Owning a Freeze-Drying Business VLOG Ep 3 - Commercial Kitchen Walk-Through | Website Tips

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hey everyone David with the freeze dried
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business Channel hey it's another Vlog
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video where I'm just doing raw footage
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of my daily routine as a freeze dry
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business owner if you're new to this
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channel if you're wondering about freeze
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drying wondering about what this
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freeze-dried craze is all about and
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whether you should start a business or
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if you currently even have one you're
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just wondering what it's like out there
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for other types of people running a
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freeze Drive business well this is the
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channel for you and this Vlog series
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that I'm doing is just kind of a
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documentation video wise of My Life as a
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freeze Drive business owner now I do not
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do this full-time I actually have a very
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sustainable side business running my
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freeze-dried business it's called freeze
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dry Depot I've been running it for about
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three years as an owner
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I have a full-time job I've got family
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it's life is very very busy and right
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now it's a beautiful evening in Boise
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Idaho and I am just outside of my
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commercial kitchen that I rent and I
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just wanted to just kind of document
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what tonight is all about well I did
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some blueberries I poked them with the
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roller Berry if you haven't seen that
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video go ahead and check out that it's
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called the number one freeze drying Tool
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uh it's a great video it's been trending
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a lot and I just really love the tool so
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I already finished poking the
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blueberries they've been frozen for a
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while and so I'm back now at the
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commercial kitchen to put them into the
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freeze dryer that's kind of I would say
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the the
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the tough part about being a
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freeze-dried business owner where you
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are renting a commercial kitchen some
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type of restaurant Church something like
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that and you're still doing it as a side
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business now if you're retired
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if you've got your house paid off you've
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got no debt or you're just like going
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for it and you don't really maybe you
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lost your job and you're just like hey
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let's do freeze drying well that is
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awesome for you most people are kind of
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like me hey we're trying to dabble in
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different entrepreneurship type of
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opportunities where we're we're starting
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to freeze dry we've started the business
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or we've been doing it for a while and
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we just have a nice little side business
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earning us some type of income that
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helps complement different types of
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Lifestyles that we want now personally
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for me I have been doing this freeze
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drying business both very large scale so
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I ran a cottage Food business and we had
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five freeze dryers at one time if you
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can believe it and I ran it with a
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friend of mine
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and we had two multiple young kids uh a
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wife significant others we had full-time
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jobs a lot of other things that we
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wanted to do like hobbies and five
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freeze dryers running even with two
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people helping out it's a lot of work
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and if you've been in freeze drying
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before or if you're looking at it
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cutting candy and unwrapping Taffy
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unwrapping Jolly Ranchers cutting all
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those pieces so that they're bite-sized
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and bagging it all that type of jazz
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it it takes a lot of work now it's fun
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and I've talked about you know reasons
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why you should start our business but
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those are just kind of ways in which
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I've documented that it's been a it's
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been an interesting business because you
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you really have to dedicate a lot to
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uh the time commitment and sometimes you
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just don't realize what that time is
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so anyway I'm outside of my commercial
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kitchen and I'm I prep the blueberries
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already well that was previously I
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freezed it and now I'm back again later
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this evening it's about nine o'clock at
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night
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but it's beautiful and my kids are laid
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down for the night so now it's my time
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to work the life of a business owner so
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what I'm going to show you today is well
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on the inside of my commercial kitchen
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just show you kind of what I'm going to
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be doing with the blueberries it's
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really simple I've already started
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pre-freezing the freeze dryer and if
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you're not familiar with Arbor stripe
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freeze dryers and most other freestars
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I've got to stay fresh that I just
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bought
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but you have to pre-freeze the machine
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especially if you've got Frozen
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or pre-frozen type of product so I'm
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pre-freezing the freezer freeze dryer
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I'm pre-freezing the freeze dryer so I
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kind of want to make sure that it's down
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to under 32 degrees and then I'll put
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the actual blueberries on the trays and
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then start the freeze drying process
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now since it's the evening time
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you know typically the freeze dryer
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process for fruit depending on how much
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you put in there I'm going to show you
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how much I put on these blueberries in
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this amount of cycle but typically
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you're looking at about a 24 to even
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upwards of 42 hours for a cycle to
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complete on fruit that's just because
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with fruit specifically has a lot of
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water activity so that freeze drying
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process of removing the water and then
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drying it all is very lengthy
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so it's the evening time
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24 hours from now it's going to be nine
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o'clock on Thursday and then I'm
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probably gonna have to come in the
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morning or Friday evening just with my
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schedule and get the blueberries out so
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you kind of have to find a good Cadence
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I like putting the fruit in in the
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evening time because
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I just kind of have a good system and in
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terms of I'm either gonna wake up early
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get my kids to daycare and then I can go
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stop by the kitchen and get this stuff
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out or I'm gonna have to come in the
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evening just like I am today
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all right so let's go ahead and go into
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the kitchen and
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one thing to know about finding a
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commercial kitchen is I've talked about
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this in my 10 steps that I would take if
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I was starting a freeze drying business
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is that I would look at restaurants I
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would look at actual commercial kitchens
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that are rentable
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commissaries as well as I would look at
