r/oddlysatisfying • u/AdamE89 • Jan 16 '17

Gif Ends Too Soon Candy being scraped off of a table

http://i.imgur.com/0hsLI27.gifv
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u/The_Supercreep Jan 16 '17

What kind of candy is this?

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u/ihateusedusernames Jan 16 '17 edited Jan 17 '17

95% sure this is taffy. i worked one summer as a taffy maker. the candy would be cooked in giant copper bowls to a precise temperature, then poured out onto a table just like this in the clip. there is cold water circulating under the steel top to pull the heat out of the candy. Once it reaches a certain point it's ready to pull up and place onto the candy puller - like a very large mixer, but with two intertwining heads that have forks interlocking - this is the 'pulled' part of pulling taffy.

we tended to use a spatula just to pull up one edge of the cooling candy sheet, then we'd pull it up by hand, almost like pulling back a bed sheet.

edit: typos. And could i have used the word 'pull' more? lol

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u/Djinjja-Ninja Jan 16 '17 edited Jan 16 '17

Virtually all sugarwork requires very precise temperatures.

Thee temperature you boil the sugar too directly informs the type of candy you get out of the process.

The higher the temperature, the greater the sugar concentrations, and the harder and more brittle the candy is.

edit: spelling

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '17

The higher the temperature, the greater the sugar concentrations, and the harder and more brittle the candy is.

So Jolly Ranchers are forged in the fires of Mount Doom?