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I Freeze-Dried Guacamole and You Won't Believe What Happened!
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May 15, 2025
Prepare to have your mind blown, guacamole lovers! Ever been frustrated by brown, mushy guacamole? Say goodbye! In this video, I believe I perfected a freeze-drying method that not only keeps guacamole fresh but could be used to start a new food business. You won't believe your eyes (or taste buds) when you see the results! I'll show you: - The exact ingredients and equipment you need - My secret technique that makes all the difference - The mind-boggling transformation from fresh to freeze-dried - How to reconstitute the dried product for that perfect, creamy consistency #guacamole #guacamolerecipe #freezedryingrecipe #freezedrying @harvestright - Subscribe for more videos https://youtube.com/@freezedriedbusiness - Join my weekly newsletter for more new and tips on freeze-drying: https://freezedriedbusiness.com/ This video will most certainly give you an idea of what is required to run a freeze-drying business but it will also give you more clarity on how to make it profitable through my ROI spreadsheet tutorial. Download it for FREE -https://freezedriedbusiness.com/spreadsheet Items Used in This Video on Amazon: - Mortar & Pestal - https://amzn.to/3OBHWuW - Knife - https://amzn.to/4fWTdBP - Food Scale - https://amzn.to/49luSmQ - Pampered Chef Bowls - https://amzn.to/3OFoRb9
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I think I may have stumbled upon a brand
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new freeze-dried product that you should
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try in your freeze drying business and
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that is to take your famous guacamole
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recipe and convert it into a
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freeze-dried Cube that then you can
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reconstitute later using water and make
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it just as fresh and tasting good as
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before if you want to see how this is
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done and how you can make your own
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recipe using a freeze dryer check out
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this video let's get started now when
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you're thinking about using your freeze
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dryer to start a business and make some
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money you got to think about a couple
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different things number one is how is
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the consumer going to utilize a
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freeze-dried product you could sell a
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freeze-dried strawberry people could
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snack on it and that's fine but what
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other applications could they use for
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those freeze-dried strawberries because
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usually when you're baking with
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strawberries you're going to use it as a
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puree but with freeze drying removing
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the water from a strawberry you now have
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a moisture-free natural ingredient that
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someone can crush up into a powder and
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then naturally flavor it for whatever
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they're going to use it for so
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applications within the freeze drying
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process has a lot of different varieties
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and that's why starting a freeze drying
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business doesn't have to be a huge
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obstacle for you if you think outside
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the box outside of candy and things that
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you're seeing a lot of on social media
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and different people doing so that's the
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actual product side think about what the
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application would be for something that
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you're going to freeze dry and the
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second part of all this is testing
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things out you got to experiment with
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what the freeze-dried process could
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produce for you and that's why having a
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home freeze dryer to start out with to
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experiment with different recipes you
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can really hone in how you want to
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actually present that end product to the
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consumer you actually want it to be some
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type of snack that's freeze-dried as is
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or do you want it to be something where
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they reconstitute it where let's say for
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fresh guacamole someone is on the go
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they're backpacking camping they're
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traveling in the air and they can't
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actually store fresh guacamole no need
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to bring a knife or things like that
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that you need to cut all these different
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ingredients up you can just add water
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and then have fresh
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natural organic type of guacamole on the
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go so as you can see there's
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opportunities with creating a different
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recipe that is freeze dry you just need
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to figure out what Avenue to go let's
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make some fresh guacamole Now the recipe
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that I'm going to use is my mom's recipe
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which includes cilantro tomato avocados
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Red Onion lime juice and the ranch
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seasoning that you can buy at the store
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we're going to use a mortal imp pestel
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today because I make a lot of guacamole
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for different family meals and so I
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bought this and it was a worthwhile
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investment cuz it crushes everything up
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you can use whatever you want you can
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use a bowl Fork whatever you use to make
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sure all the ingredients are put
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together and after we make the fresh
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guacamole I'm going to share with you
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how I'm going to arrange it on my freeze
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dryer trays to make them perfect serving
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size once they get freeze-dried now I
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don't have an exact measurement of all
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the different ingredients so you're not
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going to really see you know one
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teaspoon of this I usually do guacamole
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to taste if you're really wanting to
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fine-tune your recipe obviously you can
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do the measurements yourself and that
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way when you're going to do a business
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out of it you know exactly what can be
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consisted consistently freeze dry for
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that same taste what my mom told me I'm
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no fancy cook but what she told me if
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you can see right here is to kind of
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bunch up your cilantro and that way when
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you do cut it it cuts all the leaves and
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the little stems perfectly and you don't
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actually have to cut up each individual
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Leaf too much now what we're going to do
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we're going to do some of the onion you
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know with red onion now with it being
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fresh it provides a little bit more of
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that crunch and it also adds just a
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little bit more of kind of a kind of a
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kick to it and adds a little bit more
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flavor so that's what that's why we're
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going to do uh red onions now what I
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usually do with my guacamole kind of
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cadence is I don't ever put like the
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actual tomato in here yet because I want
