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freeze-dry

[freez-drahy] / ˈfrizˈdraɪ /


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It’s an interesting trick, because in order for us to do anything, you don’t want to repeat or freeze-dry anything; why bother if you’re not going to shake it up?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

ReadyWise uses a common process: They freeze-dry food, removing as much liquid and oxygen as possible and then package it in airtight containers.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2022

He doesn’t look like the kind of man who would freeze-dry his own pet, and indeed, he wouldn’t—it might make him too sad.

From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2019

Instead, recent messages have included an advertisement for Harvest Right, which allows consumers to freeze-dry their dinner, preserving it in preparation for “whatever the future may bring.”

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 7, 2017

The folks over at Perpetual Pet can freeze-dry your beloved pet in a familiar pose.

From Time ● Oct. 11, 2014

Jeff is an ordinary-looking man with blow-dried hair, a trim mustache, and thick-lensed eyeglasses that make his eyes look constantly startled, like those of the pets he freeze-dries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Contrary to popular belief, space food isn’t just freeze-dried packages or long tubes of bland, colorless and soulless slop.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2026

Donna, who used to work in the military but now works in education, stores water, tinned food, freeze-dried food, tea, coffee, powdered milk and a first aid kit.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026

But for months, she followed a fresh diet, lapping up gourmet meals and freeze-dried raw treats from a variety of reputable brands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

Fresh—a broad category that includes gently cooked, freeze-dried raw and dehydrated products—is a fast-growing segment of the pet-food industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

Using a map, he had calculated the distance he had to cover each day, how long it would take, and how much freeze-dried food he would need.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

That was over the summer, so he turned off the air conditioner, began freeze-drying bulk food purchases rather than storing them in his electric freezer, and started shutting off his lights more often.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025

Bischoff’s specializes in a form of hybrid taxidermy, incorporating traditional techniques with the more new-fangled freeze-drying process.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025

The coatings also kept the microbes alive during the freeze-drying process.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2023

Many of the Inca mummies discovered high on Andean mountaintops were preserved by freeze-drying, too.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 7, 2023

About £8m has already been spent preserving and restoring the timbers, which has included freeze-drying the wood at the Mary Rose museum in Portsmouth.

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2023


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