Harvest Right Freeze Dryer Reviews

An alternative to canning, freezing and dehydration. Leftovers never go to waste. During the spring and summer when the chickens are laying in abundance, we freeze-dry the surplus eggs for when we need them in the winter when the chickens are not laying. We make a lot of stock, do not waste your Thanksgiving turkey, roasted chicken or venison bones, after deer season. The bones make great stock and freeze-dries well. We are pleased with this machine its worth every dime.

Best regards

Phil

I bought thew Harvest Right medium size freeze dryer in 2019 . My favorite feature is that I can add more time if I am not home when a batch his completed so I can be home when is done. and absolutely love it! It has so much versatility!!! I love that I can store food for long term, for snacks and everyday easy prepared food. When I don’t feel like cooking or don’t have time to prepare healthy meals, I just open up my mason jars mylar bags of freezed dried food of different ingredients and I am able to to put together and easy, healthy and delicious meal in no time. I also save a lot of money by not wasting food. I freeze all my left overs until I have enough to fill up my trays and run the Harvest Right. The customer support is amazing. And there is co much information everywhere and great groups that are willing to share and help you with questions on Facebook. One thing I learn is to leave the door close when I am defrosting or water will run out.

I f would do it all over again I would buy the large size.

I couldn't be happier with my Harvest Right freeze dryer. I have the large model with the premier pump, and it has been running almost non-stop since I bought it. I used to do a fair amount of canning, but freeze drying is MUCH better - the food lasts longer, retains more of its nutrients and weighs almost nothing!

I had a problem initially with a damaged touchscreen, but Harvest Right got a replacement screen out to me quickly. I was able to install it without a problem.

We had our freeze dryer for 4 months when we started to get a vacuum error message. I worked with HR customer support and got it back up and running and then a few months later the same vacuum error message kept coming up again, and food would not get processed.

I worked with a customer service rep after having to pay the $45 fee, because now the FD was out of the 1 year warranty. It took almost 3 months of back and forth and testing to finally get the FD working properly.

It works fine now, but we had to do lots of sealing of every connection on the FD and then testing before it finally started working again. I would rate customer service a 4-5 because they are knowledgeable about the machine, but do need some prompting to communicate in a timely fashion.

My only warning to potential buyers is to know that if you have issues with the FD you will be spending a lot of time doing all of the troubleshooting and repairs yourself with the guidance of customer service. If you are okay with that then the Harvest Right Freeze Dryer is recommended.