Freeze-Dryer Batch Planner
A freeze dryer runs one batch at a time, and a batch takes a day or two. Whether your harvest actually fits through the machine is a scheduling question, not a wish. Pick your model and your pounds, and this lays out the year — and tells you plainly if the machine is too small.
Your machine and your year
Not sure of the pounds? The Preparedness Playbook computes this per crop from your own storage plan — this planner takes the yearly total.
Your year, scheduled
- Batches to plan for
- 43
- If every load runs full
- 30 batches
- Pace to keep
- 0.8 batches/week
- Machine-days per year
- ~57.3 (43-71.7)
- Mylar bags
- ~172
- Oxygen absorbers (300-500cc, 1/bag)
- ~172
Your machine is busy about 16% of the year: 43 batches at roughly 0.8 a week.
Harvest Right published specs: batches planned at the conservative low end of each model's fresh capacity, cycles at the 32-hour midpoint of the published 24-40 hour range, one Mylar bag per tray and one 300-500cc absorber per bag. Sizing absorbers for other containers too? Use the Oxygen-Absorber Calculator.
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