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to make it and grind it up uh with some
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of the harder ingredients and then I'll
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put the Tomato in the last just because
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that way it's uh not completely smashed
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into into the recipe I like cutting up
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these avocados into little squares
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within even within the skin you don't
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have to do that uh you could just put
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the whole avocado in there obviously
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scooping it out from the skin call me
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OCD this is what I've always done and it
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takes a little bit longer but it just
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makes it smaller pieces we're going to
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see for the first time I've never done
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freeze-dried guacamole but we're going
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to do that today and we're going to see
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how we can kind of reconstitute it so
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that it tastes the same I'm sure it's
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going to taste the same because I mean
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all the flavor is still in here and the
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great thing about freeze drying is that
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it keeps the highest level of
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nutritional value in whatever you're
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freeze drying upwards of 90% typically
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and the seasoning that I use for
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guacamole is this ranch seasoning you
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can use you know natural things like
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salts and things like that but I use the
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ranch seasoning just because I don't
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know there's something different about
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how it tastes all right there's all the
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tomatoes putting that in there I usually
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do
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one roma tomato per three avocados I
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don't do any more than that just because
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unless people really love a ton of
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tomatoes I don't do that so we'll just
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use a spoon to mix it all up look how
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awesome that
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is now with the lime juice I just kind
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of juuce a couple squirts I don't do too
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much that's probably more of like a half
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a teaspoon or so after I get done with
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that I'll just put a little bit more
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ranch seasoning in that should be all
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the ingredients so let's give a good
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taste oh yeah that's good all right so
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how are we going to freeze dry this well
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for one what you see in front of me this
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is one of the silicone molds that
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Harvest has and you can buy off their
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site on harvestright.com now I've got a
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couple of these that they sent me when I
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bought one of my freeze dryers several
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years ago so you can buy them on their
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website and what I like about these
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different molds is that it puts it in
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these little bit siiz cubes here and
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think about it in the business side of
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things so if you just need somebody for
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backpacking and they just want a couple
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of Cubes just to get a couple of good
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savoriness to whatever they're cooking
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on their camping trip they don't need
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huge blocks of myar bags of guacamole
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right they just need a couple cubes so
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it gives you an opportunity to look at
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small serving sizes but also look at the
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way you're going to present the
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guacamole cubes as well because you want
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it to be presentable when someone
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actually opens up the bag or uses it and
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I kind of think of it being similar to a
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cube of chicken bullion you know where
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you drop that little cube in and it
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dissolves in the hot water in the
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microwave or in boiling water that's
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kind of what I'm envisioning these
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little cubes of guacamole to be that are
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freeze-dried is something that's very
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manageable to put in a packet and then
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reconstitute so in order to kind of get
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those serving sizes I'm going to add all
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this guacamole to this bowl and then
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we'll weigh it that way we know how much
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guacamole we're going to put into this
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tray all right now we've got all the
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guacamole in there let's put it back
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onto the scale and 470 G I'm writing
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that on a piece of paper just so we know
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for ref
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and then once we freeze Dr this we'll
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know what type of moisture was removed
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from it because I'm assuming it's going
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to lose the weight of that lime juice
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and the avocado juice and tomato juice
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things like that all right so to make
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things easy I'm just going to put all
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this guacamole on the cubes I don't
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really care where it's going like in the
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middle or whatever because the freeze
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dryers of today's world like they're
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smart enough to where they just sense
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all the moisture that's in whatever
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you're putting in there so so it doesn't
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really matter whether it's on the edges
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or or whatever but we're obviously going
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to want to check for dryness once we get
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done but this is kind of just what I'm
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doing I've I've actually done for my
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freeze drying business I've done some
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testing for different people um where I
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just say hey send me your yogurt recipe
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or people talk to me about different
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things that they want to test and that's
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part of having a freeze dryer and having
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a freeze drying business there's a lot
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of ways for you to grow a business and
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make money I am kind of pressing firmly
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on these tubes because I want to make
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sure that that there's not like eror in
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the middle I want it firmly pressed
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because I really want to try to get a
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firm cube out of each individual Square
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looks like we've got uh 1 2 3 4 five by
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six so we've got 30 different cubes
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perfect well there you have it fresh
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guacamole made with fresh ingredients
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now it's time to freeze dry it so the
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freeze dryer process actually can
