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You Won't Regret Buying This Tool | 🍌BANANA SLICER 🍌 | How to Freeze Dry Bananas
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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
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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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