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Simple Steps to Freeze-Dry Tropical Fruits
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May 15, 2025
Learn how to create delicious and nutritious freeze-dried tropical fruit! Join me as we dive into freeze-drying fruit and explore the step-by-step process of preparing and cutting pineapple, papaya, mango, kiwi, and dragonfruit. Whether you're a freeze-drying enthusiast or just curious about freeze-drying new foods, this video is sure to inspire your taste buds and creativity. Get ready to elevate your freeze-drying game with these vibrant and tantalizing tropical treats! 🍍🥭🥝🐉 Remember to hit the like button, subscribe to our channel. Want to freeze-dry more fruit? Check out The Beginners Blueprint to Freeze-Drying Fruit: https://youtu.be/nl6U224llfg ————————————— 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 @thefreezedryingcommunity —————————————————— Freeze Drying Tools in this video: —————————————————— Cutco Knife - https://amzn.to/48S9p3g
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this is the beginner's guide how to
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freeze dry tropical fruit we're going to
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cover everything from the tools that you
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need to cut all the different fruit that
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we're going to cover in this video as
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well as freeze drying tools and
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equipment that'll make your life a lot
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easier to prepare fruit and sell it in
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your freeze drying business before we
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prepare the fruits that are in front of
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me I just want to encourage you to
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subscribe to this channel if you're
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things not only revolving around freeze
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drying but freeze drying as a business
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this one one thing I love about the
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freeze drying industry is that there's
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so many different things to try now
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there's Facebook groups there's my
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videos there's other people's videos on
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YouTube that you can watch but I wanted
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to cover five different tropical fruits
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that one I've been trying to do in my
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Freez DED business but I also wanted to
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see how it freeze-dried because I
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haven't done these in the past now I did
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a video recently on other types of
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fruits that you can check out in the
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video card above or at the end of this
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video I've always got also links to
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previous videos in the video description
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that you can check out I've also got
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some new freeze drying equipment from
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haven't checked them out I'm going to be
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a new affiliate for them and that just
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means that I'm going to be promoting
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their products a little bit more because
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I see a lot of value in what they're
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putting together and and they're
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americanmade now maybe you're familiar
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with the fruits that are in front of me
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but if you're not this is what we're
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going to be doing today we're going to
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be doing five different types of fruits
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because I've got a large Harvest Right
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freeze dryer and so we're going to put
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each fruit on one tray this fruit right
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here papaya now I don't typically eat
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papayas but I know it's very valuable in
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antioxidants we're also going to cover
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how to freeze dry dragon fruit it's
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actually really expensive in an area
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like where I am which is in Idaho so
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these cost about3 $ each so we'll freeze
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dry these because it is a tropical fruit
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I've also got kiwis my sons love kiwis
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so we're going to peel these and prepare
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them on the freeze dryer trays we're
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also got mangoes I've got a special tool
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that I bought off of Amazon to peel
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these and get the fruit out of here and
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then we've of course got pineapple now
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why is tropical fruit important for you
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in your freeze drying business well it
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adds a lot of variety to things that
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other people maybe aren't doing free
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drying fruit takes a long time to freeze
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dry it typically takes 36 to 48 hours to
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do a full cycle of 10 to 16 lbs in your
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large Harvest rate freeze dryer if
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you've got a medium same type of thing
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so it takes a lot longer than candy but
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the benefit is that fruit retains 94% of
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its nutritional value after freeze
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drying that's because of the sublimation
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process that the freeze dryer is doing
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for you so it's taking all the water out
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of the fruit but it's through the vacuum
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process it's kind of extracting water as
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a vapor and then it's kind of drying it
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and then ever so slightly kind of going
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back and forth so you're left with kind
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of basically the same looking feel of
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the fruit but the value is still there
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because it's not draining it all of its
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nutrients like a dehydrator would before
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we start cutting the fruit we will be
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talking about the freeze dryer settings
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that I'm going to be putting into my
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Harvest Right freeze dryer towards the
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end of this video so make sure you stay
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tuned also right now hit that like
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button if you love freeze drying and you
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love seeing freeze drying different
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types of fruits thanks a lot let's get
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to The Cutting starting out with
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pineapple this is what we use for cing
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the pineapple it is a pineapple core
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it's 12 15 bucks it's on Amazon you can
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find a link in the video description
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below now moving on to Mangos I've got a
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particular tool for taking the pit out
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of a mango it's not a normal pit that
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you're used to seeing in like cherries
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and peaches things like that no the
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mango pit is flat so you actually have
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to peel the fresh fruit around the pit
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before you do that and one of the tools
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that you can use is this mango de Pitter
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slicer type thing this is not very
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expensive at all either it's on Amazon
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go to the video description I've got a
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link there and you're simply going to
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press down and it goes right down the
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middle of the mango and we'll slice
