what types of treats can you put into a
cotton candy machine make your own
custom flavors of cotton candy today’s
video we’re gonna try and find out
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
we’ve got ourselves a little home sized
cotton candy machine and we want to test
this out the packaging tells us that we
can actually use different kinds of
candy to put directly into our cotton
candy machine to have different flavors
when we’re finished and we want to test
that out we want to see which ones work
which ones don’t work and if we can use
homemade candy that way we can choose
whatever flavor we want here’s the basic
idea
we’ll first make a batch of cotton candy
using the pre-made sugar that’s designed
for this use
we’ll then compare that to regular white
sugar and a variety of different candies
we’ll also try our homemade candy recipe
and maybe even see if we can get some
cotton candy that glows under a black
light to start out let’s use the
pre-made cotton candy sugar that you can
buy at party stores and see what a
normal batch of cotton candy should look
like so we can compare that to other
batches later I’m turning it on and
letting it spin because it doesn’t heat
up until you hit the switch and the one
switch does everything so we’re gonna
let this get warm and then we’re gonna
add about a tablespoon of our candy
floss pre-made sugar into the dish and
see what we get how cotton candy
machines work is the sugar goes into the
little hopper there’s a heat source
usually below it and the heat actually
just melts the sugar once the sugar is
melted it’s thrown out of the sides of
the machine usually through very small
holes or a very thin gap and the liquid
sugar is so thin that it cools down like
immediately as it leaves the hopper and
so it just forms into these super super
fine threads and those just get thrown
out to the side and they stick to the
walls and use the cone to gather them up
very much just looks like there’s a lot
of busy spiders in there the Jews
building web is really quick you can’t
really see the threads as they get
thrown out they just sort of look like
they’re appearing all of a sudden I
think the Machine is just about running
its course with the sugar we put in
there so here we have sort of the
standard by which we’ll compare other
things is interesting we’ve just got
candy fibers floating through the air
all over the place that’s what happens
if you use the pre-made floss sugar
that’s just designed for making cotton
candy it looks pretty much just like
what you might think of if you’ve ever
had cotton candy at a carnival or a
tastes pretty much the same and of
course one of the hallmarks of cotton
candy is that dissolves pretty much
instantly once you put in your mouth so
now let’s start trying some other things
to see how close they are to this next
up let’s see what happens if we just
take regular granulated sugar and add
that to the machine last time I used a
full tablespoon but in the end some of
it got sprayed out and some of it didn’t
seem like you wanted to melt very well
so I’m just gonna start with a little
using regular white granulated sugar
here’s our result I gotta say my first
impression is that this works pretty
well I just poured the sugar in after
I’d let it heat up for a bit it’s spun
out it looks just as light and fluffy of
course this is just white rather than
the pink because we didn’t have any
coloring in it but to me that looks
pretty much just the same except for the
color of course this one tastes more
just like sugar instead of the vanilla
flavor that our pink stuff had seems to
dissolve pretty much the same way in my
mouth let’s try putting in the water yep
that look the same
just dissolved right through let’s try
one of our hard candy types these are
just little butterscotch disks and I’m
gonna take maybe a couple of these and I
don’t want to just put the candy in
there just because I think they probably
won’t end up perfectly balanced across
from each other and this is sort of
gyroscopic so I don’t want to unbalance
it so I’m gonna take these candies and
break them up into a little bit of a
well there were some snafus in that
process for some reason it kept getting
caught on the center and it would just
grab all the floss and pull it in and
like bind up I was getting these weird
long strands and clumps of this stuff
rather than just getting the light
fluffy webbing texture that we’re known
that we’re looking for but we did get
some decent cotton textured candy out of
this it’s pretty fluffy it smells like
it tastes like butterscotch too
the texture is a little bit different it
seems like it’s a little bit thicker
coarser not quite as fine of strands
maybe it’s still pretty good though
so these butterscotch candies I would
say definitely work it co all this
dissolves in water pretty similar maybe
just a little bit slower but nothing
major I’ve never had butterscotch flavor
and cotton candy before so I kind of
