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Spooky Profits: My Favorite Holiday to Make Money with My Freeze Dryer
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May 15, 2025
Freeze-drying candy for Halloween can be a very profitable holiday for your business and if you haven’t started a business using a freeze-dryer it’s a great time to capitalize on this opportunity. In this video, I share my top candies to freeze-dry that bring in the most profit for my business as well as two new candies; Candy Corn and Nerds Candy Corn. Learn about how to freeze dry other candies for Halloween in this video as well: https://youtu.be/8w0s0Woctao There are three holidays throughout the year that most freeze-drying companies have their biggest sales periods; Halloween, Black Friday, Christmas. This is because consumers increase their spending habits during these holidays and are looking to buy new and unique gifts but also are doing more casual shopping than other times throughout the year. If you are considering starting a business in freeze-drying, then focus on your sales and marketing strategy around these holidays and you’ll be guaranteed to see a return. ——————————————— Freeze Dryers to Purchase ——————————————— - Harvest Right Freeze Dryers - Start with the Large and then upgrade to an XL as you increase your customer portfolio. You won’t go wrong with either one. Use my affiliate link to purchase (I appreciate your support of this channel!) https://affiliates.harvestright.com/1974.html ————————————— Freeze Drying Supplies ————————————— Start using Freeze Drying Supplies that can help you become more efficient in your business. Click below to access one of the largest varieties in freeze-drying supplies. https://www.freezedryingsupplies.com/?rfsn=7945463.f583545 - Tray Stackers - Tray Lids - Parchment Paper - Other helpful accessories for freeze-drying
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let's freeze dry Halloween candy this is
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a great holiday to get started in making
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some cold hard cash with your freeze
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dryer whether you are just starting out
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or you have an existing freeze drying
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business man there are so many cool
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unique limited time candies that are
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coming out right now that you can start
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freeze drying Halloween happens to be my
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favorite holiday as well and in fact my
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wife and I got married 10 years ago this
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year on Halloween a Halloween on the
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freeze drying side has been a great
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opportunity for me to make some money in
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my freeze drying business in fact this
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is the first kind of holiday that really
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catapults my business's sales throughout
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the year because not only do we have
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Halloween we have Black Friday coming up
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as well as Christmas so a lot of great
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opportunities to make some money and if
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you haven't bought a freeze dryer yet
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you can make back that freeze dryer cost
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easily in this upcoming three holidays
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if you haven't bought a freeze dryer yet
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I personally have a Harvest Right freeze
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dryer have multiple of them and you can
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buy directly through the link below in
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the video description through my
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affiliate leag and you'll be doing me a
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solid by supporting this channel as as
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well as everything I'm trying to do for
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the freeze drying Space by using the
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link below to harvest right and making
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that purchase online through my
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affiliate link I'd really appreciate it
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now whether you have a harvest rate
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freeze dryer or you have a different one
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the general freeze dryer settings for
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Halloween candy that we're going to do
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today is going to be 140° as well as
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150° now some of these candies that I
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have in front of me I already did in a
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previous video last year you can check
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that out in the card above or in the
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video description as well as at the end
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of this video in the thumbnails okay now
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we did did last year the shrier Skittles
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this is a kind of a playoff the sour
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skittles with some regular Skittles and
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you got to be quick about going to grab
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some of these at your local Walmart
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Kroger Walgreens even Fred Meyer so this
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is really easy to do this is at 140° in
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your freeze dryer and you're just going
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to do it at regular Skittle mode which
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is going to be for about 2 to 3 hours
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now another one that I've done and I do
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at 140° is these nerd gummy clusters now
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this is a limited edition one it has
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purple orange and white different
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flavors around the little nerds with the
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gummies on it and as you know from
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probably previous videos or you've seen
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around or maybe you've tried it is that
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the nerd gummy clusters pop and become
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really delicate crunchy bites of flavor
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these are really popular you can get
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these limited edition ones man this
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would be a great addition to you to add
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on top of the ones that are normally
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available that have the red and and blue
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type nerds now the new candies that
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we're going to do today I picked up at
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my local store and we're going to do
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candy corn and we're also going to do
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what's new here is the Nerds candy corn
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now I'm going to do both of these at
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150° for about 4 hours but the key piece
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of this is these are a little bit harder
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candies so you're going to need to warm
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the trays in the freeze dryer when that
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prompt comes up on your freeze dryer
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machine so we're going to warm the trays
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up for 10 minutes at a minimum maybe
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even 15 minutes at 150° and then have
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the freeze dried process with the vacuum
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pop those candies and make them more
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crunchy now let me talk to you about