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churches and the reason I would look at
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those different areas is because they
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are looking to rent their kitchen out
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for additional income and usually you
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can negotiate a good price now I've been
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asked a lot of times
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how much I pay for my commercial kitchen
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I'm not willing to reveal that reason
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being is you know there's just some
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things that I think you know you have to
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negotiate yourself and it's part of your
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own business strategy so I've been kind
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enough to kind of review a lot of
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different things in my business but
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that's just one of them where I've
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negotiated a good a good price and you
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can do the same I'm not saying it's just
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exclusive to me and I just got in early
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or I got this like sweet deal but it's
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up to you to find in that spot see if it
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works with your number see if it works
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with the distance and location
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um from your house or your work so that
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it's convenient for you to kind of do
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these drop bys just like I'm doing
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because I'm about four to five miles
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away from my house so that's about a 10
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12 minute drive for me that's pretty
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convenient but just like I am tonight I
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left that's 12 minutes then now I'm at
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the kitchen doing this video but if I
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wasn't doing this video that'd be 15
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minutes to 30 minutes to freeze
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pre-freeze that freeze dryer
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so now we're at 45 minutes and then
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you're gonna put in the the fruit and do
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your cycle make sure everything's kind
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of locked up clean things like that so
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you're here for about an hour at least
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and then you're driving home so all in
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all it's about an hour and a half ordeal
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for me labor-wise and time commitment
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so that's one thing that I would suggest
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is make sure you're looking for a
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convenient spot so that you can either
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have it very quick to your home to kind
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of do the ins and outs of candy things
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like that or you know if you have the
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time maybe you do find a really nice
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kitchen that has a really good rate and
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you're just going to dedicate a full
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Saturday or full Sunday or even if you
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work a four day work week you're just
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dedicating all that time so let's go
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ahead and go into the kitchen and I'll
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show you the blueberries and let's just
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get started with showing you my process
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for for that hey I apologize for the
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audio side of things I'm just doing this
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on my iPhone because just the microphone
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wasn't working right so I'm actually
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talking a lot louder than I want to be
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but this is kind of what my kitchen
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looks like that I rent it has everything
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that I need it has the dishwashing so
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that I can get the trays all clean and
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then when you're in a commercial kitchen
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if you didn't know this you're supposed
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to air dry all of your dishes and
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everything you you're not supposed to
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use a towel or paper towels anything
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like that because I could re-contaminate
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what you just washed so I take it out of
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the dishwasher put it over here and have
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this all dried other people use this
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kitchen so that's why there's other
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things here but it's got the sink to to
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do everything with
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um you know I'm this is uh you know an
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area where I can get all the
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sanitization that I need to clean all
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the counters things like that and one of
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the things that I I really was attracted
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to me for this place in particular is
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that they had a stand-up freezer that
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had at least four or five different
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shells that I could do all my food prep
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my food prep and then I could pre-freeze
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that product with all the trays and
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everything so that I can maximize my
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time that I'm in here that I'm paying
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rent every hour and then when I come in
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like this I'm really just not even using
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much of an hour I'm just putting stuff
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into the freeze dryer and and that's
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that's about it at the time that I'm
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renting so let's go ahead and I'll show
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you this uh this freezer
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so in here I've got my blueberries in
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here that are pre-frozen and I've got
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one tray of strawberries now also in
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this kitchen
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um they've got all of this appliances in
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case there was like caters which they
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have occasionally some caters that are
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cut that come in here so they use like
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the stove top and things like that
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they've even got a commercial
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refrigerator over there and then uh and
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then I've got basically my my prep table
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here I've also got my freeze dryer and
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then there's another area that I've got
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another freeze dryer as well so I've got
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two freeze drives in here this is the
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main one that I showcase for all of you
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to do all of my different videos
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that's a large Harvest Right freeze
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dryer all right quick update on my
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business specifically it's called freeze
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dry deep hook you haven't looked it up
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go ahead and look it up it's
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freeze-driedepot.com
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now uh the way I've set up my business
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the reason I say it's a sustainable
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business from for my own kind of side
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hustle side business is
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I've got a couple freeze dryers I've got
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several wholesale clients that are
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consistently buying every single
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month maybe four to six weeks they
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always put an order in
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and then I have like a 50 and sometimes
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I I up it during the holidays to a 75
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product order minimum so they're always
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ordering 50 items and then I also have
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really dedicated myself to making sure I
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have a very strong website search result
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so my website if you're not familiar a
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website has what they call
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uh you have search engine optimization
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within a website so Google as a search
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engine Bing Yahoo all of those websites
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that are searchable for they're
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searching all different types of
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websites almost instantaneously when you
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type in something so when someone types
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in freeze-dried candy Boise freeze dry
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candy Idaho I wanted to make sure that I
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showed up for that and so I dedicated a
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lot of time to make sure that I made
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sure that all of the kind of content the
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pages and the different elements like
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social media things like that all played
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a role in making sure that I came up
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number one or at least at minimum on the
