How to Make Cotton Candy
If you want to learn how to make cotton candy, you’ll need to decide how involved in the process you truly want to be. You can always rent a cotton candy machine for a low cost and spin sugar right in your home or backyard. This is the easy way. All you’ll do is buy sugar for the cotton candy machine (you can purchase flavored, colored sugar made specifically for the use in the machine), pour the sugar into the appropriate spout and collect the spun floss on paper cones.
If you’re more interested in turning your cotton candy making experience into a science experiment, you can try making homemade cotton candy by hand, without a machine. This process is time-consuming, messy and labor-intensive, but it is also a hands-on experience you will never forget.
What Exactly Is Cotton Candy?
Cotton candy is sugar that has been heated to a high temperature, melted and spun through an apparatus with tiny holes so thin strands of the melted sugar come into contact with air, where the sugar crystallizes. The collected strands of spun sugar are collected either on a paper cone or simply gathered into a loose ball and stuffed in a bag, where it is eaten with your fingers. Typically the sugar is both lightly colored and mildly flavored.
Cotton Candy History
Cotton candy was invented in 1899 by four men who called it “fairy floss.” They created the first cotton candy machine, which melted the sugar and then flung it using centrifugal force through small holes in a center metal piece of the machine. These men brought the cotton candy machine to the 1904 World’s Fair, where cotton candy was sold to large crowds for the first time. It has been a popular treat ever since.
How to Make Cotton Candy Without a Machine
Ingredients You Will Need:
5 cups white granulated sugar
1 cup and 2 tablespoons water
1 and 1/3 cups light corn syrup
Flavoring
Food coloring
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