The Best Selling Chocolate Heart Of 2021?!

mix what the heck is this is it bloomed no chocolate no it i colored on it because i thought it looked cool like that and why would you bloom are you buying this you're doing that on purpose yeah so what what are you gonna do about it okay all right ready i'm ready peanut butter chocolate butter time on top of the cookie bark peanut butter chocolate time that's the family guy saw it right if you guys are wondering this is what the peanut butter morsels look like you just melt them all down and then you get that okay i'm gonna go this way are you sure it's gonna cut it i don't know it's kind of kind of cold start over here again you just have to do it because of where the ball is because of uh because of the wall back there i can't do it yeah and we're gonna have to use a pizza cutter to do the one lino back there yeah exactly as far as you can get because again can't go through the wall yeah still have to figure that out just push harder this is what i used to use you can only use that on pizza steve okay the old-fashioned way do you remember wow in the basement i remember each one of my cuts would be like yeah carrots right at once actually the first time we tried i think it was cookie bark which this was this is the cookie park if people want to see that video dylan i'm sure can link it in the description this is just the end of the cookie card yeah it's pretty thick yeah you get lots of cookies lots of chocolate i hope people like that yeah i don't know cheeseburger with no cheese yeah okay huh just a hamburger huh yeah no cheeseburgers no cheese oh of course there's a big difference dad yeah duh i want you to put the cheese on there cook it and then scrape it all off kids all right good work daddy oh voila all right what are you doing max organizing chocolate bars alphabetically yeah c c c yep we had an order for 300 bars and got got a few of them done yesterday so just trying to get them all unmolded so we can get started on that i probably should have thought about stacking a little bit yeah maybe running out of room here [Applause] right here's our first stop we're gonna do a one pound full assorted milk and dark gotta make it look really pretty [Applause] so you guys put together the boxes uh as you name them for the orders yep yes we need them we don't do them in advance unless it's like christmas time yeah oh cause then you can participate a lot yeah otherwise you have to like because they store a lot better when they're not folded up yeah a lot better for us at least yeah there's just a little more room yeah i gotta get the pads in there put two on the top and one on the bottom and then we start feeling it did this person have any special requests or they just full assortment of everything yeah fold milk and dark chocolate so do you have a favorite over here uh wine oh yeah i like peppermint oh okay i like the peppermint um cream so what what's your favorite ice cream then um cookie dough oh i was gonna guess mint chocolate chip no or peanut butter one of the two peanut butter cup or cookie dough oh you got good taste hey i've been told that before i guess the people can trust you when it comes to chocolate then too yeah i put in all the best stuff in everybody's boxes have you memorized which ones are which are you just going down the line um i have memorized the list but i this is how i do it every time no matter what so request yeah exactly and sometimes even then i have to redo it yeah because i'm so like used to doing a fall oh yeah i've done that before like when i used to work at the last time and people would say just don't want the tomatoes yeah put the tomatoes in be like oh yeah on autopilot yeah you get in such a um habit of doing it all right some of i can barely see i have to stand on my tippy tippy toes so this one right here is my favorite yeah the milk peppermint okay pretty dark got a good cap workout doing that i know who would have thought i could get muscles at candy store yeah right all right now i gotta put in the specialties this one's got the caramel butter crunch are you a milk chocolate dark or white milk do you like yeah well not true when i get i like york peppermint patties so that's a dark chocolate [Applause] i told him your peppermint patties were the best so if you had peppermint patties then yeah yeah and the wintergreen i tried do you have the peppermint better than the wintergreen i do yeah yeah i sure do got to make it so they don't jiggle around so we do that yeah we do the jiggle test so these are really popular for uh valentine's day yes it seems to be it's my first valentine's day with hercules right bye yeah they like them i'm gonna check something with my mom real quick mom so uh when people order stuff for valentine's day do they often get that sort of box or do they get like the valentine's heart box or the rectangle valentine's box we sell a lot more heart boxes at valentine's day than at other holidays that make sense i know um but we do sell a pretty big amount of the rectangular ones that just say happy valentine's day because for folks that have already landed their valentine yeah they've locked them in maybe they want to save their money instead of getting the heart shape for people that are still doing the chase for a nice dinner out so they save a couple of bucks and get the rectangular one same stuff inside same message on the outside save a couple bucks then you can have more french fries and gravy on valentine's day everyone's getting poutine and yes okay i would think so why wouldn't you do valentine's day i know it's just tradition but we started doing that years ago because we we noticed some of the longtime married gentlemen we're getting the hercules box that was marooned with gold that's the one that we were just falling off yeah oh is that what she did okay because we do it we have a red one that says happy valentine's day do you want to see it sure