Using Our Candy Drop Roller To Make Old Fashion Candy
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2023
- Making Satisfying Drop Candy From the 1800s! I swear, just by rounding off the edges it makes the cranberry drop candy oddly satisfying to put in your mouth. I swear you can taste the roundness!
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The longer crank handle is because this model roller doesn’t have power steering.
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SO FUNNY! I just seen it when he says something about re commenting and I had to go see if you commented!
Longer handle = more torque = easier to turn with load
The longer handle gives you more mechanical advantage, like a lever. If it were shorter, it would make it harder to turn.
i came here to leave this comment and im glad someone beat me to it !
Also more than that there's an optimum temperature for the candy and how workable it is. So a shorter handle making it harder to turn would mean it would take longer to shape the candy creating more candies that aren't formed properly.
I was also going to say this...however someone beat me to the punch
Steve has trained some great young people how to be experts at making old fashioned candy makers! Hate to see them leave once we get to know them a bit, but I love to see new people come and learn and grow in skill! The Andreanos family keeping old fashioned candy making alive for over 100 years!
Steve does it like it's his job!
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Is making toffee the same procedure as making candy?
PLEEEEASE tell Julia that I very much so appreciate her thoroughness in scraping-out the copper pot?!😃👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
That was very satisfying
@@olduglyentwife5700 Indeed!😊
I was watching that and thinking "Steve must be proud!"
@@Riyo_R For sure!😃
I'll have to say again that Julia has just slipped into the groove and has become a natural as a candy maker and has become a Valuable asset to the Hercules process of candy makers! Proud of you!!!
I really like Julia. She's fun to listen to and very thorough when she works. Thanks for another fun vidya, Craig.
I would listen to Julia narrate audiobooks or bedtime stories forever! 😴😊
Craig can you tell Julia ,I’m so proud of how well she is doing , she is an A1 candy maker ❤🍬🍭
Malic acid occurs naturally in fruits including apples and cherries. Because of this, malic acid is commonly referred to as "apple acid." Malic acid is produced in the metabolic cycles of humans, plants, and animals
That glob dropped into the copper pot is always satisfying ❤❤❤
Needed this video today, had surgery and need a pain distraction! Thanks for all the hard work you all do. 😊
I really like that old time candy press! So neat!
It's amazing to learn the process of candy making, it really is an art. I'm beginning to learn through your videos just how much time and care this takes.
We will support you all. Keep working hard.
Thank you Sophia! 🙏
What happens with the sugar powder and sharp edges after sifting? Have you thought of selling it as an ice cream topping or something like that?
Or make chocolate bars with them mixed in!
Oh! Or save up the flash and make bark with white chocolate! Colorful and tasty like all of the hard candies they make.
They do a similar thing with their nut brittle leftover bits so I'm sure something will come in the future.
I think they use it in some of their chocolate barks.
...reason the doors need to be shut, the strong flavors permeate the wrapped chocolate on the sales floor
CRAIG working hard! 😂
I love your videos. My family never sold their candy for profit, mostly it was used for church fundraisers and holiday gifts. A lot of my favorite family memories focus around my grandmother teaching us about hardtack candy and how fun it was.
Love you guys! Tip for when you eat something too spicy, eat salt after. Learned this from a lovely gentleman in Mexico who took pity on me after I ate insane spice🤣
I would have never guessed that!
Yup my friend from New Orleans said the same it works
Doing this for as many years as you have shows just how much love you have for it.
Oooh put the shake (small pieces) in white chocolate for cranberry cream bark
I'm assuming you need a long crank in order to get sufficient leverage to turn the gears. The shorter the crank, the more arm strength it will take to turn, while a long crank does most of the work for you.
Need a Candy Only Dust Pan that would scoop off the counter better than the bulky scoop.
Beautiful old machine! That was soothing to listen too also. Very neat!
Have you thought of combos to the cranberry like the juice? I think cranberry orange would be yummy.
These are so pretty 😍 you guys should make some coconut cashew clusters, amazing combo! Lots of love from New Zealand 🇳🇿 ❤
Always a beautiful sight when candy is being made
Thanks again for another great vlog
the color of cranberry is so beautiful.
