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Cotton candy is one of those remarkable foods that are simple to make, provided you have the right equipment.
To make cotton candy you need five things:
Sugar (coloring and flavoring can be mixed with the sugar)
Heat to melt the sugar into a liquid state
A Spinning Head which uses centrifugal force to force the sugar to the screen
A Screen with very small holes which the liquefied sugar is forced through to form the feathery threads
A bowl or pan to catch the feathery threads.
The sugar is poured into the spinning head which contains heaters located near the screen. As the head spins, it forces the sugar into the heater which melts the sugar into a liquid state. The liquid sugar passes through the small holes in the screen and as soon as it touches the surrounding air, it solidifies into feathery threads which are collected in the pan. A paper stick is used to gather the threads onto a manageable cone by rotating it around the spinning head.If cotton candy is made from nothing but sugar, how does it get that fluffy texture?
A heater melts the sugar and make it liquid. Then,itis spun and cotton candy machine forces the liquid sugar out through tiny holes in the head. The instant the thin threads of sugar hit the air, they cool and re-solidify, so in the bowl of the machine a web of sugar threads develops. The web is easily collected on a paper cone.If cotton candy is made from nothing but sugar, how does it get that fluffy texture?
In a special machine that melts the sugar and spins it into the ';cotton'; texture we are familiar with.
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shut up and just eat it
Haven't you seen the cooking channel? The sugar melts and is spun around into tiny threads, the dries and forms into that sweet, fairy floss we all know and love...( my kid sis had a cotton candy maker)
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hot air and spinning
It's not mixing it with air or forcing it through holes that does it. The heat melts the sugar crystal and the centrifugal force stretches it out. Then these stretched fibers pile up.
A similar thing can happen with volcanos. In Hawaii I have seen this happen, the volcano melts the rock, obsidian, volcanic glass, and shoots it up so fast into the cooler air that it stretches just as the sugar does and falls to earth as fine, brittle, sharp fibers. It is called Pele's hair.
air
it spends so fast
the sugar is pulled into long very fine threads
as long as these individual threads don't melt (or disolve), they pile together into a fluffy cotton-like structure that is mostly air
if cotton candy gets wet, like in your mouth, it immediately dissolves into a relatively small amount of sugar water
try putting a big hunk of cotton candy into the last ounce of water in your cup, and you can see how easily it dissolves, like sugar, and how little sugar there actually is in a volume of candy
by adding air to the mixture. oxygen
This is a great site.
from mixing air and spinning the sugar fast
heat melts the sugar, a machine spins it through holes and into cold bowls
Air, heat and the spinning motion of the machine.
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