it's out here believe it or not but we noticed a lot of men getting that this was like 15 or 20 years ago they were getting that one they're like ah she doesn't need a heart so i was like well for the same price yeah we can at least get that point across so we're trying to start doing it there we go yeah yeah all right what else does that stop coming up we need chocolate covered pretzels eight ounces so that's gonna be this way eight ounce milk pretzels there we go and for anybody who wants to know this is my stool so i can reach out oh yeah other stuff because you know yeah i got that short thing going all right now we need eight ounce milk crispy all right that's four that's eight do you know where basically everything is now yes finally got it down we only have one of these left start to remind your mom now we need milk oreos and this is the big pack we sell them individually or in this pack which is gives you 10 of them so we got that and peanut butter potato chip bark eight ounce oh they got everything right next to each other pretty much other than that uh-huh that was nice huh yeah easy on me today and that's almost out as well so we gotta make more of that so that's the order for that pulling now we gotta pack it what have you found from your personal experience has been like some of the most sell hot selling items in the store um peanut butter potato chip bar yeah yeah and well this time of year the assortments are very popular christmas and valentine's day and karen can get the phone right now maybe it's i only noticed that because i like the peanut butter stuff yeah all right no that's very popular so try this again it's gonna work well and if it comes close you can always cut it down but i'm not cutting this down because of the bark so just put some more bubbles i'm gonna take some of kara's bubbles now we're going to need one more strip terry likes it where it's packed to the top there's no moving around and then the people who order these can uh pack their own stuff and it's their first order so you know what we do for them right oh yeah all the works a pen and a catalog did you get a notepad or is that no we usually use those for um people write us notes a lot oh yeah and so we write them notes back on them we normally don't so that's the secret if someone does want to know that yeah you better write us a note all right so this one's ready to go and do some reinforcement on the side that's hard using tape with gloves very hard very sticky now we gotta weigh it okay 4.22 pounds so for ups we have to put around it and we put the box size once you have to round up to the next half pound yep that's how they um their system works they don't do point you know 4.22 or something like that and these guys were good so they get a sticker oh wow and there we go we're all done with this order all right now we stick this to the box you want to see where it goes yeah got to show the whole thing and then what do you do from here i ship it you want me to ship that one in particular so you can if you got time you can see the start starts to finish thing yeah okay well very complicated okay so i'm going to put in the order number which is 35806. so someone's watching and you just ordered and you think it's your box it is now you know for sure if your initials are er that does not mean emergency room so i have to input the box size which i have some presets here so i just click on that is the 12 10 six is the size and it weighs five pounds and these particular folks ordered two cold packs but it's new york it's 30 degrees so we are telling them you don't really need cold packs so we're going to give you back your four bucks wow yeah winning so invest it wisely er so i put in the the weight i put in who packed it and i click create label and create label and then i'm going to do it again hey what happened there sure create label come on you can do it you're embarrassing me in front of all your friends previewing browser print print that's it it comes out with a zebra that's a zebra wow looks like a printer but it's a zebra and you stick it on the package and away you go wow then it just gets put out on the shelf this is a fedex package so i'm gonna put it on the fedex shelf so where's the fedex shop and where's the ups i show you all right ups fedex ups comes first you guys don't really have a whole lot of packages today huh yeah no yeah well because the video one that today is tuesday so video just dropped today so the last video was where did we do a live stream was it tuesday yeah last tuesday yeah okay so that means it's been a whole week between videos so things do slow down it kind of starts like this it goes down then don't forget the weekend goes up yeah and then it goes back down but there's a video today so it's kind of getting there but it's it's a slow start which is normal for the day of video drops yeah tomorrow will be the big day oh okay so yeah be ready all right okay i'm gonna go over here okay yeah see ya so we were gonna get these going um a while ago and i was gonna do a couple of tests um just because you know our vibrating table we use it quite a bit um maybe a little bit more than it was intended to be used so i don't i don't know if you can see on the camera but we we have a bunch of cracks and stuff in here from you know just um the table box yeah yeah yeah normal wear and tear um and you know as you can see like we've got it repaired once before with the welding and everything but the the motor is over on this side so it just shakes a little bit more over on the right and uh yesterday it you know broke the binding here in the middle so without the rigidity it's not shaking as much oh yeah um so we just kind of had to recalibrate how long to like leave the molds upside down and stuff you know to get the right amount of chocolate out and uh and yeah so we did a couple of test runs just to figure that out no how did the test runs go terribly just