(upbeat music)
(barking)
- Hello everyone, it's Barry here,
welcome to My Virgin Kitchen, I hope you are well.
Today we are testing a kitchen gadget
that should make homemade candy floss.
(clapping)
Very, very excited for this.
It's a horrible day outside,
dogs are chilling
and in this box is a candy floss maker.
Now, annoyingly, I don't know where the instructions are
but I think we'll get around it.
Also, I've got some candy floss sugars.
Now I've found out that's not essential,
you can just do it with standard castor
or granulated sugar but these are different colours
so that should be cool.
We've got
different colour sugars.
We've got vanilla pink flavour,
lemon flavour, sassy apple flavour,
these are names also given to another industry
but we won't go there, and blue raspberry.
Very exciting indeed.
So, yeah, you can just do it with normal sugar,
there is also other ways to make homemade candy floss,
I've not done that before, I am intrigued to try it,
but it is very, very tricky indeed.
So hopefully the machine will help us.
It's got a warning on it,
"E129 may have an adverse effect on activity
"and attention in children."
Sugar does do that,
but also, it does have the same effect on pugs
so I'm not gonna drop any of this on the floor.
Well, I hope not.
"Contains enough sugar for 11 fluffy candy floss servings.
"Please refer to your candy floss instructions
"for proper use."
Even though I don't have any.
Okay, so, what have we got in here?
We've got a measuring scoop, I think.
Everyone needs a scoop.
There used to be a guy called Two Scoops
in the American Gladiators years and years ago
when I was growing up, he could like jump over cars,
they called him Two Scoops or something.
Please tell me I'm not the only one that remembers that.
Look, empty box.
Some kind of spindle thing that says "Danger, hot." on it.
All right, so some sort of plastic covering
and a shield.
And this is the main body of it
with a very simple on/off switch there.
Cooks Professional Retro Edition.
Kinda reminds me of those lights that you get
on a studio film set and they are actually lights in there,
I think these are halogen ones
that are gonna get super, super hot
and effectively cook the sugar.
But there's not much more to it, it's just basically on/off.
There's sucker things at the bottom so it'll stick down.
I think we should just get cracking.
Just getting an extension cable because the lead
that comes with it is not long enough to get powered.
I feel like I'm missing something,
other than the instructions,
but this is definitely gonna sit
in here.
Ugh.
Yeah.
And then that.
And then that goes on that.
Ugh.
Hang on a sec. (laughing)
That can't be right, because there's, I wanna show you.
I don't know if I'm missing a part but,
look, there's a gap.
You see this white bit here?
I'm gonna have a little look online
and see if I can suss it out.
Check this out.
- [Narrator] Make traditional candy floss in minutes
in the comfort of your own home with the Retro Diner
Candy Floss Maker from Gourmet Gadgetry.
The kids will just love it and so will you!
New halogen technology-- - Ah!
- [Narrator] This candy floss maker
spins more sugar in less time.
It's simple to use.
- Ah, you just put the sugar in this bit
and then it warms up underneath
and you do it all off the top.
The bowl is just more of a cosmetic thing.
On a side note, I was trying to work out
what her accent was, it sounded like
a crossover between English and American.
- [Narrator] Entertain your family and friends
with endless amounts of candy floss for a treat.
- I'm really excited now!
I thought I'd lost the parts, and also,
you just dump the sugar in.
It's supposed to have come with some really
funky-looking cones but I'm just using bamboo skewers.
And before we get started, the next time
the dentists tells you to floss,
remember you can always use candy floss.
I totally stole that from my twitter, sorry 'bout that.
Oh, and just to say, if this works,
I'm filming the vlog and some of you guys
are gonna be like, "You should've done this with your kids!"
I'll be putting the kids trying this later on the vlog
which will be later in the week on this upload.
Get it, get it?
Good.
Just to show you, I've put my lid on, it's nice and firm
and this black seal clamped on there
and it's got like a sort of rim
that's gonna stop any candy floss exploding.
But all the action is gonna happen on that plate right there
it's gonna get really hot underneath those bulbs,
the sugar will just warm up and go stringy
and we should be able to catch it on our bamboo skewer.
I'm just gonna turn it on and see what happens.
(rattling)
Oh my god, I'm really worried that that's gonna fly off.
Oh my gosh, I haven't seen Star Wars yet and I want to,
I'm gonna do a video telling you how I react to watching
Star Wars, but look, it's like lightsabers.
Actual very, very hot lightsabers in the bowl.
That is insanely hot.
I'm sure one of my kids has got
some protective glasses upstairs somewhere.
I'm just gonna be cautious.
Couldn't find glasses anywhere,
these are the only ones I could find and they're broken.
And also there's no lenses in them,
but I think it will make me feel
just a little bit more secure.
I don't know why.
I just really wanna make sure, I've got a tea towel
because it's very hot, that that is on there properly.
If that flies off, that will hurt.
Be like Oddjob in James Bond, or Random Task.
All right, let's
go again.
