Freeze-Dried Candy for Halloween | Freeze-Dried Peeps, Skittles, Candy Corn & Caramel Apple Taffy

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in this video I'm going to freeze dry
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four Halloween themed candies that are
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really easy to freeze dry have very low
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prep time and have the same temperature
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and run time in your freeze dryer that's
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going to make it really easy for you to
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do let's get to the video and I'll show
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you all about it hey before we get to
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this Halloween theme video go ahead and
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come out on this channel now hey I'm
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David with the freeze dry business
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Channel and I'm a freeze dry business
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owner in Idaho I want to welcome you to
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the channel if you're new here we're
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just all about freeze drying as a
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business whether you're in cottage food
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or starting out from your home or you're
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on the commercial side you're already a
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full-time freeze drying business welcome
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to the channel we're going to freeze dry
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four different types of Halloween
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candies that's really easy to do and you
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can do it in the same cycle of your
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freeze dryer using the same temperature
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and run time the first candy we're gonna
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do is peeps now this is the marshmallow
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type of candy that's kind of sugar
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coated and it's squishy and chewy it's
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really flavorful but what we're going to
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do is we're going to freeze dry it and
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it Puffs and expands and becomes crunchy
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and this is a great option for a limited
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release type of product the second candy
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we're going to do is Shrieker Skittles
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now this is a limited time Skittle
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flavor pack that comes in these fun
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packs that I found at Walmart at
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different other types of retailers and
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it comes with 20 of these and what's
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inside here is sour Skittles and regular
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Skittles so you kind of get the shriek
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when you hit a sour Skittle these are
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great to add to your Skittle flavors now
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the third and fourth candy I'm going to
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do is two different flavors of Taffy now
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as you know Taffy is chewy but we're
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going to change these to become egg
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shaped textured balls that are crunchy
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and the flavor hits immediately these
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taffies have been very popular when
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they're freeze-dried for my customers
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and they're going to be popular for you
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so we're going to do caramel apple and
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we're going to do candy corn flavored
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tap now just so you know you're not
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really freeze drying candy you're
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actually just using the vacuum in the
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heat to change its texture and form
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making it from chewy to crunchy so
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that's really what the freeze dryer is
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doing it's just fun to call it
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freeze-dried candy there's a couple
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different ways to do candy and that's
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why you're seeing a lot of different
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variations and someone doing this type
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of temperature warming the trays or
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doing it for this long and that so my
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recommendation for you when you're
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freeze drying Canyon you're frustrated
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with the consistency is just know that
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sometimes candy works sometimes it
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doesn't sometimes different trays will
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pop better than others and so you just
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kind of have to deal with that trial and
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error but most of the time the
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consistent temperature that I use for
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most candies like taffy Skittles these
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peeps as well as other types of candies
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I do it about 140 degrees and then I run
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it for three to four hours so that's
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what we're gonna do for all these three
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different candy times I've got two
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different types of freeze dryers at my
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home right now one is I'm using for
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typical research and different things
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for my own personal use which I use the
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Harvest right large freeze dryer I've
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had this since my Cottage food days back
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in 2020 and 2021 now I actually have a
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commercial kitchen that I have a couple
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of freeze dryers at that are the large
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Harvest Drive freeze dryers and I also
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have a stay fresh freeze dryer that I've
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been experimenting with with different
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candies ice cream ice cream sandwiches
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as well as different fruits and I really
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really like this machine now that's what
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we're going to do the candy on today so
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the stay fresh comes with these types of
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trays now as you can see here it's a
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little bit different than the trays that
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you might be used to if you have some of
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the other types of machines because it
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has more of a square type of Edge and it
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has kind of a deeper base in terms of
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what the product can be laid out in it
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comes with four trays to stay fresh and
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then it comes with candy mode which is
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not really a mode it's just a setting
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that you can set that says candy which
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I'll show you guys in the video but
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we're going to use the stay fresh for
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today because I wanted to do all of
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these at the same temperature and see
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how how it turns out with the stay fresh
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and then you get a fresh point of view
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on a different machine rather than just
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the harvesting all right let's go ahead
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and get started with the peeps now these
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Peeps are great because they're a
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marshmallow type of candy and as you may
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have known or maybe you're new but
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marshmallows do change its texture and
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kind of pop into a more crunchy form
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like taffy and as you can see they're
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kind of marshmallow type of candy so
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they break apart this is going to become
