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How to Freeze Dry AIRHEADS, Harvest Right Candy Mode, Freeze Dried Candy for a Freeze Dried Business
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May 15, 2025
Can you freeze-dry Airheads? Have you been looking for a new freeze dried candy to sell in your freeze-dried business? In this video, I share with you how I freeze-dried Airhead candies as well as freeze dryer setting, Candy Mode, and final results. Are you starting to look at starting a freeze-dried business? Watch this video for the 10 steps I would take if I were starting a freeze-dried business from scratch: https://youtu.be/Shx_WHTVF3g 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 Dry - 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 Here are other tools I use for my freeze-dried business: - Cookie/Ice Cream Scoop (1/2 or 1 tablespoon size) - https://amzn.to/3utyX4H - 5 Gallon Storage Pails with Gamma Screw Lid - https://amzn.to/3ICnXdT - Hefty 2.5 Gallon Jumbo Bags - https://amzn.to/3GpQ90P - Cutco Scissors - https://amzn.to/3vORJ7A - Knife Sharpener - https://amzn.to/3Vrttml - Large cutting board - https://amzn.to/3GqhIYN - Food Scale - https://amzn.to/3FyO9DW
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hey welcome to the freeze Drive business
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Channel have you been an airhead when it
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comes to freeze drying AirHeads well I
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have two I'm gonna try the AirHeads for
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the first time and so you're going to
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see me set the freeze dryer to what I
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think is going to work as well as
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Arrangement on the tray I'm also going
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to cut some of them and we're going to
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see what AirHeads do in the freeze dryer
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as well as how we can make it work let's
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get started
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hey welcome to another video on the
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freeze Drive business Channel my name is
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David I run a freeze-dried business in
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Idaho I've been running my business for
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several years and I've learned a lot of
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different things about freeze drying as
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a business now a lot of things are
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different for every different state that
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you're a part of but there are a lot of
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things that remain the same within a
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freeze-dry business so a lot of my
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videos are to share those generalities
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and some of the specifics I can help you
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if you comment in my videos or you send
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me an email in my about section on my
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YouTube channel now today we're going to
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be doing AirHeads and I haven't done
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them before but I wanted to try them and
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I think they're really fun I don't like
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adding a whole lot of new candies to my
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product lineup within my business
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because I've already got a lot of
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candies and it's just a lot to store and
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to do but I've been wanting to try this
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because there's a lot of new ways to do
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freeze drying candy that I've been
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seeing where you're warming the trays
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you're also going at a very high
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temperature for longer periods of time
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to make certain things work and I just
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want to try something new so what you
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can expect in this video is I'm going to
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set up the freeze dryer settings you're
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going to see that you're also going to
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see me I arrange them on the trays I am
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going to cut them because if I was to
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sell the airhead I kind of like having
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bite-sized pieces because when you put
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them in the bag for sale they just look
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like there's more in it and that's the
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way we all are within as consumers is if
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we see that there's more we might
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actually buy more and that's just for my
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style of bagging and my style of
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marketing I just want to be able to have
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more bite-sized pieces so before we get
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started let's go ahead and set the
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freeze dryer now hey I already did a
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candy batch so what you can do on the
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freeze dryers you can hit the button
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that says start new Candy batch that's
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what I'm going to do and that basically
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starts a new Candy batch at the same
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temperature that you had previously
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which I did at 150 degrees for a
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different type of candy which is the
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Lemonheads go ahead and check out that
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video I've got all the trays out we're
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going to put the AirHeads on the trays
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and then we're gonna put them in at 150
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degrees now hey I know a lot of you
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sometimes have the earlier version of
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the Harvest Right software and you don't
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have the option for can handy mode but
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you do have the option within that same
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old software to set the dry temperature
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so before the machine starts you need to
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go into the custom settings change the
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temperature to about 140 maybe even 150
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degrees and then start the machine now
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to bypass all of the freezing cycle and
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the vacuum pressure and all that type of
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thing that you normally would do with a
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full cycle with fruit other types of
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foods is you're just going to start the
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machine and then once it starts kicking
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on freezing you're going to say cancel
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and then it's going to bring you to the
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screen that says hey do you want to add
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more final dry or do you want to defrost
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or not defrost what you're going to
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choose is add more final dry time and
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basically all you're going to do is kick
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it into the final dry at that high
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temperature that you already set so
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that's for the people that have the
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older software those will have the new
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software you've got candy mode and
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really all you're going to do is you're
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going to press customize before the
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machine starts you're going to change
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that 10 to 150 140 degrees and you're
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also going to change the dry time to
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whatever you want I have it set at five
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hours right now because I did the lemon
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heads so I'm just going to keep it at
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that and then I might change it to lower
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or higher based on what the end result
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is all right so we've got all the
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different AirHeads I bought these in
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bulk and it was about 2.78 cents per
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pound now I buy a lot of my candy on
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Amazon but I also buy at a wholesale
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store called WinCo that's here in Idaho
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what I'm going to do with these AirHeads
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is I'm going to unwrap them but I'm also
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going to use this knife I don't normally
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have this small of a knife to cut but I
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forgot my larger knife when I started
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this video so what we're going to do is
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we're going to quickly unwrap these uh
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these air heads very quickly and that is
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the tedious part about freeze drying you
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have to kind of find really quick fast
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ways to unwrap candies because most
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candies are wrapped in some type of
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wrapper over and you just kind of have
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to unwrap it so there's sometimes it's
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not an easy way to unwrap these the
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purposes of this video I am just going
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to unwrap just a few of these and we're
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going to cut them and put them on one
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tray and I'm also going to do whole
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AirHeads just to see what the difference
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is of how they expand by the way if you
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are new to freeze drying or you haven't
