RE-CHARGING Your Business with Freeze-Drying - The Stensland Full Interview

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what does a hot and humid place in Iowa have to do with freeze drying well I am
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here in Larchwood Iowa at the stenland Family Farms visiting a brand new
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product that they have released because they own an ice cream shop and an ice
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cream manufacturing facility but they bought some freeze
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dryers hey welcome back to the freeze dry business Channel my name is David and I am the host of the freeze dry
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business Channel we're here today to focus on entrepreneurs in the freeze drying space and you're lucky because
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we're going to be on site at one of the fastest growing Freez dried ice cream businesses in the entire country they're
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booming on Tik Tok social media all over the place because they took their ice cream and made it into a freeze dried
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product they've got a lot of different flavors they're going to share a lot of different pieces mistakes successes advice all along the way that you can
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gather and be inspired to start your own freeze-dried business all right so
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before this was all a freeze drying effort you sold ice cream but tell us about how the family actually started
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freeze drying ice cream did you start off with actual ice cream or did you
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actually have all the product and the cows what is this family farm all about well actually how we started freeze
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dried was there was a uh local company that approached us and they brought it up to us and we didn't really know that
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freeze dried was a thing until then and they kind of focused on the candy and we decided that maybe we should focus on
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the ice cream and so we kind of ran with that idea and we just implemented what we were already good at and before you
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know it started doing R&D and we had a lot of failures ice cream blew up in the machines a lot Vettes do not work the
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greatest we figured that out too certain varet and what's a verette what does that mean a Vette would be like a raspberry swirl through it we would have
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chocolate chocolate's always a bugger to cuz that swirl through too it doesn't freeze dry so we've noticed that gets ran it after about 6 months so we just
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kept doing R&D and before you know it we kind of we we had three that worked really well so we just started pushing from those three ice cream so there's a
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lot of R&D that went into this but you already had the product um and so it was kind of a you saw just an opportunity to
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test something when did you actually know that this was going to be a whole secondary line of your family Farm's
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product well we kind of noticed that the trend it's it's become more people are talking about freeze dried and so then
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what we decided to do was kind of start introducing it to some of our partners and they took it and as in some of the
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DSD guys we work with and they started and it's just selling so then we just kind of naturally started going and then
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we took it on the uh online platforms started kind of introducing some of that and it's just been moving what we
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noticed with ice cream instead of like candy candy seems like it just like blew up and it's kind of ice cream just seems
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like it's more it's going to be more consistent we feel like it's more longevity so we're hoping that's not just a phase but I feel like it's just
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going to hopefully be longterm and these two freeze dryers here that you have here what are these two machines for cuz
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I know you have other ones as well these two really focus on the candy and Skittles so we do a line of Skittles but
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this is kind of what these two do and if we have any RNG we'll kind of we be couple machines for R&D cuz that takes
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time especially with ice cream yeah and then Skittles Jolly puffs or Jolly which the Jolly Ranchers we do those too
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cookie do yeah tell us about the overall complexity and trying to create an actual freeze-dried product so if you
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have you make your all on all do you make all of your ingredients on this family farm or do you Source it from
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different places tell about how you actually make the ice cream to then freeze dry we do both so we do make
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stuff on our own here with our on-site Bakery and then we also Source locally or even we go further out to but just
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good sources of products that we have you got to use good ingredients when you're running through the freeze dryers if you're going to spend that much time
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freezer in a product you want to make sure that the end result is good so that's what we really focus on is really
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good quality ingredients any Bak good Concepts can be a little tricky sometimes it's just kind of like the the
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ice cream part of it it you don't what it's going to end up like until you run it through the machine and it sometimes
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just does and how long would you say it took to like actually refine your product let's timeline wise how long did
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it take for you to to actually know your recipe and say we're running this every time and now now that you're like you
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know really doing well in your sales but but just like how did you what was the timeline longer than you think I still
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think we're still doing that I don't think it ever ends no because like we put our ice cream in a blast freezer it's at - 255 and if that thing is at 15
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that affects the freeze dryers and we will have these things bubble up so we're still dealing with that we just got to everything has to be precise we
