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Freeze Dryers to Purchase
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- Harvest Right Freeze Dryers - Start with the Large and then upgrade to an XL as you start increasing your customer portfolio. https://affiliates.harvestright.com/1974.html
- StayFresh Freeze Dryer - https://stayfreshfreezedry.com/?sca_ref=3292008.4uBi4MIG3W&sca_source=YouTube. I like the freezing speed and dry times of this machine. It's a little larger than the Harvest Right Medium but you can do 12-13 pounds of food in it which is only a few pounds less than the Harvest Right Large capacity.
- Blue Alpine Freeze Dryer - https://bluealpinefreezedryers.com/thefreezedriedbusiness
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well by the title and thumbnail of this
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video you're probably wondering what the
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heck is going on lately I've just been
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seeing a lot of I don't know just very
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subjective and very uh targeted opinions
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about freeze dryers and one of the
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things that has been the most disturbing
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for me and concerning because I wanted
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to talk about it is that people believe
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that certain freeze dryers are better
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than others and we should bash all the
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other freeze dryers that
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other people don't like and therefore
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discouraging people to not take a look
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at them at all and as a as a YouTuber as
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a person as a platform to an audience
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like you I feel that it's part of my
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responsibility to kind of address ahead
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on because sometimes I'm sure some of
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you are wondering what is my opinion of
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these things and you'll notice right
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behind me is the Harvest Right freeze
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dryer this freeze dryer as well as two
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others I've had for 4 years since I
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started my freeze dry business back in
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2020 and they have been great machines I
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also own a stay fresh freeze dryer I
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bought it last year in June talked with
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Tim who's the owner of stay fresh and it
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has been a great machine as well I've
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also done a recent interview with the
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owners of blue Alpine freeze dryers and
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Corey and Tim over there Merit they are
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awesome individuals as well building
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great machines and they're here locally
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in in Idaho and I'm planning on going to
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their facility to visit them to see how
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they're assembling their freeze jars and
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what makes them different unique I've
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also taken a look at the cube that's
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produced by prep for Life as a company
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and as far as I can tell they've got a
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lot of great features they've even got a
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Bluetooth capability so that you can
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actually get on your phone and take a
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look to see when a cycle is done I think
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all these freeze dryers are great
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there's even some new freeze dryer
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brands that are coming out I believe in
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2024 and even 2025 they're just going
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through some quality uh checks and
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things like that all of this aside this
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is a very exciting time for freeze
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drying and if you're looking to
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determine what type of freeze dryer you
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should buy I think there's a couple of
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things that you should filter out all
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the opinions about and focus in on what
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you're buying the freeze dryer for
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number one is are you buying the freeze
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dryer for home use because if you're
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buying it for home use you've got all
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the different brands that I've di menion
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to choose from and there's multiple
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factors as to for home use what you
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should be driving the purchasing
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decision by the second reason is do you
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want to start a business using your
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freeze dryer and even if you're starting
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out slow and you're just starting out
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with one freezer and you're trying to
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determine which one you should choose I
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think you really need to factor in what
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the business decision and Factor should
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be for purchasing a particular brand
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over another and on this channel I'm
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focused on the business side but I try
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to encourage all of you that maybe have
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a freeze dryer for home use to maybe
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take a look at developing a side
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business with your recipes things that
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you're experimenting and having fun with
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a freeze dryer so what I'm going to come
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at this on the freeze dry business
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channel is a at a position of is it the
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right fit for your business how does the
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freeze dryer hold up for longevity and
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the amount of cycles that you're going
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to be doing to try to get the most
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production out of your freeze dryer and
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mainly I've been focusing on the brands
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that have home type freeze dryer setups
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I haven't really focused on the
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industrial side and that's a whole
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another Avenue that I'm planning on
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going to so what you can expect from
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this channel is I'm going to try to
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remain as objective as possible about
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the freeze dryers that are out there
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from the Harvest D machine to the blue
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Alpine to the Parker freeze dryers that
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are more for industrial to also other
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brands from Europe and the Cannabis
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industry and all different types I'm
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just here and this channel is here to
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bring more light to the freeze drying
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industry and I don't care what brand it
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is to be transparent I am affiliate of
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other different types of branded freeze
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dryers just like Harvest so any purchase
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that you make from the links below my
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video descriptions of my videos really
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helps bring a kickback commission wise
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back to me so that I can make more and
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more content hopefully go and visit more
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Expos and shows about freeze drying and
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food processing and packaging and meet
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all these wonderful entrepreneurs in the
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freeze drying space so I'm an affiliate
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of all these and if a freeze dryer brand
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says that I can't talk about or promote
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other freeze dryer Brands then I'm not
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going to be an affiliate of them either
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because I want to remain as objective of
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possible I want this channel to be the
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resource for all of you watching and
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wanting to follow the freeze drying
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space to be a tool where you can go in
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and say wow I didn't even know that this
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company existed I didn't know that this
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freeze dryer company that existed I
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didn't know that you could do this with
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freeze drying that's what I want this
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channel to be about and I'm not going to
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be swayed by any brand limiting me on
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focusing on the freeze drying industry
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space so that's what you can expect from
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me and since this is hopefully my last
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and final video about this topic I'm
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going to give you my opinion about all
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the chatter that you're may be seeing on
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social media maybe different videos
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about these different brands of freeze
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dryer now Harvest R is the largest
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freeze dryer manufacturer I think in the
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whole entire world they've got hundreds
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of thousands of units already out there
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in the country and across the world they
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are the company that revolutionized and
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innovated the home freeze dryer you
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can't take that away from them they're
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the ones who created the software and
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all the components and parts to make
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sure that you could have a freeze dryer
