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How to Freeze Dry Ice Cream Sandwiches | Quick How-To Guide | Settings | Freeze Dried Business
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May 15, 2025
Step-by-step process of how to freeze dry ice cream sandwiches for your freeze-dried business or personal use. In this video, I walk you through a proven process for freeze-drying ice cream sandwiches that have helped my business grow to the next level. Freeze-dried ice cream sandwiches are in my Top 20 Items to Start Selling for your freeze-dried business (https://youtu.be/neZYov6iQ2M). Similar to my freeze-dried ice cream video (https://youtu.be/iFkdp2LwDSA), I show you how to work efficiently with products that can melt quickly. Follow me as I show you the setup and tools I use to quickly unwrap and cut ice cream sandwiches, tray and arrangement layout, freeze-dryer settings, insights, and commentary on freeze-drying as a business and the finished product. You can support my channel by purchasing items from the links below for either personal use or your freeze-dried business. Thank you! Here are several freeze-dryers I use in my business and I would recommend considering them for your existing freeze-dried business or just starting out. - Harvest Right Freeze Dryers - https://affiliates.harvestright.com/1974.html - StayFresh Freeze Dryers - https://stayfreshfreezedry.com/?sca_ref=3292008.4uBi4MIG3W&sca_source=YouTube Items in this video that you can buy on Amazon to support my channel - Knife Sharpener - https://amzn.to/3Vrttml - Large cutting board - https://amzn.to/3GqhIYN
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hey welcome to the freeze dry business
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Channel where we talk about freeze
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drying as a business whether you're
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Cottage food or your licensed commercial
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kitchen owner my name is David let's get
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started well thank you for joining me on
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this video before we get started I'd
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like to invite you to subscribe to my
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channel this really helps my local
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business as well as all the content that
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I'm producing for you so we can all join
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in the community of freeze-dried
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business owners also if you like this
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video it helps with the YouTube
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algorithm to just get the video up and
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running make sure people who are
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searching for how to freeze dry can find
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my videos freeze-dried ice cream
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sandwiches become crunchy and really
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enhance the flavor once you take a bite
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these have been a real big hit for my
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customers both wholesale and direct a
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quick overview of what you can expect
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from this video is we'll go over the
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tools that are needed to do ice cream
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sandwiches I've set out what we needed
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on this table here in my commercial
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kitchen and that way you can see how to
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do ice cream sandwiches for yourself
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we're going to go through the process of
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what I do I'll also show you the
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settings of what I use for the freeze
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dryer if you're interested in purchasing
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any of the tools that I use in this
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video go go ahead and use the link in
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the descriptions below and that'll take
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you to Amazon directly to the tools
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the drain valve so that it starts
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freezing right now it's at 22 degrees
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which is perfect this allows us to cut
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the frozen ice cream sandwiches into
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pieces put them on the tray and then
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immediately put them in the freeze dryer
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that's already Frozen all right let's go
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ahead and take a look at the freezer
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here is the ice cream sandwiches I use
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the polar Treats Ice Cream Sandwich bars
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Neapolitan these have been great there's
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12 bars in a box I also pre-freeze the
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trays so that they remain Frozen and
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cold so that nothing else impacts once
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we start cutting the ice cream
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sandwiches okay before we get the ice
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cream sandwiches out of the boxes I want
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to show you what the setup is it's
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really straightforward I've got a really
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great knife this is an old antique knife
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sharpener but if you'd like to buy a new
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sharpener I've got a link in the
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description of this video linked to
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Amazon for you to buy one I have a
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cutting board I also have nitrile gloves
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which are food safe for us to wear while
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we're cutting the ice cream sandwiches
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so let's go get a frozen tray and a box
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of ice cream sandwiches all right so
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we've got ice cream sandwiches in this
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box there's about 12 ice cream bars just
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like I did with ice cream this is a very
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quick process you have to be very quick
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and efficient and if you start noticing
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that it's getting soft go ahead and
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switch to another box that's in the
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freezer this is a pre-frozen tray so
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we're going to be really quick about
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this sharpen
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your knife cut open the ice cream
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sandwiches I hold the Ice Cream Sandwich
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like this with my thumb right on the
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side and my fingers like this
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kind of hard to explain and then I
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simply cut
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down the side and that unwraps the ice
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cream sandwiches
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I get the entire Ice Cream Sandwich out
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of the bar
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Palms to the side and slicing open okay
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so we're going to take out another three
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we're going to cut
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[Applause]
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cut the wrappers again we're just going
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right down the middle and cutting open
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then we're going to quickly unwrap
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and this is actually
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a skill that you'll develop over time to
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get more quicker I can do ice cream
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sandwiches all five trays all cutted and
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everything in about 30 minutes again I'm
