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pineapple is the most frustrating fruit
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that I've come to freeze dry in my
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freeze drying business in this video I'm
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going to share with you why I continue
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to not do freeze-dried pineapple but
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also the reasons why I love it so much
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let's get to the video and I'll share
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with you all those reasons hey welcome
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back to another video on the freeze
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Drive business Channel my name is David
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and I'm a freeze-dried business owner in
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Idaho I've owned my business for several
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years and I've learned a lot of
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different things about the ins and outs
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of operating this from what type of
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freeze dryer to buy to what types of
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fruits you should freeze dry and that's
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what we're going to talk about today
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video I'm going to go over why I really
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hate the pineapple in terms of a fruit
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to freeze dry one right off the bat is
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it takes forever to freeze dry it takes
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upwards of 60 hours sometimes to freeze
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dry pineapple that's from the beginning
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part where you're basically freezing the
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fruit and then you're letting the freeze
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dryer basically extract all the water
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from the pineapple through the vacuum
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freezing process and then you're going
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to dry it and the dry time takes a very
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long time depending on how many
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pineapples you do now I've got seven
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pineapples right here lined up these are
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the large pineapples that I got from
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Costco and if you're operating a freeze
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drying business one of the things you're
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going to find out through experimenting
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different fruits is that some fruits
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take longer than others and so sometimes
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you end up defaulting the ones that
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don't take as long I.E blueberries
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strawberries things like that and you
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kind of elate or do a limited time on
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fruit that does take a long time because
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with the business it's all about getting
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things in the freeze dryer like the one
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behind me and then getting it out and
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selling it right so what we're going to
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do today is I'm going to show you the
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tools that I use to core the pineapple
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and get the fruit on the trays now I did
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a how to freeze dry pineapple video in
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the past it was actually one of my
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fourth or fifth videos ever on this
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channel the video quality was subpar and
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the audio was is really bad so I wanted
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to kind of refresh the video for you all
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so that you could see a little bit more
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quality video of what you can do with
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the pineapple and how to freeze dry
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pineapple all right this is going to be
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a pretty quick video on freeze drying
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pineapple I'm just going to show you the
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tools that I use to core the pineapple
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very quickly and easily I'm also going
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to talk about the settings that you're
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going to need to set up for your freeze
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dryer whether you have a harvest right
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or some other types of machine and then
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you will be better equipped to freeze
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dry pineapple successfully let's get to
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The Cutting all right really don't need
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much for coring the pineapple this is a
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pineapple core I got this off at Amazon
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I've got a link in the video description
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directly to Amazon it's really not any
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more than 15 bucks but this is stainless
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steel and then you just put the handle
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and it snaps right into here and then
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you've got this little piece that you
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slide down the shaft here and it creates
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the individual pineapple pieces it's
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really handy and it goes by really fast
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you will want to have a knife to cut off
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the ends of the pineapple something else
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you might notice is that in these freeze
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Dr dryer trays I've got these grates now
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these grates I got from Frozen right
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frozen.com the owner Patrick is a great
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guy and he's really helped me out to
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just better understand what types of
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accessories you can get for your Harvest
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Right freeze dryer he also does stay
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fresh accessories things like that but
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I'm not sponsored by Frozen rright I
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just like using some of their tools I
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even did a video on the roller Berry
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which is a tool that pokes blueberries
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so that it doesn't explode in your
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freeze dryer you can check out that
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video above in the video if you're
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interested it rests a little bit above
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the surface of the tray and what that
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allows is that when it's drying and the
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air is kind of circulating with the
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vacuum and the drying process of the
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freeze dryer it creates just a little
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bit more air flow that actually has
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impacted the final kind of total time of
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freeze drying different fruits I've done
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this with strawberries I've done it with
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apples and with pineapple already you
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know it's not a ton but it's probably 2
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to 3 hours less of the drying in
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complete cycle time and I've tested with
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the same amounts of pounds of food so if
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you're interested in this you can find a
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link in the video description directly
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at frozen.com make sure you tell Patrick
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that I sent you all right let's go ahead
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and get to cutting the pineapple now all
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you're going to do is you're just going
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to cut off the stems here toss the stem
