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Did I Just Create the Newest Freeze-Dried Candy?
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May 16, 2025
Pop'd candy is all the rage, but did I create the next "Freeze-Dried Candy" type of product? Watch as I transform three classic flavors—strawberry banana, vanilla, and chocolate—into crunchy, lightweight freeze-dried bites that pack all the flavor without the mess. Using simple recipes from @thewhyteelephant1900, I'll show you the entire process from blending fresh milkshakes to the amazing transformation that happens in my freeze dryer. This is a great video for anyone looking to expand their freeze-drying recipes and test new products in their freeze-drying business. Whether you own a freeze dryer or are just curious about innovative snacks, this video shows you how to create a unique treat that combines perfect crunch with delicious milkshake flavor. Watch my attempt at re-constituting the milkshake bites back into a liquid: https://youtu.be/spRt_a3oPKA Want to learn more about the freeze-drying industry and connect with others operating successful businesses in freeze-drying? Join the Freeze Dried Summit (September 22-23, 2025). Visit https://freezedriedsummit.com/ Want to start a freeze-drying business? Connect with our community via email at 🌐 https://freezedriedbusiness.com Other Freeze-Drying Recipes: Freeze-Dried Guacamole Bites - https://youtu.be/NDacoAGZTcE Items Used in This Video: - Blender - https://amzn.to/4c1Qhml - Magic Bullet - https://amzn.to/4ceDblV - Silicon Molds by Harvest Right - https://affiliates.harvestright.com/1974.html - Tray Lids - https://www.freezedryingsupplies.com/?rfsn=7945463.f583545 - Official Milkshake Glasses - https://amzn.to/41LQua3 - Strawberry/Fruit Slicer: https://amzn.to/3Y773cG
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if you like milkshakes and you like
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testing out new recipes this video is
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going to be for you because today we're
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going to blend up three traditional
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milkshake flavors like strawberry
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vanilla and chocolate and because I own
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a freeze dryer and a freeze drying
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business I'm going to decide to put that
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milkshake into my freeze dryer removing
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the moisture and once the freeze drying
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process is done we're going to see if
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the result turns out to be a delicious
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milkshake bite now all these recipes I
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got from a YouTuber called the white
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elephant I'm going to give him credit
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for Designing all these different
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milkshake recipes they're very simple
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but very delicious and I love the type
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of content that he has now the white
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elephants recipe for strawberry banana
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milkshake is three scoops of vanilla ice
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cream I'm going to use tillamuk ice
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cream today and then he uses half a
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banana as well as a full cup of fresh
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strawberries and then he also has half a
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cup of milk so four easy ingredients not
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many ways to mess this up now what other
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appliances and tools are you going to
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need to make these milkshakes as well as
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do the freeze drying process well let me
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show you one got to have a cutting board
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we got to have a knife to cut this fruit
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we also have an ice cream scoop we also
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have a blender now you can use one of
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those Magic Bullets that's very small
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and more of like a a regular serving
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size I'm going to use my my bigger
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blender for that you also are going to
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need a glass because we're going to do a
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taste test of the fresh milk shake
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obviously and then also I've got my
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freeze dryer trays back here now I I own
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a harvest freeze dryer and so I've got
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the Harvest Right large freeze dryer all
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ready to go and I'll talk about the
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freeze dryer settings in a second but we
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want a freeze dryer tray and then I've
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got these molds that they sell on
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harvestright.com now you can buy
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different molds on Amazon if you'd like
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I've got some links in the video
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description uh where you can find those
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molds that have you know different
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animal shapes things like that but I'm
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just going to use the molds that fit on
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one of these large trays for the Harvest
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Right freeze dryer now I've also got
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these tray Lids now these are from Freez
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drying supplies.com these particular
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tray Lids go right on top of the trays
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and then they snap into place and then
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you have these little raised edges where
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you can stack uh the different trays for
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that so that's the type of tools that
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we're going to have for today if you
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don't have any of these you can always
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go to the video description and support
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this channel by using the affiliate link
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for harvestright.com and also you can
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buy those tray Lids as well as other
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different accessories with the Freez
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drying supplies.com and I've got my
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referral link below in there so now that
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we know what we need let's go ahead and
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start making that strawberry banana
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milkshake okay first I've washed all my
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strawberri so I'm just going to cut off
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the stems now I want to go through kind
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of the goals of this again which is we
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want to try new things when we're
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exploring starting a freeze drying
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business this is why one of the reasons
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why you want to have a home freeze dryer
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like a counter top like a harvest right
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stay fresh blue Alpine all these are
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great home freeze dryers and you can use
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them to experiment with different
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recipes and what I like doing is looking
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at opportunities of everyday desserts
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and foods and things like that that we
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have on a daily basis and then looking
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at the freeze drying process as a way to
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preserve that food item or make it kind
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of a new snack with texture so we're
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going to just put all the ingredients
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back in here so the strawberries are
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going to go in here the banana that we
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cut in half is going to go in here and
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then we're going to put the ice cream
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the recipe calls for three scoops of
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vanilla ice cream I'm using tillamuk ice
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cream just cuz I love that they don't
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add a ton of different ingredients Now
