You Won't Regret Buying This Tool | 🍌BANANA SLICER 🍌 | How to Freeze Dry Bananas
May 15, 2025
Are you looking for a quick and easy way to slice bananas with the same thickness in every cut? Stop looking and watch this video! I've found a banana slicer that is quick, and easy to use, and the best part is that it doesn't cost you an arm and leg. In this video, I share with you how to use the tool to slice bananas quickly and how to freeze-dry them in your Harvest Right Freeze Dryer.
Here's where to find the Banana Slicer tool on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3NkMdlp
Here are several freeze-dryers I use in my business and I would recommend considering them for your existing freeze-dried business or just starting out.
- Harvest Right Freeze Dryers - https://affiliates.harvestright.com/1974.html
- StayFresh Freeze Dryers - https://stayfreshfreezedry.com/?sca_ref=3292008.4uBi4MIG3W&sca_source=YouTube
I use Zazzle to buy stamps, business cards, flyers, and more for my freeze-dried business. There are always great discounts each month and fast shipping.
https://www.zazzle.com/?rf=238503539567772737
Amazon Audible is a great way to find audio-based books, podcasts, and other great resources for your business: https://amzn.to/43Pk3pI
Other Fruit Cutting Tools I use in my business everyday:
- Pineapple tool - https://amzn.to/3EzTXvn
- Fry Slicer for Apples - https://amzn.to/3BZ9QeY
- Strawberry/Fruit Slicer: https://amzn.to/3Y773cG
- Cuisinart 12-piece knife set - https://amzn.to/3BfLnkq
- Knife Sharpener - https://amzn.to/3Vrttml
- Large cutting board - https://amzn.to/3GqhIYN
- Food Scale - https://amzn.to/3FyO9DW
Timestamps for this video:
2:12 - Banana Slicer Tool
3:23 - Banana Slicer Tool in Action
7:26 - Speed Test - How Fast Can You Slice Bananas?
8:43 - Harvest Right Freeze Dryer Settings
10:45 - Freeze Dried Bananas Final Result
DISCLAIMER: This video description contains affiliate links, meaning I'll receive a small commission if you click on one of the product links but there is nothing charged to you for clicking on the links. By purchasing through these links you help support my channel and allow me to continue making videos. Thank you for the support!
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hey welcome to the freeze Drive business
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Channel my name is David if you are
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running a freeze dry business or you're
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looking at starting one or you're even
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just interested in what freeze drying is
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all about this Channel and this video is
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for you because I'm going to show you
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one of my top tools that I use for
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cutting fruit specifically bananas I'm
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going to freeze dry the bananas I'm
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going to use the tool and this tool is
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going to save you time and money it's
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very affordable it's very easy to use
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and it's saved me an immense amount of
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time prepping bananas so let's get
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started with this video and I'll share
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with you all about it
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hey welcome back to another video on the
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freeze Drive business Channel my name is
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David and I run a freeze-dried business
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in Idaho I started this channel because
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I wanted to document in video form ways
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to help a freeze-dried business whether
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it's beginning or whether it's been
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going on for a long time and it can
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continue to grow and because when I
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started my freeze dry business in 2020 I
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didn't have any of that video helpful
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tools and tips available so this is why
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I started that channel so if this is
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something that you're interested in
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welcome now in this video we're going to
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do a couple things I'm going to show you
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how to freeze-dried bananas using a tool
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to slice all the bananas very quickly
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it's a tool that I found off of Amazon
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and it's very affordable it's very easy
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to use what I like about this tool is
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that it slices the bananas in the same
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depth on every single slice so you have
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kind of the same type of Slice on your
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trays as well as available for you to
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sell to your customers now if you're not
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familiar with the health benefits of
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banana is let me just give you a couple
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highlights as to why I freeze dried
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bananas now bananas are very high in
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potassium which we all very much know
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about right but the potassium is
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actually really good for our heart as
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well as our blood pressure now also
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bananas are very good for energy without
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having the fats and the cholesterol in
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it also bananas help with indigestion
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issues as well three very good values
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for bringing bananas to your customers
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is a healthy alternative in your
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business now hey if you're already
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getting excited about this video and be
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sure in this tool go ahead and hit the
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like button on this video I'd appreciate
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it all right let's go ahead and get
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started on looking at the bananas and
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this tool
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thank you
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all right so what is this great tool
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that slices bananas into super fast easy
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to use and affordable it's the fire Kiln
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banana slicer now I bought this off of
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Amazon it's only ten dollars and
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basically you can use your hand very
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easy it doesn't take very much strength
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you're going to put the banana right
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through this hole and then slice and
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there's basically about six different
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types of uh slice marks or slice areas
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for the banana to slice through so what
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I really like about this tool is that
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basically every single slice of the
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banana is the same amount thickness so
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you don't have one that's too thick not
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ones that too thin and that's what I
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really like about this tool and it's
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only 10 bucks so if you're interested in
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buying this after seeing this go ahead
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and go into the video description and
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use my affiliate link which I have this
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directly to Amazon now what we're going
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to do next is I'm going to peel all
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these bananas I'm going to slice them
