Freeze Dried Caramel Apples | A Healthier Halloween Treat

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if you're looking for something fun
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creative and new to do with your freeze
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dryer this coming Halloween I've got a
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great recipe and idea for you let's get
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to this video and I'll show you all
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about it
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hey I'm David with the freeze dry
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business Channel I own a freeze-dried
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business in Idaho and today I'm going to
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be using my potato slicer to cut my
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apples into fries so they're bite-sized
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pieces that are really fun to look at
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but this time I'm going to drizzle
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caramel over top of the apples and
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caramel in the freeze dryer as some of
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you know or if you're new to freeze
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drying it pops and changes its texture
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from chewy to crunchy and so we're going
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to experiment to see if the freeze-dried
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apples and the caramel creates a really
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tasty crunchy bite that's going to be a
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hit for your Halloween season now before
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we start cutting the apples and getting
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I'm producing for the freeze dry
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business Community now I'm doing this
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video and this recipe in my kitchen
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today just so I could test it out to see
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how it actually turns out but I wanted
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to show you the fry slicer now this is
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linked in my video description of this
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video as well as you can check out the
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freeze drying apples video that I
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produced but normally you put a potato
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in this area and then you slide this
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lever through and it actually produces
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these fry slices out of here now I
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really like these because it creates
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more of a bite size bite and it creates
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a little bit more of a different texture
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than just using the ring type slicer
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that you normally accustomed to seeing
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with cutting apples now I've got my five
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freeze dryer trays from the Harvest ride
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I'm going to use the Harvest Right
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freeze dryer for this episode right now
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and I'm also going to use these gritted
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grates from Frozen right they fit
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perfectly in the Harvest Right trays and
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this just eliminates the chance that the
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fries will actually stick to the pan
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from freezing and freeze drying so I
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just want to eliminate that it's worked
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well for the strawberries so far and now
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I'm going to try it out with apples if
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you want to check those out I've got a
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link in the description of this video
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now I've also got the schmuckers caramel
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and I didn't want to go with the caramel
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syrup this time I wanted to be more of a
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pure caramel now I could have melted
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some caramels but I wanted to try this
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for the first time with this recipe so
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I'm using the Smuckers caramel flavor
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topping I've also got my washed apples
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both Gala and Granny Smith so I've got
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all these different tools now let's go
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ahead and get the apples sliced in the
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fry slicer all right so this fry slicer
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is actually really easy to use you
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literally put it down on the counter and
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it has these suction cups down below
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here and that way it doesn't move
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because they're going to create quite a
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bit of pressure getting the Apple
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through this slicer right here to create
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those apple fritters all right we've got
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everything in place let's go ahead and
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get to slicing the apples this is a
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really great device it creates a really
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slick fries and you just voila you've
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got apple fries now I do like taking out
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the core pieces from the apple and you
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have to be quick about this just because
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you're if you're worried about Browning
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the apples with the air I do about three
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or four apples then I take it
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immediately to the freezer so what I do
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with these core slices right here is I
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just kind of set them aside because I
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don't want to waste them but I'm just
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going to do all of the about 3 three or
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four gala apples right now right with
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this fry slicer and the reason I like
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the fry slicer is because it just
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creates some bite-sized bites and then
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also with this recipe since I'm going to
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be putting some caramel over it I think
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it's going to be really nice to just
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kind of have a nice crunchy caramel base
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over top of it and not feel like you
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have to bite down on the entire apple or
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uh that kind of twirl rounded type of
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thing that you're normally used to to to
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doing and when I was growing up my mom
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did a lot of canning and we we went out
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to some Orchards close to here in town
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where I'm at we're in Boise Idaho and we
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used to do a lot of different uh prep
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for different types of foods and so
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apples was definitely one of them and we
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would use the core to do that so we
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create these kind of circled slices so
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again I'm just setting aside the core
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pieces for now and just keeping kind of
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the nice ones that doesn't have those
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core areas in them and as you can see at
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the tray right now I really like this
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grated little grid that keeps it kind of
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above the freeze drying tray and we've
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got plenty on here so what I'm going to
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do now is I'm going to take that
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Smuckers caramel and I'm going to open
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it up and I've already kind of shaken it
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up a little bit and what I'm going to do
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is I'm just going to take a spoonful and
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I'm just going to kind of draw a little
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bit now it is going to create some
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um probably some stickiness and a mess
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once I have to try to actually clean
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this but I wanted to just kind of take a
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spoon and just kind of drizzle it around
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because I didn't want to put too much of
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a layer on I love caramel I wanted to do
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enough of this so that each fry kind of
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got some type of caramel so we're going
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to be quick about this because like I
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said I want to make sure that the apples
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don't get too much air to them prior to
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me putting them in the freezer and then
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that way it kind of cuts short on the
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amount of freeze-dried time so that's a
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good amount of caramel I'm going to
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leave that there we're going to put this
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in the freezer and then we're going to
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do the Granny Smith apples all right now
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we're going to move on to the Granny
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Smith apples this is the fun part
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[Music]
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um
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[Music]
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all right here's the Granny Smith apples
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now that we've done all the slicing that
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was four apples I'm gonna take the
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caramel and I'm gonna kind of drizzle it
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and you can be probably as generous as
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you want I'm really curious how these
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will turn out I think it's going to be
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great because I know that caramel if you
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do like where there's caramels or even
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if you do the caramel M Ms or you do
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anything if you're new to freeze drying
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caramel pops and changes its texture and
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makes it more crunchy so I know it's
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going to be crunchy I'm just curious
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kind of how the the look of It kind of
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the look appeal will be with apples and
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then the caramel as well because I'm
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still going to freeze dry these apples
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at 125 degrees that's normally what I do
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any type of fruit at the drying
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temperature