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prefreeze your food and then freeze dry
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it taking out all the moisture going
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through that process of sublimation but
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what you can do is speed up the whole
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freeze drying cycle Time by pre-freezing
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your fruit so if you're new to freeze
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drying you can do that just find a stand
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up freezer put it in your home freezer
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and you can kind of save 5 to 6 hours of
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what the freeze dryer would freeze it
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for and that way you're just going
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straight to the freeze drying cycle
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process I'm going to put these tray Lids
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uh for my Harvest Right on here this is
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what I love about these tray Lids is
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they've got these raised edges as you
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can see right here these allow you to
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stack more and more trays on top of here
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even with the tray lids and that's kind
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of different than having the actual tray
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stackers on the edges this prevents a
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little bit more of that susceptibility
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to freezer burn other types of things
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maybe getting exposed to your fresh
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product here so if you want to buy these
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is prefrozen for 5 to 6 hours I'm going
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to then activate my freeze dryer
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settings and what we're going to try to
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do that at for testing purposes is we're
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going to do it at the factory temp of
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125° I'm going to set the pre-freeze
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temp at -5 initial freeze down to uh
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just maybe 2 or 3 hours that's just
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because I've already prefrozen it but
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that just adds a little bit more of a
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safeguard uh to it all right don't go
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anywhere because when we come back back
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we're going to see what fresh guacamole
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looks like freeze-dried we're going to
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do some taste testing as well as see
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what it looks like texture-wise and also
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going to do some reconstitution with
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some water to see if we can get it back
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to this original state with the same
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great taste that we have today while we
10:14
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10:58
to see what the freeze dryer did to the
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guacamole all right the freeze dried
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cycle is done I'm really excited to show
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you what the finished freeze dried
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guacamole Cube looks like let's take a
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look at the finished product here all
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right take a look at this so as I get
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the molds out and pop out these
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different cubes this is a Harvest Right
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logo because that's what they have the
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molds for but as you can see it stayed
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pretty intact now let's put this on the
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counter and just give it you some
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perspective take a look at that you can
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see the salon that I put in there you
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can even see some of the Tomato that I
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put in there it all freeze dried
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together and it's actually very light I
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don't want to crush this cuz we're going
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to use it for simple purposes but it's
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really not that heavy look at that even
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the red onion is in there okay so let's
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take all of this out of the tray and
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let's weigh it total because I've
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actually got
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my Nifty little piece of paper that we
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did initially and it was for 470 G of
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gross product the gross guacamole weight
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so let's go ahead and weigh all the
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freeze-dried cubes and then see how it
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comes out and how much water it losts
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okay now here's the fun part about
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freeze drying and if you're wanting to
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start a freeze drying business this is
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kind of the fun experimentation and the
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research side of testing out different
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products what we're testing out is can
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we freeze dry guacamole fresh guacamole
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that we mix up with the different
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ingredients I would say that yes check
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we have made freeze-dried guacamole
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second part of that is we want to see
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how much weight it lost because we want
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to see one how can we package it up to
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give a certain amount of serving size we
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also want to be able to calculate how
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much actual gross product do we need to
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make if we were going to make this at
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scale because if we're running a
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business or we're trying to see if we
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can Market this better then we would
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actually want to see how much product we
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can produce in one batch of of gu
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guacamole third part is going to be what
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can we do with
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reconstitution for our freeze-dried
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guacamole because we took the water out
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through the freeze dryer process so if I
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put a cube into this bowl and then I put
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maybe a teaspoon of water is that how
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much water it lost in here or do we need
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to put a little bit more water in there
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so let's first actually weigh the bowl
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and that way we can tear it off and
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we're doing this in grams like we did
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initially and start loading them into to
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the Bowl I've already put six in here
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and it's only reached 18 G so a lot of
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weight has been removed through the
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freeze drying process for all of these
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guacamole cubes and you see how you know
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there's a little bit of shavings that
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are is over the top because the cube
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went in here if you were going to sell
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this what I would do is obviously I
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don't want that uh
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overhanging look and feel so I would
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kind of clean this up and make sure the
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cubes look very presentable if you
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watched a lot of my videos I'm kind of a
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perfectionist in this way in that like I
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just really look at how the how the
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product looks versus uh immediately just
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like hey did it work and and put it in