oh man so awful no it's pretty much exactly the same amount of time four or five seconds so like the same amount of time you usually do you mean yeah yeah so it didn't affect it too much nope nope not much at all so right there we're just like kind of vibrating it to make sure it gets in all the ridges and everything i'm gonna turn it upside down here and i'm just kind of a little bit past five to get the the right amount of chocolate on the bottom here so is that part of like what you did for the test just to see how long to hold it upside down yep yep so um just you know just counted to see how much how much time it was flipped it over to see how much was still in the bottom uh you don't want it too full because you know people want peanut butter in there but if it's too thin then they'll break on the way out so you really got to get it right in that right in that window a happy medium yeah and you might notice that we're only doing the bottoms right now that's because uh if we filled up the tops and then turned it over you know all the chalk would come out and if we fill them up afterwards after we got the chocolate out that is then when we put them back on the vibrating table to just smooth them back out all the chocolate from the bottom would sink off the edges here and go right into the bottom of the cups yeah which is what just happened i don't know if people could really see that on the video but you could definitely see it yeah they're way more full now than they should be yeah on the bottom i mean just but the sides are like basically just like very thin painted chocolate on the sides yep yeah it's no good it'd be impossible to get out of the mold yeah all right that's a pretty good pour [Music] gotta be nice and peanut buttery in like a day [Music] so you said these are one of the more popular intensities they're popular oh yeah like even sometimes outside of valentine's day yeah i guess yeah it makes sense if it's like your anniversary or something oh yeah i mean if you're getting chocolate for your so or something a peanut butter filled chocolate heart is a pretty safe fat yeah unless they're a monster who doesn't like chocolate or peanut butter or if they're allergic to peanut butter then i wouldn't do it that's it's probably not like i said if they're a monster kidding jokes yeah mom jokes aren't meant to be taken seriously it's actually the defining quality of a joke [Music] all right there we go i always feel like like obviously chocolate's not going anywhere but i always feel like if i'm not enough of a rush it'll like sink down to the bottom so steve good news if you always wanted to be on sale i've discounted you oh boy i wonder if we have a lifelong dream what if we have a face for that discounted face oh boy so you know hey the year's half over so we marked these down there's like 20 of them left so uh get him while he's hot can you uh show him and explain what it is this is the many faces of steve calendar done lovingly by his son craig the man behind the camera that's one of my personal favorites this one that one yeah it's a good one but there's a different face for every month and craig explains what it means because he knows he about people knows especially when it comes to dating he's got a lot of faces he does he's got some faces just in the last couple of weeks i'm like that face should be on the calendar that fish should have been the counter it's like if we could see his face he'd be making one right yes he's just his mask face now yeah but uh yeah he's got a bunch of them it's uh pretty amazing so if if you want to be down on steve's faces this is the this is the place and if you want to have basically a translation for all of his faces for the previous videos where he actually could see his face then you'll be able to really understand the man behind the face yes and you don't get to see this one very often no that's like once in a blue face yes yes so uh once in a red nose what one the red nosed one it's not like you wear that every day oh he's got his tuesday red nose never mind it's just the whole thing i'm gonna go back in there and i'm gonna do stuff i'll see you guys later have fun doing stuff so these are polar bear patties yeah yeah that's right tough guy polar bear patties they're awesome but they're not discounted so people i we have a whole video i think from even back at the old store of us making these polar bear patties we only started making them like maybe a year or so before we moved yeah but basically they're peppermint patties covered in dark chocolate and then covered in white so they're kind of like polar bears but with extra care yeah because you made them right how about that have you ever missed your hand and had the chocolate go in there no no why not it just doesn't happen i've been doing it too long it's just like when you learn how to ski you fall down all the time but then when you get better you don't fall down anymore i'm pretty good at sledding did you fall down not often sometimes i fall off there we go almost did a whole tray yeah let's get some more and start over so each handful's worth is we'll get you about that much although you try to leave some on the table right so you can mix the warmer with the cooler yeah and keep going and then that way that way i can go faster so the first time when you're waiting for the first puddle it's a while that's the longest one and then for white so for white chocolate does it not have to be quite as cool uh yeah it can be uh like i said under 90 degrees okay so i i i do about 87. and then for milk and dark is that about the same like 84 ish yeah 84 is better yeah so in case it was confusing when i said about the same i meant like they're they're both need to be cooler but do they they're both are okay around 84 or 82 or so yeah yeah the the colder the lower number the better and does peanut butter chocolate have to get to worry about that one uh yeah that that