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through that and I'll share with you
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once we prepare the mango how that
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happens and the last three remaining
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fruit for kiwi papaya and dragon fruit
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we're simply just going to use a knife I
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use these all the time around our k
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kitchen it's just the qart type of knife
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set has different sizes if you don't
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have a knife set or if you want to go
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buy a really nice one from Cutco
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something like that I haven't had any
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problems with these and my wife and I
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have been married for 10 years got these
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for our wedding so it's lasted a long
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time you can sharpen these you can do
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whatever but get a good set of knives
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when you're preparing fruit I've also
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got this Cutco smaller type of knife I
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love these for strawberri smaller types
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of fruits I'm going to use them on the
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kiwis so if you don't have a sharp knife
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and you don't have a cut coat knife this
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is really nice to have and I've got some
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links in the video description below to
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Amazon and other links so that you can
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buy these knives directly and if you
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have Amazon Prime you're going to get
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these in about a day or two so very
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quickly to be able to get things that
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you need for your freeze drying business
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hey if you're looking for a freeze dryer
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there's a couple of brands that I
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recommend I personally own Harvest right
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I've owned several different large
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freeze dryers and I still own them today
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highly recommended and if you're going
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to start a freeze drying business I'd
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recomend the XL freeze dryer as well as
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looking at the HRC 100 which can do up
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to 100 lb of product that one I would
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prefer if you have four or five XLS in
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your business and you're really looking
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at trying to decide what your next
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purchase is going to be that HRC 100
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might be a benefit and I'll include a
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link in the video description to harvest
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right commercial.com I do own stay fresh
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I own the original medium in between
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kind of the large Harvest Right freeze
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dryer for stay fresh it's been a beast
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of a machine I love that machine and uh
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I use it for my freeze drying business
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too i' recommend stay fresh I've got a
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link to purchase that in the video
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description as well now I have talked to
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the owners of blue Alpine seems like a
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great freeze dryer they're built locally
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here in Idaho uh out in Idaho falls and
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they are trying to be the first kind of
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us made freeze dryer now they do buy
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some components I believe out of the
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country but they assemble it and make it
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all in Idaho which is pretty awesome so
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if you want to check those three freeze
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dryers out hit the video description and
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you'll see all the links to those now
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what we're going to do with the
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pineapple again is we're going to take
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that pineapple core right little area
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that has the jagged edges we're going to
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put that right on top where we see the
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core push down and then we're simply
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going to
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turn this core this is how easy it is it
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doesn't take a whole lot of strength to
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do once you start hearing it kind of
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like cutting in in a non soft rougher
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way that's when you know it's down at
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the very bottom and it pulls out the
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entire pineapple we're simply going to
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press down on our slicer and get all of
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our nice little pieces now here's my
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Harvest State large freeze dryer tray
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and what I've got is some parchment
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paper that I got from freeze drying
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supplies.com now you can get parchment
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paper wherever I do like supporting
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Brian over there he's got a bunch of
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different freeze drying supplies and
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I've also got some Freez drying Lids
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right behind me that I'm going to share
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with you that we're going to stack the
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tray on top of and then we're going to
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prefreeze before we put it in the freeze
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dryer all this fruit so the parchment
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paper helps with just one cleanliness
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you don't have as much residue on the
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actual tray which makes cleaning up
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easier but also it does come off of the
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parchment paper easily once it's
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actually done with the freeze drying
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process I'm going to arrange the
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pineapple where there's no stacking of
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slices the reason I'm going to do that
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is because it's just going to be easier
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for the freeze dryer sensors everything
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is going to be able to sense that
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there's only a single layer and there's
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not too much product um I don't consider
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myself an expert in freeze drying but I
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have done a lot of experimenting that I
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kind of have figured out what I'm
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failing at and what has worked best
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we're going to go over to my little tray
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area for my home and find these tray
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stackers as you can see this fits
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exactly on the large tray it snaps on
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each end and what fortunate about this
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is it already has the tray stackers for
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another tray now this right here is not
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something that you would put in your
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freeze dryer this is purely just to not
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have any freezer burn or not have
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anything kind of exposing the fruit when
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you're actually pre-freezing your fruit
