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Take a video tour of the most popular freeze-drying content with our montage of the five most-watched freeze-drying videos on The Freeze Dried Business Channel. This rapid-fire compilation gives you a taste of each freeze-drying video in three minutes or less. Want to see the full videos featured in this compilation? Check out the links in the description below!
#5 - š Easy Candy to Freeze-Dry https://youtu.be/8r9hUAKK8Go
#4 - š¬ How to Freeze Dry Taffy https://youtu.be/4hTghFdSmho
#3 - šØ Top Freeze Drying Tool https://youtu.be/e0ghQucJoTk
#2 - š Top 20 Items to Freeze Dry https://youtu.be/neZYov6iQ2M
#1 - š° Can You Make Money Freeze-Drying https://youtu.be/KVZbdzLWILc
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top five most watched freeze drying
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videos and I shortened it down to 3
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minutes or less for each video before we
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get to number five smash that subscribe
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Bell so you can be notified of future
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videos about freeze drying and freeze
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drying a business all right let's see
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what top the charts at number five of
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the most viewed freeze drying video
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$3,500 to freeze dry two candies that
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transform from being chewy to crunchy
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and you're going to love it you're going
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to want to watch this video in this
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video I'm going to share with you two
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candies that take the least amount of
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time time to freeze dry they change from
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a chewy state to a crunchy State and
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that's caramel L&M and your favorite
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Skittle so if you have version 23 or
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higher you have the option to customize
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to Candy mode which just means you get
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to customize the drying amount of time
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and the dry temperature so we press
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customize we're going to go all the way
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up to 140Ā° only need about 2 hours to
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freeze dry these candies so press save
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we're going to press Start I've also got
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this silicone mat because what I'm going
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to do with caramel and m m is I'm going
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to put each caramel M&M into here it
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actually ends up expanding as you'll see
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after we get done with a cycle I like
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having the individual caramel &em in
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each one of these because I'm going to
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do another tray for you to show you what
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it looks like when you just throw all of
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them on just like we do with Skittles so
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that you can kind of compare the two and
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see which one you might like to do so
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let's get to putting these into here I
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usually just like dumping a bunch on the
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silicone mat and then I'll just take
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them into ually and put them into the
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different mold as you can see here the
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silicone molds provide a really good
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Organization for all the individual com
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M&M so now we're going to do Skittles
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and I want to show you two different
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packs that I've purchased when I go and
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buy Skittles the Skittles in these tubs
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these are from Sam's Club or if you have
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Costco you can get these although this
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is a wild berry bag you can also buy
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these types of bags this amount right
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here a little bit too crowded and the
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reason I know this for my me personally
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is just like the caramel M&M's they just
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get a little bit too bunched up I don't
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like having to break apart the Skittles
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after they're done freeze drying and I
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don't like the clunk hey the two candies
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are done and I told you it transforms
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them from a chewy candy into a crunchy
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candy all right so this is the caramel
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M&M okay so here are the two trays as
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you can see this one right here is the
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tray that was all clumped together it
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creates these bigger clumps as you can
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see this tray with the silicone mats you
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get a single individual
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caramel
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M&M and you can put those in the bag
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Skittles pop and transform into this
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this is the crunchy side of a
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Skittle it's like eating popcorn this is
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the tray that we put together that had a
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little bit of spacing in it and as you
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can see yes they're clumped together but
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they're not as deeply connected as you
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might think so they easily kind of drop
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off and create individual Skittles just
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like you got out of the bag now this was
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the tray that we had very little spacing
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on on if you look at this it creates a
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whole big chunk I don't like having
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these big chunks I like having
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individual Skittles just like you're
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used to out of the bag that's the first
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time that you've seen that video click
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the link below in the video description
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you'll see the full video that I share
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on how to freeze dry Skittles and
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caramel M&M's now let's get to the
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number four most viewed freeze drying
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video on this channel which is all about
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freeze drying another candy Taffy today
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we're going to be doing a how-to video
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on candy and one of the most popular
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candies and I think it's probably one of
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the better ones to do is taffy got a
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picture of what it looks like once it's
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freeze-dried it changes its texture from
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a chewy candy to a textured like malty
