Both trendy and delicious, freeze-dried candy is giving its conventional sibling a run for its money. But what makes this ...

Freeze-dried candy is a trendy snack, but how is it made and why does it cost so much more than its heavier, non-freeze-dried ...

As for the method, “What we put in the freeze-dryer is raw,” says Kern. “We separate the shell, the machine freezes it to -23 to -40 degrees, and then it starts a slow reheating process that ...

The villagers then walked on the potatoes to squeeze out the moisture. It wasn’t until 1906, though, that Jacques-Arsene d’Arsonval invented a primitive freeze-drying machine in France.

Zombie's Brain Freeze Candy's freeze-dried caramel M&M's. The Bullocks produce about 300 bags or deli containers of candy each week in their machine, many priced at $7.

But freeze-drying machines themselves are incredibly expensive, running in the tens of thousands of dollars. The machines also require lots of electricity to run.

After trying his first freeze-dried Skittle, Andrew bought a freeze-drying machine and began experimenting on everything. Now he has four freeze-dryers.

So the family purchased its first freeze-drying machine for $5,000, nearly wiping out all its savings. While experimenting, McMenimen threw some Skittles in one day to see what would happen and ...