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so we're going to grab another Harvest
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Right large freeze dryer tray snaps
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there and then we're going to put
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another parchment paper right on top of
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here and start doing another type of
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fruit now he makes all different sizes
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of these tray lids and parchment paper
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so no matter what size you have even if
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you have a stay fresh machine blue
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Alpine the cube he's building all these
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different things for those different
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types of freeze dryers so take a look
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all right so let's get started with the
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mango so again this detaches this is the
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base and then you have the thing that's
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actually going to depit the the mango so
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what we're going to do is we're going to
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put the mango like this right inside the
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center and we simply slide down the
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riper the mango is is obviously the the
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more smooth is going to go down but as
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you can see here's the flat area of
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where the pit is but we'll toss that
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aside for now and what you're left with
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with this mango two fresh pieces of
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fruit which is awesome okay and just cut
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these very thin again the reason you're
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cutting them thin is the length of time
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that that freeze dryer cuz it has
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sensors right it's sensing what type of
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moisture content is in this fruit it
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could take a long time if you don't uh
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if you don't cut these thin but again
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let's deit
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it see how quickly that was what I'm
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doing is I'm just I'm taking this just
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like I would like an orange or an apple
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and just taking the skin off because I
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want to do two different types of
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methods with the mango because I really
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just don't do this very much I'm going
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to cut these thin
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again this half I'm cutting in thin
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slices like this the next next half I'm
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going to cut in kind of bigger chunks
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like maybe like cubes see that right
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there so we've got that all on this tray
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right here so that is the mango hey if
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that for me that'd be great this video
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will reach more and more people who want
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to freeze dry tropical fruits just like
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this all right let's get started with
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dragon fruit I've never done this before
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but I've watched a couple videos on how
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to actually peel the dragon fruit apart
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that type of thing also I interviewed a
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freeze dryer entrepreneur down in Panama
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his name is Eric and he runs the YouTube
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channel called two guys in a cooler if
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you want to check out that interview
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with him he is awesome and he's got a
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lot of great videos as well that video
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can be found in the thumbnail as well as
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up above here in the card if you want to
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check out that video but he recommend
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doing dragon fruit and down there in
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Panama they've got all different types
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which I didn't even know that and what I
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read online is that you're simply going
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to cut off the ends now if you've done
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this before I'm sorry if I'm doing it
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incorrectly but I know that they said to
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cut off the ends of the dragon fruit now
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you're just basically going to peel back
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this skin of the dragon fruit and expose
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the fruit part so it kind of looks like
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a kiwi but it's white what I'm going to
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do is I'm going to cut it just into thin
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slices now for the second one I might
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just cut them up into cubes so isn't
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this great this is great what I love
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about freeze drying is I'm literally
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trying all different types of stuff and
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the reason you freeze dry fruit is one
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for long-term storage depending on what
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type of packaging you're going to use
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you can store freeze-dried anything for
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a long period of time most websites say
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25 years I don't know of anybody that
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freeze dried something in 1999 as of
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this video and is eating it today so I
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don't really know how accurate that 25
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years is but we do know that there is
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packaging that you know the military
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uses that has MREs and things that can
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store for a very long time in fact
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people are still opening those types of
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things from the World War II and things
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like that good I'm actually going to
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take a taste of this dragon
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fruit kind of a
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kiwi a little bit of a crunch too that's
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delicious hey if you're in interested in
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freeze drying or you're interested in
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today's video so far you can check out
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as a whole I've got a lot of great
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your freeze drying and freeze drying
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business now let's get back to the next
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couple fruits all right let's get
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started with the papaya now I've never
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done this before so this is going to be
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my first time as well so you're going to
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see my my failures in here or my
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successes but what I did see online is
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that you're going to basically peel the
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skin off of the papaya leaving and
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exposing the fruit which should be kind
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of a pinkish color and then what we're
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going to do is we're going to cut it
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right in half and that will expose the
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seeds inside here there's seeds in
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papaya again this is my first time so
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I'm just going to kind of see how thick
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I'm doing it and I'm going to go right
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along the edge of here and just keep
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cutting the skin off of the papaya I
