Prepare Squash for Freeze-Drying

some fun okay and what we're gonna do here is we're gonna cut our squash fairly thin okay and the goal here with cutting our squash fairly thin i'm talking about maybe one inch thick okay and that's so that it all dries evenly you want to be consistent with your cuts some of these aren't so consistent man that knife is nice we'll fill all of these trays that's one squash and it's going to basically fill half a tray one small squash so got some zucchini here we're gonna try that too what you guys need to know about freeze drying versus dehydrating from the dehydrator is that we're not cooking the food we're actually freezing it in the current state that it is and we're retaining more nutrient and you know when we grow a garden for ourselves we're growing it because it's high in nutrients okay it's good quality it's not that garbage that you buy in the grocery store food from the garden from a home-grown garden tastes so much better so when we rehydrate these they will have retained most of their nutritive value versus freezing them in the freezer and trying to cook them they just turned a mush now that might be good for zucchini bread or squash bread but it's not so good for eating squash just like it's fresh out of the garden not only can you put vegetables in here you can put meat you can put all sorts of stuff in here it will keep