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using the banana slicer and then what
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I'm going to do is I'm going to put them
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all on trays with freezer paper and I'm
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going to put them into the freezer to
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pre-freeze so I can get them into the
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freeze dryer later
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all right so let's go ahead and get
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started with prepping these bananas now
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I like to wear food safe gloves use
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rubber gloves and that's just because
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there's just a lot of stickiness and
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stuff that is on the bananas once you
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open them up so I just don't like having
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that as as I'm trying to do this as
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quickly as possible now really this is
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the simplest type of fruit you're gonna
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find outside of even maybe blueberries
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or raspberries things like that that you
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can just throw in the tray but with
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bananas what I really like is that you
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don't have to kind of wash it right so
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all we're going to do is we're going to
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peel the banana and then we're gonna put
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four on here and then we'll see if we
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need to put even any more bananas on
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there so I'm going to peel these first I
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left that
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which that wasn't intentional but yeah
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bananas are are really great now you can
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use bananas I do a strawberries
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freeze-dried strawberries and bananas
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mix which I started doing this year and
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it's really caught on I wrote my
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wholesale customers really like it I
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also really find that people are liking
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it at some on my website things like
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that all right so I've got the four
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bananas now this is how slick it is and
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I'm going to zoom in so you can see but
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basically you can slice it and it slices
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directly on to this freezer paper now
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this is Reynolds freezer paper and again
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I I have the blades going up so that way
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the bananas fall down onto the paper
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like this and really all you're going to
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do is I'm gonna zoom in like this
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because here's the bananas right and I
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just put it so that it gets creates an
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even
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amount and I'm just going right to the
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end
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and I've got this banana already sliced
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it's all the same thickness which I
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really like now when you're pre-freezing
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the bananas
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um what I found is if you if you don't
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mind having clumps of the bananas
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then that's you don't have to worry
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about this but sometimes I like just
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having the individual pieces of bananas
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in my bags after they're done freeze
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drying and once these are frozen then
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it's much easier for once they start
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freeze drying they're not going to stick
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together as much and I like the
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individual pieces because when they're
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in clumps just present presentation wise
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and maybe just think of yourself as a
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consumer you may not want to have you
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know six bananas at once you just kind
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of want to have them as snack bites so
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that's why I kind of like arranging them
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like this it's a little bit more tedious
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and I know I do really stress efficiency
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with having a freeze-dried business
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because you know you want to be really
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quick at time is money right so I'm just
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arranging these as you can see in a line
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that way when they freeze they're not
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freezing together or anything and as you
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can see this is probably actually going
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to be the perfect amount and again look
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how quick this is this tool ten dollars
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all right one more banana let's go ahead
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and get this sliced
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all right so that's this is the fourth
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banana that I sliced and as you can see
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I'm just trying to arrange it so that
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there's just not too much layers on top
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of it I'm not going to do this for
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everyone
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um normally what I do with these bananas
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is I'll probably have a couple of trays
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worth of all of them kind of single file
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and they're not layered up like this and
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that way I just kind of have a good
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mixture versus if I have a lot of
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bananas that I'm doing then I'm just
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going to layer them up and that way I
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just get the most on a tray to be able
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to then put it in the freezer so that's
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how quick this tray is let's do one more
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tray and I'll show you again how quick
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it is but I'm going to do it in my own
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speed so you can see how quickly one
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tray can get done
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so I'm going to set a 10
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we're going to see how fast we can get
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these bananas done because I just love
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seeing how fast you can get it done when
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you're using a tool like this so I'm
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going to basically go from peeling to
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then slicing and then once I feel like
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I'm done with all of it I'll press stop
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on the stopwatch on your Mark gets set
