Candy floss is a delicacy familiar to everyone from childhood. Inexpensive colorful available cotton wool has long become an integral part of street festivities and holidays. Such a delicacy can be prepared in a handicraft way or using a special device, which, in turn, can be made with your own hands or purchased a household appliance in a store.
What is candy floss?
Cotton candy appeared in Italy in the 16th century, it was prepared manually and was intended for the nobility. At the end of the 19th century, the first apparatus for making cotton candy was invented, and the treat began to win the hearts of children and adults of different strata of the population. Fairs, festivals, holidays, amusement parks and today can not do without multi-colored sweet clouds on sticks.
Candy floss itself is high quality molten sugar. For one serving of cotton wool goes up to one tablespoon of sugar. Therefore, if, of course, you don’t eat a treat every day, then caries and excess weight are not terrible. But in moderation, a treat from childhood is uplifting and improves the performance of the brain.
But people with diabetes or suffering from digestive disorders should not eat candy floss.
Candy floss harm can consist in chemical dyes and flavors, which generous sellers attract the public to their product. In addition, as a rule, a candy floss machine stands right in the fresh air, where insects and midges flock to the sweet smell, which can lay larvae on anything.
Equipment for the preparation of goodies
There is probably no person who would not see street vendors of cotton candy and did not observe their work. Candy floss making machine consists of an electric motor, heating elements, a bowl, a distribution head and a control panel. You also need a measuring spoon for sugar, wooden or plastic sticks on which cotton wool is wound, and a dome cover that protects the bowl from dust and insects.
In operation, the device for making candy floss is simple and reliable, they do not need special skills to manage. It is necessary to pour sugar and fillers into a special tank, turn on the device, wait until thin sticky threads appear and wrap them nicely on a stick.
Professional devices differ in the material of the trap bowl (aluminum, stainless steel or plastic) and performance. They can produce up to 5 kg of cotton wool per hour or twice as much, and this from a hundred servings per hour. In such devices, the heating element, as a rule, is the bottom of the distribution head, therefore, heating occurs within a minute or two.
The structure of cotton candy, which is prepared in professional machines, is not saturated, and in fact in a huge portion of goodies on a stick of sugar there is very little.
Home-made treat making machines
To avoid the harmful components of candy floss sold on the street, you can make it at home if you have a candy floss machine.
The principle of operation of the device is based on the melting of sugar, which, under the action of centrifugal force, breaks out from a certain reservoir and solidifies with thin threads that are wound on a long stick moistened with water, or collected on the walls of a special container. Therefore, craftsmen adapt conventional batteries, power supplies from toys, electric motors from other kitchen devices as power supplies. Moreover, vertically located juicers and meat grinders are convenient in that they have rotating elements. True, in this case, it is necessary to heat the sugar, turn it into syrup separately, and pour it into a rotating container with a thin stream, and install the entire apparatus for making cotton candy in a box covered with a film or a large bucket for catching flying shiny sweet threads.
Candy floss making machine CFM 1080
But today, household appliances for preparing goodies are no longer rare. The performance of such a device is much lower than that of a professional one, the bowl material is not so wear-resistant, because no one at home eats several kilograms of sugar at a time.
The home appliance SFM 1080 of a well-known Chinese manufacturer of home appliances Slime is designed for one-time cooking of a small portion of goodies. According to the owners, it can withstand up to ten servings of cotton candy without overheating. Two plastic sticks in the kit do not stop anyone, since you can purchase separately a large number of them or use the tubes for cocktails. An easy-to-use device with a quartz heater, in which you need to collect only four elements, is suitable for using any sugar, including flavored sugar. The suction cup legs hold the device securely in place during operation, although it works without vibration. After the end of the operation, the apparatus is easily disassembled, the casing and trap will help to wash the dishwasher.
Candy floss making machine BRAND 360
The Russian company BRAND, which also manufactures products at well-known enterprises in China, also introduced to the consumer the embodiment of a childhood dream - the BRAND 360 device. It is also intended for making one small portion of cotton candy.
Six wooden sticks are included, however, the instructions say that after five servings the device needs to cool. Unlike the fully Chinese counterpart, you cannot wash the bowl in the dishwasher, nor use aggressive detergents to clean it, but this is not a problem, the main thing is to prepare cotton wool carefully so that sugar does not get into hard-to-reach places.
Today, lovers of cotton candy do not need to wait for mass walks in parks and shopping centers to enjoy it, although not everyone can design a home appliance from improvised means.
You can buy a small, maybe not the most necessary in the household, not the most functional device. It will allow not only to make candy floss at any moment, but also to entertain the kids at a home holiday.