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some of the freeze free drying
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accessories and supplies that I have in
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front of me for these candies you don't
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actually have to use these but I wanted
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to try different elements of my freeze
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drying supplies to see kind of how this
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might be best to go about it in scale
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when you're trying to move through a lot
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of different candies now the first thing
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is this Harvest silicone mold where it
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has various different Cube areas that
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you can put candy now I've used this for
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caramel M&M's I'm going to use it for
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these Nerd candy corns just because I
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don't really know how much they're going
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to puff up and rather than scatter them
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all across the tray of your freeze dryer
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tray sometimes it can kind of connect
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and Clump up things like that and so the
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silicone mold like this will allow me to
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basically have individual candies in
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each one and then once they're done I
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have each individual bite instead of
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trying to break them up individually
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myself now the other thing that I've got
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here is my tray stackers from Freez
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drwings supplies.com they've got a lot
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of different unique accessories for all
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different freeze dryer Brands including
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Harvest Right these Trace stackers what
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I like about them though is they
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actually kind of snap onto the edges of
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the freeze dryer tray so they don't
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really move too much I've got some other
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Trace stackers that I bought off at
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Amazon and they just weren't snapping
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onto the edges so they would move around
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a little bit and therefore when you're
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trying to transport five maybe even 10
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trays at a time and carry them it might
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move around a lot you might lose product
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freeze drying Supply i.com is where I
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buy these you can check out the link
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below in the video description and you
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can buy directly from them this is all
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us made now why do you use Trace
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stackers well it allows you to just
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scale your production assembly period of
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time that you're doing all your
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production for the candy corn and things
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like that it may not be as pertinent but
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if I'm planning on doing a lot of
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different candy corn in a day well we
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know that you're going to do the cycle
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for you know 3 to 4 hours so I can do
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about three maybe even four Cycles in a
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day because now I have all my 20
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different trays for my five tray freeze
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dryer already stacked up and I can just
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load it up I don't have to worry about
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getting the bags open arranging them on
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the tray things like that they're
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already stacked with the tray stackers
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same thing goes with all my fruit prep
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ice cream prep I use the tray stackers
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so that I can really be efficient while
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I'm doing the production and I don't
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have to worry about that every time I
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need to do a new cycle okay so what I'm
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simply going to do is I'm just going to
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put all these nerd clusters all these
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different molds and then I'm going to
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separate all them into the individual
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again you don't have to use these molds
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I'm doing this because I kind of want to
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just see how much they puff up because I
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haven't done these ones in particular
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before I've done candy corn before and
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I'm okay with kind of breaking them up
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but if these expand a lot then it allows
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me to have individual Nerd candy corn
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that I can easily just put in the bag
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instead of trying to break them apart
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sometimes like you do with Skittles or
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the nerd clusters things like that so
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let's put these all individually in the
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mold
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all right let's put the tray stackers on
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the edges so that when we start doing
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the Candy Corn we have a clear way to be
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able to stack all of our trays now with
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the Candy Corn you know I'm simply just
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going to put them on the
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tray and they are going to expand a
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little bit from what I've seen other
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people do candy corn before and again
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I'm doing this from home so you know
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obviously wash your hands like I have
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and also you can also wear gloves things
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like that but this is kind of the
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spacing that I would do for your candy
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corn you can obviously go closer if you
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want to again it's your preference and
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also kind of your end result of what you
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want to deal with once it gets
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done all right all five trays of my
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large Harvest Right freeze dryer done
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now the new pro model for Harvest Right
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has six trays so with freeze drying
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supplies when I bought these tray
