Freeze drying food in home freeze dryer machine

Medium Freeze Dryer

Name: Medium Freeze Dryer
Brand: Blue Alpine
Price: 2995.0 USD
Availability: InStock

$2,995.00$3,095.00

Color: Black

Black Sky Blue

Vacuum Pump

Premium Freeze Dryer Vacuum Pump Upgraded +$1483.00 Commercial Freeze Dryer Vacuum Pump

Our Freeze Dryers Just Work Better!

If you're interested in freeze drying and you want to purchase the highest quality home freeze dryer, you have come to the right place! A freeze dryer is a large purchase/investment, so we have included many details below to help. Every one of our machines comes with amazing customer service and support. Call now if you have any questions at 208-607-1722.

What is Included:

1x Medium Freeze Dryer

1x Impulse Sealer

1x Premium Vacuum Pump + Oil

5x Stainless Steel Trays

5x Silicone Mats

50x Mylar Bags

50x Oxygen Absorbers

Lifetime of Good Customer Service!

Freeze Dry Candy Faster (Food Too)

Speed up your candy freeze-drying with the Blue Alpine Freeze Dryer! Users have the flexibility to set the pressure limit for each recipe. This lets the candy undergo the freeze-drying process at a significantly faster rate compared to other foods. With the Blue Alpine, you can freeze-dry Skittles in as little as a couple of hours! Additionally, our freeze dryer includes a distinctive "Candy Prewarm" feature designed specifically for certain hard candies like Jolly Ranchers, providing the extra heat needed to puff up and facilitate the freeze-drying process. Read more about freeze-drying candy in our blog post.

Delivery Time

Our current time till ship is 3 - 4 weeks for medium freeze dryers. Updated 2024-12-12.

What makes us Different:

Here at Blue Alpine, we are serious about three things: freeze dryers, quality, and customer service. We are never satisfied with the status quo and we push for improvement through researching, engineering, and testing.

A lot of minor improvements add up to a huge difference in quality. Ultimately our machines are simply superior.

25% more cooling capacity, which translates to up to 25% faster batches.
Built In Idaho by technicians who hold themselves to a higher standard.
A circulating fan inside the chamber blast-freezes the food, creating better quality food and faster freeze times.
A P100 filter inside the chamber protects your vacuum pump from particulates, increasing the lifespan of the vacuum pump.
The trays are a food industry standard size (quarter sheet pan, 9x13), so you can easily buy more pans from your local stores.
Each machine goes through several hours of quality control tests to make sure every component of the machine is operating within normal parameters before it ships.
Smart software utilizes PID control technology and solid-state relays to accurately freeze-dry your food.
We use a natural refrigerant (R1270) that is future-proof, unlike R404 or R410 which will be discontinued soon.
On our machine, all vacuum fittings are barbed fittings. We do not use crimped fittings which are prone to vacuum leaks.
We use thread-locker to seal all threads. We do not use Teflon Tape which is also leak-prone.
The frame of our machines is made with extruded aluminum and is incredibly durable.
Recipes built into the software allow you to optimize your freeze-drying cycles. Candy, for example, can get done in about 2 hours. Fruit, on the other hand, takes about 6-18 hours depending on the load.
The bottom tray has a higher wattage heating pad so the bottom tray stays the same temp as the rest.
If we send out a bad machine we don't hide behind warranty fine print. We own our mistake and make it right.

Specs:

Overall Machine Size: 20" x 21" x 30", WxDxH 110 lbs
Up to 15lbs of food per cycle
5 trays (standard 9x13 inch)
Average freeze-drying cycles take 12-20 hours
Candy Mode: 2-4 hours for most candies
Plexiglass Door Thickness: 1 inch
120V, 15A Breaker (Normal Wall Outlet)
13 Amps Maximum Power Draw (1560W max)
9.0 Amps Average Power Draw (1080W average)

Shipping

Shipping for the lower 48 states is free
For shipping to Alaska or Hawaii contact us for a quote
For shipping to Canada or Mexico contact us for a quote

Owners Manual

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Warranty

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Slow start

Well after watching youtube and talking to Cory I wish the operation was a little easier to understand. I feel like I’m just crossing my fingers and hoping for the best.

Very pleasant to work with. Thank you.

Great product

Arrived very well packed
Fit and finish are both superb
Customer Service is a10
Highly recommend Blue Alpine

Couldn’t be happier!

After many years of wishing, I purchased the Blue Alpine and I couldn’t be happier with the quality and ease of use!

Much better than that other brand! So happy now!

I purchased a medium machine from that other freeze dryer company and was excited to join the freeze-drying community. Plug and play, right? Not quite. Instead the pump was DOA. After 4 phone calls, and some video proof, we finally were able to get a new one shipped about a week later. Excited to get going, and with the understanding that these things do happen, we got started with the initial bread run...again. Unfortunately, we got stuck...again. The vacuum mTorr level never dropped below 1750, and the machine kept cycling between more freeze time and trying to get a proper vacuum. After bailing on that bread run, I just simply tried to run the vacuum test. Same issue. Called support and watched like 8+ hours of YouTube and scrolled all the Reddit content I could find, trying to fix my brand new $3,000 machine. Self-sealing silicone taped every connection point on any and every hose. Siliconed the chamber feed thru port, changed the weak ball valve, adjusted the door to get the best seal...nothing worked. Called support again and was told I'd get a call back from the tech at the next availability, which was 5 days from now.

Luckily, I bought this from a company with a 30 Day Return policy, but it was starting to get close to that point. I stumbled across the Blue Alpine YouTube channel and Cory's awesome videos. I knew this had to be the better choice. I packed that other machine up and returned it the next day. Then, from the parking lot, I bought the medium model from Blue Alpine.

At the time of purchase, there was a disclaimer on the website that stated it wouldn't ship for up to 3 weeks. To my surprise, I received a call from Blue Alpine a few days later asking if I was ready to accept a shipment earlier than expected. Absolutely! The freeze dryer was crated very well, securely on a mini pallet and wrapped with a custom shipping cover inside of a larger box. This was an immediate upgrade to the other machine and it's ridiculously flimsy packaging. After unwrapping, you notice the build quality right away. This is a well-built machine, and yes, even capable of parking a truck on it, IYKYK.

It came with all the manuals, documented QC testing sheets, trays, mylar bags, sealer, vacuum pump, oil and even a small bag of candy to run in our first batch. 15 minutes after the unboxing, we were ready to go. Filled the oil, loaded the other trays with different candy, and used the built-in candy recipe. Boom! It was really that simple. I've always assumed that a $3,000 purchase would be properly tested and just work out of the box. Blue Alpine proved me right. You can see their tests done on my new machine. Documented mTorr levels, and the technician that performed that test in the factory. This is USA made and it stands up to that quality.

All in all, I can't recommend Blue Alpine enough. It truly is an outstanding freeze dryer. I love the fact that they are transparent about repair parts. It was designed to use easily sourced parts, if needed. I don't foresee needing to repair anything though. This machine is an absolute unit! We've only ran a few batches of candy, ice cream and fruit through it so far, but all with zero issues. If you are interested in buying a freeze dryer and are comparing brands, just stop. This is so much better, in every way. Oh, and the silicone tray mats are awesome!

Thanks Blue Alpine!

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