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let's freeze dry Halloween candy this is
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a great holiday to get started in making
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some cold hard cash with your freeze
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dryer whether you are just starting out
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or you have an existing freeze drying
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business man there are so many cool
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unique limited time candies that are
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coming out right now that you can start
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freeze drying Halloween happens to be my
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favorite holiday as well and in fact my
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wife and I got married 10 years ago this
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year on Halloween a Halloween on the
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freeze drying side has been a great
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opportunity for me to make some money in
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my freeze drying business in fact this
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is the first kind of holiday that really
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catapults my business's sales throughout
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the year because not only do we have
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Halloween we have Black Friday coming up
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as well as Christmas so a lot of great
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opportunities to make some money and if
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you haven't bought a freeze dryer yet
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you can make back that freeze dryer cost
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easily in this upcoming three holidays
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if you haven't bought a freeze dryer yet
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I personally have a Harvest Right freeze
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dryer have multiple of them and you can
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buy directly through the link below in
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the video description through my
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affiliate leag and you'll be doing me a
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solid by supporting this channel as as
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well as everything I'm trying to do for
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the freeze drying Space by using the
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link below to harvest right and making
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that purchase online through my
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affiliate link I'd really appreciate it
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now whether you have a harvest rate
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freeze dryer or you have a different one
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the general freeze dryer settings for
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Halloween candy that we're going to do
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today is going to be 140° as well as
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150° now some of these candies that I
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have in front of me I already did in a
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previous video last year you can check
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that out in the card above or in the
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video description as well as at the end
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of this video in the thumbnails okay now
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we did did last year the shrier Skittles
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this is a kind of a playoff the sour
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skittles with some regular Skittles and
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you got to be quick about going to grab
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some of these at your local Walmart
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Kroger Walgreens even Fred Meyer so this
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is really easy to do this is at 140° in
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your freeze dryer and you're just going
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to do it at regular Skittle mode which
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is going to be for about 2 to 3 hours
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now another one that I've done and I do
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at 140° is these nerd gummy clusters now
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this is a limited edition one it has
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purple orange and white different
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flavors around the little nerds with the
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gummies on it and as you know from
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probably previous videos or you've seen
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around or maybe you've tried it is that
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the nerd gummy clusters pop and become
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really delicate crunchy bites of flavor
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these are really popular you can get
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these limited edition ones man this
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would be a great addition to you to add
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on top of the ones that are normally
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available that have the red and and blue
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type nerds now the new candies that
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we're going to do today I picked up at
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my local store and we're going to do
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candy corn and we're also going to do
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what's new here is the Nerds candy corn
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now I'm going to do both of these at
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150° for about 4 hours but the key piece
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of this is these are a little bit harder
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candies so you're going to need to warm
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the trays in the freeze dryer when that
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prompt comes up on your freeze dryer
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machine so we're going to warm the trays
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up for 10 minutes at a minimum maybe
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even 15 minutes at 150° and then have
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the freeze dried process with the vacuum
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pop those candies and make them more
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crunchy now let me talk to you about
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some of the freeze free drying
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accessories and supplies that I have in
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front of me for these candies you don't
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actually have to use these but I wanted
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to try different elements of my freeze
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drying supplies to see kind of how this
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might be best to go about it in scale
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when you're trying to move through a lot
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of different candies now the first thing
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is this Harvest silicone mold where it
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has various different Cube areas that
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you can put candy now I've used this for
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caramel M&M's I'm going to use it for
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these Nerd candy corns just because I
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don't really know how much they're going
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to puff up and rather than scatter them
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all across the tray of your freeze dryer
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tray sometimes it can kind of connect
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and Clump up things like that and so the
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silicone mold like this will allow me to
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basically have individual candies in
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each one and then once they're done I
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have each individual bite instead of
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trying to break them up individually
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myself now the other thing that I've got
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here is my tray stackers from Freez
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drwings supplies.com they've got a lot
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of different unique accessories for all
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different freeze dryer Brands including
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Harvest Right these Trace stackers what
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I like about them though is they
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actually kind of snap onto the edges of
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the freeze dryer tray so they don't
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really move too much I've got some other
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Trace stackers that I bought off at
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Amazon and they just weren't snapping
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onto the edges so they would move around
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a little bit and therefore when you're
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trying to transport five maybe even 10
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trays at a time and carry them it might
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move around a lot you might lose product
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freeze drying Supply i.com is where I
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buy these you can check out the link
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below in the video description and you
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can buy directly from them this is all
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us made now why do you use Trace
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stackers well it allows you to just
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scale your production assembly period of
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time that you're doing all your