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got to make sure these things are cooled all way down to -20 and stuff like that so I feel like we have lot we still have
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some Human air in our situation but we're always still learning but I it took it takes forever it does be honest
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I a couple of years just to dial in some of the certain kinds of flavors on the other side of it on our Frozen side it
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took us how many years just to figure out our base concept and our ice cream about three years to figure that out
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vanilla was the hardest one to figure out for us cuz that's your base for everything else vanilla ice cream was
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the hardest for our family to figure out and we all did it together and we we got it figured out but it took us about 2
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years before we started the creamery what are your thoughts on now cuz I sell a lot of fruit in my freeze drying
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business of my own but a lot of people are are doing freeze-dried fruit have you thought about implementing freeze-dried fruit in the ice cream have
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you experiments with powderize freeze-dried fruit and then mixing into naturally flavor anything like that so
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we are daing and some purees and we'll do some fruits but you know we had a
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hard enough time just getting strawberry ice cream to go and we still haven't figured out peach ice cream or any of
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that yet cuz it's just it and our strawberry ice cream is just ice cream strawberries ground that's all it is so
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kind of to your point is fruit is like and we notice that's the the easiest one here to work on a machine is our
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strawberry ice cream that we don't ever have issues with it but um we're excited to start new and new flavors of ice
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cream I think we're just going to focus really heavily on ice cream and ice cream flavors because that's what we're good at and that's what we enjoy and so
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tell I'm going to move over here a little bit but like tell us a little about these machines you know there's a lot of different brands of freeze dryers
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out here um I personally started with a Harvest Right like this I don't have an Excel but uh Harvest R has been a real
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big Staple in freeze drying for almost over a decade as of this video but uh how do you choose to come to decide this
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type of machine this brand uh first of all um it's everywhere out there like
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you said yeah and then they slowly got bigger so this is just a six tray but we
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everything else we have are seven trays and they work really well with the ice cream that for us but um we did go to a
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big large commercial units that did not work for us in our ice cream so worked
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on Candy worked on Candy just not ice cream so we struggled for a year trying to figure those out so we just went back
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to harvest right until you grow to the next level get a big commercial I think they're a good stepping St honestly yeah
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this works for us so that's a good point I've interviewed a lot of different freeze dry manufacturers and what and
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I've also interviewed several experts in the industry that have dealt with vacuums that all that type of thing and
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what we're all finding in this growing freeze drying space is every recipe is unique but once you find a freeze dryer
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that meets that need to get that recipe uh coming out with that finished product it's like it's go time and you just run
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with it so if you figure it out go time yeah takes a while to get there but you keep at it and you'll figure it out yeah
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figure all right guys so let's talk about kind of some of the business things so what do you feel like has been
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the most pivotal moment in the business so far when it come to releasing and
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coming up with your freeze-dried product what created the aha moment that you were like we've really got a legit
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product what made that success light bulb go off two things I guess I would I
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would hit on is we sent a lot of samples out to people and we kept getting the same response and repeated repeated
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response about how good it is where can they get it so then what we decided to
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do is put some money into packaging and that has changed everything cuz now it's
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a wow for it's showy it it's out there otherwi you're kind of hidden to the market as in the shelves so we spent
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some uh time in house and we uh designed these bags to fit our product and we
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want a color color we feel like color is important so that's what we did
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awesome once we invested in the package yeah and I noticed the packaging too so a couple things one you went with
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different colors for kind of the theme of the of the of the flavors maybe let's
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go into that what type of flavors do you have for your freeze dried ice cream well we got the the mint chip which is
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just a really uh it's Flor chocolate with mint based kind concept and then we
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got the strawberry fields which is just your Good Old strawberry ice cream and you got the we call it Carnival trays
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which is um cotton candy ice cream awesome so has that been like the
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top sellers for ice cream in general when you're serving it at your retail stores or what how' you come up with
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saying like these are going to be your focus honestly it goes back to those are the three that work in the machines right now cuz we've done a lot of Trials
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and they don't work they just just can't cuz there's there's like homemade good like homemade stuff in it and it just
