PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vacuum freeze drying apparatus capable of easily applying appropriate vacuum freeze drying processing to various kinds of food materials and cooking methods without requiring professional knowledge.SOLUTION: A vacuum freeze drying apparatus comprises a drying chamber, cooling means, decompression means and heating means, and control means for controlling each means, and the control means comprises: storage means for storing allowable heating temperature corresponding to each of types of food materials and cooking methods of objects to be dried in advance allowable heating temperature determination means for acquiring allowable heating temperature stored in the storage means corresponding to the types of food materials and the cooking methods of an object to be dried housed in the drying chamber, and determining allowable heating temperature of the object to be dried and heating control means for controlling the heating means such that the temperature of the object to be dried housed in the drying chamber becomes allowable heating temperature determined by the allowable heating temperature determination means or less.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2
