Homemade Cotton Candy? Nostalgia Cotton Candy Maker Review

Today I'm testing out a cotton candy maker by Nostalgia. I tried it out using their sugar and also hard candies.

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Music by Epidemic Sound:
"Why Ever" by Heyson

0:00 Intro & Overview
1:26 Sugar Test 1
3:40 Hard Candy
5:28 Sugar Test 2
8:01 Conclusion

#cottoncandy #aseenontv #nostalgia

[cuthwulf]

For cotton candy, you stick the cone into the maker and move it in a circle around the heater, fairly quickly. This is why your final product is so small and you have a sugar ring. Most of your sugar is getting spun into the sides of the lid.

[domeatown]

This is why they should have an "As Seen on TV Rental Store". Because this is something you buy once, have an absolute blast for an afternoon with the neices and nephews, total candy rage on a rainy day in as they craft confections from what appears to be thin air.... but then never use again. Really we could all just buy one and then pass it around because that's the only amount of this machine that probably a whole community would really need. I really think if there was a "Rent Some Tat" store, I would be in and out of there pretty often. Because I love tat and novelties, but the impracticality being the thing that I love is also the thing that means I can't just have a bunch of stuff I never use. I don't have the square footage for it to sit around for ten years.
but I can absolutely see myself having a blowout rager with the kiddos with this

[paulalarsen]

I worked at the Orange county fair one summer when I turned 17. I worked at the cotton candy stand along with my future husband and future two brothers-in-law. That sugar for the cotton candy gets EVERYWHERE. You sneeze, it's cotton candy. You scratch your head, it's cotton candy. You take off your shoes after work, it's cotton candy. My brother-in-law still can't get anywhere near the stuff.

[memandylov]

I've played around with this machine at a friend's house and had a ton of fun with it. The quality and consistency of the cotton candy varies wildly depending on the types of candy you use and it's fun to experiment to figure out what works and what doesn't. We had the most success using generic lollipops to make our cotton candy, but we also had a lot of success with hard butterscotch candies and even cinnamon candies (which I would highly recommend btw. 10/10 cotton candy flavors). It all really depends on the form of sugar used and the ratio of sugar to flavor components. As long as the candy is mostly made of sugar and it has similar enough properties, it'll work just as well. Basically jolly ranchers are the worst test of this machine, but most lollipops and old-fashioned grandma candies are amazing

[bruhhbrahh]

"Looks like something Walter White would carry around"- said by a man who looks like Walter White 😂

[Kmrakid]

Good review. I have always found the trick to this is to let the sugar strands build up in the dome and insert the cone vertically into the dome and roll the cone along the inside. Also, any hard candies, or even regular sugar flavored or not, can be used just grind them fine before you use them. You have to try maple sugar which makes great cotton candy. Enjoy!

[NekoSteamBoy]

For the hard candy use a mortar and pessel to really make a consistent powder ^^

[Helicard]

75 blenders in the closet and he used a hammer to crush the candy

[terrancewilhite]

I bought one of these 3 or 4 years ago and love it. I wanted root beer cotton candy. There was a learning curve for me but in a few times use i was making small cones. I made cones with hard candy, dad's root beer barrels. After a couple tries I bought a small mortar and pestal thiings worked out. I still love it.

[Arcella]

i have used this machine for years, one thing to note, that for hard candies like jolly ranchers, i found what workd best is to grind the candy in a food processor until it is about the same consistency as sugar then mix in the jolly rancher powder in with sugar until it is a light color of the candy and incorporated, also that ring that you get around the rim after every new flaver i scrape that stuff off and put in a baggy so that i can crunch it up and reuse it

[mynanasapron]

I had one as a kid, (I'm 70 now) Mom got rid of it real fast. There was sugar all over the kitchen because it flies out and gets on everything :)

[linkdotexe]

For the hard candy you have to make sure it is made with actual sugar and not high fructose corn syrups that’ll make a huge difference

[machellebitton]

I love this machine. It's easy to use & easy to clean. Just use hot water. I got it for christmas & had no hard candy except candy canes. They worked great. The secret is to pre-warm the machine. Although we prefer the sugar, we love worthers hard carmels. We also save the sugar ring for a treat later.

[maryagner]

Thanks for the demo. Cotton Candy’s my favourite ♥️ Since you’re working with, more less, straight sugar, clean up will be easy. Dissolves in water.(very damp cloth).🍁🇨🇦

[David-woun]

My daughter who loved cotton candy had a similar one about 15 years ago, we only used hard candy as I don’t remember the one we bought offering the flavored sugar. She only used it a handful of times but it did work well and we never broke up the candy.

[t.j.armendariz]

Part of the hard Candy issue is it needs to be glucose (sugar) based not fructose (ie corn syrup) based

[bs-voii]

I love mine!!!! I use hard candy most of the time but have used the actual candy flossing sugar. If it gets too hot the sugar gets burnt and the texture changes and doesn't flow like soft string more like hard sugar rope

[amandapudder]

I have the same cotton candy machine here at home, I got it for my girls birthday party & for hard candy/jolly ranchers like I used I found it works best by 1st putting all the jolly ranchers of one color in the blender sitting to the side & continue w/ each color, each time setting them aside & simply use the provided scoop.

[Tedybear]

Stick with the "Flossine" (cotton candy premix) It's not quite full sugar, but has the taste and properties to make the 'web' come out pretty easy.

When I used to work for Chuck E working with the 'Gold Medal' cotton candy machine the clean up wasn't that bad.

[metern]

You put the stick/cone almost vertical between the heater and the wall and move in a circle and twist the stick/cone at the same time for best sesult.
If you doo it from the top. The already formed "webb" can be sucked into the heater again. That's why he has burned marks inside the heater.
You can do it from the top, but that is a difficult method to master 😉