How to Freeze Dry Eggs

Chantal

Learn how to freeze dry eggs for long and short term storage, and for the freshest flavor. Freeze drying helps you preserve eggs for over 20 years if stored properly.

Freeze drying is a method that has been used in food production for many years now. In fact many of the foods you buy at your local grocery store or online is freeze dried, such as instant coffee for example.

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Prep Time 30

Freeze Drying Time 1 12

Total Time 1 12 30

Equipment

Freeze dryer
2 bowls
Whisk
Food processor
Spatula
Mason jars or Mylar bags
Vacuum sealer
Vacuum sealer jar attachment kit
Impact Sealer
Oxygen absorbers

Ingredients

Whole Fresh Eggs

Instructions

To freeze dry whole eggs:

Test your eggs to see if they are good before you proceed with this process.
Turn your freeze dryer on following the settings on your freeze dryer. Choose whether you are freeze-drying from frozen food, or non frozen.
Crack the eggs into a large bowl and whisk them to break up the yolk. A yolk that is not broken will not freeze dry properly.
Place your freeze dryer trays into the freeze drier.
Slide the trays slightly out of the freeze drier, and carefully pour the egg mixture into the trays, making sure to fill them not more than two third of the way up.
Slide the trays back into the freeze dryer, shut the door, and follow the settings on your freeze dryer ensuring to close the pressure release vent before you begin the freeze drying process.
The freeze drying cycle should be done in about 36 to 48 hours, or less.
Once the freeze drying cycle is over, follow the settings on your freeze dryer, release the pressure valve, open the door, and check on each tray to ensure that it is fully dried. If you sense that something is not fully dried, shut the door tight, close the pressure release valve, and add a few more hours to the drying cycle to ensure that everything is super dry.
Once the freeze drying cycle is over and you are satisfied with the dryness of the eggs, remove the trays from the freeze dryer while remembering to release the pressure before you open the door.
Place dried eggs into a super dry food processor, and process until the eggs turn into a powder.
You can now store them in mylar bags with oxygen absorbers, or in glass jars. If storing in glass jars, you can remove the air out of the jars for a longer shelf life by using a vacuum sealer.
To store in mylar bags, you will need to seal them with an impact sealer, or with heat to prevent air from coming in and out of the bags.

To freeze dry separated eggs:

Test Your eggs to see if they are good before you proceed with this process.
Separate the egg whites and egg yolks into separate bowls, and whisk each of them individually especially the egg yolks to brake apart the membrane.
Follow the same steps mentioned in Freeze drying whole eggs, but place the egg whites and egg yolks into separate freeze drying trays.
In a food processor, process the egg whites and egg yolks separately, and store them in separate storage containers such as mylar bags with oxygen absorbers, or glass canning jars.

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Notes

To freeze dry from frozen, you can place your egg mixtures into the freeze drying trays and place them in the freezer on a flat surface until fully frozen.

Freeze drying from frozen will diminish the freeze drying time by about seven to ten hours, however, I find this process messy when it comes to eggs.

You really have to make sure that the surface you are placing your liquidly egg trays on is level, otherwise, you will have an eggy mess in your freezer.