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that looks like a mini fridge and put it
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in your garage put it in your home you
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can make a business out of it I mean
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they made a freeze dryer that was less
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than $10,000 that you can do a 100 lb
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just released this year so the fact that
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Harvest Right basically created all the
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opportunities that all these other
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freeze dryer Brands can now start
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creating it opened up the whole Avenue
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and it's opening up a huge industry
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right now for all of us to become
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entrepreneurs and do something really
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interesting with food preservation and
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candy and all the likes that we're all
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doing so I got to tip my hat to harvest
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right you know they are the ones who
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really innovated this and you really
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can't take that away from them they're
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the ones who led the charge so in terms
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of harvesting stri yeah they've got some
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vacuum error issues but those are easily
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fixed I did a video with Donald from
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Donald's freeze drying Channel and he's
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got a fix it for some of these vacuum
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issues there's also um other channels
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like Brian over at live life simple and
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retired at 40 he's got fixes for vacuum
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issues but do we all just hammer down
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Harvest Right and just tell them that
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they're a terrible company because they
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have these issues no and I'm not going
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to do that because all the freeze dryers
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from Harvest Right that I've owned even
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with some of the issues they've been
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helping me scale my business and have
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done a great job for me so I'm going to
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continue to talk about Harvest Right and
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if you're looking to start a business in
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freeze drying there's really nobody else
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that can compete with the XL size and
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also the HRC 100 that can do upwards of
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100 lb of product for under $10,000 so
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you have to look at things objectively
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and if you going to start a business I
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just can't I can't objectively tell you
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that all these other brands are better
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than Harvest Right for a business
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standpoint given the XL size and The
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hrc1 100 on top of the fact that they do
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have a lot of support and all the
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Facebook groups and the videos that
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you're seeing about freeze drying a lot
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of them all have Harvest Right freeze
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dryers and so the amount of support and
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information that you have is there
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versus the other brands you don't really
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have that wide support now stay fresh
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I've had the stay fresh machine for
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about a year now it's been a beast of a
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machine and if I was going to look at
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something that is comparable to the
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Harvest R medium and the large stay
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freshes right up there they're all very
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comparable on price and the support has
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been great as well what I've really
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liked about the stay fresh is that the
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freeze time and also the freeze drying
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time has really held up very
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consistently compared to some of my
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older Harvest RP machines and so I've
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been impressed with those but they've
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all ran very comparably to the Harvest R
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now I don't own a blue Alpine yet but
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I'm hoping to get one that I can test
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out and again like I said at the
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beginning of the video I'm planning on
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visiting the facility of blue Alpine
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here this coming summer and so I'm
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hoping to get a better understanding of
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what their freeze dryers have to offer
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but as we start going down the line of
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all these different freeze dryers if
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you're looking for anything from that
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large size that Harvest R has down to
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the small they're all very very similar
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and the factors that are changing things
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in their freeze dryer
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it it's very minute and so if you're
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seeing people talk about the errors that
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Harvest Right has vacuum errors all the
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heaters whatever it's a very small
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percentage of these failures and error
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rates that uh compared to all the rest
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of the units that they're selling out
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there and for everyone that's saying oh
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no no I don't want a machine that ever
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breaks down you're not going to find
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that either so I'd be hard pressed for
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someone to prove to me that stay fresh
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the cube blue Alpine all the new ones
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don't fail in different areas over the
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long time and stay fresh blue Alpine a
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lot of these other ones that are going
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to be coming out with they just don't
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have the longevity of 11 to 12 years
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that Harvest R has so over time nobody's
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seen what these other freeze dryers
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problems might be but right now I'd say
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all of them are fairly even and I'm not
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going to have this opinion that oh no
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just because you had vacuum error issues
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or because it failed one month in that
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I'm just going to bash Harvest right
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that's just not the case that I'm going
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to do so this channel is going to remain
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objective about freeze drying I'm going
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to fill the gaps to bring you more and
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more information about freeze dryers the
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manufacturers of them the supplies the
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entrepreneurs that are making unique
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things out of these freeze dryers that's
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what you can expect from this channel so
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I had to get this off my chest because I
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just see a lot of hate and a lot of
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things about Harvest Right and uh just
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you know you know don't buy this machine
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don't buy that machine and I'm I'm not
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sponsored I'm not paid by Harvest Right
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unless you buy from the affiliate link
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Down Below in the video description to
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help out my channel uh they don't pay me
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to do anything uh neither do the other
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brands and so I'm going to remain as
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objective as possible I just know that I
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want to present to you the most
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objective way of looking at a freeze
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dryer for whether home use or for the
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business and my kind of Niche right now
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is for the business side thing there's a
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lot of other brands that I'm going to be
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promoting and talking about including
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Hall and green science their freeze
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dryers their zeros micros I did an
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interview with them now they use their
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freeze dryer for the Cannabis side but
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it has a lot of applications to candy
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and food I'm going to be focusing on
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other freeze dryers just like them that
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you can take a look at so I'm the
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channel That I hope that you see that's
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bringing to light all different types of
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freeze dryers and helping you kind of
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understand that there's more out there
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than just the Harvest right there's more
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out there than just stay fresh and a lot
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of these Facebook groups just don't get
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caught up in it don't overwhelm yourself
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with all the opinions of others just
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take a look at things objectively and
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know what you're starting a business for
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