Welcome to HowToCookThat I'm Ann Reardon and today after SO MANY requests
I'm making five different types of edible slime and I'll get Jedd to test
each one out so we can see which one is best.
Let's start with psyllium husk slime ... to make this one you need water psyllium
husk icing sugar and a few drops of blue food colouring. Add the water into your
bowl and then add the icing sugar and psyllium husk. Stir those together and
then you want to leave them until the husk has absorbed some of the water and
it looks like this watery goopy stuff. Put that into the microwave and keep it
going until it bubbles up like this then take it out and give it a stir.
Psyllium husk is the husk or the outside part of the psyllium seed and it's often
used to add fiber in the diet or in laxatives so you don't want to eat too
much of this slime 🚽 While you're waiting for that to cool down just cover the
surface of it in plastic wrap so that it doesn't dry out. Once it is cooled you
can have a play ... now this is a slippery slime it's not very stretchy it is
edible but it only has a little bit of sugar in it so I don't imagine it will
taste very nice it's basically just fibre. Let's see what Jedd thinks...
It actually feels like real slime :)
What does it taste like? Is it yucky or yummy?
Yucky! It's yucky isn't it. Not so nice, I think the other ones will taste nicer.
Slime number two is made using gummy bears ... for this one you need some gummy
bears and some corn flour, put those in a bowl and stir them together and I'll put
all the recipe quantities for those slimes on the howtocookthat.net website
and there's a link to that below. Now you want to microwave that for 30 seconds
then give it a stir and you can see it's just starting to melt there. Put it in
for another 30 seconds and stir it again and now you want to put it in for
another minute until you can see it really bubble right up like this so that
we know that the cornflowers had a chance to cook so it doesn't taste
floury. You can add in food colouring here at this stage if you want and then
just leave that to cool. One hour later it's cold and it is super stretchy but
very very sticky so we're gonna need to add in our icing sugar now and just knead
that icing sugar in. Once it's all mixed in it is still quite sticky you
need icing sugar on your hands so that you can handle it but it is amazing to
play with because it's so super stretchy, I can stretch up my full arm's length
without it breaking!
It's the stretchiest so far!
It is the stretchiest of all isn't it.
Guess what that's made of?
Ummm ... Gummy Bears. That's right!
Sour gummy bears :)
Time for slime number three Nutella slime ... now this recipe says
to put some sweetened condensed milk cornflour and Nutella of course into a
pan and stir it over high heat until it boils and then keep stirring it for a
minute or two so the cornflour can cook and then remove it from the heat and tip
it into a bowl and leave that to cool. Now once this one was cool completely
it's not really slimy it's just super sticky ... now I'm gonna try kneading some
icing sugar in but I'm gonna need a lot of icing sugar because it is so liquidy
like heaps and heaps of it to take it from this super sticky mess and then
finally I've ended up with a dough a bit like an edible Nutella play-doh so I
wouldn't really call this a slime but let's see what Jedd thinks of it.
It's stretchy and it's elasticky!
It's sticky but it's fun to play with. Can you taste it?
It tastes good 😊
Our next slime is made using musk sticks ...
now I know you can't get these everywhere in the world but I can get
them here in Australia and I live here so I want to test if they work. Melt them
in the microwave for 30 seconds and then I'm gonna stir in a couple of teaspoons
of water and then give them another 30 second burst in the microwave. Mix that
all around and then add in about a teaspoon of oil and mix that through ...
that is looking pretty good but it's still a bit liquidy so we'll leave it to
cool and see what it's like then. Ahhh look at that, it makes a lovely fluffy slime :)
It's not as stretchy as the gummy bear one but it's not as sticky either so
that's a plus and it tastes like ... musk sticks! Delicious :)
At number five we have sodium alginate ... put some water into a blender and then
mix together the sodium alginate with some sugar. You use this stuff when
you're making sphericals in molecular gastronomy and it feels quite slimy so
that's why I thought about using this one it's not going to be stretchy but it
will be a slippery slime. This stuff tends to clump when you add it to the
water and that's why I'm mixing it with the sugar first because it helps to
prevent that ... you also need to add it with the mixer running already. So while
it's going just pour it in and keep blending it and then add a few drops of
green food coloring and our goopy slippery green slime is ready.
Which was your favourite one to eat? Nutella
Which was the best one to play with? This green one and the gummy bears.
So there you have it, 5 different edible slimes ...
have fun making and playing with all of those put all your requests in the
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