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In today's video, we're going to explore whether or not you can turn pure soda into cotton candy
Guys we've done some cool experiments making cotton candy and not too long ago
We had one where we tested a bunch of different things that you guys wanted to see and in the response
Comments to that video. I saw a lot of people saying they wanted to see us try to do this with soda
they suggested we try and use the Mexican coke that is known for having cane sugar in it as opposed to high-fructose corn syrup and
I started trying to think about whether or not this is something we can do in the past
We have dehydrated soda and freeze-dried soda comparing what happens with high fructose corn syrup
Versus real sugar in both of those cases with the freeze drying and the dehydrating we got sort of a thick syrup
We didn't get anything that really looked like a hard candy or a dry powder, which is the kind of thing
We would normally want to put into the cotton candy machine if it has any moisture in it
It's not going to melt down and then form those thin strands that make up cotton candy
It would just sort of
Sludge out the sides or get sprayed in an arc around the dish and that's not what we wanted
and at first I was trying to think about if there was anything we could do and we could freeze dry it multiple times or
Dehydrated it over and over
And I was thinking that it wasn't gonna work because we tried both of those and they just it doesn't go anywhere
However, I did eventually remember that about a year and a half ago
I did some experiments with trying to make hard candy out of soda
if you've seen our thumbsucker video grant and I took molds of our thumbs and then
we
made hard candy just with sugar corn syrup and flavoring and report it into those molds adding lollipop stick giving us a lollipop in the
Shape of our thumbs
When I was prototyping that I did make hard candy out of soda just by heating it up on the stove until it reached
What's known as the hard crack stage and then pouring it out and let it cool down?
I thought maybe if I can get a hard candy out of it
I could then take that hard candy break it up
Put that in the cotton candy machine and try and make cotton candy from it. So today that's what we're going to do here
I do have some what's his Mexican coke here in the US in Mexico. He was just known as coke
It's just coca-cola that has sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup. Other than that, it should be pretty much the same thing
So here's the basic idea after several people requested it
We tried to see if there is a way to turn soda into cotton candy
We're gonna take you through the steps we tried and see what result we get
We are going to try boiling this coke down until it heats up to the hard crack candy stage pouring it out
Let it cool down into a hard candy then
I'm going to try and break that up put it into our cotton candy machine and
See if it will turn into actual Coca Cola flavored cotton candy or if it'll just burn and make a huge mess
Along with that. We're gonna try a couple other things first
We're going to see if it is possible to do this with
Soda made with high fructose corn syrup in the United States at least that's by far more common
It's easy to get your hands on
Most things you're gonna get in a can or a two-liter bottle or going to have high fructose corn syrup in it
And so as a precursor to that test
We're actually just going to take pure corn syrup and try and heat that up to a hard crack stage and then we'll probably try
It with some soda whether or not it works with the corn syrup just to cover all of our bases
Now we've got everything set up here. I'm gonna go grab Callie and see if we can actually get this to work
I've got the experiment set up for you ready to go
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All right, our coca-cola, we cooked it until it hit a hard crack stage poured it out
Let it cool down some of it's still cooling down
But I got these parts that have cooled down the most and it does break like a hard crack candy for the most part it
might be a little bit softer than
Some types of candy. Oh, there you go that warmed up a little bit some parts break some parts more or less
So maybe that with soda?