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doesn't work in the machines so these are the three that work so far we are still doing a lot of R&D on some more
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flavors so we can add more to the list but it just takes time okay but I would say when we first started which still
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currently it probably still your Skittles are the most popular cuz people are aware of them a lot of people don't
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know our ice cream yet so once we get more further out there we're just seeing it slowly just doing this and it's very
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consistent so we feel like the Skittles are just Boop and then it's kind of coming down and then we see the ice
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cream rting since we started online is we get repeat customers which is on the ice cream so which is a good thing for
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us we really starting to realize people Skittles are maybe a one one hit wonder for us yeah they buy it iceam repeat
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repeat the cookie dough is huge too one of our top ones too oh your free dry cookie dough now I haven't heard of this
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what's that all about is that literally cookie dough freeze-dried it's cookie dough freeze-dried it's it's edible and
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everything there's no eggs in it or nothing so yes we um figured out how to pre- cookie dough and it's a legit
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cookie dough yes so talk a little bit about to I want to know kind of your evolution of the bag because I see down
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here with your jolly worms you know this is kind of like still something you can see but it's kind of a a more of a
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GL like kind of foggy look but then now you have it more clear other people are going with bags in their businesses that
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don't have any windows so walk us through what you started with now what you're at and and why well we started by
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actually with a clear Bay with stickers we hand stickered everything and they
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were all over the place because obviously um when you have random people stickering you have random results this
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was a mistake yeah this foggy one it was it's supposed to been clear but they ended up sending in 20,000 bags of this
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and we're like well that's what we're going to do for a while and then we moov to the clear for ice cream we figured
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out like ice cream just people are like what do you do with it so we wanted to show people the colors
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and we haven't had any issues with sunlight on ice cream we do get issues with some candy with sunlight with clear
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we have had that issue so we just kind of deal with it honestly going back to the Clear Window is ice cream has a bad
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wrap for the last how many years about just look like it's it doesn't look good
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sometimes so we decided to go with a clear like he said and just say hey this is what it looks like this is what
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you're getting yeah and in the room too we we haven't even touched on the fact that your presentation of your freeze Dr
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ice cream so you have these in squares versus on my product that I have with my own small business you know I hand scoop
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uh tillamuk freeze dry and I freeze dry the tillamuk ice cream hard on the hand
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uh I'm going to get authorized at some point if I keep it up but how did you how did you decide squares is where you
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want to go the size and how did you say like that's where we're going to go the thickness all that so Trials of course
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um the pans are so wide I can't remember how wide these pans we're using but we
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figured it out is you can only have it so thick cuz if you get too thick it takes too long in the machine or it
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actually bubbles in the center and they explode and then we cut the squares at a certain thing slend that way 1 by one in
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1 by one in and then that gives it feels like it makes the pan breathe a little more and those you don't have the waste
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or anything and we just we make the ice cream we lay it we we it's like a half gallon we put per tray is what we do and
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we just spread it all out and we cut it up and that's what we do but the trick
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to it is is when it comes out of the remember we manufacture ice cream so when it comes out of the machine when we
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do this then it's got to go into 25 below zero for 18 to 24 hours that's where ice cream's made it's in the town
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Crystal yeah it it changes the of the ice cream and most people uh you you
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can't go mix ice cream throw it in the pan and think you're going to go freeze dry it right away you're going to make a
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mess it that's not ice cream you got to make the ice cream through the freezing process yeah we stick them on trays
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freeze them and then we bring them out cut them all up and then freeze them again then then freeze dry yeah it's
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quite a process it's a it's a unique product I mean you have probably low competition just cuz somebody has to
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have an ice cream buur plant yes or you're buying ice cream it doesn't negate people starting a freeze Dred ice
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cream business but uh it goes to show like this is a niche that you've already
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have a product and now you get to have another fun like product Evolution with it which is awesome all right let's go
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into your production facility and let's take a look at how this is all
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made this is our production facility to make ice cream we do our freeze-dried ice cream in here and also we do our
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hard ice cream with these machines so what we do is we'll put all our our base
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mix in here to make the ice cream we put all our ingredients in here also and then we let that freeze down 5 to 7
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minutes and then once that's done we dispense it with lifting the lever up we'll put so much in the pan we smooth
