hey guys I’m eight welcome back to the
workshop today we’ve got another fun
project for you in the past we’ve had
several experiments where we made molds
of organic things and then cast them in
candy we’ve got one more of those that
we want to try today I have here a
cooked red lobster tail
we’re gonna see if we can melt down some
swedish fish cast it in that mold and
make a gummy red candy lobster tail the
first step is to build a box that we can
pour our lobster tail mold in there we
go we’ve got the walls of our box built
from some Lego but to make sure that
they’re completely watertight or
silicone type let’s just line the sides
with tape a little bit
[Music]
there we go that looks pretty good I
think one more step before we start
prepping our silicone we’ve had a couple
of problems in the past with some of the
things we’re trying to mold floating up
inside the silicone so let’s make a
couple of small holes in the base of our
Lego plate and then run some screws
through the Lego plate into the lobster
tail
[Music]
[Music]
alright I think that’s done a pretty
good job or lobster tail feels like it’s
fairly well in place now of course the
screws sticking out the bottom have made
it so it doesn’t sit level so let’s just
add a couple of feet on the bottom they
won’t fit into plate on this plate but
let’s use a few bricks spread them out
and then we can set our mold on top of
those bricks
there we go that’s sitting nice and
level our next step is to mix up a
good-sized batch of silicone that can
completely cover this lobster tail
we’ve got some nice bright yellow
catalysts here and we need to mix it at
a ten to one ratio so if we have 20
ounces of our silicon then we need two
ounces of our catalyst there’s two and
let’s just go a little bit more because
we have a little over twenty ounces of
our silicon looks kind of like a giant
fried egg in there now just get to stir
all of our silicon and catalyst until it
is nice and evenly mixed and then we’ll
throw it in the vacuum chamber and pull
out all the bubbles all right let’s
start pulling a vacuum there it goes
here we go
[Music]
all right there we go we’ve got our
silicone poured it’s mostly bubble free
now we just need to let our mold sit for
a few hours until it’s completely cured
all right our silicone mold has now had
several hours to cure and it is nice and
rigid it started pushing the tape out on
one side but it didn’t spill over
anywhere so I think we are good and I
think it’s time to start pulling this
mold apart and see how it turned out
well that’s a good texture you can see
the little bits and edges of the lobster
where it was basically in contact with
the plate yeah see this is the annoying
part is the bricks come apart from each
other but then they’re stuck to the tape
on the side wall there we go
Lego brick walls are free I’m off a
little bit of extra spilled over
silicone here and there there we go
we’ve got our block mold now when you
just need to free the lobster tail from
within no you can see the inside of some
lobster tail in there
cracking parts of the shell I have
already accepted the fact that to get
this out we’re probably going to have to
break the lobster tail into a lot of
pieces that’s alright we should still
have our mold that does not smell really
great mm-hmm powerful fish smell oh
there we go
all these little pieces that angle down
like that
those are really digging into the
silicone
there we go I think at this point we’ve
got most of the lobster tail out of the
mold we had to cut parts of the mold
open where there were long reaching bits
of the tail but I think we’ve gotten all
of it out and at this point we just need
to wash it to try and get rid of some of
that day-old lobster smell it’s really
not a pleasant smell at this point let’s
try and see how well we can wash this
there we go I think we’ve got our mold
pretty well cleaned out at this point it
doesn’t have much in the way of a pour
spout so let’s cut a couple of holes
into the bottom of our mold that will
let us pour our liquid candy down inside
there we have it with our mold prepped
it’s time to start melting down our
swedish fish into a liquid that we can
pour down into our mold there we go
we’ve got some swedish fish in a
saucepan let’s add some heat and try and
melt these things
hmm these don’t really seem to be
liquefying the way I was expecting them
to staying very stringy like there’s no
puddle forming on the bottom it’s just
looking kind of like melting plastic
I’ll let it go for a little longer and
see what happens
alright so swedish fish apparently don’t
liquefy when you heat them up they just
turn into a gross bubbly burning gelatin
mess I don’t think I’d be able to get
this down inside the mold if I tried so
