Mm-hmm

... of these jellies in our full production facility, we'll do, like, you know, let they, let these set overnight, and then inject them the next day.

You really need, like, four hours minimum for it to really set up.

Also, a super fun trick is if you've got these bubbles on top of the jelly, and you know you don't want that 'cause you want a perfectly flat, clear-

Eh, let's see what this one looks like.

Definitely blue.

All right.

So this is the, the moment of truth, the big reveal, where I'll torch the back of it and it'll just let itself go.

Do you have maybe the first flavor that you all developed or worked on? Was there a few that were the prototypes for everything?

Yeah, the very first time we met, Jenna was primarily working with coconut water as the flavorful clear liquid that you use to set with gelatin and then inject the designs into.

So she brought me on because of my centrifuge knowledge to make some other delicious liquids clear.

So we started with citrus juices, lemon and lime primarily.

But that first day, we also made some clarified cucumber juice and then said, oh, we need to be adding alcohol to these immediately.

It just feels like a no-brainer.

And this was sort of the peak COVID 2020 when we were all trying to find something to do outside, the socially distanced gatherings of people.

Jenna and Jack, I know I just described a number of different versions, but have you had any of these varieties before? Were there any that were mentioned that maybe piqued your interest?

So you were working at Milk Bar as

working at Milk Bar and loved it.

Fell in love.

I had worked at a butcher in high school, like making sandwiches and working the register and like grabbing exactly one pound flat of ground beef from the case when people ask for it.

That's a really fun job working at a butcher.

But then I realized like, oh, food can be a real career.

And because the butcher wanted me to not go to college and stay in Alamo, California, if I wanted to learn how to cut meat.

Yeah.

so important?

Totally.

So basically for the jellies to be beautiful, you need to have a beautiful blank canvas that's also perfectly clear.

So Jenna's original experiments with jellies used coconut, coconut water as like a flavorful medium to set with gelatin and be the clear base.

Uh, but the second you add cloudy lemon juice to that, you can't see the art that you're injecting.

Wow

... that, you know, sell us either on menu or have us as, like, a, you know, like a, a giveaway with a check drop, as, like, a nice little something for nothing for, uh, you know, VIP guests.

And then we also are doing a ton of business to caterers nationally, like weddings, events, parties.