Freeze-Dried Coffee

Step 1

Begin with your prepared coffee according to your brewing preference.

Step 2

Place the trays into the freeze dryer, ensuring they are level and stable.

Step 3

Cool the brewed coffee completely and carefully pour it onto your trays in the freeze-dryer until three-quarters of the way up the sides of the tray. Optional: Fill trays and set them in the freezer overnight until frozen solid.

Step 4

Turn on the freeze dryer, following the on-screen prompts. Be sure to add two hours of extra freeze time and two hours of extra dry time. Homesteading Hack: The Harvest Right Freeze Dryer has a sensor that alerts you with a beeping sound when the product is freeze-dried.

Step 5

Once the machine has finished, remove the trays and check that the coffee is freeze-dried completely. If you feel any coolness at all, return to the freeze-dryer and give it two more hours before checking again.

Step 6

Remove the coffee from the freeze dryer and break it into large pieces. The freeze-dried coffee should crumble easily between your fingers, but alternatively, you can pulse the freeze-dried coffee in a food processor or high-powered blender until powdered.

Step 7

Store in a Mason jar and vacuum seal the lid or store in Mylar bags with oxygen absorbers.