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hey welcome back to the freeze dry
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business my name is David today I'm
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going to be doing Jolly Ranchers Jolly
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Ranchers yeah this is actually a really
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big hit for most people who are in the
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freeze-dried candy business freeze-dried
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business as well as myself these are a
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really big hit because when the vacuum
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and the heat hits in the freeze dryer it
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pops and no longer a hard can is just
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like a malt sugary ball and it's really
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good if you have the window bags because
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marketing wise and just visually it
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looks really cool and they're really
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really neat freeze drying Jolly Ranchers
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is actually a pretty tedious process
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there's no real way to unwrap them and
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especially if they have any heat to it
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the wrappers start sticking to the candy
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so you do have to have a little bit more
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time and so I'm going to show you how I
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do Jolly Ranchers and what size I do and
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the methodology and just the process so
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that you can see how quickly I do it
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maybe you have something different that
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you that you do with Jolly Rancher years
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I've heard people use knives and also
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pipe cutters I've never used the pipe
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cutters I definitely know that that does
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work but I'm going to use a knife this
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time so I'm going to set the camera down
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over here and we'll do a tray worth of
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Jolly Ranchers and I'll show you how all
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right so if you have a good knife this
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is about the size I use and then if you
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have a knife sharpener I like to get the
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knife knife it's nice and sharp it just
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and then these are the Jolly Ranchers
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you can get them in the bag sometimes I
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buy them and pull from some of the bulk
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it's actually a really easy process but
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it just takes time cutting it so I'm
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going to just show you what I do and and
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I just cut it like this
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you can do two at a time I cut them in
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don't worry about the size sometimes
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when you cut it you know you might think
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that it's too small that's okay but the
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key here is just how quickly can you get
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it cut and get the wrappers off so that
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getting them on the tray perfectly again
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see I'm I'm cutting actually the
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camera's wiggling because I'm cutting it
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pretty pretty quickly and hard just
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because I want to get a really clean cut
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so I don't have to keep cutting and also
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I don't get a bunch of
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crumbs for the Jolly Ranchers
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and see sometimes it's just sticks like
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now with Jolly Ranchers you want to make
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sure you're not using the name Jolly
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sometimes it's been going around it if
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you use the name Jolly Rancher
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Hershey you can get pretty upset about
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that so you just want to make sure that
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you rename it you can still use it the
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name Jolly Rancher in the description
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so I've gone through probably I don't
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know about 40 individual Jolly Ranchers
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and I just cut as much as I can to a
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point so having Jolly Ranchers is a big
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hit and I think it's because the texture
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and just the the visual part of it when
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people see it they're like what in the
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a hard candy turns into that
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and I think it's easy for us to say oh
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yeah it's freeze-dried Jolly Ranchers
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but it's really not freeze-dried right
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because what's really making this happen
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is the vacuum process and the heat so
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that's what's making these candies pop
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so if we had just a vacuum
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machine with a little bit of heat all
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this would happen but it's fun calling
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see this is the tedious part right here
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taking off all the wrappers
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and one thing that you can do that I
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found is put them if if you actually
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don't have a time to put them in the
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free starter let's say you have a batch
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already running go ahead and put these
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on the tray and then stack them and put
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them in your freezer it's actually a
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really good tactic I found because they
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don't stick together they don't stick on
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the tray like they don't melt based on
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your room temperature or things like
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that so if I'm doing a lot of Jolly
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Ranchers at one time just to get ahead
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so I can do it every two hours or so
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then I I put these in the freezer
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okay so we are done getting all of the
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Jolly Ranchers in here now I'm just
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going to put that all on the tray all of
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so what I like to do is I like to line
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them up about six long sometimes you can
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and then I stack them about this close
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together see this one's a little bit
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bigger you just kind of have to play
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around with it it just really depends on
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how much you want to deal with the
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things sticking to each other I
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people use these silicone mats that
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Harvest Right makes that has these
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little molds but I still feel like
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you're going to have to like peel them
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those molds so I just like putting them
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right here some of them will touch
