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Oh, I did do some heavy whipping cream. It came out goofy, much like your colostrum. I would love to find out how to get it to come right, but it may not be possible. What if I mix it with water first!!! haha. just kidding.

Yeah. I pulled some smoked beef brisket (chopped) out yesterday. Just amazing. I am keeping some in smaller pouches for snacks while on long road trips.

Palo, Initial investment is the machine and some oil. It comes with a quart. Check out Harvest Right's site. Note, you will want to run it in an area that you can isolate. This is a bit noisy.

Palo, Initial investment is the machine and some oil. It comes with a quart. Check out Harvest Right's site. Note, you will want to run it in an area that you can isolate. This is a bit noisy.

Yeah, typically a batch that I have seen is about 30 hours. Take note, not to overload the machine. It can only handle so much water before the need of defrosting. I am trying to minimize my efforts in the process, rather than trim off an hour or two here and there. SatelliteDr, I love the graphs. I was going to try to do this in Excel, but after messing with it, I figured I may try to run it through one of my linux servers tools, like rrdtool. Would you mind posting what you have done? We all love pictures. Mark

After filtering about 1.5 Gal of oil, I the TP filter is working great. I did see a few drops of water in the bottom of the jar near the end. Easy enough, I don't pour that back into the jug.

During the normal drying cycle, it will vary between 500-900. In the final dry, you will see it get down to sub 500. I think mine has a small leak, but still does a fine job. I see no lower than 450, however, HR did send a new hose and need to swap it out. I wouldn't worry just yet. Different foods affect the pressure too.

I forgot to mention - it catches water. The current seller of the TP filter (I think it is Franz) notes that water is trapped in the TP. Seems quite a few people are using it to clean (real term is polish) diesel fuel that has been sitting for some time and has algae and water in it. I read somewhere each roll can handle about 6 oz of water. Since the main goal for this is to remove that crud and water, I'll probably replace my setup every month or two. Lets face it. Too easy to make another. Mark

I saw CarolinaGirl's way of filtering oil. I thought it was a great idea, as I had a few of those filters around anyway along with the activated char. Somehow, someway I found myself googling oil filtration and ran across the "TP Oil Filter" invented back in the 50's. Seems some are using them today with great results in vehicles and other equipment. So, I grabbed a 2 liter bottle, pulled the cardboard out of the center of a roll of TP, and it fit very tightly in side of the bottle that I cut the bottom off of. I was initially going to use the water filter as well, but I figured I would run it without just to see how it does. I gotta say, it does really good. Before - this was a single run of new oil. I dump all oil every batch. I plan to filter, then re-use. Clean oil = happy pump. The Setup - there is about 2 inches below the TP. The TP is compressed a bit where it funnels in. The oil did slow down when it got to this, but it would just help. At the moment, I have the bottle taped to the jar to keep it from falling over. I'll make a stand and probably put a cap with tube that would drain directly into a clean oil jug. After: sure, it is yellow. The orig oil has a slight tint. But all oil changes color when heated. Nice a translucent. I see no need to run any other filtering. The nice thing about this setup, is when you feel the TP is not moving the oil well enough, toss it all, make a new one. Oh, I used Charmin as that is what I had handy. I have read that Scotts 1000 works very well on the vehicle filters. Mark

I am new to the FD, got it a couple of weeks ago. One item I was hoping to FD was a GF elbow pasta, ground beef and Prego sauce for my Daughter. This may sound odd, but she is iGg responsive to dairy, wheat, soy and peanuts. Add to that, she is special needs, so preparing food in advance is a big thing for us. With any travel or such, food is a big logistic item. So, I FD'ed one of her cooked meals of the above and it FD'ed fine. Reconstituted fine too. However, she noticed it tasted different. At first, I thought it was her being picky, but it did "loose" something in the process. After reading this forum I saw brief mention that vinegar is "lost" in the process and that Maltodextrin may be added to help preserve the acid, to keep the "twang" in the sauce. Any suggestions? As a side note, this forum and the previous thread (23 pages) are amazing. I think someone should make a "Mr. Mike is Great" t-shirt. Thanks, Mark