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ball that flavor hits you immediately so
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it's really popular there's a couple of
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Pros to doing Taffy one is the texture
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changes to something that's new and
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Visually appealing to your customers so
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the experience for them is going to be
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new and fresh now the cons as I'm going
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to show you is a little bit more time
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assuming now although you can find local
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places to get Taffy I do find that
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there's some quick ways to get them
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online one is Amazon two Taffy town as
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well as candy.com I've included a link
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in the description of all these three
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places where you can find the Taffy all
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right so for the settings for the freeze
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dryer before you start cutting the Taffy
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is you want to set it to Candy mode it's
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very simple with the new software so
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you're going to select the customize
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button
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to 140Ā° and see how it says high
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temperature mode that's candy mode so
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what should we use to cut Taffy well
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there's two cutting methods that I think
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have been working the best for me as
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well as I've found through research of
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other forums there's really no easy way
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to do this except for using a knife and
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then also these is cut Co scissors I
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really like these they're durable and
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they really cut well and really make
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sure that you're getting a good cut each
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and every time whether you have a small
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or a medium or a large the same process
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technique and cutting can be applied you
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just need to figure out the arrangement
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that would fit on the trays for you I I
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cut the Taffy into quarters and I can
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put seven across and then I go 16 down
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that's 112 individual pieces going to
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arrange the Taffy so that you can see
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exactly how I arrange it on the tray do
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seven as a row and then I'm going to do
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16 columns all the way down with all
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these Taffy all right let's take a look
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and see what the saltwater taffy looks
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like freeze dried if you take a look
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Huckleberry Taffy looks like this and we
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got the blue raspberry hey why don't we
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try some freeze-dried salt water Taffy
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so here's the blue
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raspberry so when you're doing freeze
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drying as a business you want to ensure
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that you have proper storage for your
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freeze dried candy I found that these 5G
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buckets right here have worked really
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well and what they have is it has a a
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lid that actually creates a great seal
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around it if you can see it's rubber has
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a rubber gasket and when you close it up
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it spins and becomes airtight in here
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all right so we're going to unseal the
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bucket get that lid off
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[Applause]
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all right even if you don't have a
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freeze dryer freeze dry Taffy is awesome
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go up and pick a bag from a local freeze
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dry company or if you're are running a
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freeze drying business start free drying
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Taffy today and use links Below in the
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video description to buy your first bag
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through Amazon all right let's move on
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to the third most viewed freeze drying
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video on this channel which is all about
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how to freeze dry blueberries and it
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includes the best freeze drying tool for
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preparing fruit in my opinion let's take
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a look at how to freeze dry blueberries
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hey if you got a freeze dryer like the
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one behind me and you're trying to
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freeze dry blueberries but you just
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can't get the drying process correctly
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and they all come out inconsistent
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you're going to love this video because
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I've got a tool that's going to save you
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time and money by poking the skin of the
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blueberry it's fantastic and I'm going
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to show you what it's all about in this
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video we're going to freeze dry
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blueberries and I'm going to show you
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how to use a tool that's really helped
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me be efficient with doing blueberry I
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used to just throw the blueberries right
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on the tray and I didn't realize that
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you needed to poke the skin of the
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blueberry and any other types of fruits
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that have a skin because as you know the
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freeze dryer is removing the moisture
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from any type of item so with the
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blueberry the skin preserves that kind
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of like compactness water activity in
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there and so if it just dries it doesn't
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have a way to release the water and then
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you get exploding blueberries that are
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dried and it just either falls apart and
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crumbles or it becomes still chewing and
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it doesn't dry completely that's the
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inconsistencies that I found I started
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poking blueberries with an individual
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metal skewer and I started just poking
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each individual one on the trays it took