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it all out and we put them on our carts and then we'll wheel those carts
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into blast freezer at - 25 to -30° for 18 to 24 hours now now do you do the
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same ingredients like at the same time if you're going to do strawberry like you're going to do strawberry all four
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of these machines at the same time or are you you doing them all at the same
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time with different ingredients so that you can have all four flavors running in all the freeze dryers we usually do one
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kind at a time cuz allergens is a big thing so we are a strawberry is the seed has is an allergen actually so we um we
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pick strawberry for the day we'll do strawberry that when we run we run one flavor that way it's all dirty it's that
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flavor then we're done then the next day we run a different flavor machine two machines doesn't matter just depends on
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what we want to do for the day or how many people we got and just so everyone knows too um you know Harve actually
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sells a big huge cooler that I went down to their headquarters and you can buy a deep freezing walk-in cooler that gets
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temperatures down to 45° so if you're looking for something like that they've been doing ice cream for a long time so
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they have a a huge walk-in freezer for all their ice cream but if you're looking to do this you know you can buy
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def freezers but also the utility is also good for any type of product because the more you prefreeze something
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the faster the cycle is going to be let's head into where all the freeze dryers are all right guys so what is
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this because this looks like a lot of work how do you actually clean and air
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dry and do all this do you have a machine that can do all this for you not yet we do everything by hand as of right
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now so what we do is we actually stick them into this we put all our trays in
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there we pre-rinse them cuz they're full of ice cream and we'll let them soak in this B here for now and then what we do
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is we scrub them all by hand put them on this rack we got little slots here and
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then they dry within about a day about 2 days they'll be drying it's hard to find a a a dishwasher commercially that can
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clean hundreds of free dryer trays no matter what size you have for sure yeah
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so if you're looking for an easy way to do this hey uh it's not going to be easy
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right now but with the right team you can wash all this like they've got this big Basin they get all the tray
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sanitized washed all of that and then put it up on a big huge rack like this so awesome all right so now here is
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where they do all the freeze drying and so we saw a couple of the freeze dryers we they did for candy you also got D's
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for your ice cream we just saw where the ice cream is poured onto the tray put it in the freezer once the freeze is done
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then what happens how do you get it over here and you know you have to be quick about it or is temperature control this
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place what's all basically we'll take those racks out of the uh freezer and we you have to move
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very quickly they melt fast but you get you set your machines accordingly and you take these racks you roll them all
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out here and you slide them in there when the machine is ready to go and you push your okay and you run 24 to 26
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hours and then that's about the time that takes and they should be done as long as you did everything right it
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should look really uniform and with car stri I mean it's you know I'm moning on a strain type of thing it's like very
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easy to use these machines but uh like did what type of elements especially a
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freeze dryed ice cream do you have to control and work with the recipe we kind of talked about that a little bit but
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what things on the freeze dryer do you have to configure to make sure ice cream works well in a freeze dryer yeah we
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took us a lot of Trials to figure out the right pressures in here and then like the temps we had to play with those
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a while because you had overcook it not long enough and then we had to get these things down as cold as they could get I
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think these are at 20 do that what helps us is we do it's not running right now
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but it is nice and cool and dry so we have a we keep it as cool in here as we can these machines give off a lot of
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heat that's what keeps our efficiency real down to that 22 to 24 hours per
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batch um it's really nice so that's control environment so how' you like
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come to learn that pressure might be a factor in the vacuum versus versus like
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not KN that did you have somebody as an expert that you calls up and like how did you figure it out on your own how
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did you know that the pressure was something that was going to be a factor we just kept trying and trying and we keep tweaking as we we as we went and we
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we figure out right where we need to be it's like any freeze dryer you got to understand the machine the product and
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it it you tweak it as you go and then one time you you change it you document you change you document then you're okay
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this is where I feel like it's going to be efficient and it's just a different recipe for everybody basically now I see
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three freeze dryers in here I know you got the candy all that type of thing but like so what's the vision of the company
