Large Food Freeze Dryer

Haven’t hooked machine up yet as we are still preparing a place for it with electric. Initially we didn’t expect the machine for 10 weeks or more. They called and offered one immediately if I was ok with black. Super nice and had that small business personal feel that they cared. Machine came in and found a nice courtesy note with a bag of skittles, I know it’s a small gesture but it was appreciated and a nice touch considering their competition never bothered when we got our first machine elsewhere.

If all goes well and we need another machine, I can already say Blue Alpine is at the top of my list.

It works great, way less time than other companies out there with candy making and fb groups and testing it has been successful ever batch to show it works more quickly. Was easy to put the pump on and do oil changes. I will admit I had no idea what I was doing prior to receiving it even though I looked online I didn’t fully understand how it worked till it was here and I did a test batch of candy. It was so easy! I’ve done apples and bananas as well and they are amazing. I was told the largest are very loud and while it is loud it’s not as loud as I was expecting. I’m sensitive to the ovens overhead fan and this doesn’t bother me. We have it in our dining room. It is very heavy though.

In the two weeks we've had our Blue Alpine it has run constantly and perfectly! We couldn't be happier!

I absolutely love BOTH of my Blue Alpine Machines! My first machine was a Medium, and it was very easy to learn and operate. The Large is no different and now I can do twice as much! You guys are Awesome! Thank you!

We purchased the large Blue Alpine freeze dryer. It arrived about 3 weeks ago. It was easy to set up and it looks absolutely terrific. It's big and it's blue!
So, we've watched freeze dryer videos for years and thought we knew it all, but when it came down to actually using one ourselves it felt a little intimidating... what if we mess up? Fortunately our excitement overcame our lack of confidence. We loaded all five big trays with slices of banana for our first run, and pressed Quick Start. That's it! By the next afternoon the process was done -- and from that single run we now have a one-year supply of freeze dried bananas added to our pantry!!
But check this out... next we tried table-spoon-sized scoops of neapolitan ice cream, and this might blow your mind -- after freeze drying a gallon of neapolitan (which only used up four trays), we crushed some of the freeze dried ice cream into tiny pieces... enough to fill half a coffee cup... we added water so it was kind of like a smoothie, stirred it a little with a teaspoon, and then we put that in the freezer... we thought maybe it'd turn into something ice-cream flavored ice or a popsicle, but no -- it actually turned back into ice cream!! Why isn't powdered ice cream a thing?? So we've discovered that we can store ice cream in our panty and make a little at a time as needed. There are so many other things we're going to try now!
We totally love our Blue Alpine freeze dryer. It's freeze drying slices of apples right this minute, and we'll be storing the garden in our pantry this year!!