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Candy That Is EASY to Freeze Dry and Will Make You Money!
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May 15, 2025
If you want to freeze-dry candy that requires the least amount of time, this video is for you! In this video, I share with you the two candies that are easy to prepare for a freeze-dried business and will make you money more quickly. Freeze-drying candy has been a growing trend for several years because various candies transform from being chewy to a crunchy new texture that looks and tastes completely new! Do you want to be more connected and more informed about the freeze-drying industry? The Freeze-Drying Summit is a conference for the freeze-drying community to connect in person about starting and growing a business in freeze-drying. Sign-up at https://freezedriedsummit.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:37 Dallas Cowboys 1:05 Cottage Food Business Roots 1:37 Freeze Dryer Settings for Candy 2:08 Caramel M&M's 4:21 Skittles 7:26 Candy is Done! Taste Test Freeze-dried businesses are starting every day because of this new twist on candy but some take more time to cut and prepare than others. Watch my video on freeze-dried taffy to see a more extended candy process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hTghFdSmho&t=6s 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
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I paid three thousand five hundred
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dollars to freeze dry two candies that
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transformed from being chewy to crunchy
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and you're gonna love it you're gonna
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wanna watch this video that was a very
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exciting intro let me introduce myself
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my name is David I'm a freeze-dried
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business owner in Idaho this channel is
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for people who are freeze drying as a
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business or looking into freeze drying
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or maybe you're just looking to know
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what all this freeze drying craze is all
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about in this video I'm going to share
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with you two candies that take the least
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amount of time to freeze dry and are the
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most popular for me they change from our
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chewy state to a crunchy State and
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that's caramel M Ms and your favorite
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Skittles so just a little bit of
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personal background about who I am you
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might be wondering what's this guy
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wearing a Cowboys jacket in Idaho I've
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been a Cowboys fan ever since I was five
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years old my grandparents sent us all
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types of memorabilia and apparel while
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we were growing up so I've just always
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been a Cowboys fan I am not a loyalist I
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love football I love the NFL I know
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they're always going to lose in the
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playoffs and they're probably never
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going to reach to Super Bowl as long as
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Jerry Jones is the owner I may be
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waiting a long time for that but I'll
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still be representing the Cowboys so I'm
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filming today in my garage this is where
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everything started because I was a
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cottage food operator and I still have
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this freeze dryer it's for my personal
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use and also testing different things my
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family and I freeze dry a lot of fruits
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and vegetables and sometimes we freeze
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dry candy because we have two little
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kids and it's just great for food
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preservation and saving a lot of food
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waste this is going to be a pretty easy
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video for candies because these are the
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two fastest freeze drying candies that
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I've found in terms of low labor to put
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together and it takes the shortest
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amount of time to freeze dry in the
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dryer so let's get to it all right let's
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get to the freeze dryer setting so if
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you have version 23 or higher you have
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the option to customize the candy mode
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which just means you get to customize
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the drying amount of time and the dry
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temperature so we press customize and
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what we're going to do on caramel M M's
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and for Skittles I'm going to do it at
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the same time we're going to go all the
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way up to 140 degrees all only need
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about two hours to freeze dry these
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candies so press save we're going to
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press start and that gives us 15 minutes
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to start prepping the candy what I've
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got here is I've got five trays and
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that's the amount for this large freeze
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dryer from Harvest right I've also got
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this silicone mat because what I'm going
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to do with caramel M M's is I'm going to
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put each caramel m m into here it
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actually ends up expanding as you'll see
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after we get done with a cycle I like
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having the individual caramel m m in
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each one of these because it just allows
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for the caramel M M's not to stick
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together because I'm going to do another
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tray for you to show you what it looks
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like when you just throw all of them on
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just like we do with Skittles so that
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you can kind of compare the two and see
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which one you might like to do so let's
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get to putting these into here I usually
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just like dumping a bunch on the
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silicone mat and then I'll just take
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them individually and put them into the
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different molds so one thing if you're
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not familiar with freeze drying or
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you're not familiar with freeze drying
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candy with chocolate is chocolate
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doesn't really freeze dry because
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there's not much moisture in it so
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usually chocolate just ends up melting
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and you don't have that kind of changing
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texture but with the caramel m m there's
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caramel inside and then the Chocolate
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shell breaks apart what I do once these
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break out and change their texture is I
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actually let these freeze I either put
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them in the freezer or I let the chamber
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cool down after the cycle it gets the
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chocolate kind of Frozen and that way
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when I store them into the bucket
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there's not a bunch of melted chocolate
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in the bucket when I store these as you
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can see here the silicone molds provide
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a really good Organization for all the
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individual caramel M Ms so now we're
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going to do a tray that doesn't have
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this mold all right so now we're going
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to do caramel M&Ms without the mold when
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you have them this close together
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they're going to Clump up and you just
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kind of have non-individual pieces for
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your bags and the customers I I feel
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like don't have like each individual
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caramel m m to eat so that's why I like
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having those molds because now when I
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take them out of the tray and they're
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done I have individual caramel M Ms
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versus these are all going to stick
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together which we'll show you that was
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one bag of 34 ounces for caramel M M's
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so that was one tray mold and then one
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just scattered all in the tray so now
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we're going to do Skittles and I want to
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show you two different packs that I've