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first page of Google so that everyone
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would go to my website if they're
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searching for freeze drives stunt
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something in Idaho so that's also how
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I've been focusing my business to be
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sustainable is that I get website orders
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from a variety of different people
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because of my search engine optimization
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of where I rank on Google I would highly
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advise that this is a tip during this
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Vlog for you is that if you're watching
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this far into the video my tip is to
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dedicate yourself to understanding
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search engine optimization or a partner
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and pay for someone to help you with
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that because the legwork that you're
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going to put in for your own individual
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website for freeze drying as a business
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is going to be paying back tenfold
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three four five years even 10 years from
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now no matter where you're at if you
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still have the business even as a side
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business or maybe you've grown it
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exponentially you're going to reap the
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rewards of search engine optimization in
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the in the long term so dedicate
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yourself to that there are a lot of
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different ways that you can build that
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you can type into Google and look for
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searches and optimization tips you can
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have someone help you do that for your
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own website or you can do it yourself
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and learn it so I just kind of have a
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background in that so it came kind of
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naturally for me but I still have to
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dedicate myself to understanding new
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Concepts things like that now if you
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don't have a website uh it doesn't
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really work like that right Google does
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rank Facebook pages and Instagram pages
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and YouTube videos
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but it's not as strong as a website
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where Google Sees different content
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meaning a blog post a paragraph images
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things like that that are on a website
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so if you don't have a website I would
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advise you to get one for free using Wix
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Squarespace those types of platforms
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have free options for you freeze dryer
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is pretty much almost to 32 degrees I've
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got the blueberries out that again I've
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already pre-hoped with the rollerberry
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again I use baking sheets to pre-freeze
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and then what I use is I use Reynolds
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freezer paper and I use the shiny side
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up so that it doesn't stick
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and then I put them on the tray so
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that's what we're going to do right now
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and they just go right on the trade now
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the blueberries that I that I bought
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I found a really sweet deal
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and they were only two dollars per
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ounces
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of blueberries so I mean that's just a
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great deal because it was only just a
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couple of months ago even a month ago
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that I had done a YouTube short uh and
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actually I did another video where of my
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Vlog where I went to WinCo and I showed
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you what the prices was it was double
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that price it was four dollars okay so
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that's about how much blueberries is on
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the tray from two cartons of the 18
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ounce cartons of the blueberries
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so I'm videotaping this so normally it
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goes by really fast but this is pretty
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much what I've done I've already done
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all the prep work so if you can have one
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dedicated day to where you're prepping
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you know let's say 15 baking sheets
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worth of blueberries strawberries and
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things like that wow you can really kind
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of just go all you have to do is now in
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your commercial kitchen that you ran or
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you have you're putting all that fruit
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in as for the cycle and then you're done
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then you can walk away the biggest part
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of that was the prepping side and then
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obviously you got your bagging day and
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things like that but if you could really
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maximize all your prep work and then
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you're maximizing amount of time and
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that way you're you're basically getting
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at least three Cycles worth of all that
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fruit man that could that could maintain
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about a week's worth of driving back and
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forth just to only just take the food
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out put it in your buckets put the food
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in take them out that whole process
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that's a whole week's worth and then you
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have the next week that you're doing all
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the prep work it's just it's just you
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got to choose kind of your battles
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and choose what you're dedicating
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yourself to it's really this really is
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the fun part about freeze drying you
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know I've I've stuck to kind of my same
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core fruit
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which is blueberries strawberries
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raspberries
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strawberry banana mix and apples
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and that's kind of my core I don't I
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don't want to have all these different
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types of fruits because it's just more
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time that I have to dedicate to prepping
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them doing different Cycles to make sure
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I have enough
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it's just it's just you got to choose
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kind of your battles
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and choose what you're dedicating
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yourself to
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there's a lot of things to freeze dry
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but again like
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you could either have a core set of 20
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products including candy fruit
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ice cream if you can do it
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or you can try to go
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you know Hog Wild
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and you know do 40 different items but
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I'm telling you you're not you're not
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going to want to do that especially when
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you're looking at different flavors
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things like that just find what works
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well what you'd like to do and stick
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with them all right so the Harvest right
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it was already pre-frozen now I press
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continue and so now it kicks on the
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freezing cycle
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and then you know you don't have to do
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anything more I close the drain valve so
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now it's going to do its whole free
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strike cycle but that is the day in the
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life of a freeze-dried business owner in
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Boise Idaho thanks for watching
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if you'd like to watch more of my Vlog
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series I got it in a playlist on my
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YouTube channel
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if you like the video hit like or
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subscribe I'd love for you to join my
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channel thanks again for all of you who
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contribute to commenting sending me
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emails you guys are all awesome and
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until next time
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do something great in your community
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using your freeze dry business we'll see
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you again next time on the freeze dry
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business Channel cheers

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