like this this is enjoyable I thought
there would be more color to it too
these were very golden colored going in
coming out you can see they’ve lost most
of it there’s still a little bit of the
yellowy orange color compared to the
normal white sugar it is more colored
but not as much as I thought it would be
try something a little different let’s
drive Jolly Ranchers let’s try and make
pineapple orange cotton candy once again
we had the issue where it started by
binding up a lot in the middle we were
hitting these weird strands might just
be that I’m not letting it heat up
enough before we start adding the sugar
in the end we did start getting the nice
fluffy texture that we’re looking for
this is made of two different flavors of
Jolly Rancher orange and pineapple I’ve
got a lot of flavor this is very
strongly flavored cotton candy I really
like that
before it was getting the good fluffy
texture we’re getting these dense kind
of rope pieces try taking some of the
thread ropes putting that into the water
it was definitely dissolved slower next
up let’s give lifesavers a try now all
of the candy we’ve done so far has
pretty much discolored to the point
where it’s almost white so I’m gonna try
using a couple of the really dark
colored lifesavers and see how that
works out
we’ve got great and raspberry here I
don’t really know if grape raspberry is
a good combination flavor-wise but we’ll
still see if it works and we’ll see if
it keeps the color anymore oh yeah I’m
pretty convinced I just wasn’t letting
it get hot enough with the other ones
cuz this one I let it run for a lot
longer I put it in and it almost
immediately started throwing out the
threads looking just the way we want it
to not binding into the middle pretty
sure that’s the key give it more time to
eat up also wow that seems to turn all
two threads really quickly like even
more than the pre-made sugar stuff
cotton candy made out of lifesavers it
melted down really well seems to be a
good fluffy cotton texture Wow and
really intense on the flavor
[Music]
there’s a lot of flavor oh man
dissolving test pretty much instant
dissolving next I’ve got this giant slab
of candy and if you’ve seen our video on
how to make thumb suckers or casting a
pokeball using candy this is the same
recipe we used for that it’s made of
sugar corn syrup water a little bit of
color and a little bit of flavor I want
to try breaking this up into fine
granules and see if it will work in our
cotton candy machine because if it does
it means we can choose the color and the
flavor of whatever we put in here
this one’s peach the weirdest shaped
lollipop ever it’s no stick you just
hold on to a different part of the
[Music]
it’s working it’s working okay so that
worked surprisingly well I think we got
quite a bit more volume on this than we
did with some of the others like the
lifesavers or the Jolly Ranchers not as
much volume as the pre-made candy sugar
stuff but it’s good and fluffy let’s
give it a taste this had quite a bit of
strong peach flavor when I was licking
it as a weird lollipop see how it is
that is nice and future comparison of
the colours it really took out a lot of
the colour now in the past we’ve
actually made some candy that glowed
under a black light by adding in some
vitamin b2 or riboflavin I want to see
if we can replicate that glow in the
fluffy cottony texture of our cotton
candy so we’re gonna take some
lifesavers crush them down add in some
crushed in vitamin b2 and see if it’s a
fine enough powder that it can bond to
the sugar and really make some glowing
cotton candy
random fact machine spun cotton candy
was invented in 1897 by the dentist
William Morrison and confectioner John C
Wharton and first introduced to a wide
audience at the 1904 World’s Fair as
fairy floss our vitamin b2 glowing
cotton candy
this is glowing under a black light
because the riboflavin was in such a
fine powder that was actually able to be
carried and mixed in evenly with all the
spun sugar it’s a pretty cool effect I
do have to say if you’re trying this you
want to be really careful about your
balance between the sugar and the
riboflavin because it does have kind of
a bitter taste so if you have too much
of it your cotton candy will end up
tasting bitter so you want to just
barely have enough that it starts
showing up under the blacklight
otherwise it’s not going to taste great
lots of types of hard candy work in this
machine including making our own hard
candy adding a little bit of vitamin B
to can actually make the cotton candy
start to glow under a blacklight there’s
anything else you would like to see us
try let us know and maybe we’ll give it
a shot guys there is more for you to see
that box up of a topical transport you
directly to our last video and you
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cotton candy machine make your own
custom flavors of cotton candy today’s
video we’re gonna try and find out