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production for the candy corn and things
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like that it may not be as pertinent but
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if I'm planning on doing a lot of
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different candy corn in a day well we
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know that you're going to do the cycle
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for you know 3 to 4 hours so I can do
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about three maybe even four Cycles in a
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day because now I have all my 20
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different trays for my five tray freeze
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dryer already stacked up and I can just
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load it up I don't have to worry about
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getting the bags open arranging them on
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the tray things like that they're
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already stacked with the tray stackers
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same thing goes with all my fruit prep
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ice cream prep I use the tray stackers
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so that I can really be efficient while
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I'm doing the production and I don't
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have to worry about that every time I
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need to do a new cycle okay so what I'm
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simply going to do is I'm just going to
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put all these nerd clusters all these
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different molds and then I'm going to
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separate all them into the individual
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again you don't have to use these molds
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I'm doing this because I kind of want to
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just see how much they puff up because I
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haven't done these ones in particular
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before I've done candy corn before and
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I'm okay with kind of breaking them up
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but if these expand a lot then it allows
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me to have individual Nerd candy corn
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that I can easily just put in the bag
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instead of trying to break them apart
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sometimes like you do with Skittles or
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the nerd clusters things like that so
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let's put these all individually in the
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all right let's put the tray stackers on
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the edges so that when we start doing
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the Candy Corn we have a clear way to be
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able to stack all of our trays now with
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the Candy Corn you know I'm simply just
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going to put them on the
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tray and they are going to expand a
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little bit from what I've seen other
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people do candy corn before and again
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I'm doing this from home so you know
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obviously wash your hands like I have
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and also you can also wear gloves things
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like that but this is kind of the
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spacing that I would do for your candy
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corn you can obviously go closer if you
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want to again it's your preference and
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also kind of your end result of what you
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want to deal with once it gets
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done all right all five trays of my
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large Harvest Right freeze dryer done
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now the new pro model for Harvest Right
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has six trays so with freeze drying
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supplies when I bought these tray
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stackers they actually come with five
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different sets so there's actually 25 of
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these different tray stackers so that
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you can fit six trays that come with a
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new pro model I've got the older version
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of the Harvest Right large so I only
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need the four with 20 different tray
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stackers so that I can have my five
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trays so let's get these into the freeze
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dryer and then press start and see how
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they all turn out okay so as you can see
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the high temperature mode is ready so we
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just press the button to make it sure
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that it's turned on and then we're going
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to close the drain valve and say yes and
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then what we're going to do is we're
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going to say start now as you can tell
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the vacuum isn't on yet that's okay
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because we're warming the trays it's not
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going to kick on so we're going to say
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start and we're at 150° already that we
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set previously and we're going to add
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time so we're going to do 12 minutes I
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think that's a good enough time at
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150° so that's what we'll have right now
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let's get these into the freeze
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dryer all right here's the finished
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freeze-dried product for freeze-dried
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candy corn nerds okay now for the candy
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corn now let's take a look and see how
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it popped you can kind of see a
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difference in the regular candy corn if
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I place them on the tray okay and then
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the freeze-dried candy corn coloring
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kind of changed a little bit and then
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you can also tell it's a little bit
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bigger here I think this is a win for
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both of the different candy corns that
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we did for regular candy corns we can
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definitely tell that the texture and it
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made it a little bit larger and it is
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crunchy now let's do the taste test for
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both W I'm really excited to do a taste
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test I don't know about you but if
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you're looking at this and saying I
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really want to try this you got to get
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the Nerd candy corn I think it's going
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to pop just like this if you do it 150°
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and do that tray warming and then the
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candy corn corn if you love candy corn
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and you have customers that love it then
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this is going to be a great hit because
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we know it changed its texture it
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changed its coloration its form it's
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going to be something very new for your
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customers for Halloween now let's get to
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the taste test now here is the Nerd
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candy corn now this looks like a grape
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let's go ahead and try
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this now that was a blast of sugar so if
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you love nerds and you love the taste of
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nerds you're going to love this that
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melted right in my mouth it reminded me
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of Jolly Ranchers as well as some of the
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other crun candy so you love the
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crunchiness of freeze-dried candy and
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you love the taste of something melting
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in your mouth man this is going to be a
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huge hit now let's try the Candy Corn
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freeze-dried as you just heard in the
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microphone that crunched super well in
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terms of texture it's not soft and chewy
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like the regular candy corn now the one
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thing I noticed in this in terms of
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texture is I think we could go a little
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bit longer with the dry time maybe even
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go to 6 hours with your dryy time on the
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candy corn and I think we could probably