we’re gonna have to move on to plan B we
have a jello candy recipe that we’ve
used several times in the past we’re
gonna try a slight variation on that I
still want to get the red outside of our
shell but instead of just casting the
whole thing in a red gummy we’re going
to try using some red chocolate to make
a nice thin coat on the outside of our
shell and then we’ll fill the rest of it
with our gummy recipe we want it to be
white so I found some clear gelatin and
after we’ve mixed it all up I’ll try
adding a little bit of marshmallow cream
to make it the opaque white colour that
we’re going for first of course let’s
melt our chocolate
[Music]
all right we’ve got our chocolate it’s
warm and melted in the bag let’s try and
squirts them down into our mold
hopefully we can get a nice even coating
on the inside and then pour out the
extra if there is any and make sure it
gets all the way down into the little
tail bits if there’s any extra that
wants to shake out we go that looks like
it’s pretty well coated on the inside
with our chocolate but there’s still
plenty of Hollow in there for our gummy
candy to finish it off there we go we’ve
got our chocolate coating the inside of
our lobster tail mold now let’s pop this
into the freezer to cool down and
solidify while we make our gummy recipe
let’s start with half of a cup of cold
water and then add 1/4 cup of corn syrup
now let’s mix this until all of our corn
syrup is nicely dissolved into the water
we’ll know it’s ready when the mixture
is completely clear and has no more
cloudiness to it with our corn syrup
dissolved now let’s add two packets of
gelatin powder into the water remember
that at this stage we haven’t added any
heat yet this is still quite cold with
our gelatin all mixed into our liquid
let’s add a little bit of heat and stir
every minute or two to be sure
everything stays evenly mixed there we
go I think our gelatinous mixture is all
ready to go so let’s take it off the
heat and then add a little bit of our
marshmallow cream now I’ve never done
this before so I’m just kind of guessing
on how much to add
hopefully it melts in nicely
we definitely have a good opaque
slightly off-white color I’m thinking
that actually looks pretty darn close to
the color of the inside of the lobster
let’s try pouring this into our mold and
hopefully it won’t completely melt the
shell that we’ve already poured
chocolate feels pretty nice and solid I
think it’s cooled off pretty well inside
of the mold let’s see if we can pour in
this gelatin all right
I think that’s full now let’s let that
cool and then we’ll try and de molde
this sucker there we go we’ve let the
candy cool down inside of our mold for
several hours now so it’s time to see if
we can pull this thing out in one piece
almost seal itself back together I’ve
seen some good results but I think I’m
also getting some cracking chocolate as
long as it’s held together in the long
term like if it’s stuck to the candy
well then I’m not too worried this is
all a bit of an experiment well we’ve
got some cracking and breaking there the
chocolate may not have flowed very
nicely into the very thin parts of this
mold we’re D shelling or lobster tail
chocolate seems to stick fairly well to
the silicon more than I was hoping
Lobster puzzle here I don’t think I’m
good enough at solving puzzles to fiddle
these pieces back on feeling I know how
this is gonna go but let’s see if we can
get it out over the other side any
better
pretty good interior lobster
unfortunately our shell does not like to
participate at all well the inside of
our lobster tail is looking pretty great
the outside of our lobster tail really
does not want to turn out very well
sticking to the mold more than just
about anything I’ve ever seen stick to
the mold well making a red shell over
our white inside didn’t really work the
red shell wasn’t strong enough to
survive being d molded so I do want to
try making a pure gummy lobster tail so
let’s mix up another batch of our gummy
recipe pretty quick try pouring that in
here and let’s see what happens when
that sets
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our mold is filled it has the two
different layers with the red and the
white gummy now hopefully when we let
this cool down it will solidify into one
beautiful lobster tail that has a red
outside and a white inside there we go
what is hopefully our final gummy test
has solidified and now it’s time to try
and take it out and see if we managed to
keep those layers of the top red and the
inner white good things
uh-huh yes ah there we go a lobster tail
made of gummy candy we don’t have the
perfect separation between the red layer
and the white layer it looks like some
of it managed to dissolve its way