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stackers they actually come with five
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different sets so there's actually 25 of
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these different tray stackers so that
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you can fit six trays that come with a
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new pro model I've got the older version
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of the Harvest Right large so I only
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need the four with 20 different tray
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stackers so that I can have my five
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trays so let's get these into the freeze
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dryer and then press start and see how
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they all turn out okay so as you can see
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the high temperature mode is ready so we
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just press the button to make it sure
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that it's turned on and then we're going
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to close the drain valve and say yes and
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then what we're going to do is we're
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going to say start now as you can tell
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the vacuum isn't on yet that's okay
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because we're warming the trays it's not
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going to kick on so we're going to say
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start and we're at 150° already that we
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set previously and we're going to add
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time so we're going to do 12 minutes I
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think that's a good enough time at
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150° so that's what we'll have right now
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let's get these into the freeze
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dryer all right here's the finished
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freeze-dried product for freeze-dried
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candy corn nerds okay now for the candy
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corn now let's take a look and see how
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it popped you can kind of see a
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difference in the regular candy corn if
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I place them on the tray okay and then
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the freeze-dried candy corn coloring
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kind of changed a little bit and then
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you can also tell it's a little bit
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bigger here I think this is a win for
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both of the different candy corns that
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we did for regular candy corns we can
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definitely tell that the texture and it
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made it a little bit larger and it is
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crunchy now let's do the taste test for
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both W I'm really excited to do a taste
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test I don't know about you but if
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you're looking at this and saying I
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really want to try this you got to get
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the Nerd candy corn I think it's going
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to pop just like this if you do it 150°
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and do that tray warming and then the
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candy corn corn if you love candy corn
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and you have customers that love it then
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this is going to be a great hit because
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we know it changed its texture it
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changed its coloration its form it's
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going to be something very new for your
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customers for Halloween now let's get to
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the taste test now here is the Nerd
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candy corn now this looks like a grape
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let's go ahead and try
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this now that was a blast of sugar so if
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you love nerds and you love the taste of
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nerds you're going to love this that
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melted right in my mouth it reminded me
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of Jolly Ranchers as well as some of the
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other crun candy so you love the
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crunchiness of freeze-dried candy and
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you love the taste of something melting
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in your mouth man this is going to be a
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huge hit now let's try the Candy Corn
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that's
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freeze-dried as you just heard in the
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microphone that crunched super well in
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terms of texture it's not soft and chewy
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like the regular candy corn now the one
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thing I noticed in this in terms of
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texture is I think we could go a little
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bit longer with the dry time maybe even
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go to 6 hours with your dryy time on the
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candy corn and I think we could probably
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soften this up by extending the warming
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the trays up to even 20 minutes if we
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can so if you're going to try this a
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couple of the different modifications
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would be one if you want to get this
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more soft so that it becomes a larger
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candy corn I would increase the warm the
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tray time and then I would also increase
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the overall dry time overall though this
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is going to be a great hit for your
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Halloween holiday I think you're really
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going to sell a lot of this now I'm sure
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you're wondering how do I by Price the
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Candy Corn freeze-dried as well as the
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Nerd candy corn so I've got the receipts
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from when I bought the Nerd candy corn
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and what this cost me right here was
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nerd's candy corn cost me
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$22.98 $2.98 for all of that bag now
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it's not a very big bag so what I have
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here is I've got a food scale and I'm
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just going to kind of check to see how
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much of these Nerd candy corns are going
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to fit in this bag now we always tear
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off our bag so it's zeroed out so that
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we're not weighing the bag weight we're
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only weighing the actual product
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so all right let's go ahead and put the
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candies in here and what I suggest you
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do when you're looking at new candies
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that you want to sell in your freeze
