Cotton candy on a stick, fluffy rabbits with winky faces and colorful ears, and glowing rainbow clouds with LED lights embedded on the stick. Stand on a street corner in South Korea and see how these delicious street treats are made with the help of this how-it’s-made dessert video from the ETTV μ΄ν°ν°λΉ YouTube channel.
ETTV, which stands for Enjoy Today TV, specializes in documenting how Korean street food is made. This street vendor’s treat menu includes a bear face option, too.
Heated and liquified, sugar spun at high speeds flies out of the spinning machine in fine, instantly-cooled strands. The maker spins the stick to wrap the confection like a colorful cotton ball. From Study.com:
Cotton candy gets its unique texture from the fact that the sugar cools so rapidly that the particles cannot fully recrystallize. They’re left in a weird, semi-liquid state which, believe it or not, makes cotton candy to sugar what glass is to sand. Yes, cotton candy is basically thin, poofy sugar-glass.
Read more about cotton candy’s history at Spun Paradise.
Related videos about rainbows, sugar, LED, and South Korea:
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β’ How do you make rainbow sprinkles?
β’Β How Much Sugar Are You Really Eating?
β’Β Casdoce (γ«γΉγγΌγΉ), a confection made for lords & emperors
Bonus: Amazing Chinese Popcorn Cannon.
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