SkinnyDipped founders failed to coat almonds using Home Depot paint sprayers
Breezy Griffith · SkinnyDipped: Breezy and Val Griffith. The Flourishing Snack Company That Almost Failed · Dec 29, 2025 · at 29:06
SkinnyDipped co-founder Breezy Griffith recounts their early DIY attempts to scale chocolate coating on almonds using a hardware store paint sprayer.
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“So we went to Home Depot, we bought a paint sprayer, We filled the paint sprayer with chocolate, and the chocolate would start to harden, so you couldn't actually get it to work, so we had to MacGyver some heat guns next to the paint sprayer to try to keep the chocolate warm while we sprayed these sheet pans of almonds, and let me just tell you, it is a complete failure, we just had like, it just, chocolate just atomized into the air, there was none on the almonds”
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