hey guys retired at 40 here thanks for tuning in today I'm gonna try something
a little bit different I'm gonna freeze dry 60 eggs and I went to the store and
I picked up 60 eggs and it was eight dollars and 49 cents and the reason why
I bring that up is because I've been looking at freeze-dried food and it's
really really expensive it seems like so I wanted to compare the two costs of
freeze drying it yourself with fresh ingredients and purchasing it in a
prepackaged type situation so I looked for some of the common freeze-dried ones
Mountain House is one of the ones I found and it was 26 dollars and 32 cents
for 13 servings it said prepared it was three quarters
of a cup so to make this fair I want to make sure that one egg scrambled equals
three quarters of a cup alright here's my one egg this is my
guinea pig I just want to make sure everything's fair that's where we're at
about halfway up so if you look at it this way this would be $60 which to me
is crazy I paid $8.50 in mountain houses defense they do have
bacon in there but with the bacon they also have lots and lots of chemicals and
things that I can't pronounce in there which I don't really feel very good
about so now that we know what kind of energy consumption the harvest right
uses because of this video right here we can kind of get a better idea of what
sixty eggs is gonna cost in comparison to the mountain house prepackaged so
let's scramble sixty eggs okay ready go
all right when I did this I didn't really know how many I could fit onto
here 60 is probably actually too little and probably do eighty to a hundred and
be pretty safe I think let's go put this in the freeze dryer
okay for our suggested dry time I'm going to do nine hours of freezing and
then nine hours of final dry if you haven't checked out the suggested dry
time video make sure you check that out I'll put a link above all right there's
the kilowatt hours zero point zero and we'll let this freeze and we'll come
back and check on it later all right looks like we're all done
twenty-nine hours and 55 minutes and looks like it took eighteen point four
seven kilowatt hours let's see what the eggs look like
so this all works out right a bit you can guess what I'm going to have for
breakfast this morning that's right freeze-dried eggs and a big plus in my
book is that you can do 60 eggs and fit it all into two small bags these are
still in this form if you powder them like this I think you could probably get
all sixty eggs into one of the big mylar bags which is big plus so I wanted to
try and do these two different ways I wanted to try to leave them whole like
this and then I wanted to try them in the powdered form also so I just took a
meat tenderizer and smashed it down into the powder
alright let's try the powdered first I'm going to add water real slow
well it looks like it worked really good it actually started to clump together
again if you're doing this in camping or something to be great you know no
refrigeration is needed you just add some hot water you can boil on a fire
let's try these clumped ones next
all right those turned out great also it looks like they just came off the the
skillet all right well I would say both of them very good success the powdered
eggs actually turned out a little bit better than the chunk ones I think so
the powdered is probably better all around it saves a lot of space and it
turns out better in the end I don't really know how the mountain house ones
are measured I'm not sure have exactly how many eggs are in that canister but
even if there is 60 which I don't think there is the cost of the freeze-dried
eggs at home is way cheaper for total kilowatt hours is eighteen point four
seven and my cost for a kilowatt hour where I live is about nine cents an hour
and so that gives you about a dollar of 66 and energy costs if you have the
dollar 66 to the 8$.50 for 60 eggs you're talking just over $10 for 60
freeze-dried eggs which to me is a great deal hopefully you found this video
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