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hey welcome back to the freeze Drive
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business Channel my name is David I'm an
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owner of a freeze-dried business in
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Idaho if you're looking at starting a
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freeze-dry business or you're currently
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operating one and you're just wanting to
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know more and more about how you can
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grow your business this channel is for
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you today we're going to be doing bit oh
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honey bit of Honeys are actually my top
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20 selling items to do as a freeze-dried
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business if you want to check out that
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video it's in the description below I'm
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going to be showing you the unwrapping
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of the candies The Cutting as well as
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the arrangement on the trays and then
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also the freeze dryer settings that you
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need for this bit of honey so let's get
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started with this video
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all right so let's go ahead and get the
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freeze dryer set up before we start
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arranging the candy I'm going to show
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you how to put it in candy mode right
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here so if you have version 5.1 or
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higher for your Harvest Right freeze
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dryer it's really simple to put into
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candy mode you press customize and then
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you're really just going to change the
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dry temperature to above 130 degrees so
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let's go ahead and change it to 140
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that's what I like for the bit of Honeys
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we've got it on dry mode is fast and we
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don't need any extra freeze trying but
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that's okay to leave an initial freeze
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and then extra dry time is not even
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going to be applied so we save
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and then we're going to start
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so now the freeze dryer is started we're
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just going to shut the door and then get
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started on prepping the candy
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okay so now we're ready to cut and I
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just want to show you the tools that I'm
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using one is a just a really good knife
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that has a sharp blade I use an old
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antique knife sharpener but you can find
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one on Amazon I've got a link in the
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description below so I'm just going to
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sharpen up the blade a little bit and
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really all we're going to do is I'm
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going to unwrap this the bit of honey
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and then I'm going to cut it into three
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different sizes so we can kind of see
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what the variable different sizes are so
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I'm going to do some in whole do in half
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and then also do in thirds you can cut
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the bit of honey in half let's say and
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then try to kind of squeeze it out of
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the wrapper I did this similar to the
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to the Taffy video but you know I know I
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know you can do that but I found that
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it's just easier to just
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unwrap the bit of Honeys before you
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start cutting so that's what we're gonna
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do now people who like freeze-dried
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like it because one it's a different
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type of texture so it's fun usually the
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flavor hits a little bit faster because
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it's crunchy and people who can't do
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chewy candies now they can I'm just
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going to keep unwrapping probably I'd
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individual pieces with candy there's
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really no easy way to prep it you have
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to unwrap it you have to cut it
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that's what everybody is doing and some
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of us it's kind of that mindless type of
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work that sometimes we like you know you
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can turn on a show in the background or
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but you know it's just kind of fun to
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kind of see see what it does and but it
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is a lot of work so you got to figure in
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those labor costs now you might be
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asking yourself you know what do I price
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a bit of Honeys at you know what is
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what's the type of like weight how much
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product you put in your bags well like
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I've shown before I use a craft mylar
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bag that's food safe but short term it's
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about a five by eight bag and what I
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usually do with candy is I fill it to as
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much as I can without impacting the
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candy so it's not crushed you know so I
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put as much as it in there then I weigh
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it and then I basically kind of have
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um of the amount of freeze-dried product
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that's in there then I put that weight
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on the labels so I've already found that
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through my bags also with pricing I
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usually price this at between eight to
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ten dollars usually this is a ten dollar
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type of candy because I pay about 3.78
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cents a pound for it and um it's just a
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little bit more labor intensive to do
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this okay so now that we've got these
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all unwrapped we'll cut them into thirds
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halves and leave a couple for holes all
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right so now we're going to cut
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and we're gonna cut in thirds know a
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real quick way of doing this just find a
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I don't know I'm just gonna ballpark it
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in terms of the process of like you know
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how means they're doing things you can
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figure that out I wasn't going to do
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that for this video in particular I was
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just going to show you you know here's
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the cutting here's the arrangement
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here's the different sizes for uh
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different ways you can different sizes
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and just kind of show you a good a good
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candy to do if you're just starting out
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or maybe you've you've started a
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freeze-dried business and you want to
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try something different so we're going
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to cut these into thirds
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okay so let's set let's set that aside
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so we don't get those mixed up
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so these are our thirds
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January is typically a slower month for
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me because even though it's you know
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you've got Valentine's Day coming up
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there's just not a whole lot of
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Valentine's Day specific
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a little candy tart shape stuff like
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that so Easter is actually a really big
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holiday for freeze drying
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just be careful with yourself I almost
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cut myself there as you can see but
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Easter is a really good holiday to do
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freeze-dried candy for and Mother's Day
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I've seen do well but it usually picks
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up for me in the summer months when
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people are more out and about there's a
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little bit more spending money but
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January through February is a little bit
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okay so there we go so we've got our
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whole pieces right here we've got thirds
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and then we've got halves
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all right so let's put these on the tray
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so let's go ahead and do our whole
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pieces and what I'd like to do is just
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give enough space just to make sure if
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they pop too too big or
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whatever just you know for the full
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sizes let's just do five across
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lengthways and then for the halves let's
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go ahead and do six across
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and spacing is important if you care
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you know having it look like a full
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piece you know with you know if they
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were really stuck together then they
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might when it freeze dries and it starts
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puffing up it might when you pull them
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apart it might show a little bit more of
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a Detachment type look
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so that's why I like having
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a little bit more space with six across
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you could probably do seven
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but I'm just gonna do six just for this
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video okay so you see how
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how close I'm getting here this is going
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to be plenty of room to get the thirds
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and even if it's not you know we can
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obviously put more on another tray but
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I'm just going to do one tray
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slide that up a little bit more
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you know like I said at the beginning of
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the freeze dryer settings is at 140
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degrees for about two hours that's it
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so those are the third so we've got
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thirds right here and then halves and
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then we've got our holes up here so
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that's that's that looks pretty good so
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we've got some leftovers for the next
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once you put the bit of Honeys in the
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freeze dryer you're going to be prompted
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to whether you want to warm the trays or
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not I don't usually do that for the bit
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of Honeys but for certain candies when
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you want to change the texture some
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candies do need to be warmed first and
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then you start the drying process but
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for a bit of Honeys you don't need to do
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that just press Skip and then you only
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need a freeze dry for about two to two
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and a half hours so we'll do that on
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this freeze dryer and then we'll see
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what they look like after those couple
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all right the bit of Honey is all done
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let's go ahead and take a look to see
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what they look like freeze-dried
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alrighty so here's some perspective on
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the different sizes we've got our full
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we've got our half and our third so
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really not much change with the half and
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the thirds but definitely the hole so I
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I would say you know to fit more product
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in and to make it look like there's more
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bite-sized pieces I'd probably go with
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the thirds and the halves and then for
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the holes you could definitely do that
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if you want to throw a couple in there
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that's what they look like so let's
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let's kind of actually see what they
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taste like bit of Honeys change their
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texture they do become crunchy so this
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is a full-size bit of honey that's
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now hey I'm not the biggest fan of bit
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of Honeys even before as a chewy candy
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but they are pretty tasty and a lot of
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my customers like them so I decided to
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make a limited number of bags I do
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believe that these are a top seller for
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you to add to your product lineup well
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that's a wrap on this video for freeze
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