The actual hard crack stage is not quite the same as a sugar corn syrup water mixture
But I am quite confident. We've removed all the moisture from this so I still want to try it
I'm gonna put this in the machine and see if we can get coca-cola
Cotton candy. I'm just gonna put a couple of pieces of this in here and see if we start getting anything
whoa
Instantly start getting stuff
All right, I'm gonna try put more in at once because that just seems so scattered. I don't think it's elf together at all
Oh, there we go
Alright coca-cola
Into cotton candy. Does it work? Well, we got some we definitely got some coca-cola cotton candy fluff
it is not as fluffy as a regular cotton candy and
I've discovered you really have to make sure
You hit a hard crack stage if your candy is soft after you poured it out and let it cool down if it's still flexible
It's not going to work. We actually had to take our coca-cola that we had already poured out. It was still too flexible
So I had to put it back on the stove heat it back up
And make sure it hit that hard crack stage and I actually just went by a tiny bit over
to really make sure it would solidified down to where we needed it and
It worked as for whether or not you would want to do this coca-cola has a lot of fairly bitter strong flavors in it
Caffeine is a strong flavor. The caramel is a strong flavor
The Cola flavor in general is pretty intense as well
And when you do this, you kind of concentrate all those as well as adding like another
bit of
Boosted caramel flavor even slightly burned caramel flavor by getting it up to that high of a temperature. So
If you really like the flavor of Coca Cola, then you might enjoy this stuff
I'm not a huge fan and then how it sort of concentrates all those flavors
It really gets it to a point where it I'm not really in love with this but it did work
It does taste like Cola mixed with a little bit of burnt sugar
I got a couple of their sugar based sodas and then we are also going to try the corn syrup and
The corn syrup based soda as well and see if those also work
Nice fluffy cotton candy though. I just can't put it incorrectly
Oh
Cotton candy and all parts of my face. So there you go. This is about how much cotton candy we got
This was two
Bottles of soda boiled down into a hard candy
poured out
allowed to cool then broken up into sort of a rough sugar and then put into the cotton candy machine and let's give this a
test
It tastes sort of like a strawberry cherry
Cotton candy. All right
This is the combination of our green apple and our berry flavored Jones soda
You can see that like it broke into pieces, but then those pieces sort of started sticking together
That might be a little unstable
Seems like it's a lot maybe thicker strands and heavier
And so it a lot of it just ends up on the bottom of a pan
It doesn't float up into the air the same way traditional
cotton candy does the green did not work as well as the pink it did create something, but it went on pretty
sticky and thick and
really not cotton like
It's good though, it tastes like the combination of the sodas. This is some of our corn syrup sugar
I just put pure corn syrup into the pot and heated it up until is that the hard crack stage?
You can see that it is holding its shape pretty well
That gives me some hope that this will actually work in the cotton candy machine. Let's give us a try
Seeing a couple threads it might not be warmed up all the way yet. Oh now it's just throwing out globs
This is like candy
Saran wrap. Okay. All right. We got some cotton now
All right, I'm gonna say it works, but it behaves differently
from regular sugar
So this is made of 100% corn syrup cooked up too hard crack stage
for candy and then let cool and then put in the Machine this honestly looks like
Fiberglass more than it looks like cotton. It's got like shards in there
Just the way that looks honest-to-goodness that could be fiberglass, but it's made of corn syrup
And it does not taste like cotton candy
It's slightly sweet
Has a much more fibery texture
Just not nearly as much sugar flavor or flavor in general as a normal cotton candy
Dissolves about the same sticks to your fingers about the same
Honestly, I would call that
Fiberglass candy more than cotton candy. Alright, this used to be orange Fanta
now it is
Orange Fanta sugar sort of we're gonna throw that in and see if it works. Oh
Oh, that's actually working great
Okay, that worked way better than I thought it was going to given what our corn syrup did when we tried to turn that into
Cotton candy. I thought we'd get something similar because this uses high fructose corn syrup. What?
This is this is a pretty good fluff right here
there's not a ton of it and it is I think a little bit denser than normal cotton candy, but
It it wish'd up quite nicely
And you can definitely taste the orange way more like cotton candy
Than fiberglass candy oddly dense though the way it sort of sticks together to itself
Should you turn Coca Cola and other sodas into cotton candy it is possible
If you cooked them to the point where they had a hard crack stage
Turning into a hard candy and then break that up. You can make it work. The coke worked a little bit
I actually think we had much better results with our red soda. That was actually a combination of a Jones soda
That was red and a Fanta strawberry soda. So it's just sort of a combination of two sugar based red sodas
That one worked pretty well, I was very interested in what happened with our corn syrup. We did get like a fluff
That's more like fiberglass than cotton
Very little flavor and then we got pretty good results with our corn syrup a soda
that was an orange Fanta that worked pretty well a little bit more dense than regular cotton candy cotton candy with soda is
Probably not your best bet you're not going to get as light and fluffy of an experience
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