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JUST realized the corn I planted is from Baker Creek. I have a whole package planted and only TWO have germinated. Now come on, we all can't be having the same problem, different states, different zones, different weather and planting times. That's it. I'm done with Baker Creek.

It does not work on poison ivy, ragweed, alfalfa, curly dock, wild asters, yellow nut sedge, or the morning glory family/bindweed. It might melt it, but it comes back with a vengance- think the terror in Indiana Jones and the melty face scenes with the Lost Arc at the end. But I agree, walking...

Oh I make my own bread, grind my own flours, but I don't work it by hand. I use a dough mixer, actually made to make Chinese dumpling dough. It mixes and ferments(proofs) the dough, so I don't have to.

And my problem is finding the NON-pleated ones. UGH. They do not do well in the microwave, and the plastic they're starting to use shreds after it gets cold. I'm sticking to my Tupperware, and old glass. And humidity...OMG....we are saturated, even in drought. It's only 75'F right now, but...

Althought you'd think she'd have the brains to use non-pleated baggies and/or a mixing container with a spout.

The lids snap on, yes. And I have extra sets of pans. I just pour and freeze liquids at the machine, it doesn't take that much more power. The bags are few and far between out here in the middle of no where and when I do find them they are $$$.

Yep. My trays have lids. No baggies involved.

I had problems last year, and didn't go back, and @TJAnonymous said she is this year.

If I spend too much time hand kneading bread, it will have an added ingredient, swearing.

My Concords are going nuts and yes, it's my Catawba that are naked, totally naked. I wonder if the drought and extreme cold we had this winter got her.

All the goodies are in the machine. So probably by Sunday lunchtime - breyers strawberry icecream bites, neopolitan bites, shoo fly cake pieces, and french toast sticks. It's 91 degrees, and the house has hit 80 - sleepy weather. (basement room with FDer is only 64 - lucky room) My older grape...

Chicks are happy. Hens are happy. The alpacas are in the western pasture for two days, so they're happy. The garden looks good. The tomato starts are growing. I mowed all day yesterday. I've got french toast, coffee cake, and ice cream squares in the main freezer, chilling for the freeze dryer...

No. It freezes the food, then heats it to cause the water in the food to sublimate. Water freezes as frost on the inside of the freeze dryer. It is a closed unit. When the food is done, and removed, you can choose to let it thaw the ice out naturally, which would add moisture to your basement...

The temperature thing is critical as the pump runs 24/7 when it's going and it gets HOT. So to keep from burning out the pump, you have to keep it in a cooler room. @TJAnonymous a lot of the reconstitution involves weighing it before you dry it and then again after, and only putting back in what...

@TJAnonymous make sure you have a place to put it before you buy one. The medium, and I think the large, need their own 15Amp, with nothing else running on it-20Amp is even better, but most don't have those kicking back, relaxing in disuse. AND the room, when it's running needs to stay below...

I've done cooked eggs, and I'll never do them again. Raw eggs will be done the next time I have a load of eggs to do. I understand those rehydrate beautifully and make great egg products and go into baked goods well. (I will let you know.) I also have not done meat yet. I'll also let you know...

Tomorrow I have ice cream squares, shoo fly cake, and cooked french toast sticks going in. All are for boy scout summer camp.

I'd be miserable in pants.

Pull the trigger if you can manage it, is all I have to say. I was waiting for the price to drop, which it hasn't in 10 years. AND I was waiting for the pump technology to improve, which it did by leaps and bounds. I also wanted to see one in person, which is easy now as many hardware big box...

They've been radiating mail for ages, since the anthrax thing in, what was that? 2000? 2001?