CD8 Home Freeze Dryer
Original price was: AU$14,500.00.AU$12,490.00Current price is: AU$12,490.00.
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HACCP International Certified – Food Safety without compromise. Cryodry’s CD8 Home has been designed and tested with food safety in mind. CD8 Home has received HACCP International Certification. All food contact materials used in our drying chamber are certified food safe. Our unique sandwich shelf stack design eliminates the need for heater adhesives preventing your food from potential exposure to VOC, which are often linked to health risk.
Global Safety Certification – For your peace of mind, the CryoDry® CD8 Home offers certification according to UL (USA), CSA (Canada), CE (Europe) and RCM (Australia/New Zealand). Freeze dryers need to meet highest safety standards to prevent hazards like electrical shock, fires or personal injury. 
Remote Control and Remote Support – CryoDry® Console enables remote access for control of your CD8 Home freeze dryer. Take control of your freeze dryer via Wi-Fi or Internet from any operating platform via web browser. Receive SMS and Email status notifications on the go. The CryoDry support team is now literally only one click away and can assist with application questions, technical troubleshooting and your service needs.
Quality and Durability – Buy once and buy well. CryoDry freeze dryers are designed and built to a commercial grade with durability at its core. We exclusively use proven components of highest quality. All components are qualified through vigorous lifecycle testing. Our refrigerant R290 has a proven track record in the global kitchen appliance industry. We build your dryer with utmost quality focus.
Easy-to-Use – Successful drying runs first time. Using the CD8 Home is ultra simple. Cut your food to size, place food on the trays, load the trays into the drying chamber, select autodry and press start. The dryer will tell you when the job is done. Our advanced dryness detection is industry leading.
Save Electricity – Save money with every batch you do. The market leading low power consumption of CD8 Home can save as much as 50% on electricity cost through use of highly efficient components and clever process control.
| Features | Benefits |
| Remote Control | Real Time Full Control via any web browser with SMS and Email status notifications |
| Over-the-Air Software and Firmware Updates | CD8 Home notifies you when software or firmware updates are available. Updates can be installed directly over the internet ensuring your system stays up to date. |
| Interchangeable shelf configurations | Simple shelf changeover to accommodate various applications |
| Benchmark ice capacity | Large batches and long defrost intervals for maximum uptime |
| Food Protection | Re-starts automatically in case of transient power outages. In case of other errors food is automatically refrozen to prevent spoilage. |
| Powerful colour touchscreen controller | • Remote Control • autodry • Recipe mode and manual operation • Vacuum Oven Mode |
| Fast Drying | The advanced vacuum control system saves more than 30% of drying time |
| Candy Mode | Candy can be done in as little as 45 minutes |
| Compact design | Easy to load and unload. Uses minimal bench space |
| Ozone friendly natural refrigerant | Minimal carbon footprint and ultra-low greenhouse warming potential (GWP). Guaranteed long term availability (unlike ozone depleting CFC and HCFC) |
| Low Maintenance | Easy and cost-effective service |
The CryoDry® CD8 Home benchtop freeze dryer is a versatile and user-friendly commercial grade food freeze dryer for home use. It is certified food safe, carries global electrical safety certification and is extremely easy to use.
The CD8 Home has an impressive 9.6 kg product capacity on up to 9 shelves, which can process large batches of product in a single cycle. Capable of removing up to 4 kg of ice from the product per 24 hours, the CD8 Home is an ideal choice for high-volume applications. The CD8 Home comes standard with 5 electrically heated shelves in our unique Sandwich Shelf Stack Design, which provides premium temperature control accuracy and even heat distribution, to ensure uniform drying of the product, whilst also negating the need for potentially harmful heater adhesives. The CD8 Home freeze dryer also includes 5 stainless steel trays, which are durable and easy to clean.
Our innovative autodry mode is perfect for beginners who do not want to setup their own drying programs. The program uses an advanced algorithm and precise pressure control. Experienced users can tailor auto-dry parameters to their preference.
With manual, programmed or autodry operation the CD8 Home caters for virtually any use case. For those with more experience or specific needs the programming option caters for specialty requirements such as candy, ice cream and other more challenging tasks. Manual operation is used, for example, by those users who like to vacuum seal their mason jars in the CD8 Home.
A key benefit of CD8 Home is lowest-in-class power consumption. Save money with every batch you do. CD8 Home can save you as much as 50% on electricity cost through use of high efficiency components and clever process control.
With its advanced features and user-friendly design, the CryoDry® CD8 Home is an essential tool for any home or commercial kitchen, that requires high-quality freeze-drying capabilities.
| Refrigeration | ||
|---|---|---|
| Typical Product Capacity | 9.6 kg at 80% moisture | |
| Total Condenser Volume | 11 litres | |
| Ice Condenser Capacity | 8 kg | |
| Condenser Performance | 4 kg per 24 hours | |
| Ice Condenser Temperature | < -45 °C | |
| Refrigerant | R290 | |
| Defrost Function | Shelf heating | |
| Vacuum | ||
| Ultimate Vacuum | 1.5 x 10-1 mbar | |
| Shelves | ||
| Number of Shelves | 5 | |
| Shelf Stack Options | 9 and 7 shelves | |
| Inter-shelf Distance | 9 Shelves 16 mm | |
| 7 Shelves 22 mm | ||
| 5 Shelves 33 mm | ||
| Tray Size | 200 x 450 x 15 mm | |
| Minimum Shelf Temperature | -40 °C | |
| Maximum Shelf Temperature | +60 °C | |
| Power Requirements | ||
| Electrical | AC 120V 14A 50/60Hz | |
| AC 220-240V 8A 50/60Hz (Not for UL-mark) | ||
| Maximum Vacuum Pump Current: | AC120V, 50/60Hz; 2.8A AC220-240V, 50/60Hz; 1.6A |
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| Interfaces | ||
| Interfaces | USB-A, Wi-Fi | |
| Size and Weights | ||
| External Dimensions (DxWxH) | 770 x 748 x 507 mm | |
| Weight | 87 kg | |
| Noise Level (without vacuum pump) | 54 dB(A) | |