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cutting length weighs down the three
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individual ice cream sandwiches
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and then I'm cutting four times
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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down the middle so I can get eight
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individual pieces down there
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cut so again here's the tray
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okay I've got six bars on there so far
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I'm gonna take another two
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open these up
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make sure you have a sharp knife when
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you're cutting these open
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we're cutting down in the middle
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[Applause]
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we're sticking them on the trays five
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across and we're just doing five all the
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way down so there can actually be 20
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bars on each tray if you maximize the
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tray do another two
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to fill out the rest of this tray
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and again the freeze dryer is already
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pre-frozen
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so right now it's at about 16 degrees
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which is perfect and that way by the
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time we're done with all five trays
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it's already down to
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about zero degrees and then that just
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cuts down your cycle time so that by the
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time you're
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you're closing the drain valve and
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getting everything done
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you'll be off and running to get the
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cycle started and the pump started so we
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can start the drying process put the
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wrappers aside
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again this is an entire box of 12 ice
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cream bars I've already done 10 on the
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tray
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you can make these ice cream bars as big
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as you want but I usually just do eight
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so that's so far so we're going to stick
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this in the freeze dryer right now
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so the process of doing the ice cream
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sandwiches on the trays is do your first
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tray first put it in the freeze dryer
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it's already at 14 degrees go get
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another Frozen tray and another box of
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ice cream sandwiches do exactly what we
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did which we did all 12 bars we put that
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into the second tray area then the third
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then the fourth and the fifth once it's
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all full go back to that first tray
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which has already been frozen in the
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freeze dryer so far and we can start
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filling the rest of the tray and
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maximizing it and then go all the way up
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and that's how the whole process will go
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with ice cream sandwiches okay here we
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go we're going to start another box of
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ice cream sandwiches we've already got
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the Frozen tray this is tray number two
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we're gonna start with three ice cream
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sandwiches the reason I don't do four is
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because the length of my knife I like
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being able to get a full cut when I cut
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down and it's about three Ice Cream
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Sandwich bars
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so again we're just cutting open the
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bars first from the wrapper
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and you know sometimes when the wrapper
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sticks you just got to be tedious and
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you got to just take it off but you can
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be really quick the more Frozen that
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these Ice Cream Sandwich bars are from
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the start they're going to be easier to
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take off the wrapper
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and I just turn it and create four
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separate bites whoops
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and then I take the whole block and put
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it on the tray
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some people freeze dry with the wrappers
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on I haven't found that to be too
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effective when I've been trying to cut I
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like cutting them prior to because
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they're just softer and they don't
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create too many crumbles because once
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they're freeze-dried it's all crunchy so
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I like having it being able to to cut
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these and it's really not that
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difficult to do so you might be asking
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yourself how much are the ice cream
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sandwiches
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well last year when I was doing ice
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cream sandwiches
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each one of these boxes costs about
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three dollars and 48 cents after the
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inflation for this year they're now at
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4.86 definitely inflation has impacted
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all of our pricing across the country
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but I still have pretty good margin with
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these I love you that have watched a lot
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of my videos you've been asking about
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pricing
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really what I look at is I go to Etsy I
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go to some of my competitors from other
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states and I just look to see what other
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people are pricing per ounce that's what
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I think everybody should do it you don't
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need to really reinvent the wheel and
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do something crazy all right so that's
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trade number two as again that's 12 Ice
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Cream Sandwich bars that we're putting
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into the freeze dryer freeze dryer
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number two
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[Music]
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thank you
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[Music]
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thank you
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[Music]
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foreign