(rattling)
See, that scares me, because if that flies off,
that will hurt, so be very careful with this all right?
I'm a trained professional.
We're gonna go with the vanilla pink.
Oh god, that smells very naughty, vanilla and sugar.
All right.
Okay.
It goes in this hole.
Ugh!
Was I supposed to pour it in before it was on?
I just got splattered with sugar in my eyes.
Genuinely need to find that out.
All right.
It's in there.
And then this end, how's that got burnt?
Apparently I just...
It's gonna warm the sugar up and I'll be able
to go like this and then I'll have candy floss.
I've just gotta wait.
I'm hiding.
All right, I'm gonna give it a few more minutes,
if nothing happens I'm gonna have to go back to my
instructional American/English video which was very good.
Basically the polar opposite to this because
it smells like it's burning.
Ugh! (laughing)
Ah!
There's strands of sugar!
(laughing)
Look, can you see?
Yes.
Oh, Jesus!
What do I do?
Oh.
Ugh! (laughing)
I'm doing it Mum!
Sorry Mum if you're watching.
Yes.
This is really fun!
I've always wanted to do a recipe on candy floss
but by having a maker like this,
it's making the whole process safe.
So all I'm doing, I'm sticking it around the edge now,
I'm not going near that plate,
and it seems to be working quite well.
Oh wow, look, it's like a cobweb.
Oh wow.
I'm... (laughing)
Look at this.
Oh my gosh.
It's like a big cotton bud for your earwax.
Ugh!
Oh and you can use this to shape it,
I'm gonna put an image on the screen right now,
you can get some crazy candy floss styles.
(laughing)
This is gonna be the thumbnail.
That's how I make my thumbnails.
No! (laughing)
It's like a windsail.
Oh it's not very hot at all, great.
That was epic.
I think we've run out of sugar, but look at that!
(laughing)
Just need to firm it at the top a little bit.
Oh, if you're enjoying this video,
don't forget to check out the last gadget review I did
which was the Twist and Sprout
and check out all the other ones.
Have a Barry-thon, grab the popcorn,
or the candy floss.
It's like the end of the night,
the DJ's finished playing his record.
So you get quite a bit of residue around there
and that is hot so keep your hands out of that.
I really, really recommend this.
Seriously though, let's try it.
Ooh, that is, I mean it's just sugar.
That's just sugar.
You suddenly realise now when you're at the fair
you're thinking, "Yeah, candy floss!"
"Must be something nice in that."
It's just sugar, but it's nice.
So as good as making candy floss with one little bit
of sugar, we've got quite a lot there,
and I'm gonna just try and make a slightly larger one
and see how we get on.
If you just kind of pinch it at the bottom as well.
You can shape this, you can do weird stuff with it.
It should hold it.
There we go, yeah.
(laughing)
Although it looks like a real pain to clean as well,
sugar with water, it just kind of disintegrates anyway
so I'd imagine that would be all right.
Does take a couple of minutes to get going,
that's been three minutes already.
Just looks like a cobweb at first.
Another thought that's just come to,
you go to a fair, right, and you buy candy floss
for like a couple of quid or a few dollars, whatever,
and effectively it's just, in the words of Mary Poppins,
a spoonful of sugar.
So when YouTube finishes for me
I'm gonna set up at my own candy floss stall, okay?
I think I've made a troll. (laughing)
Sassy apple one really does smell of apple,
it has green bits in it as well.
Oh man.
Ah, look at that, I made like a pink rose thing.
There we go, if I use a second stick
rather than my hand to wind it on,
it's hiding the fact that it just really wants to fall off
and I've made the Colonel from the KFC thing's wig.
I've totally got this motion down now.
It's like wax on, wax off.
Look!
Yes!
You ever get the feeling that some people
are keen to try some?
Amy, Boston?
Stuck my other one on top, okay?
Because why not, eh?
Looks kinda like a little bunny.
Ugh!
Oh my gosh, the sun is coming out,
it's trying to tell me, "Barry, stop."
Ugh!
Ugh, god!
It's all going wrong.
The pink bit died.
Look what happened to my pink bit.
There we go.
I'm gonna quit now.
Okay folks, this is my Banksy-style candy floss.
It's a little bit ragged but we've got
all four flavours on there.
I'm stopping now, I could keep going and making it enormous
but with burnt sugar flying around,
I don't really wanna do that.
You know some of the pros, they sort of like
flick it in like that and then do layers upon layers.
I'm just gonna go.
Nice.
You can just about see the lemon flavour
in there that I added.
I've literally just sat it down on the hotplate
and it's kind of char grilled it.
I've got char-grilled or caramelised sugar, look at that.
I don't wanna eat it anyway, as we've realised,
it is just basically a lot of sugar
but it would be great for a party,
good for kids, good for big kids.
And just quite a fun thing to do, really,
but please be careful with it.
There's a link down below if you do fancy getting it.
If you see any other gadgets that you like,
do let me know down below.
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I do like it though, it's cool, but safety first.