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the package so I want it to be high
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quality both on looks and taste 90 G
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total so 470 G is what we started with
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and then now we reduce that all the way
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down to 90 G okay so now what we're
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going to do is we're going to focus on
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the reconstitution part I don't actually
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a whole lot of reconstitution so we're
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going to kind of experiment in just my
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own way but you can obviously go through
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a lot more in-depth research on figuring
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out exactly uh you know how much water
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weight you lost in the product and then
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figuring out backwards math you know how
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much you should put back into a given
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product so what I'm going to do is I
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know we had 470 G of guacamole before we
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freeze dried it and after that we just
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waited and now we have 90 G Net which
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means that we lost 380 G of water weight
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from the guacamole so in my Nifty little
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phone here I put 380 g into an ounce
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conversion and it came out with that
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it's
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13.4 Oz all right now I'm going to cheat
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a little bit I'm going to ask Siri how
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many tablespoons are in 1 o because now
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we can actually do the calculation of
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seeing how much the conversion is of
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tablespoons to ounces so let's ask her
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how many many tablespoons is in 1 o the
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answer is 2 tablespoon okay if you
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didn't hear that she said 2 tablespoons
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so we have 10 cubes and we did 30 cubes
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total so we can make basically an ounce
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worth of guacamole reconstituted and so
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now we're going to put 2 tablespoon of
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water into this
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bowl and this should be the amount that
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we that we uh remove and all we're going
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to do now with the cubes now is we're
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just going to kind of mix this up it's
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getting a lot more into more of kind of
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that that chunkiness here hopefully you
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can see that so I'm going to go one more
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tablespoon so 3 tablespoons to an ounce
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and yeah this is looking good this
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actually looks just like what we
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originally had with our guacamole okay
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shame on me for not having actual
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tortilla chips but I've got some Ruffles
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in my pantry and I'm going to test this
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out and see what this reconstituted
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guacamole tastes
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like wow I'm not lying that tasted just
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like our fresh
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guacamole I'm not I'm and I'm I'm not
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doing that just for this video like this
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is just
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delicious let me give you an idea of
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what I just tasted texture was the same
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as the fresh guacamole tasted creamy
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there wasn't any kind of chunkiness to
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it um I can taste the Red Onion I can
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taste the avocados great I have a little
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bit more of that saltiness that's in
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there that's what I tast it as well you
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know the only thing that it was
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different was you know there wasn't a a
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ton of crunch from the the fresh red
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onion which is okay this tasted awesome
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all right we're done with the taste test
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and everything I don't know about you
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but I really was thrilled with the way
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this all turned out so let's talk about
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the business end of freeze drying
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guacamole so number one is I think if
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default having this product freeze-dried
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as is and having it as a snack like a
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freeze-dried strawberry or freeze-dried
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ice cream scoop that's not going to be
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the selling point I would go with the
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reconstitution idea and just like with
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any business once you have a product you
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need to figure out who your target
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audience is and what type of marketing
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language and words you can actually use
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to tell people why they would want to
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have a freeze-dried guacamole Cube and
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reconstitute it versus having fresh and
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again if you want to start a freeze
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drying business this is the next phase
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of this industry a lot of people freeze
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dry candy a lot of people are kind of
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used to having and seeing freeze-dried
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Skittles freeze-dried everything right
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so now we have to raise it to the next
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level freeze drying is not a fat freeze
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drying is not going away but what is
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going to go away is the newness of a
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product once everyone's experienced
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having a freeze dried Skittle it's not
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as new anymore and so now now you have
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to kind of change things up so how can
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you make a Freez dried product and
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Market it as something that you can call
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it your own So speaking to the person
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who is looking at the freeze drying
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industry space and seeing a lot of
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different chatter online about this
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Market being very saturated you're only
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hearing that from people who have
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basically kind of had a great success
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with the newness of freeze-dried candy
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and really they just went in there with
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no idea really what their business is
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about
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this is really going to Define you this
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type of recipe and research and
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experimentation with freeze drying
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processes is really going to take you to
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another level and really going to
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probably give you a lot more confidence
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going into this so that you know what
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you're kind of going to be doing with
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the freeze dryer and if you want to
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learn more about freeze drying and how
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to prepare different things for your
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freeze drying business check out the
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next couple videos I'll see you there
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