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purchased when I go and buy Skittles one
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is I buy the Skittles in these tubs
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these are from Sam's Club or if you have
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Costco you can get these now the total
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ounces in this is three pounds six
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ounces which is a total net weight of 54
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ounces you can also buy now although
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this is a wild berry bag you can also
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buy these types of bags and I buy them
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from a store that has wholesale this has
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50 ounces in it and these bags right now
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locally for me not the wild berry but
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original is running about
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10.98 they increased this past year
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probably due to inflation and then these
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these Skittles at Costco were running
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about 9.78 they've got this seal on
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these tubs
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we're gonna dump the skills on this tray
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I'm gonna show you that this amount
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right here a little bit too crowded and
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the reason I know this for my me
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personally is just like the caramel M Ms
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they just get a little bit too bunched
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up I don't like having to break apart
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the Skittles after they're done freeze
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drying and I don't like the clumps as
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you can see with the tray that I just
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did you can still see a little bit of
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the tray but it's just a little bit too
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full in my opinion We're Gonna Leave
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This tray as is in fact I'm going to add
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a little bit more to it I want to just
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show you what it's like when you
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overfill the Skittles like right here
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this is just a single layer you might be
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like well I just like maximizing the
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tray I don't I don't like maximize the
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tray to the point where they're all
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stuck together and maybe they're double
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layered it just doesn't come out right
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all right so for this next tray what I'm
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going to do is I'm going to do it my
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style which I would recommend because
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they come out and then they're just a
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little bit more in individual pieces and
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there's less that you have to break
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apart
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so this is just the right amount and you
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might be like well what's the difference
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well as you can see you can see some of
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the silver tray you're going to have to
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kind of like eyeball it here but I like
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this arrangement of the amount because
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when we get it out of the freeze dryer
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here soon you're going to see that they
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kind of are not as bunched up together
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some will be but not as much and that's
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what I like better than the one we just
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did so we're going to do one more tray
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and then we're gonna start the cycle
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all right
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okay all the trays are in the freeze
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dryer but before we begin the cycle I do
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want to invite you to watch a couple of
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my other videos I just did a video on
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bitter honey that was a really fun video
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to do and it's in one of my top 20
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selling freeze-dried items to freeze dry
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it you can also see how I do Jolly
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Ranchers and a couple other fruits so
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check out other videos on my channel
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alright that 15 minute waiting period is
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done so all we're going to press is this
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button it turns to green and says the
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high temperature mode candy process is
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ready to go and it's on we're gonna
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close the drain valve and press continue
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hey the two candies are done and I told
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you it transforms them from a chewy
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candy into a crunchy candy alright so
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this is the caramel m m if you can see
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the caramel pops and transform into a
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crunchiness and then you have the
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Chocolate shell out of that it's so good
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let's give a taste
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foreign
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brought to you from my wife keep them
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refrigerated or frozen they are
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fantastic they're way better than
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keeping them at room temperature okay so
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here are the two trays as you can see
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this one right here is the tray that was
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all clumped together and the reason I
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said that I like using the silicone mat
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or just the fact that there's just too
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many on here is when you break it apart
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it creates these bigger clumps as you
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can see and I just prefer having little
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bite sizes so that's why with this tray
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with a silicone mat you get a single
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individual caramel m m
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and you can put those in the bag now
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with these silicone mats it's fairly
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easy to pop them out they actually pop
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out right out of the little hole that
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they're in and then you can put them in
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the bucket that you want all right and
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if you're not familiar with freeze-dried
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Skittles Skittles pop and transform into
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this this is the crunchy side of a
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Skittle
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it's like eating popcorn but skills it's
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delicious all right the Skittles are
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done here's how the skills turned out
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this was the tray that we put together
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that had a little bit of spacing in it
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and as you can see yes they're clumped
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together but they're not as deeply
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connected as you might think so they
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easily kind of drop off and create
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individual Skittles just like you got
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out of the bag now this is the tray that
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we had very little spacing on it's just
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very compact you have to kind of break
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apart the bigger chunks of pieces to get
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those individual Skittles if you look at
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this it creates a whole big chunk I
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don't like having these big chunks I
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like having individual Skittles just
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like you're used to out of the bag
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that's a wrap on this video These are
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the two easiest candies you can do for
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your freeze-dried business if you
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haven't tried the caramel M Ms please do
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they're delicious and I hope you enjoyed
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this video and if you haven't done it
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already please subscribe to my channel
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if you're a freeze Drive business owner
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or if you just like to follow this
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freeze-dried craze I'd love for you to
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join the community have a great day
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we'll see you again next time
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