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the recipe calls for half a cup of milk
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so let's make sure we put that in here
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to give it that moisture remember that
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all the moisture from the strawberries
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the banana this milk as well as the ice
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cream is all going to be dried out in
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the freeze dryer but we first need to
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blend it
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up a strawberry vanilla milkshake
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freshly made in Davis's kitchen thanks
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to the white elephant let's give it a
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taste tastes good strawberry banana I
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can taste it all now let's get these in
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the freeze dryer trays now just so you
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know I'm at home right now I making this
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for fun so I wouldn't be selling this
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particular milkshake obviously so if
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you're going to do this you're obviously
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not going to give it a taste test all
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right let's get this strawberry
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milkshake into the molds I'm being kind
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of delicate with the pore here it
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doesn't really matter because what
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you're going to get after you see this
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come out of the freeze dryer is the
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molds are going to be fine so we're just
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going to pour these in and try to get
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them as even as possible now that we
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have them all poured is we're going to
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put those tray Lids that we got from
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freeze drying supplies we're going to
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put these on here and then what we get
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on here is we get to be able to put
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another tray right on top of here I'm
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going to put this into my freezer out in
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the garage then we'll do the chocolate
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and the vanilla milkshake
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wow now that is good now it's time to
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get this vanilla milkshake onto the
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freeze dryer trays now another thing
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that you could do instead of these molds
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is maybe we could use tray dividers and
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we could actually lay out the entire
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milkshake uh material all into this
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whole tray and then we could either use
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tray dividers to kind of make squares or
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we could also prefreeze this and then
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run like a cookie cutter knife or
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something to make those Square squares
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and make them as bite-sized as you want
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in terms of different sizes now if you
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want kind of some some ideas of what
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that might look like go to my video that
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I did about the stenland Family Farms
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they freeze dry ice cream and their
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particular product has squares and what
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they do is they take their ice cream and
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they pre-freeze it all across the tray
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they actually load it up on a tray no
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molds or anything and then once it's
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prefrozen then they take that cutter and
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they cut it all up into even Square
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slices so that's what their process is
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you can check out that video in the
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video description also above here in the
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cards we'll move on to the
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chocolate and thanks to the white
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elephant recipe this is a traditional
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chocolate shake
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so good now let's get this onto the
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freeze dryer trays and then we'll put it
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in the freeze dryer now no wonder what
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freeze dryer you have again get it down
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to a pre-freezing temperature of -10 to
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-20° and then you're going to set the
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drying temperature to 120 or
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125° typically the freeze dryers are set
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at the default at
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125° I found that freeze-dried ice cream
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in general uh which kind of the what is
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what this is
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uh does best at a lower temperature and
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it's able to kind of dry it at that
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consistent temp as well as uh
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prefreezing I've been hosting this
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YouTube channel for 2 and a half years
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now and I've really connected myself
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well with the industry both for people
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who have freeze drying businesses to
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also manufacturers who make freeze
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drying equipment so if you want to be
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more connected to the freeze drying
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community and know what's available out
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there for you to either start and
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innovate a business or grow your
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business and you just want to know more
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about what's happening this is the
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channel and the community for you all
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right the freeze drying process is done
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and I've got the freeze dried milkshake
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bites right here on the counter now are
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you ready to see what a freeze-dried
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milkshake bite looks like let's take a
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look here is the finished product here
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is what a freeze-dried milkshape bite
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looks like look how light that is see it
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has the Harvest Right logo so if you
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made your own molds you could have that
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logo as well very lightweight see how
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I'm even just dumping it into the air
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and throwing it in the air it's very
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light and then um Just for kicks let's
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actually like break it and kind of smash
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it let's see if it actually just kind of
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crumbles yep there we go and that's what
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freeze-dried milkshake bites look like
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as you can see there so all dried out
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perfect and then this made about one
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glass full so we won't take too much of
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this uh we want to do some taste testing
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and some reconstitution but let's let's
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get these out of the molds and then
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let's do some taste
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testing wow I can't believe how these
