Freeze dried fruit in Hobart

[Orion]

Strawberries, blueberries, rasberries, blackberries, peaches. Maybe pineapple.
Freeze dried. Not frozen or simply dried or dehydrated.

Can it be found in lovely Hobart?
If so, where?

[simonm]

Is this what you are looking for?

http://www.foragerfoods.com.au/category_s/1824.htm

[Orion]

Cheers, Simon. Thanks for the response. The products Forager Foods lists on their website are all freeze-dried apples, which we had already come across. But oddly enough we discovered today that they also sell freeze-dried blueberries (we found them at a place called Eumarrah). It's funny that Forager doesn't advertise them on their website.

We also found some whole freeze-dried strawberries from a different company at City Organics.

Expensive stuff, but we've got big packs and are looking at ways of minimizing the pain. We could probably save a lot more weight by leaving the whisky behind but that's just not going to happen.

[simonm]

Perhaps you should be looking for freeze dried whisky instead?

[stry]

Easy - drink faster !!

[Orion]

There is "drier" whisky of course. Cask strength, for example. We didn't have that. We brought a Kentucky bourbon and a Tennessee Whiskey which are 45% and 40% respectively. Lots of water. Really good tasting strong whisky tends to be expensive and I'd hate to decant that into PET bottles.

As for the fruit, the Forager Fruits were kind of duds in our opinions. We had some of their freeze-dried fruit juice flavored apples and some of their blueberries. I don't really care for freeze-dried apples that much and the added fruit juices just made them seem unnatural. Plus they rapidly reduced to a sugary dust as time went on. I never even finished the small amount I brought. The blueberries were a bit woody and lacking in flavor. I ate them simply to dispose of them.

The real winners were the freeze-dried whole strawberries (with 2% added sugar) we found at City Organics. They were wonderful, nearly as good as fresh strawberries. Seriously. I was wishing I'd packed more. We brought eight packages of those strawberries back home with us.

I wish there were a relatively easy way to do home freeze-drying.