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like can you see this whole room being filled like what what does stenland look
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like coming up in the next like year or 3 years like what can this video hope to
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expect when someone searches like oh wow this is where they're at today I where we're at right now is pivot point in the
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business and what why I say that is we feel like we can U get the right Partners to get us to the next level
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where we see ourselves is getting ourselves to that 30 to 40 machines and
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getting ourselves to uh where we can be easily accessible whether it's in the
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gas stations or in in uh retail stores nationally so throughout the states and
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that's what we want to do is be the ice cream freeze dried people um along with
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the other stuff the last two weeks actually this room here can have about 14 machines in it so we're going to
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double stack fill up so we have all the exal everything's ready to go there we
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have everything cool in here so that's the plan and that's probably less than a 3 month coal 3 four month is the plan y
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what's the feeling like with across this whole huge family that operates and helps out like what's the feeling now
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you know you had this ice cream business and all you got this like new exciting new product like what's the overall all
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feeling now versus maybe a couple years ago when you didn't have it so I would fun exciting because we us as the family
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love ice cream like the hard cold dipped ice cream but we're always like how do you get it out there cuz it's so hard to
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transport expensive very expensive so now we feel like we can get this everywhere in the states try our ice
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cream and it's way easier to to ship the Shelf stable so that's that's what's
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exciting I feel like for the families we finally get out there and it's affordable to ship cuz shipping ice cream is a kind of a nightmare that's
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where I'm might that's where i' would say yeah you have to have the refrigerated a semi to come transport
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all that stuff it has to be that temperature versus Freeze ice cream this is why freeze drwing is taking off you
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can take an existing products that you have and say oh you know I now I can
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ship more efficiently and I can also get the product in in a different way that's awesome
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all right so one of the things that you're going to experience when you're starting a freeze drying business just like this family is is a way to store
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your freeze-dried product you're going to experiment with different things personally what I use is I use some of
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those food safe buckets 5 Gall 12 gallon and I use a gamma seal lid to make it
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airtight they've chosen to use these plastic containers that you can find with any type of commercial type of
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kitchen um or or restaurant supply type of business operation or restaurant shop
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wholesaler but as you can see they've got this product in here they've also got just these clear containers and what
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they've said is that this lasts about a week in here and then they have their packaging period where they have all
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their team come in and start packaging up all the product now in Iowa it's very humid in boy Idaho it is not so in a
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humid climate if you're in one of those you know you're going to experience various temperatures in your environment
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and if they left this open they said probably in about 5 to 10 minutes you'll just start noticing that this uh ice
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cream would kind of start becoming a little bit more sticky um it's going to have a little bit more moisture attached to it so that's why a temperature
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controlled commercial kitchen just like they have is important but also even though you're in it you're going to have
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to be quick with a delicate item like freeze-dried ice
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cream all right let's move on to what we can learn about stenland Family Farms and their freeze-dried ice cream when it
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comes to social media how do they grow their sales both online in retail and
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distribution as well as shipping because as you grow your freeze drying business whether you're starting out small and
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cottage food or growing commercial like they have and this is Kelton the social media Superstar of this great company he
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also does all the Fulfillment shipping that you can see around here which is quite the big task so Kelton how do you
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keep up with this how did you fall into this position and how do you keep yourself con constantly learning and
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evolving so that you can keep up with this growth I love editing videos and I love seeing the progress on
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the social media side of things so partnering with Affiliates on Tik Tok and seeing the sales come in through
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Amazon Instagram Facebook uh through our Shopify site is kind of a rush I really enjoy that so I don't know it's
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something that I enjoy I remember when I started my business and I was kind of a first mover in my local area in boy
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Idaho and it was like when I saw the analytics come through on Shopify when I saw the Etsy orders comes in and it's
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it's it's super satisfying and even today it's likeing and you hear that sound of cha-ching you know you made a
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sale social media kind of intimidating for a lot of people because there's a lot of different platforms so I want to
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ask you how did you choose the platform that was the right fit for this business how' you find the best Avenue to sell