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so I'm still going to do that normally
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with candy and with caramel I would
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probably do the temperature at 140
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degrees because that kind of seems like
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the heat that you need for candy I'm
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going to do these Apple trays to start
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at the temperature that I do for fruit
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instead so we'll see how that does okay
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so this is the Granny Smith one I'm
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going to go ahead and make my other
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trays and what I'm going to do is I'm
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going to make one other tray
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that doesn't have caramel on it until
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we've pre-freeze it and so when I take
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it out of the freezer that's when I'll
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put the caramel on so I'm going to kind
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of see how both do with it being kind of
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soaked in as it freezes and then other
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one as it's put on prior to freeze
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drying hey the freeze drying process is
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done now I use my home freeze dryer
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which I have this Harvest Right large
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freeze dryer I've had this for a while
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and I use it for experiments with
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different things that I'm trying in my
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freeze drying business as well as this
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YouTube channel the cycle time for these
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freeze-dried caramel apple fries it says
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on the screen it ran under about 40
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hours which is a little bit longer than
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I would have thought because ambient
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temperature right now at the first of
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September has been around 70 75 degrees
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in my garage in the winter time it runs
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a lot shorter so I would expect it to
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run about 32 hours so the ambient
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temperature in your garage or
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environment wherever you're doing freeze
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drying is really indicative of whether
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you're going to have a quick freeze
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drying process or a much longer freeze
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drying process so in the winter time I
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see a lot more shorter Cycles maybe
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around 24 to 32 hours for fruit even if
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I'm up to the maximum which is around 14
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to 15 pounds of fruit that I've seen
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done in my large Harvest Right freeze
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dryer all right so I already warmed up
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the tray so now let's get the caramel
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apple fries out let's do some taste
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tests and see how it all looks from a
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texture scent all right here's the
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caramel apple fries now as you can see
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in the screen right here the bubbles
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that you're seeing is the caramel and
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some of it popped really high I think
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just due to the amount of caramel that I
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put on it and other times it kind of
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lies in a little bit smaller form all
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right so now the big taste test I've
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never done this before so this is the
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first try let's see how it actually
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tastes with caramel and a freeze-dried
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apple one of these let's give it a taste
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test
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wow that is great here's the caramel
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right here
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you can actually really taste the
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caramel this is actually really good
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well after several bites this tastes
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actually really good I can taste the
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caramel it's still crunchy and it tastes
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crunchy on the apples as well now you
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might be asking what's the difference
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between kind of a crunchy apple that's
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fresh versus a crunchy apple that's
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freeze-dried well the freeze-dried
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apples are really crunchy so you kind of
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get two things at once you get the
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crunchiness of caramel so it doesn't
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stick to your teeth and you get the
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crunchiness of the Apple so the big
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difference in freeze drying apples and
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the caramel is both are going to be
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crunchy and it's a totally different way
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to enjoy caramel apples now I'm actually
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curious how this will fit in one of my
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bags that I sell to customers so let's
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go ahead and get one of my bags I want
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to see how the caramel and the apples
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fit into the bag whether it crumbles
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into more of a dust or if it stays
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intact and how many you can actually fit
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in there
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okay so now we've got the apple fries in
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here and in my kitchen I did want to
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check to see how much once I weigh the
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bags in my bag I wanted to see how much
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they weigh so I've got my scale here and
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then I've got one of my bags for my
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business that I'm going to see how much
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we could fit in here this is just for
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testing purposes now they are kind of
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crushing as you can see into a little
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bit more powder so it's going to really
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depend on whether the caramel stuck to
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the outside of the Apple versus these
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bigger bubbles that just burst that's
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going to become more of the crumble as
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I'm already seeing and most of these
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actually do have caramel on them so I'm
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going to weigh it real quick
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and that comes actually
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I'm going to put one a couple more into
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and that's an ounce all right so it's
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kind of hard to see in this camera angle
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but in my window of my bags right here
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you can see the caramel that is textured
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as a more of a crunchy overlay over top
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of these apple fries so this is actually
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looking pretty presentable just as
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apples and then people are going to
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wonder what's over top of it well once
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they hit the caramel it's going to taste
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really good all right so also I wanted
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to show you these grates that Frozen
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right made so as you can see it lifts
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completely out of this tray and then it
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kind of keeps all of your fries and
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fruit in one con intact part and then we
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can just kind of Simply kind of pop them
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off of the tray if you're interested in
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these grates go ahead and hit up the
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video description and I've got a link
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there to Frozen right for you to use hey
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a couple observations that you could do
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for your next batch of freeze-dried
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caramel apples as well as things that I
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might do if you see these larger bubbles
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of caramel that just means you put a
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large amount of caramel on that area
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which could be a nice little surprise
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for people that are going to bite down
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on that freeze dry caramel apple but
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also you could just drizzle a little bit
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smaller amounts too but maybe there's
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just not as much the caramel that hits
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that's one thing that I did notice so
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you might want to just do a bunch of
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them with a lot of caramel and maybe
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there's not as many but it did taste
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more caramel with apple the larger
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amount of caramel that was actually on
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there so it's really up to you second
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thing that I might do is try doing the
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freeze-dried apples first and then
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layering on the caramel and put it on
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Candy mode at 140 degrees and that way
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you can do a large batch of apples and
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then have that stock up and then you
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could do the caramel as you start
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needing to bag it instead of doing it
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the other way now I'm not quite sure if
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the moisture from the caramel will
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impact the already freeze-dried fries
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but that is something maybe you might
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want to try overall though I thought the
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caramel apple fries tasted really good
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you definitely can taste the caramel and
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the app Bowl so try the freeze dry
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caramel apple fries as you're heading
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