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and then you're really just as simple as
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it is you're going to take this core
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you're going to put this down and then
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you're really just going to twist at the
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very end get to the bottom cuz you'll
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start kind of like twisting the entire
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pineapple the pineapple will start
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moving because you've hit The Cutting
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Board as you can see pineapple is
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completely into the core and right here
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there's barely any left over in the
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pineapple which is awesome that's how
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you use the core really easy and then we
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take this slicer for the individual
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pieces and we literally run it down the
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shaft and it creates all the pieces of
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pineapple that you'll need to put onto
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the tray but you're going to put all the
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pineapple pieces here all of my fruits
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because I'm running a freezer dry
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business is you're going to want to have
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multiple trays I prefreeze and do a lot
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of prep work ahead of time that way you
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are constantly just running the freeze
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dryer once it's done you're defrosting
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then you're sticking in another Frozen
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set of five four trays whatever type of
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size freeze dryer you have and you're
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constantly running that thing because if
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it's not running you're not making money
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this is kind of the amount of pineapple
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that I do this is one pineapple most of
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the time what you want is it all to be
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on these trays I know you can double
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stack it but for pineapple specifically
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I'm just telling you from this from
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experience is that it's going to take a
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longer amount of time the more pineapple
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you get into here so it's up to you but
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I've done upwards of 10 pineapples
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before in my Harvest Right large freeze
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dryer with five trays and it has taken
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60 to almost 65 hours to do so you're
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probably wondering okay where where's
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the core part well the core is right
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here and you literally just put your
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finger right through here and you get it
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out of the core twist and there's the
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core right there toss it in the trash
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and then you're ready to do another one
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hey before we cut another pineapple if
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you like freeze drying fruit like the
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one I'm doing right now take a look at
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my freeze drying blueberry video I use
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the number one freeze drying tool that I
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would recommend you buy and I'll include
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the link to the video above right here
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as well as in the video description also
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if you're interested in equipment like
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this the freeze dryer right behind me
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it's the Harvest Right freeze dryer I
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did a review on that and I'll include
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the video link below the video
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description you can watch it right after
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this all right let's another
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pineapple just from a different angle
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we're going to use our our knife to cut
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off the end I did a couple events this
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year and actually I found a lot of
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people were asking about freeze-dried
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pineapple like you can tell people
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like different types of fruits so this
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may be just something that you want to
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introduce on a limited basis have people
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try it and not many people do it that's
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why with my business I try to just do
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things a little bit more unique
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different than other people it's not as
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common to do freeze-dried pineapples so
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sometimes when you get down to the very
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bottom I didn't get down to the very
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core of the pineapple like we did the
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last one so this is what the pineapple
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looks like if you just have the core
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inside it where you didn't get all the
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way down to the bottom and get the
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pieces again make sure you just wear
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gloves it can get pretty sticky just
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given all the sugar that the pineapple
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has naturally pineapple is so good I
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pineapple it was one of actually the
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couple of the first types of fruits that
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I did on top of strawberries like I said
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at the beginning of the video you end up
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finding out sometimes fuit fruit takes a
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really long time to do so you just kind
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of eliminate it from what you're going
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to do uh most periodically for your
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freeze ride business all right so we'll
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set this one aside and do another
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all right we've got all seven pineapples
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in the freeze dryer right now that's all
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been cut up now again the freeze dryer
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125° and I set the minimum final dry
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time for 8 hours that's what i'
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recommend across all fruit that you do
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in my experience those freeze dryer
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settings are consistent across any
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freeze dryers that you have freeze-dried
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pineapple is super delicious man the
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flavor is just fantastic now sometimes
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you do need to freeze dry this a little
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bit longer I've checked a lot of these
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and it should kind of sound like what
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you're hearing it should sound like it's
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dry and just kind of crumbling up and
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breaking apart like this don't stop here
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at this video if you like freeze drying
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fruit check out these thumbnails right
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here of other freeze-dried fruit videos
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that I've done in the past including
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blueberries as well as a review of the
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Harvest Right freeze dryers take a look
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at that and I'll see you on the other
