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welcome to the freeze dry business
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Channel my name is David I run a
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freeze-dried business in Idaho you're
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running a freeze-dried business anywhere
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or you're starting out you've bought the
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freeze dryer these videos on this
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channel as well as any content that I
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produce is exactly for you so we're
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going to talk about the products that I
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found have been the most successful for
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me I did a lot of research on the top
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sellers on Etsy and other platforms like
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that to know exactly what I should start
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selling and I found a couple accounts
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that were selling the most sales so I
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looked at their listings and I found
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really some consistent products that
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were being sold there so let's go
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all right first category that you should
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add to your products is candy
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that's the most fun it's the most
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creative and he changes its texture
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which is why really freeze drying is
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taken off for so many different people
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to start a business so it's nothing new
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you're going to find that if you're just
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starting out in a freeze-dried business
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or you own one today you're probably
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going to find that most people are
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freeze drying candy if you have a
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Harvest Right freeze dryer there's an
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option for candy mode on the latest
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version allows you to customize the
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temperature in candy mode you can start
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it and it only has you freeze dry for
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about two to three hours you're really
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not freeze drying candy you're using the
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vacuum and the pump and the temperature
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to change its texture and form and
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certain candies will change its texture
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others will not a good way to research
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candy and which ones do well and which
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ones do not is there's a Facebook group
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called freeze-dried candy makers I would
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suggest that you join that Facebook
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group you can type in their search bar
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once they accept you into the group and
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just type a different candy you can type
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in Tootsie Rolls you can take type in
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Twix you can type in sugar daddies you
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can type in anything you'd like and see
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if people have done it most likely there
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has been and you'll be able to find out
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whether you don't need to waste your
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time with it or not so I would suggest
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the following different candies for you
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to freeze dry starting out one is
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freeze-dried Taffy the Taffy it changes
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its form so it's from the chewy State
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all the way to a little malt ball I
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would suggest cutting those into halves
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or quarters a lot of different flavors
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with salt water taffy makes it fun to
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find out what the right flavors are that
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people are going to buy Skittles
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Skittles I think started this whole
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Trend with freeze drying candy it pops
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it's no longer chewy and it's crunchy
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and you can do different flavors of
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Skittles third you should do Jolly
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Ranchers don't use the Jolly Rancher
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name all the ranchers change from a hard
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candy to a multi like super fruity blast
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of a malty little sugar ball and one
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when you add it to like a window type
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craft bag for your business man it's
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just gonna pop up and people are going
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to see that and wonder what it is and
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once they eat it they'll buy from you
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next do Charleston Chews they change
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into what I call them as cocoa vanilla
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Puffs because I feel like they taste
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like a Whopper once they expand into the
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freeze dryer they're delicious and I
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found that a lot of people that try the
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samples it's really fun and it tastes
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great peach rings and that is a huge hit
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if you can get them to work I found that
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they're a little bit inconsistent but
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man the peach rings they're cheap to buy
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but they expand almost to Triple their
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size which is really fun to look at and
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last if you want to try something that
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is more Unique Look at high chews that's
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the chewable fruit chew candy that you
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can find at Sam's Club and Costco they
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don't pop as much but they definitely
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become crunchy and I think people really
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have liked those for me alright so to
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recap the candies that you should start
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out with starting in your business is
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salt water taffy a variety of flavors
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Jolly Ranchers Charleston shoes peach
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in category that you should add to your
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product lineup as a freeze-dried
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business is fruit fruit freeze dried as
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its original form is delicious it's
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light it's Airy and people really like
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fruit just freeze dried and not
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reconstituted is drying fruit definitely
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does take a little bit more prep
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depending on what you do in some of my
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other videos on my channel I show you
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how to prepare different fruits there
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are some that take little time to
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prepare and cut there's others that take
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a little bit longer the fruit that I
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would suggest you do is strawberries
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blueberries raspberries apples pineapple
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peaches and bananas some of these take a
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little bit longer to prepare I did a
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video on cutting strawberries I also did
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a video on cutting apples using a potato
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slicer I did a video also on blueberries
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using the roller Berry take a look at
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those videos and see how I prepare
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different fruits for your freeze dryer
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fruit depending on how much weight you
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put into the the freeze dryer takes a
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little bit longer to do large freeze
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dryer with five different trays it
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generally takes about 36 to 48 hours to
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freeze dry and finish that cycle you're
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doing fruit look for ways to maximize
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the cost so do things that might be more
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seasonal look for deals with different
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grocery stores different farmers markets
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and ways to get deals on the fruit that
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you're buying and freeze drying so to
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recap freeze-dried fruits and berries to
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do for your freeze-dried business are
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strawberries raspberries blueberries
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apples peaches pineapple and bananas
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so the third category that you should
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add to your freeze-dried business
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product lineup is something that you're
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going to have to check with your local
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health district to see if you can do
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under your cottage food or if you have a
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commercial kitchen your food is you have
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a food establishment permit then you
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don't have to worry about this but ice
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cream ice cream sandwiches and then ice
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cream Scoops ice cream sandwiches
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changes into that astronaut type of ice
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cream especially the sandwiches change
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into uh like a cookie that's that's
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really tasteful and I think the flavor
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comes out really good and that's been
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one of my top sellers this ice cream
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sandwich bites I recently released a
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video about ice cream I use Tillamook
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ice cream because it's more premium
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using a bite size cookie dough scooper
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you can use for the ice cream and you
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can make little bite size for your
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consumers I found that those have been
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really successful it's also been at one
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of our higher priced items and people
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still just buy it from me all all the
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time so it's been a real successful do
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so to recap is ice cream sandwiches cut
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them into small little bites and then
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also do ice cream try to choose a
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premium ice cream like dryers or blue
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bunny or Tillamook and use a cookie
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dough scooper which I have links in the
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description for my recent video about
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that use that to create the bite size
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for your customers ice cream I have
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found takes around 24 to 36 hours
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depending on how many you put on the
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tray great product to add because not
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many people do it and you just want to
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make sure that you check with your
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health districts to make sure you can do
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it under college food
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okay so those were three product
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categories that I think that you should
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start out with in your freeze-dried
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business was candy fruit and ice cream
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there's a couple of obscure categories
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that you could add that I've seen be
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successful in other Facebook groups and
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other business types but I haven't
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personally done myself but I'm looking
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at doing it next year and that is on the
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veggie side doing peas and corn I've
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heard those are delicious I also have
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found heard that Lemonheads doing it
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properly has been very successful and
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what you do is you put it on Candy mode
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and you warm the trays to that hundred
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and thirty five hundred forty degree
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temperature get them nice and soft the
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Lemonheads and then you run the candy
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mode for two to three hours and they pop
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just as normal like other candies so
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definitely add lemon drops well I also
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heard Jello is really tasty I have not
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done that I don't have any experience
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but if you have hey tell me in the
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comments uh what how you've done jello I
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would love to try that out at some point
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and do a future video on Jello and
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cheesecake bites I've actually heard
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that cheesecake is really tasty you have
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to check with your local Health District
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on that front but I've heard that
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cheesecake bites are really tasty to do
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well I hope this information was useful
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for you and your freeze-dried business
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or if you're starting out giving you
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some advice on what to start out with
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freeze drying as a cottage Food business
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can be really fun and it can give you a
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taste for what's to come if you want to
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venture into a more of a commercial
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space if you like this video and you
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like the content that I'm producing hit
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community for freeze-dried business
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owners I've got other videos that you
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can take a look at on my channel that
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talk about how to freeze dry different
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fruits and candies and other business
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information hey thanks a lot for joining
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me and I hope you join me again on the
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