through in some spots and of course
there’s a little bit of red that’s bled
onto the bottom but for the most part
this is looking like a lobster tail we
do have the red outside we do have the
white inside that is what we want right
now I’m just cutting off the pour spouts
because as I may have mentioned before
real lobsters do not have pour spouts I
don’t want to set unrealistic
expectations for all the other lobster
out there you’re beautiful the way you
are you don’t need a pour spout and just
to try and match the look of the real
lobster tail a little bit more I’m
taking a little bit of food coloring and
a bamboo skewer and just painting on
some details at this point I would say
there’s only one step left to try and
that is eating it all right I think
you’re supposed to split lobster using
the knife to crack it Danny I don’t know
that’s the official way right there
there’s a cross-section some of the red
definitely bled through all of the white
we have almost a gradient but you can
see the different layer this is our red
layer separating just a little bit from
our not so white layer
now to eat our lobs this is gonna turn
my mouth so red because I’ve painted on
it with food coloring alright let’s see
how this goes
it’s really really sweet and a really
weird texture I think adding the
marshmallow cream introduces a lot more
air into this because usually with this
gummy candy recipe it’s just kind of
like a gummy candy this is more like
candy styrofoam it’s edible but I
wouldn’t recommend it not my favorite
candy we’ve ever made but one of my
favorite looking candy things we’ve ever
made there you have it
molding a lobster tail and casting it in
gummy candy we had a few hiccups along
the way our swedish fish did not work
our chocolate with the gummy core didn’t
really work since our chocolate broke
off and didn’t stick to the gummy at all
but eventually we did get a read outside
and a white inside all made of gummy
candy which looked really good
especially after painting it with a
little bit of food coloring thanks for
joining us for this video today and
remember to come grab your hats shirts
another cool merchandise at the king of
random calm
see you there mmm lobster not just for
New England doesn’t even make sense to
eat lobster all over oh now a lobster
tail is edible who’d have thought you
couldn’t eat them before oh wait you
can’t
workshop today we’ve got another fun
project for you in the past we’ve had
several experiments where we made molds
of organic things and then cast them in
candy we’ve got one more of those that
we want to try today I have here a
cooked red lobster tail
we’re gonna see if we can melt down some
swedish fish cast it in that mold and
make a gummy red candy lobster tail the
first step is to build a box that we can
pour our lobster tail mold in there we
go we’ve got the walls of our box built
from some Lego but to make sure that
they’re completely watertight or
silicone type let’s just line the sides
with tape a little bit
[Music]
there we go that looks pretty good I
think one more step before we start
prepping our silicone we’ve had a couple
of problems in the past with some of the
things we’re trying to mold floating up
inside the silicone so let’s make a
couple of small holes in the base of our
Lego plate and then run some screws
through the Lego plate into the lobster
tail
[Music]
[Music]
alright I think that’s done a pretty
good job or lobster tail feels like it’s
fairly well in place now of course the
screws sticking out the bottom have made
it so it doesn’t sit level so let’s just
add a couple of feet on the bottom they
won’t fit into plate on this plate but
let’s use a few bricks spread them out
and then we can set our mold on top of
those bricks
there we go that’s sitting nice and
level our next step is to mix up a
good-sized batch of silicone that can
completely cover this lobster tail
we’ve got some nice bright yellow
catalysts here and we need to mix it at
a ten to one ratio so if we have 20
ounces of our silicon then we need two
ounces of our catalyst there’s two and
let’s just go a little bit more because
we have a little over twenty ounces of
our silicon looks kind of like a giant
fried egg in there now just get to stir
all of our silicon and catalyst until it
is nice and evenly mixed and then we’ll
throw it in the vacuum chamber and pull
out all the bubbles all right let’s
start pulling a vacuum there it goes
here we go
[Music]
all right there we go we’ve got our
silicone poured it’s mostly bubble free
now we just need to let our mold sit for
a few hours until it’s completely cured
all right our silicone mold has now had
several hours to cure and it is nice and
rigid it started pushing the tape out on
