How to make candy floss at home

Cotton candy is a favorite treat not only for children, but also for adults. For many, it is associated with magic, a holiday and, of course, an amusement park. Professionals use a special unit that allows you to create a sweet balloon in minutes. In the hope of repeating the cooking technology, the housewives resort to various tricks to please their family. As it turned out, you can make delicious air sugar at home, it’s enough to be smart and make some time.

Homemade cotton candy production unit

It is not necessary to purchase a professional device, the device can be made at home using improvised materials and tools. Consider the steps step by step.

1. To assemble a miniature machine, prepare 2 covers of tin (a sample from baby food jars is suitable).
2. Rinse the covers, put on protective gloves, and grind them with sandpaper or a file. When processing the product, you need to remove all the paint so that subsequently it does not get into cotton candy.
3. Now start creating holes on both covers. Poke with an awl or thin nail many small holes in the first lid, the final product (sugar threads) will come out from there. In the second lid, make one hole larger, granulated sugar will be poured into it.
4. Connect the covers together to form an impromptu cavity inside. Secure the result with aluminum wire or another convenient method.
5. Take any small motor (from a hair dryer, blender, mixer), attach it with nuts to the covers.
6. Now you need to prepare a solid base to which the structure will be attached. It can be a flat, turned board or a piece of plywood.
7. Take the crown batteries, connect them to the terminals of the motor, observing the polarity. On one side, install a thick cardboard sheet or Whatman paper folded in half to form a partition.
8. Pour 40 gr into the hole in the lid. granulated sugar, heat the spinning cavity with matches or a lighter.
9. The composition will begin to melt and settle on a solid partition, you just have to collect it with a wand or wind it onto any other delicate object (a cutlery handle, cocktail straws, etc.).
10. Ultimately, you get a fairly dense, but not very airy cotton candy. To make it as close as possible to the purchased one, pour not sugar into the apparatus, but isomalt - powdered sweetener.

Professional cotton candy making machine

A miniature unit can be ordered online, it will provide you with an unlimited amount of cotton wool. The advice is especially relevant for those who often receive guests with children or have theme parties.

The design of the device is quite simple: on a stable base stand is a metal disk, which has the property of heating, as well as a bowl.

Principle of operation

1. After the purchase, put the unit in the bathroom or on the pallet, turn on hot water and rinse the appliance in the shower. Wash it with dishwashing detergent, wipe with a towel, leave to dry.
2. After the final drying, plug the device into a power outlet, warm it up for 7-10 minutes.
3. Pour 1.5-2 tablespoons of sugar onto a metal disk. At this time, it will begin to melt from the rotating heating disk, forming sugar weaving.
4. After that, lower the stick into the main bowl, on which the composition will be wound.If the sugar mixture has settled on the side walls, collect it in a convenient way. Vata is ready!

The pricing policy of the device is quite objective, therefore, if you plan to cook a treat often, it makes sense to purchase a professional unit. It does not stain the kitchen, is easy to clean, is compact in storage and convenient to use. The disadvantage of a cheap device is considered to be its low efficiency, the unit quickly overheats, so there is a need to constantly cool it.

Making cotton candy without using an appliance

Do not be upset if you do not like to make an apparatus or buy a professional appliance. Cotton candy can be prepared under ordinary conditions, while it does not lose its properties and airy structure.

Necessary tools
Prepare a whisk, ceramic bowl, pot, or pan with a thick bottom. Take care of peculiar frames to winding sugar threads. It can be cocktail tubes, Chinese sticks, bamboo canes, a fork or a spoon.

Essential Ingredients
Regarding the components for the preparation of cotton wool, white or cane sugar is suitable, calculate the amount based on the serving size (usually 2-5 tablespoons are enough). You will need purified water, the proportions of which with respect to sugar are 1: 3. For example, if sugar is taken 150 gr., Then the water should be 50 ml. Prepare in advance a table solution of vinegar (concentration of not more than 6%), you will need 5-7 ml.

1. Mix sugar and water in one composition, rub with a fork.
2. Pour in the vinegar, mix again and transfer the composition to the pan / skillet for subsequent heating.
3. Now you need to make sugar syrup. To do this, turn on a small fire on the stove, simmer the mixture and stir constantly. Carefully collect the syrup from the walls so that it does not burn.
4. When the composition becomes completely homogeneous, turn off the stove, cool to a temperature of 30-35 degrees. At the same time, stir the syrup constantly so that it is not sugared again.
5. When the mixture cools down, put it on a slow fire again and boil, then turn off the stove again and cool.
6. Repeat simple manipulations 4-6 times until the composition becomes viscous. In this case, the syrup should have a pronounced golden hue.
7. When you finish the product to the desired color, check it for viscosity. Dip the edge of the spoon into the syrup and lift it up, the finished mixture should stretch well and not break immediately after raising the device.
8. Now build the frame for the production of threads. Place Chinese sticks or tubes vertically, and fix them in a convenient way.
9. Dip a whisk in viscous syrup, then swipe it around a makeshift frame.
10. Repeat until you reach the desired portion of cotton wool. Do not scoop up too much syrup to make the threads thin.

Making cotton candy using syrup is straightforward. To make a treat with the appliance, connect the head of the family to the unit. If desired, you can add food coloring to the composition to make the cotton wool pink, yellow, blue or purple. It is also allowed to use several syrups of different colors, in which case cotton candy will turn out in the form of a rainbow.

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