Stay Fresh Home 5-Tray
The Stay Fresh Home 5-Tray is a medium home freeze dryer with 5 trays and a published batch capacity of 15 lb of fresh food. It ships with an oil-sealed vacuum pump. Five 8 × 20 trays with 800 sq in of tray space, 12 lb of ice capacity, and a food-temperature probe in the box. Stay Fresh's 'Premier' pump is an oil pump, unlike the similarly named Harvest Right upgrade; the same machine with the larger commercial oil pump costs about $650 more. Per pound of batch capacity it sits 6th of 16 priced home units here, at about $180/lb.
- Batch
- 15 lb
- Trays
- 5
- Pump
- Oil
- Approx. price
- ~$2,699
Value on a 15 A circuit, with a probe for faster batches
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Specifications
Manufacturer-published figures, read from stayfreshfreezedry.com. Rows marked est. are arithmetic on those figures; energy at $0.17/kWh, the 2025 US residential average.
- Batch capacity
- 15 lb
- Claimed per year
- up to 3,600 lb
- Implied cycles est.
- 240 / yr
- Implied running time est.
- 3,840 h–7,200 h / yr
- Tray size
- 8″ × 20″
- Tray area est.
- 800 sq in
- Per tray est.
- 3.0 lb
- Pump
- Oil
- Voltage
- 110 V
- Circuit amps
- 15 A
- Cycle time
- 16–30 h
- Condenser temp
- -40 °C
- Dimensions
- 20″ W × 26″ D × 31″ H
- Weight
- 165 lb
- Touchscreen
- Yes
- Wi-Fi app
- No
- Warranty
- 1 year full warranty (US, includes pump) + limited 3 year warranty on refrigeration system; international: 1 year limited
- Approx. price
- ~$2,699
- Price per lb of batch est.
- ~$180 / lb
Power draw is the maker’s no per-model wattage published; manual rates 'Rated current 15A, Power 120v/60Hz'; site: 'A dedicated 15/20 Amp electrical outlet is recommended'; maker's electricity blog gives generic figures for a medium home unit: 'max power draw when the heater is on is about 1100-1300w', 'Energy usage averages 700-900 watts' during main drying, ~18.5 kWh per 24 h cycle figure.
Batch capacity: maker: 'Process up to 18lb of food in one batch' and '12-18 lbs' fresh food per batch; midpoint recorded.
Annual claim: 'Up to 3600 lbs' of fresh food per year.
Features
- 5 trays
- Oil pump
- 110 V
- Touchscreen
- Smart sensing
- Makes an annual claim
- Under 20″ wide
From the spec sheet
Points for and against, drawn from the published figures — not owner reports.
- 800 sq in of tray space published precisely
- Included food temperature probe can shorten cycles
- Patented automated cycle control (US 11,287,185)
- Weight is quoted with the pump excluded, so the 165 lb is honest about the cabinet
- Under $2,700 at the recorded sale price
- No per-model wattage published; the maker gives generic figures on a blog
- 'Premier' here means an oil pump — do not confuse it with Harvest Right's oil-free option
- No Wi-Fi
- Country of manufacture not published