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crunchy as you can see this is just a
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really easy candy to do there's not much
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prep to it except for unwrapping
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the rappers a really helpful tip for you
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is go ahead and use your phone and take
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a picture so you can use this for
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Instagram you can use it for Facebook
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however you're kind of marketing your
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product is when you're prepping stuff
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think about ways that you can use this
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for sales and marketing that's what I'm
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going to do right now is I'm going to
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take a picture of this and that way I
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can post it for my own Instagram and
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Facebook account for my free shred
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business so we'll set this aside and
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then we'll put it into the freeze dryer
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once we get done with the other candy
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all right let's go ahead and do some
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Shrieker Skittles basically it's beware
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if you dare type of thing where they put
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some sour skittles inside regular types
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of flavored Skittles and just a fun
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seasonal type of skill you can't find
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these actually once they go away after
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Halloween so I actually really load up
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on a lot of them and they seem to sell
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really well with my customers both on
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the wholesale side as well as Direct on
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my website so there's about 11 ounces of
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the Skittles so I know that Skittles in
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general does doesn't lose any type of
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weight after you freeze dry it so I know
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with my bags that I fill with 4.5 net
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ounces of freeze-dried skills I know I'm
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going to be able to get about two and a
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half bags ish of this so this cost me
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three dollars roughly to buy this
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package so I know that I've got a pretty
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decent margin and again Skittles are
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very easy to do so there's not much
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lever involved so what I do with these
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packages I take two at a time now if
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you're at home this is really easy to do
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you can have your kids do it you can
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have friends family help you with all
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these different types of tasks at a
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commercial kitchen you know obviously
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it's up to you on who is helping out
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things like that but I'm doing all this
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at home just to be able to kind of have
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a different environment to show you guys
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what I'm doing for the holidays for
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Halloween now obviously I can see that I
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need a lot more filled up so I'm gonna
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open up open up another bag and I think
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that's about good that's about as enough
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as I'm gonna do on this tray as you can
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see there's a little bit of space that
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you can see the tray still this is a
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good amount all right so now that I've
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got this let's kind of do some
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subtraction and addition and see how
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many of these sample size packs I put on
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here so again each pack comes with 20 so
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what we've got left here is five seven
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so we've got seven packs so I put 33
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snack size packs on this tray of the
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Shrieker Skittles all right so now we've
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got this done let's go ahead and move on
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to the Taffy hey before we move on to
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prepping another candy hit the Subscribe
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businesses the caramel apple Taffy I get
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this in bulk from WinCo Foods it's local
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here in Idaho in the Boise area this is
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a really great way for me to get things
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in bulk when I quickly need it otherwise
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I get it shipped in from Amazon or from
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Candy Nation I've done this before if
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you want to take a look at the full
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Taffy video that I've done videos
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description to see a link there I'll
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also put it at the end of this video but
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I like taking the wrappers there's no
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easy really way to do it is you're just
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going to unwrap all the Taffy
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and I put it on a cutting board I have a
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sharpened knife and this is how you do
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Taffy if you look at anybody doing taffy
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in the freeze-dried business Community
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this is what they're doing don't be
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surprised if you get tired of unwrapping
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and cutting now we're going to cut these
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into halves and we're also going to do
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it into quarters because I like having
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varying sizes of Taffy because I want
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them to be bite-sized pieces I want some
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to be big some to be small it really
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looks good in my bags for sales but also
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I think consumers like it overall they
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cut all of these halves into quarters
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and then we'll arrange it on the tray
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and that way we have two different types
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of sizes and we can mix it up when we
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put it in our bags
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thank you
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all right now these are all cut up in
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quarters now we're going to put them on
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the tray I don't know about you guys but
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I love Halloween and my wife and I love
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Halloween so much that we got married on
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Halloween just been a great opportunity
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to just have some fun every year
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celebrating nobody knows if they're
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getting the trick or the treat every
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year and this is a perfectly sized tray
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maybe I could go a little bit closer if
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I wanted to but now we've got the
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caramel apple tray that was a perfect
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amount I don't have any more unwrapped
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so this will be great now let's move on
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to the Candy Corn let's go ahead and get
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this all open and we'll get
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some more here so we're going to do the
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same thing as we did with the caramel
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apple Taffy we're gonna unwrap about 15
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of these so we can do them all in halves
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and then we'll do 15 again and do them