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[Music]
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all five trays are done so again we did
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one box of Ice Cream Sandwich bars there
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were 12 bars in each box and we did all
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five trays starting with the bottom one
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and then we went all the way up to the
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top now we're gonna go back to the
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bottom one because it's already been
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frozen at 10 degrees already so now
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we're going to take another box of Ice
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Cream Sandwich bars and finish it off
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again I said there's there's probably
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about 20 Ice Cream Sandwich bars that
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can fit on one tray all eight boxes with
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12 bars each in them will fit on all
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five trays so let's go ahead and get
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another tray and I'll show you how the
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final trade would look with all the ice
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cream bars in like I said we have our
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first tray in it's the last tray out now
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that we're putting it in and we've got
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the tray all we need to do is fill the
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rest of the gaps
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so we got the Ice Cream Sandwich Box
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and we've got room five more bars so
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we're gonna put the three ice cream
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sandwiches on this row that we only did
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two on last time
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I'm gonna cut down five times
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and again if they get rearranged a
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little bit
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just kind of tied them back together
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then we're going to place them on the
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tray nice and snug if you've never done
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Ice Cream Sandwich bars definitely do it
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for 2023 this is a great product to add
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if you can do it under your health
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districts guidelines for cottage food or
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you might have to get into
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a licensed commercial kitchen either by
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yourself or
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you can always rent so I'm going to put
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this to the side a little bit and it's
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okay that it's raised a little bit I
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have it raised just a little bit like
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that and that's okay it'll still fit
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underneath the tray in this in the
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freeze dryer I think I can fit two more
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right here
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so let's let's do that
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I really do try to make everything work
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to maximize the amount of product that
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you're putting on the trays because
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yes it takes a little bit longer but I
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like having as much as I can because
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then I don't have to do more
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later on there we go so let's put that
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back in the freeze dryer next tray out
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go ahead and get the ice cream bars out
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remember to be quick about this it's
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definitely hard to be quick sometimes
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when I'm trying to think of what to talk
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to you guys about
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you know I've been watching a lot of
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YouTube channels and people doing
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content for YouTube and
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I just want you guys to know it's
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it's actually a lot more difficult than
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you think you know I want to provide the
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most
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information possible
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for anyone who is owning a freeze-dried
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business while I'm doing this but
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I also got to be quick about it and I'm
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doing product that I'm going to sell so
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having all these camera angles and
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everything it's kind of crazy alright so
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all five trays are now in the freeze
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dryer looking good that's about eight
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boxes with 12 bars each so there's 20 or
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so bars on each different individual
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tray these are fairly easy to do check
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with your local health district to make
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sure you can do them under your college
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food law or if you're in a licensed
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commercial kitchen or you're sharing
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kitchen like me then you can obviously
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submit to get those approved my health
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district required me to test my dairy
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products like ice cream so I did have to
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go through that process it wasn't very
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expensive it was about 18 to 20 dollars
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per test and that just showed the
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activity level of a freeze-dried Ice
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Cream Sandwich Bar or freeze-dried ice
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cream and that way it got passed and
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then I can sell it under my food
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establishment permit so I said at the
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beginning of the video that I would talk
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to you about the settings for the freeze
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dryer I don't change any settings I only
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set it to what the set factory settings
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are which is 125 degrees I let it run a
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full cycle and then usually it takes
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between 28 to 36 hours to do for all
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five trays hey thanks again for watching
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through the end of this video this is
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the final product of an ice cream
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sandwich it becomes hard and crunchy
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just like a cookie the flavor hits you
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immediately rather than wait for all
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these trays to finish I just figured I'd
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show you the final product from a
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previous batch and usually I'm able to
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get about 45 bags putting about 2.5 net
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ounces in all the bags if you want to
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