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don't know if any of you watch ASMR
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videos but this kind of stuff would give
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me the tingles a little
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bit just seeing someone slice all this
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it's just kind of very soothing to to
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listen to and
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see I know I'm going going kind of slow
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but this is just kind of fun to see
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these slices all right so now we've got
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the skin all off we're going to toss the
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skin aside and we're going to do exactly
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what most fruit requires which we're
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going to cut the ends off I'm going to
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cut right down the half this is what I
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watched and if you're wanting to rewatch
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this see how there's seeds inside here
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this is pretty cool we're going to scoop
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out all these seeds okay I'm going to be
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careful not to scoop out too much of the
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fruit I'm sure there's some nutritional
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value in the seeds too so it wouldn't
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hurt to um actually freeze dry maybe
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papaya seeds so I'm going to cut it into
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these kind of slices here I'm going to
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try to get the same amount of length I'm
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actually not really a cook but I'm
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amazed right now
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at the thickness and the accuracy that
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I'm doing right now as you can see I'm
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not I'm not really trying to be super
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specific here I'm just going to cut them
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up into smaller pieces and we've got our
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thicker kind of longer pieces as well
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again if you're interested in freeze
15:39
drying if you like freeze drying as a
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business and you're interested in this
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Channel and following me more make sure
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you check out the next couple videos
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after we get done with the kiwis and
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I'll show you the blueprint to freeze
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drying other types of fruits like
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blueberries strawberries things like
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that and also there's a ton of other
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videos that you can find did you know
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that there
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over 50,000 tons of kiwis produced every
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year in the United States that's a lot
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we also import them um in the United
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States from other countries but kiwis
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are great this is the last fruit that
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we're going to do I just like cutting
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off the ends and then I also I kind of
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just carefully cut the outside of the
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skin you don't have to do this you can
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use a spoon I'm going to cut these in
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like kind of the thinner slices so we
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have kind of a full kiwi so what we're
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going to do do here instead is I'm going
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to cut it kind of at the top and now
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we're going to scoop out the
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Kiwi from the skin the problem with this
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though is I feel like you lose some of
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the fruit in here see um so that that's
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just kind of the the pros and cons of
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this plus it's super juicy see all the
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juice coming out of this anyway this is
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just not going to turn out good I don't
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like this method too much hit that like
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button I'd really love the support that
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way I kind of gauge whether this is
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something everyone is interested in if
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you've got a faster method of cutting
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kiwi I'd love to hear about it that's
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what the comments in YouTube is all
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about is I read every single one of
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those I try to respond as quickly as I
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can because I want to engage with all of
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you all of us are in this in freeze
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drying no matter where you're just
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starting out experimenting with candy
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fruit ice cream other types of products
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all of us are in this together and this
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is just the beginning
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of the freeze-dried business industry
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because it used to be all pharmaceutical
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it all used to be for the big boys and
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companies now we can all make our own
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living doing this and don't worry about
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saturation if you're watching this long
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into the kiwis this is my this is my my
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two cents about everyone talking about
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all the market saturated and Candy
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everything like that well if you look up
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the definition of saturation that means
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that you can basically no longer like
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fill and there's no candy to be made
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ever again like no everyone's eaten or
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eaten all all the candy possible which
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isn't true there's so many different
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other avenues so don't worry about that
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keep doing what you're doing and there
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is so much runway for a freeze drrive
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business coming up in the coming years
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and I'm proof of that I'm just I'm still
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doing it after 4 years I've still got
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this channel it's all going to be dedic
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dedicated to highlighting what's
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possible now we've got all the trays
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we're going to use this final tray
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stacker
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lid snap it shut the freeze dryer
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settings for this fruit I'm going to do
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is the default settings for pretty much
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all freeze dryer Brands which normally
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come at a default at 120 or
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125° that's what I'm going to run these
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at but I'm going to make sure that the
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final dry is at least 6 to 8 hours long
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you can do it as long as you want to but
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that's what I'm going to start these out
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at go to the next couple videos and the
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thumbnails coming up next next and watch
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more videos about freeze drying
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especially my blueprint to freeze drying
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other types of fruits as well check that
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video out and I'll see you there
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