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A full recap of all videos, freeze-drying news, and highlights covered in February as well as upcoming content on freeze-drying that will keep you more informed on what's happening the freeze drying industry. Subscribe to the NEW email newsletter at https://freezedriedbusiness.com/about/
Timestamps
- 0:28 February Video Recaps
- 6:00 - The “Who’s Who” in Freeze-Drying
- 8:42 - New Freeze Drying Recipe I Tried
February Videos:
- Harvest Right Visit - https://youtu.be/-4Zn5yWa6xU
- Vlog at Valentine’s Event - https://youtu.be/ZQGohE5nkdo
- Is Freeze Drying Dead? - https://youtu.be/kfXBM71EXNE
- Freeze Drying in Panama - https://youtu.be/jS7Q4w3eUIo
Here are several freeze-dryers I use in my business and I would recommend considering them for your existing freeze-dried business or just starting out.
- Harvest Right Freeze Dryers - Start with the Large and then upgrade to an XL as you start increasing your customer portfolio. https://affiliates.harvestright.com/1974.html
Here's a review of the Harvest Right Freeze-Dryer: https://youtu.be/m265Pm8z5as
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here's the February monthly recap on the
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freeze dve business Channel what we're
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going to cover today is the videos that
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I posted and a little bit more insights
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on things that I didn't cover in those
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videos I'll also make you more in the
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know of people that I've talked to this
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month about freeze drying that provide
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more future content for this channel so
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that you feel more informed and excited
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about what's to come I'm also going to
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give you some things that I learned
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about my freeze dryer business but also
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things that I tried in the freeze dryer
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that you could possibly try yourself
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first is I posted a about my visit to
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harvest right the headquarters of the
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largest freeze dryer manufacturer in the
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world this was a great visit for me I
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really had no idea how large this
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company was which is massive I got to
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see their entire Warehouse of all the
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freeze dryers that are waiting to get
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sent out because a lot of their freeze
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dryers are already pre purchased so
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they're just trying to keep up with the
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demand the HRC 100 which is their new
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commercial freeze dryer that I'm going
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to reveal and they are going to announce
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here at the end of March I believe
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believe is their release date it's going
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to really revolutionize this whole
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commercial side of freeze drying as
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someone who's in a commercial kitchen I
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really am not wanting to expand how many
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freeze dryers I have I'd really prefer
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to have a freeze dryer that has enough
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capacity to where I only have to run one
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or two cycles for a particular product
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and be able to fulfill all my orders and
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that's really what's going to change the
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game with this particular freeze dryer
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I'm really excited about my video that I
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shot of all that footage about that
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freeze dryer that I'm going to share
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here at the end of this month as soon as
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they release it to the public now the
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other thing that I got to see at the
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headquarters for Harvest Right is
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something that isn't even freeze dryer
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related but does pertain to the freeze
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drying business side of things which is
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a walk-in freezer this freezer that I
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walked into was I don't know maybe about
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100 square ft or so but it was enough to
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even put multiple shelves in there where
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you could walk in prepare a lot of
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product have it prefrozen at -30 even
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-4° and the advantage to that is you're
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going to be able to prepare a lot of
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product ahead of time and then it's
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going to reduce the amount of time that
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it's in the freeze dryer doing the
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production because as we know with the
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freeze dryers you know it goes through a
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freezing process and the vacuum freezing
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and then it goes to the drying well now
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with 35° it's already really Frozen so
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therefore when you're putting it in the
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freeze dryer it's going to quickly get
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to that drying process and be able to
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kind of reduce the amount of time that
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it's in that cycle so that's really cool
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the second video that posted this month
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was my fifth episode of my Vlog where
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you get the opportunity to follow me
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around in my own freeze dry business and
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if you didn't take a look at that I went
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to a winery called Indian Creek Winery
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they had a Valentine's Day event I got
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to host that with my wife got an
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opportunity to kind of see what a
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smaller event was like a couple
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takeaways was that a small event isn't
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actually so much a bad thing actually
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more people are going to visit your
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booth because you're the only ones there
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so we actually saw pretty much everybody
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who attended that event visit our booth
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and most of them bought I had a really
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higher conversion rate of everyone that
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was there to buying actual products so I
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made several hundred dollar there and it
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was kind of nice it kind of paid for the
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trip out there and it gave us an
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opportunity to have some date money so
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that's an advantage for you if you're
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looking at doing small events is go and
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make some money have some fun with it
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maybe it doesn't go just directly to
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your business operations but provides a
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little bit more extra side income for
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you to go have some fun during your
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regular life now the third video that I
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posted in February was about whether
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freeze drying is dead now the reason I
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posted about this is because I saw a lot
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of comments and there's a lot of
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commentary on different social media
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sites about whether there's too much
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Market saturation and I do believe that
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in terms of the candy side yeah most
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people aren't making the same amount of
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money that they were two years ago
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because more people have access to
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freeze-dried candy now people are a
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little bit more price conscious and
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there's more people doing it but I don't
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believe freeze dry is dead at all in
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fact
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I think it's actually at the very
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starting point of what's really going to
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make and shape a lot of the freeze
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drying space not only for food
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preservation but the creativity for
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people creating their own recipes and
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speaking of recipes I got sent a recipe
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for a strawberry cookie with a
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strawberry glaze and what they did is
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they took freeze-dried strawberries put
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it in the food processor and made it
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into a powder and then added it to the
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cookie dough which wouldn't be available
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necessarily in the same type of texture