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turned out as you can see they're dried
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milkshake bites and I'm excited to taste
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test these just as is as a as a dried
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milkshake bite right and that's the
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whole point of developing a freeze-dried
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recipe as quote unquote is the recipe is
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what type of application do you want it
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to be in terms of resell if you're
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starting a business if you're just doing
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this for fun then you can try different
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things but if you were going to sell
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these milkshake bites what we want to
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test is one what does the end result
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look like it's dried and we're going to
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try it as an actual stackable dried
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freeze-dried product so before we jump
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into the taste test why would you freeze
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dry milkshakes for one it's fun this is
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going to be kind of a new product for
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someone to try and I don't care if other
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people explore doing this as well but
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it's kind of like the freeze-dried candy
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aspect there's a lot of people freeze
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dry candy maybe I'm going to be the
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first one to freeze dry milkshake bites
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and have that as a sellable product and
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if other people want to try different
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flavors if other people want to try
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different Wafers that are thinner versus
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these thicker pieces if they want to do
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you know actual squares or different
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formations then that's perfectly fine
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again the idea of starting a freeze
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drying business is using the process to
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create something new that is your own
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brand so let's get started with the
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taste test and try each one of these now
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I've never tried this before this is the
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first time I'm going to try a milkshake
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bite so let's give it a try and see how
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it tastes as a dried
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snack wow I don't know how else to
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describe it other than definitely
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chocolate definitely dried it didn't
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leave too much of like a powder residue
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like if you would have uh you know
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cinnamon in your mouth or something
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that's very chalky it was I was able to
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digest it and it was able to kind of
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melt in my mouth there's still a little
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bit of residue of the chocolate in my
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mouth but overall that was a very tasty
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bite scale of one of 10 for the
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chocolate I'm going to give it
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definitely a 7 to8 because it's not my
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favorite flavor of a milkshake but in
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terms of the texture and the way that it
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was a snackable bite very good 7.5 let's
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give it all right now let's try the
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strawberry banana I wanted to try the
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strawberry banana because it adds two of
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a really good combination of flavor and
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it is fairly popular with a lot of
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people so if I was going to sell this i'
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do maybe strawberry and strawberry
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banana and in fact in my business I sell
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strawberry banana mix in terms of the
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dried fruit so let's try the
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strawberry that's good very heavy on the
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banana even though I used half of a
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banana the strawberry as you can see in
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one of these bites I don't know if I can
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zoom in close enough but there is
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definitely some strawberry chunks in
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there that's when I can actually taste
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the strawberry I think I'm GNA have to
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add more than a cup of strawberries to
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the recipe uh to to bring out that
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strawberry cuz the banana is very strong
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overall I'm going to give this also a
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7.5 uh just because I it it melted in my
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mouth it uh went down very well and like
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this is definitely just like the
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chocolate it was delicious so let's move
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on to the vanilla all right let's do a
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taste test for the vanilla Now the
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recipe on this if you want to rewatch
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the video we added uh vanilla ice cream
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as well as Vana extract and we also did
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some vanilla wafers um not the the
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cookie but the uh the wafer bars so uh
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I'm I'm pretty sure I'm probably going
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to taste some of that wafer so let's
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give it a taste now that is good
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definitely tastes the wafer kind of that
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that dried cracker and then definitely
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tastes like vanilla ice cream I love it
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now the vanilla I'm going to give this
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almost a nine because I really liked the
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flavor of this and I think that vanilla
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wafer bar going into the the recipe
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really added a little bit of different
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kind of kick to it and different taste
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let's bring all these back in to view
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here so like I said the strawberry 7.5 I
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gave the chocolate a 7.5 rating and I'm
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going to go with a nine for the vanilla
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all of these really tasted well I like
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this as a as an actual snackable product
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that we could sell as freeze-dried the
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difference that I would go with the next
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recipe if I was going to sell this in my
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business is I'd do a little bit thinner
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of a of a wafer now don't go anywhere
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because I've got another recipe for you
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to take a look at in how to freeze dry
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guacamole and I think you're going to be
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impressed and surprised at what the
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results was with the regular
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freeze-dried snackable application as
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well as the application with
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reconstitution so check out that video
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coming up next I'll see you there
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