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connected yourself to some of these
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Facebook forums there is really a lot
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that has already been done and
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everyone's kind of figured out things
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now it's not really Trade Secrets
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because sooner or later somebody's going
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to know how to do air heads and set the
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right settings and all that type of
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stuff I share a lot of my knowledge
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because I just couldn't find a lot of
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video information online when I started
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my business three years ago in 2020 and
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I just felt like people needed to see
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what was actually going on in this
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freeze drying business world and I
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wanted to make high quality videos and I
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appreciate every single one of you who
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has subscribed as well as those who have
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commented now all right so I've got
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these uh full-size ones what I'm going
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to do is I'm going to cut
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uh these in half and we're just going to
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see how the halves go hopefully you can
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see that I'm just I'm just cutting each
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one in half trying to be as equal as
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possible if you're in hot humid space
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make sure you're keeping your candy in a
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room temperature area or in your house
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or some type of temperature controlled
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area because this candy can get really
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soft and it's going to make it even more
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and more impossible to get these candy
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wrappers
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off uh when they're sticking to the
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wrapper because they're warm
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um
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and so that's what my tip would be for
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you so as you can see I'm just putting
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the halves on the tray all right so
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these were in half so we're going to
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keep these halves for the Airheads in
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this type of space just to see what
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happens we'll put it in the freeze dryer
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all right now let's go ahead and do the
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air heads but let's do them completely
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whole and see what happens so I'm just
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gonna unwrap some of these I'll put it
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on a time lapse
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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all right
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[Music]
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foreign
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[Music]
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full-size air hens so let's go ahead and
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put this in the freeze dryer all right
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so the trays are in for the AirHeads now
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again what I set the temperature to was
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150 degrees because I just started a new
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Candy batch it's already in candy mode
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previously from the lemon heads that I
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just did now I've already done a candy
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batch like I said so what we're going to
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do is we've already closed the drain
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valve the high temperature candy process
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is on
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we're going to press continue and what
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we're going to do on air hands because
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they're already soft they're not like
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the hard candies like the lemon heads is
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we're going to actually skip the tray
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warming and it's just going to start
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drying the candy and we've got the
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drying time now at five hours now this
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is the evening time so I'm going to go
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ahead and let this run let's do eight
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hours and that way I can come back in
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the morning and see how it does I
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normally would probably do this at three
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hours just so I can keep doing candies
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but we'll just keep it at the 8 hour and
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29 Mark all right the cycle is complete
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that we have the air heads in let's go
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ahead and take a look to see what
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happens when you freeze dry Airhead all
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right here's the AirHeads that we cut in
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half wow they puffed up a little bit
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this has a little bit of a puff to it
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we're going to see how they taste in a
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second
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this is the ones that we left whole
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for the Airheads
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and this is what happens to Airheads if
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you put them into third all right so
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let's just look at the size of what we
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did here so we had the full size this is
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cut in half and this is in third so
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really not much of a difference in the
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halfs and the thirds but definitely on
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the full size now all of these were the
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three different trays that we did those
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were the thirds holes and half so let's
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go do a taste test all right here's the
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taste test with the full size airhead
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all right the texture is definitely
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crunchy I really like this the flavor
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hits
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kind of almost after the full bite in
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your mouth actually this is really this
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is really tasty I really like this now
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that's the full size and then this is
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the half size
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all right nothing really changes on the
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taste
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wow lots of sugar that's why I don't do
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a whole lot of candies added onto my
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product line all right after freeze
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drying these AirHeads here's a couple of
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conclusions that I have one you don't
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need to cut the AirHeads I thought you
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needed to because you would have more
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bite-sized pieces but looking at the
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full size it really didn't puff up that
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much that I could still fit quite a few
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in a single bag of the five and a half
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by eight size bags that I use so I don't
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think you need to really cut these but
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if you were to cut these I think it
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would create a lot more bite-sized
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pieces in these squares you'd probably
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see in the window bags you'd probably
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see a lot more different flavors and
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colors which always brings out a good
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amount of marketing and brand for the
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product that someone is going to buy
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because they don't really know what to
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expect now as far as air heads go for
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the cost that's something you got to
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figure out I still would probably stick
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with my two dollars per net ounce or
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probably stick with my eight to nine
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dollar per bag price for the AirHeads
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now just to recap on the freeze dryer
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settings we did the AirHeads at 100 150
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degrees and we did not warm the trays so
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these performed fine at 150 degrees I
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almost think you could go down 140 and
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not even have to warm the trays either
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now we did run it for about eight hours
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because it was overnight but I don't
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think you need to do that either I'd
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probably run the AirHeads for about
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three or four hours and they're probably
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puff up fine if they don't and you taste
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test and they're still a little bit
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chewy just run them a little bit longer
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