How much does it costs to freeze dry Pork Chops?
The raw pork chops were $1.99/lb. It costs about $0.47/lb. to freeze dry and package it using the Large, 5-tray Harvest Right freeze dryer. The total costs were $2.46/lb.
We freeze dried 9.2 lbs. of pork chops, and analyzed every cost aspect that went into the process. See the cost table below for a cost breakdown of each freeze drying cycle. Our cost per kilowatt hour is $0.10 (this number came off our power bill). With some "simple" analysis of the data we pulled from our freeze dryer logs, we calculated the cost per stage of the cycle. You can also see the exact stages of the cycle.