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welcome back to freeze dried business
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dot com my name is david
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today is part two of the video that i
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posted about high chew caterable candies
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we put everything in the freeze dryer
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and prepared it i showed you how to cut
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all the different candies and arrange it
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in a way that would maximize the amount
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of product that you can get out of it
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i've officially got a almost
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half to a little bit above half bucket
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full of the high chew candies that were
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freeze dried so what we'll do in this
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is i'll show you how much product it
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and then we'll also bag the product and
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we'll see how much the
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all the bags that we put into the freeze
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dryer produced and we'll also do some
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weighing and things and do a little bit
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roi calculation hope you enjoy
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okay we're ready to get started with the
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bagging i wanted to show you a little
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bit of the equipment that i use to bag
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product again i'm doing this out of my
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for everyone who's doing cottage food
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operations this is the video for you
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you do not have to worry about all the
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other different things that go on in a
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so i wanted to show you kind of the
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this is a scale that i bought at walmart
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it's great i think it has a great
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surface area it's really simple
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zero out so you can put the bag that's
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empty of product on the scale then
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i bought i buy these uh nitro gloves
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they're food grade which are great
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and i buy these through uline
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i always make sure i'm wearing gloves no
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just wash my hands or not
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i think it's always just great to to
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know that you're always handling your
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product in a safe way i may have
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mentioned this in the past video but
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these buckets are really great
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they're five gallon buckets you can buy
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them anywhere you want to
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i invest a little bit more in the
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kind of the air sealed lids
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as you can see you have to spin it off
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and i found that the product holds up
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well here i didn't need to put any
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oxygen absorbers in there or desiccant
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packets i think the product holds pretty
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well and i've had product
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that's been in for six eight months in
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some cases so i think it does a great
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one of the things that i'm going to show
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you is these craft mylar bags
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a bag that you can buy off of amazon it
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has a window on it so it's definitely
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more for short-term use
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i think this is a really clear
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nice presentable type of bag to use
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experimental with the high shoes in the
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so what i found is that
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almost about four ounces of freeze-dried
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fit in a decent amount which is about
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probably 14 or 16 individual pieces into
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it doesn't fill it up too full
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and it also doesn't fill it up too less
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so that customers don't see that they're
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not getting very much
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so we've got our scaled out we're going
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it comes at a point three ounces you
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great now it's at zero so it's now down
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at point three so that means that it's
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it's already equated for the bag
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because what you're going to do is do
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all right let's see what that comes in
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at 4.3 so i'm going to take out one
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all right four ounces
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okay so that's what it looks like
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see how the the product is all the way
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up above the window it shows that it's a
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full bag and inside here it's just above
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just above the window that's a great
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so we'll set that aside
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and again so i'm going to put this on
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kind of a time lapse and we'll bag all
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the rest of the product and then we'll
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do another video to show how many
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product how many bags it actually
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all right well i hope you enjoyed the
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time lapse of going through all the
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banging on my left here is 30 bags of
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product that were produced
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out of everything that we put into the
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freeze dryer so wanted to go through the
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roi calculation because that's what
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as a freeze-dried business
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the high shoe bags that i bought at
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each one of those bags um
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produced about a it had about a pound
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and 10 ounces of product so all in all
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you're putting about five and a half
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pounds of product into the freeze dryer
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times three bags that's about 29.37
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also you want to include the bag cost as
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and the labels that i put on it
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now i'm just estimating about 50 cents
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per bag so 50 times 30 bags 50 cents
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so if we add that to the 29 37 that's 44
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in total for the cost of actually
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putting the product out to sell
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now we also need to calculate our time
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that we put into it in the previous
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video it was about an hour's worth of
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i could do this in about 20 minutes but
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by myself i'm giving myself 30 minutes
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of estimated time so it's about an hour
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produce the hi-chew product and it cost
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in terms of the pricing
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you're going to want to take a look at
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what other people are pricing in your
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generally i have been going to places
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like etsy and also just different places
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on instagram i've noticed that most
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people are putting together for a bag
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anywhere between four to six ounces of
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product in the bags and charging between
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seven and ten dollars investment that i
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have and for the market that i'm in
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this is um i priced my product at about
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ten dollars this is about three hundred
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dollars of product right here
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and it cost me about forty five dollars
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to produce with an hour and a half time
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um i think the rest of it you gotta
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calculate your own time you gotta
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calculate your own calculations and
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figure out what you would like to make
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in terms of your profit margin anyway i
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really hope you enjoy the videos
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this is again part two if you'd like to
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watch the previous video i show you how
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to cut prep the hi-chews
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looking to understand how to do high
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chews in their freeze dryer for their
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freeze-dried business until next time
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i'm david with freezedrivebusiness.com
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we'll see you next time bye