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the the product Oh I just started on Tik Tok shop uh that just seemed to be the best for us yeah I don't know they have
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a great affiliate program so the affiliate de did an awesome job for us we had a couple affiliate it's hit some
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million view videos and that launched our sales tremendously it is awesome what's an affiliate and what is an
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affiliate on Tik Tok so the Affiliates on Tik Tok they we send them a free sample once they request it and they'll
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make a video and earn commission on the sales that they make for us so for someone who's going to venture into Affiliates like is do they take a large
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commission like that seems like you're kind of leaving it up to somebody else to sell your product but without like you being able to do anything or is that
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scary for you or not no not really not only the commission side of things but also helps with brand awareness so I
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think that helps us as well and so when did you start actually doing the Tik Tok shop this is so this is August 2024
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right now like when did you start as of this time right now started in the beginning of June of this year 2024 wow
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okay so very very beginning so are you experienced with Tik Tok enough to where you knew kind of what the strategy was
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going to be with this affiliate strategy not really I dab in it a little bit my own just personal videos on my personal
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page but uh moving into the business side of things I learned a lot through just YouTube videos and went from there
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so it's totally doable with the right Partners yeah so two months two maybe 3
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months long like can you give us a ballpark of like what type of success you've seen so far like how many actually shipped orders have you sent
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out about 25,000 wow yeah that's impressive so that's the power of social media Y how
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does someone get into making a Tik Tok video it seems kind of like it's over complicated because you got to you got
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to have do you have to have the right equipment how do you make sure you're doing all the editing like how do you
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make it easier for yourself uh you can just do it on your phone you don't need a camera I don't think so it's not until
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you get further into it to get your higher quality videos but I don't know I think you just do it with your phone and
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you can stick to using cap cut to editing your videos and just having content and the right Affiliates is huge
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now do you know these Affiliates or do you just like don't know them personally
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or are they just people on Tik Tok that sell the product just random people on Tik Tok yep I've never met them in my
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life awesome you know it can be intimidating to do Tik Tok I have a Tik Tok account but you know I've D done
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very little because it's just like man I'm not doing the right Cuts I'm not doing the right editing and maybe I'm not using the right tags so what's like
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common mistakes that people make going into it they can overcome based on the advice that you've you're going to give
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today uh just keep it simple don't over complicate it uh people love to watch
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the flukes and the mess ups and just entertainment overall yeah so there's really not a mistake to be made on social media other than maybe giving
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your Social Security yeah don't don't show any shipping labels with addresses or nothing that's a good yeah that's a
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good one so don't show share any personal information but like really I follow an account on on YouTube and and
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his whole catchphrase for his channel is you got to just press record you got to just sit there and and record yourself
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packaging items making your product and you'll have a video and some people
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watch it some people won't but you're never going to learn how to do this unless you start trying it all right let's talk about shipping and Logistics
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because now that we have a Tik Tock order the Affiliates are selling for you you've got all these orders coming in
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plus you have your wholesale how does someone figure out how to ship their product how do you know what type of
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size boxes and how much product will put in it do you put uh different types of uh stuffing in there so that you know
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it's not going to get because freeze dried product is delicate how do you make sure that things are are not going to be you know crunched up during
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shipping so tell us a little bit about the shipping part of it how did you come up with shipping your product basically
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what we decided to do is figure out how we want to sell it so are we going to present it as a sample uh a pack of
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three are we going to do one single pack and then what we did is randomly grab boxes put them in these boxes and size
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smaller the Box the better to keep it tight and our opinions just for shipping cost and everything and uh some of these
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different uh versions of product that we'll uh put some packaging in there and uh we just kind of keep things nice and
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tight in the boxes that's kind of the trick to it there on the direct side of it on the direct side when it's like one
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or two five different items um you're basically putting kind of packaging in
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there stuff to make it so it does jostle around and and and crunch up and break yep and then if we get somebody that
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reaches out wants something different version we'll just take an existing box we have and we'll kind of put that
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together just as need be so we kind of flip on a dime too now do you take the