one side but it didn’t spill over
anywhere so I think we are good and I
think it’s time to start pulling this
mold apart and see how it turned out
well that’s a good texture you can see
the little bits and edges of the lobster
where it was basically in contact with
the plate yeah see this is the annoying
part is the bricks come apart from each
other but then they’re stuck to the tape
on the side wall there we go
Lego brick walls are free I’m off a
little bit of extra spilled over
silicone here and there there we go
we’ve got our block mold now when you
just need to free the lobster tail from
within no you can see the inside of some
lobster tail in there
cracking parts of the shell I have
already accepted the fact that to get
this out we’re probably going to have to
break the lobster tail into a lot of
pieces that’s alright we should still
have our mold that does not smell really
great mm-hmm powerful fish smell oh
there we go
all these little pieces that angle down
like that
those are really digging into the
silicone
there we go I think at this point we’ve
got most of the lobster tail out of the
mold we had to cut parts of the mold
open where there were long reaching bits
of the tail but I think we’ve gotten all
of it out and at this point we just need
to wash it to try and get rid of some of
that day-old lobster smell it’s really
not a pleasant smell at this point let’s
try and see how well we can wash this
there we go I think we’ve got our mold
pretty well cleaned out at this point it
doesn’t have much in the way of a pour
spout so let’s cut a couple of holes
into the bottom of our mold that will
let us pour our liquid candy down inside
there we have it with our mold prepped
it’s time to start melting down our
swedish fish into a liquid that we can
pour down into our mold there we go
we’ve got some swedish fish in a
saucepan let’s add some heat and try and
melt these things
hmm these don’t really seem to be
liquefying the way I was expecting them
to staying very stringy like there’s no
puddle forming on the bottom it’s just
looking kind of like melting plastic
I’ll let it go for a little longer and
see what happens
alright so swedish fish apparently don’t
liquefy when you heat them up they just
turn into a gross bubbly burning gelatin
mess I don’t think I’d be able to get
this down inside the mold if I tried so
we’re gonna have to move on to plan B we
have a jello candy recipe that we’ve
used several times in the past we’re
gonna try a slight variation on that I
still want to get the red outside of our
shell but instead of just casting the
whole thing in a red gummy we’re going
to try using some red chocolate to make
a nice thin coat on the outside of our
shell and then we’ll fill the rest of it
with our gummy recipe we want it to be
white so I found some clear gelatin and
after we’ve mixed it all up I’ll try
adding a little bit of marshmallow cream
to make it the opaque white colour that
we’re going for first of course let’s
melt our chocolate
[Music]
all right we’ve got our chocolate it’s
warm and melted in the bag let’s try and
squirts them down into our mold
hopefully we can get a nice even coating
on the inside and then pour out the
extra if there is any and make sure it
gets all the way down into the little
tail bits if there’s any extra that
wants to shake out we go that looks like
it’s pretty well coated on the inside
with our chocolate but there’s still
plenty of Hollow in there for our gummy
candy to finish it off there we go we’ve
got our chocolate coating the inside of
our lobster tail mold now let’s pop this
into the freezer to cool down and
solidify while we make our gummy recipe
let’s start with half of a cup of cold
water and then add 1/4 cup of corn syrup
now let’s mix this until all of our corn
syrup is nicely dissolved into the water
we’ll know it’s ready when the mixture
is completely clear and has no more
cloudiness to it with our corn syrup
dissolved now let’s add two packets of
gelatin powder into the water remember
that at this stage we haven’t added any
heat yet this is still quite cold with
our gelatin all mixed into our liquid
let’s add a little bit of heat and stir
every minute or two to be sure
everything stays evenly mixed there we
go I think our gelatinous mixture is all
ready to go so let’s take it off the
heat and then add a little bit of our
marshmallow cream now I’ve never done
this before so I’m just kind of guessing
on how much to add
hopefully it melts in nicely
we definitely have a good opaque
slightly off-white color I’m thinking
that actually looks pretty darn close to
the color of the inside of the lobster
let’s try pouring this into our mold and
hopefully it won’t completely melt the
shell that we’ve already poured