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
we’ve got ourselves a little home sized
cotton candy machine and we want to test
this out the packaging tells us that we
can actually use different kinds of
candy to put directly into our cotton
candy machine to have different flavors
when we’re finished and we want to test
that out we want to see which ones work
which ones don’t work and if we can use
homemade candy that way we can choose
whatever flavor we want here’s the basic
idea
we’ll first make a batch of cotton candy
using the pre-made sugar that’s designed
for this use
we’ll then compare that to regular white
sugar and a variety of different candies
we’ll also try our homemade candy recipe
and maybe even see if we can get some
cotton candy that glows under a black
light to start out let’s use the
pre-made cotton candy sugar that you can
buy at party stores and see what a
normal batch of cotton candy should look
like so we can compare that to other
batches later I’m turning it on and
letting it spin because it doesn’t heat
up until you hit the switch and the one
switch does everything so we’re gonna
let this get warm and then we’re gonna
add about a tablespoon of our candy
floss pre-made sugar into the dish and
see what we get how cotton candy
machines work is the sugar goes into the
little hopper there’s a heat source
usually below it and the heat actually
just melts the sugar once the sugar is
melted it’s thrown out of the sides of
the machine usually through very small
holes or a very thin gap and the liquid
sugar is so thin that it cools down like
immediately as it leaves the hopper and
so it just forms into these super super
fine threads and those just get thrown
out to the side and they stick to the
walls and use the cone to gather them up
very much just looks like there’s a lot
of busy spiders in there the Jews
building web is really quick you can’t
really see the threads as they get
thrown out they just sort of look like
they’re appearing all of a sudden I
think the Machine is just about running
its course with the sugar we put in
there so here we have sort of the
standard by which we’ll compare other
things is interesting we’ve just got
candy fibers floating through the air
all over the place that’s what happens
if you use the pre-made floss sugar
that’s just designed for making cotton
candy it looks pretty much just like
what you might think of if you’ve ever
had cotton candy at a carnival or a
tastes pretty much the same and of
course one of the hallmarks of cotton
candy is that dissolves pretty much
instantly once you put in your mouth so
now let’s start trying some other things
to see how close they are to this next
up let’s see what happens if we just
take regular granulated sugar and add
that to the machine last time I used a
full tablespoon but in the end some of
it got sprayed out and some of it didn’t
seem like you wanted to melt very well
so I’m just gonna start with a little
using regular white granulated sugar
here’s our result I gotta say my first
impression is that this works pretty
well I just poured the sugar in after
I’d let it heat up for a bit it’s spun
out it looks just as light and fluffy of
course this is just white rather than
the pink because we didn’t have any
coloring in it but to me that looks
pretty much just the same except for the
color of course this one tastes more
just like sugar instead of the vanilla
flavor that our pink stuff had seems to
dissolve pretty much the same way in my
mouth let’s try putting in the water yep
that look the same
just dissolved right through let’s try
one of our hard candy types these are
just little butterscotch disks and I’m
gonna take maybe a couple of these and I
don’t want to just put the candy in
there just because I think they probably
won’t end up perfectly balanced across
from each other and this is sort of
gyroscopic so I don’t want to unbalance
it so I’m gonna take these candies and
break them up into a little bit of a
well there were some snafus in that
process for some reason it kept getting
caught on the center and it would just
grab all the floss and pull it in and
like bind up I was getting these weird
long strands and clumps of this stuff
rather than just getting the light
fluffy webbing texture that we’re known
that we’re looking for but we did get
some decent cotton textured candy out of
this it’s pretty fluffy it smells like
it tastes like butterscotch too
the texture is a little bit different it
seems like it’s a little bit thicker
coarser not quite as fine of strands
maybe it’s still pretty good though
so these butterscotch candies I would
say definitely work it co all this
dissolves in water pretty similar maybe
just a little bit slower but nothing
major I’ve never had butterscotch flavor
and cotton candy before so I kind of
like this this is enjoyable I thought
there would be more color to it too
these were very golden colored going in
coming out you can see they’ve lost most