changes real quick though when it's ready or you got to get that to uh 90 degrees or 91 90 89 88 but then once it gets cold though it goes it hardens up quick you got a little shorter window so you got yeah your window of opportunity is very short so you gotta when it's running you just gotta use it as fast as you can so peanut butter chocolate is only for the masters yeah that's hard to do even peanut pink or pink is the same way oh yeah it's just uh more difficult and the pink chocolate is that just white chocolate i like pink coloring oh no well sorta but uh it's made it's made a little different yeah is that a little too warm still yeah how warm do you think it is uh let's say 90. i know out 87. oh wow wow i guess so because of the glare but i'll take you right now 88. let me see it it's hard to knock at the glare yeah i guess i can use it now so i know some people are going to be wondering why we're not using the enroller for this yeah i don't i only need uh a few of these so i'm not going to change the rover to a different chocolate only for a few i can just do them by hand plus the the smaller rubber used for dark and bigger one to use for milk yeah so a lot of things that just that we need in white or uh peanut butter or anything we just do them by hand or if you guys just need like a small amount of something yeah because it doesn't take we're not we're not doing a lot of things in white right so i do i'm doing all those uh peppermint patties over there oh yeah but that's that's it yeah yeah because it would it would take a whole it'd be a whole thing to change it over to white yeah by the time you change it and everything and get it all melted and i'll be done with this yeah so you're a machine yeah that sounds convincing there we go probably look they look pretty good all right wow i would not have expected that that's how the tops get done it's uh same as the bottom pretty counter-intuitive i know really the eighth wonder of the world is becoming clear enough how did they do it well they must have had it in rovers aliens for sure either aliens or they hadn't rover where they had an alien and rover well look at that alien technology now how does how does he say it though he's always like could it be i don't know do you guys watch the ancient alien documentaries every now and then right documentaries yeah mockumentaries you should i don't know man you should see how they uh frame it on netflix yeah it says documentaries up there well you guys watch a lot of like egypt stuff we we were for a while i think now we're like actively avoiding it i think it's one of those things like youtube loves eric clapton the song the thrill is gone and egypt documentary you mean the the hercules candy youtube and hercules no no i mean the hercules candy youtube cause that's what you guys are watching you're using the channel to watch yeah you know youtube i was like what what hercules so why are you using uh this refrigerator to finish them off and you're using the other one to just to separate them just when i first started the other one was full okay i didn't know where to put them yeah like yeah i guess it makes sense if this one was all filled up then you have to put it somewhere yeah i just couldn't set it down on top because they're all like wonky and stuff so yeah is that the technical term yeah yeah yeah that makes sense yeah you might have to look it up in a scientific journal but i don't want to start using too much jargon like wonky i want to confuse the viewers okay sorry jingling okay that's probably better yeah wonky's one of those words that like i it just like lives inside of me you know what i mean but like there's no specific there's no specific description of it but you know it when you when you hear it or you know what it is i just uh i never hear anybody else saying it either like it's a great word oh your shirt is so blue it keeps making the whole uh screen just like pink oh really yeah trying to color correct it yeah that's what happens when super super blue things get on this camera it's kind of a weird problem for a camera isn't it no i had the same like when i used to have a canon it would over correct and make everything super orange whenever there was something super blue on the screen well i guess that's what the whole thing's trying to do right it's just like like with white balance basically it's basically trying to say like this is what white is and then it bounces everything off of that so if it's thinking that blue is white oh is that what it is i don't know it's just like with anything that has a lot of blue in it it's neat technology yeah so what happens like if you point it at the sky well the whole sky just turns pink in real life around the camera in real life oh man like oh someone must be putting a sony camera here and i thought it was a sunset but i guess that's just where people like to take pictures yeah it might have actually been the inside of the fridge because that's kind of blue too oh no i just noticed when i come back into here it's pink very interesting there's probably a pink pun in there somewhere that's confusing what do you think mark yes always more i don't think the viewers will argue with more chocolate chocolate yeah they came out pretty good nice and shiny but uh all right so usually we'd be using the funnel to fill these guys up but i'm only doing two today so we're just gonna do them the old-fashioned way a couple butter knives and some peanut butter i just want to show you guys how it's done yeah it used to be done yeah i mean i can't miss it what's the love down in the box it's just your excuse to do it yeah yeah it's like oh you're shooting a video i'll do peanut butter hearts that's a lot faster with the funnel though telling me you're done with both of them already really i was doing uh peanut butter cups yesterday like that was the best thing one of the best things we came up with in 2019 yeah and then 