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soften this up by extending the warming
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the trays up to even 20 minutes if we
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can so if you're going to try this a
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couple of the different modifications
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would be one if you want to get this
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more soft so that it becomes a larger
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candy corn I would increase the warm the
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tray time and then I would also increase
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the overall dry time overall though this
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is going to be a great hit for your
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Halloween holiday I think you're really
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going to sell a lot of this now I'm sure
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you're wondering how do I by Price the
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Candy Corn freeze-dried as well as the
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Nerd candy corn so I've got the receipts
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from when I bought the Nerd candy corn
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and what this cost me right here was
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nerd's candy corn cost me
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$22.98 $2.98 for all of that bag now
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it's not a very big bag so what I have
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here is I've got a food scale and I'm
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just going to kind of check to see how
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much of these Nerd candy corns are going
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to fit in this bag now we always tear
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off our bag so it's zeroed out so that
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we're not weighing the bag weight we're
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only weighing the actual product
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so all right let's go ahead and put the
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candies in here and what I suggest you
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do when you're looking at new candies
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that you want to sell in your freeze
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drying business go take one of your
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normal bags just like this this is what
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I do and what I want to do is I want to
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fill past this window because as a
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customer you want to see that you have
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relatively a new bag you know when you
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go to the grocery store and you get a
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bag of Doritos you're kind of checking
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to see if it's the same amount I don't
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know why I do that I know they put the
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same amount of volume in there but
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you're always kind of seeing like there
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one way more than the other that's what
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customers are going to do okay so it's a
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lot of perception but also it's giving
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you the you know the value that you want
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to price your your product in in terms
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of how much you're putting in so let's
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go ahead and weigh everything that I put
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in in here this is coming out to
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3.5 oz just beyond the window here that
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you can see now the candy corn bag for
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nerds it came in net weight ounces of 8
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oz so if we put everything back in here
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let's actually see how
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much it weighs I'm pretty sure it's
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going to come right even because candy
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doesn't really lose a ton of weight 7.2
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oz so give or take a couple that I lost
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on the ground it actually kind of came
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out equal so if I'm looking at this 7 oz
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let's say let's go back and say we can
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do two bags worth past the
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window of 3.5 oz so I'm going to take
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some of these out okay 3.5 so when we
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look at this the cost for this bag was
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$22.98 we're going to get two bags worth
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cuz the net total that we got was 7 oz
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so we divide that by two we're putting
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in 3.5 oz into here so looking at how
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much time that took looking at how much
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electricity you're going to have all of
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that you know I would probably charge
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double what you paid for that original
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candy bag so we paid $3 I would at a
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minimum charge $6 per bag for this I'm
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not going to go through a whole cost of
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good sold here but gross sales-wise if
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we sold this for six $6 per bag we're
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going to sell $112 worth of these nerd
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candies and we paid $3 now you fixate
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you know $2 to $3 of your electricity
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all that type of thing you know you're
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not looking as much margin but you buy
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these things in bulk maybe you charge $9
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$10 for this limited time freeze-dried
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candy that's where you're going to make
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more money and you have some fun with it
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it's just a nice change of pace and
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maybe you can package in some of the
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other freeze dry candy that you normally
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make so people buy more your product so
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one other thing let's try the Candy Corn
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now so let's go ahead and put in the
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candy corn into my bag and I don't think
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it's going to really lose much weight
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either so we kind of have to evaluate
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that's just past the window okay and how
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much does this weigh 5 O so let's say
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that we're going to go with this 5 oz
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this candy corn this bag full of 40 oz
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$750 so if I was going to freeze dry
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this bag which is 40 oz
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we know that it doesn't really lose its
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weight but we know we can put 5 oz just
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above the window so at Math's right here
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we can get eight bags of the
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freeze-dried candy corn past this window
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in this bag and then maybe we're going
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to sell it for $10 each so that's $80
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gross we paid roughly $8 for the bag if
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you give or take taxes so we're actually
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$72 in more net after this initial
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expense then you got to calculate you
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know the cost of the B bags the labels
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things like that now where you can make
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up more of your profits is I think
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buying this in bulk I don't know if
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you're going to be able to do that with
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the Nerd candy corn but this is a fun
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more flavorful type of freeze-dried
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candy that you can do for Halloween on
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top of that we know that we can freeze
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dry candy corn and we're making more
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profit on this particular candy now if
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you want to know more about how to
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generate an Roi and a good cost of good
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sold calculation for your freeze drying
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business check out the video coming up
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next where I talk about how you can earn
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money with your freeze dryer and I've
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got a whole spreadsheet completely for
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free that I walk you through on how to
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figure out how much money you can make
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in your freeze drying business thanks
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for watching this Halloween edition of
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the freeze dry business Channel we'll
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see you on the next video
