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Canned the butter myself in 2020. Basically, you heat it up a bit, pour it into jars, shake regularly as it cools down. Tastes great, normal texture, spreads easily, does not need to be refrigerated. To be honest, the photo of the butter does not do it justice. That shit was practically a golden glowing yellow and looked amazing. Though, as to be expected from butter you've heated, when it melts it wants to separate into solids and oil especially if put in farina, oatmeal, and the like.

Onions. Freeze dried and sealed in a jar. They're onions. Nothing special. I used them in a stir fry. Tasted just fine. Could have made onion powder or minced onions from that if I wanted.

Green onions. Freeze dried. Interestingly, they turned a little brown even though they were still as crispy "fresh" as the day I canned them. I ate a couple and waited for a few hours. No stomach upset, sniffles, irritation, or explosive diarrhea so they went into the stir fry as well. These tasted just fine as well.

The tomatoes have been freeze dried and on the shelf for... I wanna say around 4 years. I honestly didn't expect them to stay on the shelf this long so I never put a date on them. I also put some in bags around the same time. The bags did NOT keep them safe and they turned into mush within months. The jars, however, were perfect for long term shelf storage. Pulling them out, they were still as "fresh" as the day they were canned. Still snapped, ground to powder, etc. They tasted fine and did not exit my ass at light speed so those went into a rice dish just fine.



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This is one of the ones that I expected to fail but I also expected freeze dried mushrooms to not turn into mush in sealed bags since it lasts forever if you immediately grind it into a powder so there's that. Additionally, I have what I call "Breakfast in a cup" which is biscuits, gravy, eggs, hashbrowns, cheese and it works very well - just add hot water and eat. The texture isn't amazing or anything like you might expect - it's more like a mush but it's tasty and doesn't seem to go bad.

For the new people at home: about 6 years ago I got a freeze dryer. Since then I've been experimenting with it to see what can and can't be done to preserve foods long term. The big selling point of freeze dried food is that, properly done and packaged, it can last up to 25 years on the shelf.

I know people have asked me to attach photos of the food I'm working with but this is just a biscuit. It looked like a biscuit before, during, after, and now. So, no picture.

Generally speaking, breads are problematic to freeze dry. Sure, you take ALL of the water out so mold, etc. can't grow on it but rehydrating any kind of bread is annoying at best because it's just so dry and adding any kind of water tends to make it just turn into mush.

I wanted to see if biscuits could be freeze dried because a good homemade biscuit can be a boon. It can be a comfort food, it can be combined with powdered or freeze dried homemade gravy (also a powder but whatever). It's not like hard tack which tastes like crackers but you absolutely want to moisten them up because the name "hard" is absolutely what they are and there's a real chance of breaking teeth if you bite into it. Biscuits turn into rocks.

I made sure that this pack of biscuits was one of the packs that hadn't lost its seal and still had vacuum.

The idea was: Whip out a pack of biscuits, add some hot water to a batch of gravy until it was a little thin, crumble the biscuit and pour the gravy on top and let the extra water rehydrate the biscuit. That part went without a hitch. Freeze dried gravy doesn't rehydrate with the same texture so I used fresh gravy in order to eliminate variables like that and the biscuit did indeed soften and become something close to what you'd expect.

Unfortunately, biscuits are made with oil, butter, lard, etc... some kind of fat. Smarter people here already see that there's a significant chance of the fat in it going rancid. I've had mixed results with fats in foods in the past so it's definitely not a "always fail" issue. For example, gravy is made with oil and it lasts fine.

The texture of the biscuit was fine. It's not a "fresh out of the oven" texture, for sure. But it's passable in a pinch. The taste was a little bitter as you might expect when oil starts to go rancid but it wasn't terribly strong. So I ate it up and waited.

Result: FAIL.

I had liquid shit squirting out of my ass all day.

So biscuits are not something you can reliably shelve for long term storage like that.

Fuck you, kikes.

Anyone pointing out that it's voat's logo, colors, icons, etc. is getting hit it immediate downvotes strongly implying that there is more going on here than someone just stealing a design, @system