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a really long time and it just wasn't
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efficient now I purchased the roller
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Berry and this is by the company Frozen
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right tool has metal spokes that rotate
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and then right here is where all the
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blueberries catch once you roll roll it
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and it falls right back on the tray all
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right we're going to use the roller
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Bearer I'm going to show you how quickly
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it is to poke blueberries I've got the
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blueberries all washed and what we're
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going to do is we just kind of line up
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the blueberries using the silicone mat
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from the Harvest Right trays and we
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simply put the roller Berry on the end
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we kind of tilt up like this and then we
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roll and look every every single one of
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these blueberries just got poked all
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right I'm going to set a timer for how
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long it takes me to do 2 lbs of
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blueberry so you can see let's go ahead
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and press start and let's do the roller
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[Music]
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Berry okay 2 minutes and 14 seconds to
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do 2 lbs of blueberries all poked in all
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awesome so in the freeze dryer that
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we're going to do for this cycle is 12
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lbs of blueberri couple of trays that
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don't have any poking to it of the skin
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so we're going to see how that does so a
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lot of fun stuff to kind of see how it
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all turns out we'll wait for this cycle
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to get done and then we'll see how it
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all turned out blueberries are done
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they're done freeze drying and so what
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I'm going to show you is the various
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different trays all right everybody I
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just took two trays out of the freeze
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dryer one tray is poked that's the one
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that's poked that we did with the roller
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Berry and then this one is not so again
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this is the tray that as you can see it
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just
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has the red and it actually like crushes
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you see all that how it's crushing with
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just my finger now this is the tray that
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we poked as you can see there's barely
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any type of juices that were released
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this blueberry doesn't really Crush at
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all and even if it does it still stays
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intact and you get that really crispy
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crunch a freeze-dried blueberry when
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it's poked and it's done perfectly it's
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super
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crunchy remember we just want to poke
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them for purely to release the moisture
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out of the blueberries because the skin
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provides that kind of compact pressure
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that's not going to give you the best
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crunch and the most high quality product
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and that's what it's really all about
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when it comes to freeze drying again if
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you haven't watched that full video take
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a look at the video description below
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I've got the full video of how to use
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the roller Berry tool as well as just to
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take a look at how to freeze dry
10:16
blueberries consistently okay now let's
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take a look at number two of the most
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viewed freeze drying video on this
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channel which is all about the top 20
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selling freeze-dried items that I would
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start with if you're looking at starting
10:28
a freeze drying business if you are
10:30
looking at starting a freeze drying
10:31
business use my affiliate link below for
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purchasing freeze dryers from a variety
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of different brands including Harvest
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Right I'd appreciate the referrals now
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let's get to the video all right the
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first category that you should add to
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your products is candy that's the most
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fun it's the most creative Andy changes
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its texture which is why really freeze
10:52
drying is taken off for so many
10:53
different people to start a business if
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you have a Harvest Right freeze dryer
10:57
there's an option for candy mode on the
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latest version allows you to customize
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the temperature in candy mode you can
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start it and it only has you freeze dry
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for about 2 to 3 hours you're really not
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freeze drying candy you're using the
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vacuum and the pump and the temperature
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to change its texture and form and
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certain candies will change its texture
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others will not I would suggest the
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following different candies for you to
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freeze dry starting out one is
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freeze-dried Taffy Skittles Skittles I
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think started this whole Trend with
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freeze drying candy it pops it's no
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longer chewy and it's crunchy and you
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can do different flavors of Skittles
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third you should do Jolly Ranchers don't
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use the Jolly Rancher name Jolly
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Ranchers change from a hard candy to a
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malty like super fruity blast of a of a
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malty little sugar ball and one when you
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add it to like a window type craft bag
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for your business man it's just going to
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pop and people are going to see that and
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wonder what it is and once they eat it
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they'll buy from you next do Charleston
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Chews they change into what I call them