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in quarters and that way we have a good
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amount now if you're new to freeze
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drying and starting a freeze-drying
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business this is a great candy to add to
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your lineup I would just choose a couple
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of different flavors and then go with
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that and then as people start asking you
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get more and more people asking for
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particular flavor go ahead and add it
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all right we're done we're now with the
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quarters now there's a reason why people
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stick to Skittles
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foreign
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it's uh this is labor intensive as you
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can see I mean there is a lot to cutting
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candy that is in wrappers there's no
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easy way to do it all right so this is
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the Candy Corn Taffy now we're going to
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put it into the stay fresh freeze dryer
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all of our trays all right we're all
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done with all the prepping take a look
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at all of this this is just awesome I
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love Halloween I love all this types of
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Halloween flavors and candies that I'm
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doing with this one cycle we've got the
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peeps the caramel apple Taffy the
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Shrieker Skittles and the Candy Corn
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Taffy all running at the same time we're
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going to put this at 140 degrees hey
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everyone if you're not familiar with the
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stay fresh freeze jar I've got this in
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my garage because I've been testing it
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out but the stay fresh freezer I've been
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really solid I've really liked the the
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freeze-dried times I like the all the
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durability of the glass plexiglass and a
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lot of the stainless steel components
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and I got a link in the video
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description if you're interested in
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buying using my affiliate link now this
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is the display machine for the stay
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fresh freeze dryer so when we're gonna
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put it into to quote candy mode or just
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start freeze drying candy we're going to
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select freeze drying and then what you
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can do is go to settings and you can
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actually dictate what you want the
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maximum shelf life temperature to be but
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because of stay fresh freeze dryer
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already knows that you select a candy
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you don't even need to do that you can
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go back and now we can select candy and
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it already defaults to 140 degrees I
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didn't even change that that's what I
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really like because in all the years
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that I've done freeze drying I've always
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found success with 140 degrees for most
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of my candies my exception for that is
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Jolly Ranchers I found that 130 530
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degrees works better now they preset it
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to three hours which is perfect that's
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what I'm going to do and we're going to
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see how everything turns out right the
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Cycle's done three hours let's check a
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look at the Skittles oh yeah baby this
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is the Shrieker Skittles right here and
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these are the peeps wow that is so cool
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look at that you can even hear it
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and here's the caramel apple Taffy again
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it just turns into kind of an egg-shaped
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ball that's crunchy wow look at this
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candy corn Taffy I love the different
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flavors don't you this is awesome if
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you're looking for ways to grow your
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business this holiday season and not
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lose out on the potential sales that you
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could get go ahead and check out my
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Holiday Secrets video it's in the video
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description and I'll also include a link
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at the end of this video where you can
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go directly and find the strategies for
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Halloween Black Friday Christmas and a
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lot of other you're going to want to
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check it out if you want to grow sales
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this holiday if you've watched several
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of my videos I really love a good taste
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test of all the freeze-dried candy
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that's why it's such a great business to
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get into because you get to taste test
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all of it so here is the caramel apple
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Taffy
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wow that is really good you can
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definitely taste the Apple in it the
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caramel just kind of Blends in between
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all right here's the Candy Corn Taffy
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so good
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it tastes like candy corn all right
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here's the peep now again this was like
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that marshmallowy very like pull apart
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type of marshmallow texture
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now it's all crunchy
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so let's give it a taste
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very sugary tastes the same this is
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going to be great and of course Skittles
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the skills I told you that the bigger
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ones kind of pop and this is the sour
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one
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wow that was Sour hey make sure you
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check out all the great Halloween candy
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that we just did I want to hear about it
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in the comments if you can if you start
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doing these and you see some great
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reactions from your customers go out and
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make a difference in your community and
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we'll see you next time on the freeze
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dry business Channel thanks if you're
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looking for ways to grow your business
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this holiday season and not lose out on
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the potential sales that you could get
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go ahead and check out my Holiday
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Secrets video that I just released a
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couple weeks ago it's in the video
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description and I'll also include a link
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at the end of this video where you can
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go directly and find the strategies for
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Halloween Black Friday Christmas and a
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lot of other you're going to want to
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check it out if you want to grow sales
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this holiday season

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