonna get the biggest benefit out of this software
Because if you pre freeze your food and select pre frozen
What that's gonna do we're gonna shut the door here
It's gonna cool down your chamber for half an hour before I ask you to put your food in
So that's gonna save you a lot of time because that freeze that initial freeze on your freeze dryer is 9 hours
Being able to skip out on most of that first cycle
Is going to save your machine a lot of wear and tear because it's cutting out
Basically eight hours of having to pre freeze something that you can just you already have a freezer at home
You can go stick it into a freezer anywhere deep freeze or the freezer in your in your refrigerator
And it's also gonna save you a lot of money
Because that machine is running for eight hours less and every time you do a cycle
So i have run about three cycles through mine with the new software in it. I've seen some big improvements already the time
Definitely is less and now you actually can see the temperature in the corner of your screen
Of the chamber, which is kind of cool the first time I ran the new software
I got a little bit freaked out because the new software actually
Uses the vacuum pump as part of the cooling system which helps the food get colder
Faster the new software also allows the machine to sense the cooling in inside the machine
Which means you don't have to think about it and since that food is getting colder and getting colder faster
It actually helps the dry process
So now that our half hour pre freeze is done. We're going to add our frozen food and press Start
Okay, so now that our food is loaded in
We're gonna press start
close the drain valve like usual and
Then we just go to freezing. So the next difference you're going to see is
that it's it's telling you the temperature inside the chamber so -4 Fahrenheit and
what this does is it now senses the temperature of the chamber so you don't have to and
That's why it eliminates that first cycle of the freezing. So just having this in here about 30 seconds to a minute
it's already dipping down in temperature because of that cold food that I've put in so it's sensing that it's going down in temperature and
It will still do a freezing cycle
but it's usually very short and then it will move into that middle drying cycle like you're used to
but the big difference is that it's sensing the temperature on the inside of the unit and
That way you actually don't have to physically set the time that is allotted for the initial freeze
okay, so this just kicked on and now you can see that it kicked the freezing time down to four hours and 29 minutes and
It will actually keep going down from there pretty quickly. So it's already knocked about four hours off of the freeze time
Okay, so you can see right here. It's been two hours and four minutes
I'm not sure how long it's been in the drying cycle. I just came down to check on it
So right off the top that's that knocked
Seven hours off, If not more. I don't know how long it's been in the drying cycle
Since when I first started to chill the chamber
Until now, it's two hours and four minutes
So 19 hours for freeze-dried ice cream, it's a big improvement over the way
it used to be the only difference that you have the as the user have to make is install the software or
Buy a machine that has it already in it. And other than that, you're just having to pre freeze
in a deep freeze or the freezer in your
Refrigerator your food before you put it in and you're saving basically a third of the cycle time
from the old way
I'll keep trying different foods with this new software and keep you posted on what my results are in the meantime
This is retired at 40. Remember to live life simple. We'll catch you next week