2020 i think was when you guys came up with the potato chips on the belt right on the for the rubber i don't know i was just gonna ask your dad i i thought that that was the same year we got like the table and everything but i don't know yeah the years are kind of fun to get it you know yeah once you get as old as we are yeah yeah we moved into here in 2018 i think right so what it was yeah i don't know i was just figuring out when i started the other day yeah i'm pretty sure it was 2017 so easter 2017. so yeah around easter time-ish will be four years for you in like march yeah just a couple of months [Music] yes sir yeah it really does fly three three two oh i think i think 17 18 18 and 19 19 to 20 21 [Music] yeah it was it's just it's just crazy when you look back and you're like man it's been four years yeah four years like that's a long time it is i mean you know relatively not compared to your whole life i'm using the wrong hand again right i can't get too big of a blob it goes over the edge he's being mean to me karen [Laughter] can we oh she's going to chuck the cheese he's the only place better remember discovery zone quick yeah yeah or mcdonald's play place oh dude the classic or great escape probably very all very uh sanitary oh yeah yeah that slide it was a slip and slide but i'm pretty sure it wasn't meant to be yeah ball pits man like for real you know your kid's coming out with a cold they don't care a little bit of nyquil we'll have an early night tonight all right that should be that um perfect now it's done oh yeah finishing touch yeah oh yeah it's the biggest peanut butter cup you'll ever see well just kidding there's like one pound yeah now we just got to get somebody to wrap it but now the karen's out here i think you might have to oh geez yeah my uh my camera's breaking up i don't know i don't know if i can do that this will be the perfect time for you to wrap all right kara show us how it's done all right so for those of you who are doing the same thing at home um take a piece of foil i'm doing red for valentine's put it upside down put right in the middle make sure it's not greasy before you fold it over you don't want a greasy peanut butter cup our heart cup whatever that is pb heart cup i'll have to get a towel to rub the foil smooth it out try it not too much silver showing it's done i'm just kidding imagine if that's all we did mostly mostly mostly done yeah we're not to be finishing the rest of them today so that's why i think max already said that's why he only filled up too and that's why we're only dropping through well i figured you know what we're showing you this you might as well finish it just these two i was wondering why yeah yeah why we're doing it all right smooth her out be gentle you don't want to rip it yeah you can really see the details come through now we're all about details so what are you doing out here uh what were you doing before i interrupted what you were doing to do this packing pecan brittle yep today we'll be doing brittle shipping and then brittle chipping in brittle that's all i've done today and you can't really smooth the sides too much it's it's just never going to look perfect yeah it's mostly at the top this guy that gets people are just going to open it and eat it yeah so i can't imagine trying to take a bite out of this though it'd just be such a mess yeah because usually people take the top off and then use it to dunk it yeah dunk it in there that's a lot of chopped on peanut butter yeah just i mean you take breaks you know yeah watch some netflix take a bite watch an episode whatever works or maybe you're hardcore and just eat it all at once i don't know no judgment there's no wrong way to eat candy look this could be the thumbnail it could be like my eyes our eyes like the emoji hard eyes and then the right spot yeah hey you're not wiping that counter off are you no uh you better not be i'm just shining it off i love it i hug it yes why you're not cleaning it just shining it up that's okay that's permitted so what are you what are you doing getting ready for making ribbon candy tomorrow yes you gotta change the whole room basically apple it's a caramel filled green apple you're right it's been a long day huh it's been a long several months green apple caramel caramel filled green apple flavor yeah yeah now you guys have been having uh some semblance of time off during even the busy season which is like unheard of yeah never got sundays off we've never had sundays off in 40 years yeah i remember just growing up you guys worked seven days a week during the holiday season yeah just a long time yep well it's been a long time coming yeah yeah now you guys can feel like human beings again yeah it's kind of nice robots yeah so what else what do you have to do in order to actually get set up for tomorrow other than wipe the counter off i just had to sanitize it and everything and then you got to clear this off yet then get all the bars out and clean them off and and the knives out and things turn the tables around oh yeah can you move the tables over there so that that's why like when you guys do do hard candy you guys try to do like multiple days back to back if you can so you can yeah you really hard candy and brittle or back to back or something like that you know so you don't have to like tear down yeah store you can just come back the next day and just start up yeah it's like brittle and hard candy and ribbon candy they're all basically the table and the counter and everything so yep yeah all right well i'll let you get back to it thanks yeah for a limited time you can subscribe to this channel for free and hit the like button and once in a lifetime it'll happen only you know today the next day yeah good work dad i didn't do that right no i like that i like that

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Length: 42min 4sec (2524 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 26 2021