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all right let's go David
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foreign
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how fast do we do that Ed
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my hands are really gross with banana
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stuff but one minute and almost seven
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seconds one minute and seven seconds
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that is awesome how many trays of
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bananas can you do well if you're gonna
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do five trays worth and you're gonna do
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five bananas on each tray well that's
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only five minutes of prep work that's
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not bad hey if you like how fast I did
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those bananas give it a thumbs up on
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this video I'd appreciate it
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mm-hmm
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all right it's the next day the bananas
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are all Frozen into the freezer but we
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need to get the freeze dryer set up so
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I'm gonna just let you know that when I
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set up the freeze dryer for fruit I
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typically just stick with the factory
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settings which is 125 degrees I do
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customize the final dry time just based
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on kind of what the Time of the Season
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is now if it's really hot and humid and
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summertime like it is here in Idaho
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definitely make sure that it's drying
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appropriately and so in the winter time
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the van the machine just does really
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well and I don't really don't have to
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worry about that so what I'm going to
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set it to is an extra final dry time of
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six hours
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and I'm going to press save and so
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that's what the freeze dryer is at is
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125 degrees and so now we got to wait 15
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minutes for it to cool down I do wait
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until the temperature gets to around 45
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degrees before putting it into the
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freeze dryer because it is going to get
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down to that 30 degrees but that way
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there's not too much time in between me
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taking out the freezer and any type of
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dethaw or anything and that way it's at
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45 degrees and then it just has a little
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bit more to go to under 32. now once the
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freeze dryer gets to that 45 degrees or
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less I'm going to take the frozen
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bananas move them over to my working
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tray area that's right below me and I'll
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put the frozen bananas onto the Harvest
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Right trays put them into the freeze
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dryer close the drain valve and then
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we'll start the cycle I'm expecting that
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the bananas are going to take probably
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between 36 to 42 hours that's typically
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what this machine takes in terms of the
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length of time to dry now it might take
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longer than that just based on the final
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dry time and once the second is done
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I'll show you what the freeze-dried
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bananas look like what they taste like
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and then I'll have some closing remarks
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on bananas now before I leave hey hit
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that like button on this video if you
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like the content so far also take a look
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at my other videos if you haven't
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already we'll see you after the cycle
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gets done
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all right the freeze-dried cycle is done
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the bananas are done it ran for about 38
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hours so I'm gonna get these
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freeze-dried bananas out of the freeze
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dry and then we're going to see what it
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looks like as the end result for you all
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right so this is what a freeze-dried
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banana looks like uh it actually retains
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the same amount of shape and everything
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now I'm gonna put the camera so you can
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kind of see what the freeze-dried
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bananas look like
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so this is one of the trays of the
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freeze-dried bananas so as you can see
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and you can hear that they just are
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super kind of just crunchy now when you
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break them apart
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they just snap off and they're super
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crunchy have a lot of flavor definitely
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some banana aftertaste but these are
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great to put in for strawberries like a
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strawberry banana mix also just great
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for snacking my kids love them so I
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think marketing them as just really good
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healthy snacks like I said they're high
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in potassium great for your heart great
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for indigestion issues things like that
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so these are these freeze-dried bananas
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are great took about 38 hours all right
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just to recap on freeze drying bananas
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now the settings for your freeze dryer
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is just the factory settings I set it at
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125 degrees I did add final dry time to
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about six hours five or six hours or so
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you don't have to do that much but I
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always just kind of add more final dry
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time just for just to be safe to make
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sure it's completely dry and it ran for
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about 38 hours and we did about 12 to 13
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pounds of bananas now I use that fire
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Kiln banana slice sure you can get it
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off of Amazon for 10 bucks it's really
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cheap the link to that on Amazon is in
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the video description hey thanks a lot
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for joining me if you can do one thing
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