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drying business go take one of your
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normal bags just like this this is what
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I do and what I want to do is I want to
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fill past this window because as a
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customer you want to see that you have
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relatively a new bag you know when you
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go to the grocery store and you get a
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bag of Doritos you're kind of checking
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to see if it's the same amount I don't
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know why I do that I know they put the
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same amount of volume in there but
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you're always kind of seeing like there
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one way more than the other that's what
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customers are going to do okay so it's a
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lot of perception but also it's giving
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you the you know the value that you want
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to price your your product in in terms
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of how much you're putting in so let's
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go ahead and weigh everything that I put
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in in here this is coming out to
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3.5 oz just beyond the window here that
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you can see now the candy corn bag for
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nerds it came in net weight ounces of 8
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oz so if we put everything back in here
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let's actually see how
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much it weighs I'm pretty sure it's
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going to come right even because candy
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doesn't really lose a ton of weight 7.2
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oz so give or take a couple that I lost
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on the ground it actually kind of came
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out equal so if I'm looking at this 7 oz
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let's say let's go back and say we can
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do two bags worth past the
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window of 3.5 oz so I'm going to take
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some of these out okay 3.5 so when we
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look at this the cost for this bag was
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$22.98 we're going to get two bags worth
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cuz the net total that we got was 7 oz
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so we divide that by two we're putting
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in 3.5 oz into here so looking at how
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much time that took looking at how much
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electricity you're going to have all of
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that you know I would probably charge
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double what you paid for that original
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candy bag so we paid $3 I would at a
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minimum charge $6 per bag for this I'm
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not going to go through a whole cost of
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good sold here but gross sales-wise if
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we sold this for six $6 per bag we're
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going to sell $112 worth of these nerd
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candies and we paid $3 now you fixate
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you know $2 to $3 of your electricity
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all that type of thing you know you're
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not looking as much margin but you buy
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these things in bulk maybe you charge $9
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$10 for this limited time freeze-dried
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candy that's where you're going to make
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more money and you have some fun with it
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it's just a nice change of pace and
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maybe you can package in some of the
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other freeze dry candy that you normally
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make so people buy more your product so
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one other thing let's try the Candy Corn
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now so let's go ahead and put in the
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candy corn into my bag and I don't think
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it's going to really lose much weight
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either so we kind of have to evaluate
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that's just past the window okay and how
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much does this weigh 5 O so let's say
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that we're going to go with this 5 oz
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this candy corn this bag full of 40 oz
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cost me
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$750 so if I was going to freeze dry
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this bag which is 40 oz
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we know that it doesn't really lose its
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weight but we know we can put 5 oz just
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above the window so at Math's right here
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we can get eight bags of the
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freeze-dried candy corn past this window
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in this bag and then maybe we're going
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to sell it for $10 each so that's $80
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gross we paid roughly $8 for the bag if
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you give or take taxes so we're actually
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making about what
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$72 in more net after this initial
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expense then you got to calculate you
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know the cost of the B bags the labels
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things like that now where you can make
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up more of your profits is I think
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buying this in bulk I don't know if
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you're going to be able to do that with
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the Nerd candy corn but this is a fun
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more flavorful type of freeze-dried
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candy that you can do for Halloween on
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top of that we know that we can freeze
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dry candy corn and we're making more
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profit on this particular candy now if
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you want to know more about how to
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generate an Roi and a good cost of good
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sold calculation for your freeze drying
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business check out the video coming up
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next where I talk about how you can earn
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money with your freeze dryer and I've
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got a whole spreadsheet completely for
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free that I walk you through on how to
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figure out how much money you can make
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in your freeze drying business thanks
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for watching this Halloween edition of
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the freeze dry business Channel we'll
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see you on the next video
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