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flavor than if it wasn't freeze-dried
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right so if you took a regular
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strawberry and Tred to put it into a
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cookie dough it might actually more make
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it of a fruit filed cookie but now with
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freeze drying because you can crush it
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into powder because it's dried you have
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the opportunity to make baking more
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flavorful using different types of fruit
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powders that is the opening of the door
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for this whole entire industry is
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getting more people creative and my
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fourth video that I posted this month if
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you hadn't taken a look is my interview
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with Eric over at two guys in a cooler
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Eric's located in Panama he's deal
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dealing with a lot of humidity down
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there obviously in Latin America and so
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he has to have very much controlled
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environments for having AC units and
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dehumidifiers and he has to move very
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quickly with packaging up his products
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also since he's freeze drying pet food
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you may want to note that pet food is
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actually regulated by the FDA in the
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United States so you would have to have
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a commercial kitchen that is regulated
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by the FDA to be able to sell your pet
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food recipe now I want to be very clear
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that FDA regulates the sale of you being
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a food processor of pet food but it
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quite possibly doesn't regulate you for
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doing it for other people so maybe you
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can actually have your freeze dryers
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freeze dry pet food for other people so
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they don't have to have that expense of
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going to these expensive Pet Food
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Markets and therefore buying
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freeze-dried pet food now you can
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actually offer that as a service
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handling the freeze drying process
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versus actually selling it is different
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and maybe that opens up more doors for
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you all right people that I talked to in
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the freeze drying industry this month
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that I think you'll really be interested
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to know is I talk to a new Freez dry
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manufacturer called Holland science now
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I had seen their name pop up on a
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Facebook comment from one of these
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Facebook groups about freeze drying and
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so I reached out to them and I got to
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talk to the CEO of Hall and science it
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was a really fascinating conversation
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and I'm going to bring that interview
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once I have it with him to this Channel
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as a part of the frozen assets podcast
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series somebody else that I talked to is
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if you're not following this person
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right now you should it's trendy treats
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we've got some really exciting content
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that's going to be coming out here in a
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couple months together and I'm excited
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to share that interview and my
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discussion with him about how he's been
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growing triny treats from wholesale to
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distribution to being really that brand
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for freeze dry candy and of course if
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you followed his Tik Tok or his YouTube
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channel Channel he has a lot of fun Tik
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toks and videos that he's really
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expanded his brand through social media
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another person I talked to in the
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YouTube space that's focused on freeze
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drying is Donald from Donald's freeze
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dryer group now his YouTube channel has
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been very focused on the more of the
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mechanics and the operations of the
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freeze dryers and I'm excited to
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eventually talk to him about his
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experience with all these different
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freeze dryers because he's taken them
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apart and then he's put them together
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he's done a lot of testing he even has
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his own parts and components that he
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sells through his website and I'm going
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to bring that to you in the future about
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what his whole YouTube channel is all
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about what he's been experiencing with
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these freeze dryers and what he
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recommends and also maybe even some just
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basic fixes that you can learn to do
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that he knows is valuable for you to
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know about to run your freeze drying
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business in case your freeze dryer shuts
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down all right the last person that I
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talked to in the freeze drying space is
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not really necessarily freeze drying
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specific but I talked to the organizers
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for pet food for and if you haven't
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looked that up it's more of a media type
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of focused B2B Expo where it brings
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together all of the pet food industry
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leaders and companies in that space and
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one of the fastest growing areas in that
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is obviously freeze-dried pet food and
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I'm going to try to make it to their
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expo at the end of April so that I can
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bring you more and more content about
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the freeze-dried pet food space but
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really interesting I'm really excited to
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start going to more Live Events so I can
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bring forth that content and you can be
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more in the know about more things in
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the industry Beyond just freeze-dried
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candy and things like that now the last
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thing I want to tell you is about
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something I tried in my freeze dryer I
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tried freeze drying a milkshake and what
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I did with the milkshake is I I made a
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regular vanilla milkshake and then I
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poured the milkshake in the Harvest
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Right silicone molds those little cubes
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which you can buy off a harvest I've got
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a link in the video description here if
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you want to go directly to there and so
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I poured all the milkshake in those
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cubes and then I pref frze it and then I
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put it into the freeze dryer man it
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tasted like a milkshake and then I tried
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reconstituting it with some water uh
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didn't really work out that well didn't
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really taste that good but it did taste
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like a milkshake but I think what I'm
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going to do next is figure out what the
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necessary type of
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reconstitution of milk I should put into
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a glass and then how many cubes I need
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to put back in there but I am going to
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do a video on how to do that and we're
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going to have some fun with freeze
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drying milkshakes if you missed any of
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the videos that I posted this month in
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February check out the video description
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below and you can watch those to its
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entirety otherwise I'll see you on the
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next
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