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the strategy that Amazon has where like you just have one single box like like
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here and like this could be one one of your bags of free dried ice cream in here and it could also be 10 like what
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do you what's your strategy on a size box yeah we we kind of get a box that's right in the right in the smack middle
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of uh whether situ every little situation it'll fit the sample pack but it'll also do an individual inventory
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cost a lot of money so what we got to do is try to keep uh the box Universal kind of like
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Amazon this has been a really fun time so far going and touring all that
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stenland Family Farms has to offer I don't know about you but man they've got a great story and their product I think
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is really clean they got the great process and I hope that you feel inspired to figure out your recipe
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figure out your process don't start off and then go Bonkers and then try to figure out things later you know start
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small figure things out then scale because it's going to be more easier for you to figure out you know what your
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growth plans and things but I wanted to do some taste testing because I haven't tasted all their different products so I
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wanted to come out here and show you what this is all about all right we got three different flavors so what I'm
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going to taste is each one now remember this company decided to go with more of
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a kind of square brick for their ice cream um I personally in my freeze drin
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business do scoop tillamuk ice cream so it's a little bit more labor intensive but these are the squares that they've
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got and let's try the carnival craze they say it's like a cotton candy ice
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cream oh that's good so that the the crunchiness very creamy the
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aftertaste where you actually taste the cotton candy was about right when I got it all crunched and then my tongue was
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able to like kind of melt all of the different flavor man that was really good so Carnival craze is the cotton
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candy the difference with freeze drying ice cream is you want to freeze dry with quality ingredients if you ever tried
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offbrand very like high numbers of ingredients in an ice cream you're going to notice that it's just not going to
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hold up as well also this stinet ice cream is very similar to the tbun ice
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cream that I always do which is it's got more of like a a creamy base to it which
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means it holds up nicely and it also tastes like a milk like ice cream creamy
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so wow this is strawberry that is delicious strawberry is one of my
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favorite ice creams delicious here now let's try their mint now similar to the bags that I use in my business that you
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can buy you can buy CRA myar bags you can craft buy bags that have Windows they've got a zip lock on it and they
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also have this tear away so they're able to heat seal the top and then they have a secondary layer for protection with
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the with the zip lock and then they've also in this bag down below they've got
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oxygen absorbers and they've got desant packets so two things to help one is
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oxygen two is any type of moisture it's very humid in here and with freeze
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drying you're taking out all the moisture from the product but if any type of humidity hits this bag or is
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inside here it could make these ice cream pieces a little bit more moist and kind of ruin the product in the shelf
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life so they've decided to experiment with desicant and oxy absorbers in the bag and according to them they've tested
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their product for over a year in these bags and nothing has been spoiled or gone bad so they've been able to do this
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for a [Music] year R chocolate chip delicious it's
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green other types of mint chocolate chip ice cream that I've seen have been white kind of and then the mint obviously with
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the the mint chocolate the last thing they wanted me to try was not ice cream related but this is the freeze-dried
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cookie dough bite I've never tried this you know you can freeze dry anything you want some work some don't but let's try
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cookie dough
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wow that tastes like a cookie but it's like in in Dough Bites
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that was really delicious all right my taste test is done you got to buy some of this
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freeze-dried ice cream and also they have affiliate opportunities on Tik Tok
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so if you want to actually make money selling freeze-dried ice cream you can sell their freeze-dried ice cream on Tik
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Tok using your own profile or your business so you could extend your product line with them and sell your
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freeze-dried candy sell your freeze-dried fruit whatever you want and also attach the affiliate commissions
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that you would get from them for selling their product so now you can have ice cream in your product lineup well we want to thank the stenland family for
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showing us their business and their growth in this freeze drying space and it's truly possible for anybody to even
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have an existing product like ice cream that's been a staple for your company or your business that you've had in the
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family or with your friends or yourself for a long time and then you can Revitalize it and make a new product so
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thanks a lot for showing us and best of luck in your business than thank you

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