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as cocoa vanilla Puffs because I feel
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like they taste like a Whopper once they
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expand into the freeze dryer they're
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delicious and I found that a lot of
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people that try the samples it's really
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fun and it tastes great look at high
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chews that's the chewable fruit chew
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candy that you can find at sans's club
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and Costco they don't pop as much but
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they definitely become crunchy and I
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think people really have liked those for
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me second category that you should add
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to your product line line up as a
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freeze-dried business is fruit some of
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my other videos on my channel I show you
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how to prepare different fruits the
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fruit that I would suggest you do is
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strawberries blueberries raspberries
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apples pineapple peaches and banana
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fruit depending on how much weight you
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put into the freeze dryer takes a little
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bit longer to do large freeze dryer with
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five different trays It generally takes
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about 36 to 48 hours to freeze dry and
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finish that cycle you're doing fruit
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look for ways to maximize the cost so do
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things that might be more seasonal look
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for deals with different grocery stores
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different farmers markets and ways to
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get deals on the fruit that you're
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buying and freeze drying freeze drying
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as a colge food business can be really
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fun and it can give you a taste for
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what's to come if you want to venture
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into a more of a commercial space if you
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haven't freeze dried any of those items
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go ahead and start today all right let's
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take a look at the number one most
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viewed video on this channel about
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freeze drying it's my favorite video so
13:29
far this year and it's all about how
13:31
much you can make freeze drying with
13:33
your freeze dryer hey my name is David
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I'm a freeze dry business owner in Idaho
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and I'm going to show you whether you
13:39
can actually make money freeze drying as
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a business specifically freeze drying
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candy now behind me is the commercial
13:44
kitchen that I rent I did a video on the
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10 things that I would do to start a
13:48
freeze Drive business and one of the
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things that I mentioned is that you can
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rent space out from a licensed
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commercial kitchen in the town that you
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are in now you might want to look at
13:57
churches you can look at bars you can
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look at restaurants things like that
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that already have the permit for you to
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operate commercially and you don't have
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to go through that process you can just
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rent from them so that's what I'm doing
14:07
here and it allows me to sell wholesale
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and allows me to do a lot more things to
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grow my business now before we go in
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here this video is going to be about
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whether you can make money as a freeze
14:17
Drive business and I've been in business
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for 3 years and I have done some
14:21
calculations to figure out whether you
14:22
can make good margins today I did three
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lbs of Taffy now I've already got it
14:27
done from the freeze dryer and so I
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looked at Taffy and I'm like hey can you
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actually make money freeze drying Taffy
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freeze drying candy well we're going to
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find that out I'm going to bag all 3 lbs
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and we're going to see whether you can
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actually make good margins on that so
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let's go ahead and take a
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look well hey we're in our commercial
14:47
kitchen again this video is going to be
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about whether you can make money freeze
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drying candy there's a lot of other
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things that you can freeze dry but this
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seems to be the most popular and the
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most reasons why people start getting
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into buying a freeze dryer and if you
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are interested in buying a freeze dryer
15:02
I am a referral affiliate of Harvest
15:04
Right freeze dryers if you use the link
15:06
below that'll help them know that I sent
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you and uh you can purchase a freeze
15:09
dryer directly from their website now I
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bought this 3 lb bag of Taffy you can
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get this off of Amazon it's 3 lb this is
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Huckleberry but I've got cotton candy in
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here uh but you can buy this this is 3
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lb of Taffy I did the entire bag of this
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bag but cotton candy and I put it into
15:27
this air sealed gamma seal bucket all
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right we're back at the office what I'm
15:31
going to show you is a Google sheet that
15:33
I created years back when I first
15:35
started the business because I wanted to
15:37
really know what my cost was per bag so
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I've got a formula that I've already
15:42
created I'm going to show you what that
15:43
looks like now we all have different
15:45
margins we all have different areas that
15:47
we're able to price our product
15:48
differently so this is just going to be
15:50
more of a plug andplay to see what the
15:52
ROI is for you both on wholesale and
15:55
Retail so let's go ahead and dive into
15:57
this this is in essence just a really
15:59
quick overview of whether you can make
16:01
money freeze drying candy well after
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plugging those different formulas in I
16:05
hope that gave you a clear indication
16:06
that yes you can make money in freeze
16:09
drying candy you know I think a lot of
16:11
people get caught up in the fact that
16:12
there's competition as well as there's
16:14
just more and more people getting freeze
16:16
dryers don't let that stop you if you go
16:18
to a market these days a farmers market
16:20
or Art in the Park something like that
16:22
you're going to see that there's a lot
16:24
of people making barbecue there's a lot
16:25
of people making honey there's a lot of
16:27
people selling flowers there's a lot of
16:29
people doing woodworking are they all
16:31
doing the same thing yes but they all
16:33
have their little niche they all have
16:34
their little core customer group and
16:36
they all have different goals for their
16:38
business so continue striving for
16:40
Success continue growing your business
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