chocolate feels pretty nice and solid I
think it’s cooled off pretty well inside
of the mold let’s see if we can pour in
this gelatin all right
I think that’s full now let’s let that
cool and then we’ll try and de molde
this sucker there we go we’ve let the
candy cool down inside of our mold for
several hours now so it’s time to see if
we can pull this thing out in one piece
almost seal itself back together I’ve
seen some good results but I think I’m
also getting some cracking chocolate as
long as it’s held together in the long
term like if it’s stuck to the candy
well then I’m not too worried this is
all a bit of an experiment well we’ve
got some cracking and breaking there the
chocolate may not have flowed very
nicely into the very thin parts of this
mold we’re D shelling or lobster tail
chocolate seems to stick fairly well to
the silicon more than I was hoping
Lobster puzzle here I don’t think I’m
good enough at solving puzzles to fiddle
these pieces back on feeling I know how
this is gonna go but let’s see if we can
get it out over the other side any
better
pretty good interior lobster
unfortunately our shell does not like to
participate at all well the inside of
our lobster tail is looking pretty great
the outside of our lobster tail really
does not want to turn out very well
sticking to the mold more than just
about anything I’ve ever seen stick to
the mold well making a red shell over
our white inside didn’t really work the
red shell wasn’t strong enough to
survive being d molded so I do want to
try making a pure gummy lobster tail so
let’s mix up another batch of our gummy
recipe pretty quick try pouring that in
here and let’s see what happens when
that sets
[Music]
our mold is filled it has the two
different layers with the red and the
white gummy now hopefully when we let
this cool down it will solidify into one
beautiful lobster tail that has a red
outside and a white inside there we go
what is hopefully our final gummy test
has solidified and now it’s time to try
and take it out and see if we managed to
keep those layers of the top red and the
inner white good things
uh-huh yes ah there we go a lobster tail
made of gummy candy we don’t have the
perfect separation between the red layer
and the white layer it looks like some
of it managed to dissolve its way
through in some spots and of course
there’s a little bit of red that’s bled
onto the bottom but for the most part
this is looking like a lobster tail we
do have the red outside we do have the
white inside that is what we want right
now I’m just cutting off the pour spouts
because as I may have mentioned before
real lobsters do not have pour spouts I
don’t want to set unrealistic
expectations for all the other lobster
out there you’re beautiful the way you
are you don’t need a pour spout and just
to try and match the look of the real
lobster tail a little bit more I’m
taking a little bit of food coloring and
a bamboo skewer and just painting on
some details at this point I would say
there’s only one step left to try and
that is eating it all right I think
you’re supposed to split lobster using
the knife to crack it Danny I don’t know
that’s the official way right there
there’s a cross-section some of the red
definitely bled through all of the white
we have almost a gradient but you can
see the different layer this is our red
layer separating just a little bit from
our not so white layer
now to eat our lobs this is gonna turn
my mouth so red because I’ve painted on
it with food coloring alright let’s see
how this goes
it’s really really sweet and a really
weird texture I think adding the
marshmallow cream introduces a lot more
air into this because usually with this
gummy candy recipe it’s just kind of
like a gummy candy this is more like
candy styrofoam it’s edible but I
wouldn’t recommend it not my favorite
candy we’ve ever made but one of my
favorite looking candy things we’ve ever
made there you have it
molding a lobster tail and casting it in
gummy candy we had a few hiccups along
the way our swedish fish did not work
our chocolate with the gummy core didn’t
really work since our chocolate broke
off and didn’t stick to the gummy at all
but eventually we did get a read outside
and a white inside all made of gummy
candy which looked really good
especially after painting it with a
little bit of food coloring thanks for
joining us for this video today and
remember to come grab your hats shirts
another cool merchandise at the king of
random calm
see you there mmm lobster not just for
New England doesn’t even make sense to
eat lobster all over oh now a lobster
tail is edible who’d have thought you
couldn’t eat them before oh wait you
can’t
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