of it there’s still a little bit of the
yellowy orange color compared to the
normal white sugar it is more colored
but not as much as I thought it would be
try something a little different let’s
drive Jolly Ranchers let’s try and make
pineapple orange cotton candy once again
we had the issue where it started by
binding up a lot in the middle we were
hitting these weird strands might just
be that I’m not letting it heat up
enough before we start adding the sugar
in the end we did start getting the nice
fluffy texture that we’re looking for
this is made of two different flavors of
Jolly Rancher orange and pineapple I’ve
got a lot of flavor this is very
strongly flavored cotton candy I really
like that
before it was getting the good fluffy
texture we’re getting these dense kind
of rope pieces try taking some of the
thread ropes putting that into the water
it was definitely dissolved slower next
up let’s give lifesavers a try now all
of the candy we’ve done so far has
pretty much discolored to the point
where it’s almost white so I’m gonna try
using a couple of the really dark
colored lifesavers and see how that
works out
we’ve got great and raspberry here I
don’t really know if grape raspberry is
a good combination flavor-wise but we’ll
still see if it works and we’ll see if
it keeps the color anymore oh yeah I’m
pretty convinced I just wasn’t letting
it get hot enough with the other ones
cuz this one I let it run for a lot
longer I put it in and it almost
immediately started throwing out the
threads looking just the way we want it
to not binding into the middle pretty
sure that’s the key give it more time to
eat up also wow that seems to turn all
two threads really quickly like even
more than the pre-made sugar stuff
cotton candy made out of lifesavers it
melted down really well seems to be a
good fluffy cotton texture Wow and
really intense on the flavor
[Music]
there’s a lot of flavor oh man
dissolving test pretty much instant
dissolving next I’ve got this giant slab
of candy and if you’ve seen our video on
how to make thumb suckers or casting a
pokeball using candy this is the same
recipe we used for that it’s made of
sugar corn syrup water a little bit of
color and a little bit of flavor I want
to try breaking this up into fine
granules and see if it will work in our
cotton candy machine because if it does
it means we can choose the color and the
flavor of whatever we put in here
this one’s peach the weirdest shaped
lollipop ever it’s no stick you just
hold on to a different part of the
[Music]
it’s working it’s working okay so that
worked surprisingly well I think we got
quite a bit more volume on this than we
did with some of the others like the
lifesavers or the Jolly Ranchers not as
much volume as the pre-made candy sugar
stuff but it’s good and fluffy let’s
give it a taste this had quite a bit of
strong peach flavor when I was licking
it as a weird lollipop see how it is
that is nice and future comparison of
the colours it really took out a lot of
the colour now in the past we’ve
actually made some candy that glowed
under a black light by adding in some
vitamin b2 or riboflavin I want to see
if we can replicate that glow in the
fluffy cottony texture of our cotton
candy so we’re gonna take some
lifesavers crush them down add in some
crushed in vitamin b2 and see if it’s a
fine enough powder that it can bond to
the sugar and really make some glowing
cotton candy
random fact machine spun cotton candy
was invented in 1897 by the dentist
William Morrison and confectioner John C
Wharton and first introduced to a wide
audience at the 1904 World’s Fair as
fairy floss our vitamin b2 glowing
cotton candy
this is glowing under a black light
because the riboflavin was in such a
fine powder that was actually able to be
carried and mixed in evenly with all the
spun sugar it’s a pretty cool effect I
do have to say if you’re trying this you
want to be really careful about your
balance between the sugar and the
riboflavin because it does have kind of
a bitter taste so if you have too much
of it your cotton candy will end up
tasting bitter so you want to just
barely have enough that it starts
showing up under the blacklight
otherwise it’s not going to taste great
lots of types of hard candy work in this
machine including making our own hard
candy adding a little bit of vitamin B
to can actually make the cotton candy
start to glow under a blacklight there’s
anything else you would like to see us
try let us know and maybe we’ll give it
a shot guys there is more for you to see
that box up of a topical transport you
directly to our last video and you
should go check that out the box in the
bottom will show you what YouTube thinks
need to be watching next and if you this
bomb in the middle you’ll be subscribed
to the channel so you never miss out on
a video don’t forget to ring that Bell
and we’ll see you the next one doc get in
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