The ASMR possibilities are really up there. I really love with listening to the sound of the bubbles popping as you pour the candy mixture onto the table. 3:12
Save the sharp edges and bag them as candy topper for cakes, ice cream, etc. 😊
Oh snap! Cranberry!
I love Cranberries! ❤️ 😍
Good to see father and son team together again. The banter is much better like back in the basement videos.. I just might have to resubscribe.. Lots of different equipment also. I left shortly after Steve retired,Craig tried real state. It was nice to drop in and see everyone again.
I've seen people make pear drops with ye olde metal moulds in a local history museum here in the UK...pear drops are some yummyyyyy P.S. the colour of this one is so pretty!!
Great to see the roller making such a large volume without getting too warm and the candy sticking to it
It's fall and I'm watching you to gear up for my candy making season!
I ordered the butterscotch hard candy, and I’m hooked! Love watching your channel.
Watching this is making my mouth water!
Not sure what you do with the cranberry candy broken bits but if they happened to find their way to some white chocolate I would totally buy it. All. Of it.
It might be worth it to see if you guys can hook a motor up to the crank shaft. That way it would allow the person feeding the candy in and taking it out not to pause every time, switch hands and worry about consistent turning. Low power motors are pretty cheap and would save a lot of time and energy on the candy maker.
Longer handle for leverage, and less spins per run. A small handle you'd have to spin 3-4 times as many rotations, where as a longer one is just a few.
That flavor sounds so good. 🍭
It really needed it's own bag!
The longer handle helps with leverage. Also if it was shorter they'd have to turn it more on top of it being harder to turn.
Been watching for years now.. Julia is a pleasure to watch 🙊
All the dust from cleaning up the sharp edges could be used in bark. Like the orange cream bark, the raspberry bark, and peppermint bark
I would think "the longer the crank handle, the more power you can put into the roller through it", meaning you have a better chance at rolling candy that has gone cold and is about to set
Love your candy!!!
Craig did you finish renovationd the old house,like to see it now,. You add so much to the videos and explaining it so well. Hugs to all keep stirring the pots ,Lol
Haven't started it yet 🙃 my real estate partner and I bought a real money pit, so hopefully next summer
I would thing the longer handle serves two purposes: Added leverage to move the candy through the rollers, and better control of the speed of the candy through the rollers.
Leah's apron is so COOL!!!
So I will say that u guys make great hard candy it helped me stop smoking and not after 1 year it helped me stop drinking all my family in minneosta order me your candy so I stay sober and clean tie die hard candy my #1 so far
Can we appreciate Steve’s watch. Looks like a digital seiko watch from the 80’s
I have a daughter who lives in Fulton so on my next visit I must come visit your shop. I love watching you all make candy.
Please do!
Cranberry pearls. They remind me of 'pop beads' that I played with many years ago.
Ooo, I love cranberry! A mix of cranberry and orange would be fantastic.
Where the candy comes out off the press , then the chute , maybe extend the chute down to the table so you don’t have to worry about it doubling over where it meets the table.
You guys have a drop roller now, that's great! :)
A longer handle allows for more leverage and allows the user to use less energy to turn the crank.
Love you Hercules Candy! Question, why don't you put longer pieces through the candy drop roller? ❣
That’s what I was thinking. I would just keep doing one long rope through it. 😂
But that’s why I’m watching and not making! 🤪
They need to hold the finished piece and guide it out so it doesn't fold on itself. Maybe it's difficult to crank and be on the end of a longer finished piece? Defo worth a try though ❤
I know other candy makers use a fry basket to separate the candy from the shards.
the long handle creates leverage making it easier to roll the candy out. Or as my son says it every time he helps Dad change a tire "LEVERAGE BABY".
I love cranberries. they are a very yummy fruit. As for malic acid it is found in fruits like blueberries, apricots and many other non-citrus fruits. Malic acid is much milder in taste than citric acid.
The big handle acts like a Large Cog. It makes the smaller cogs rotate more times than the handle goes round. Like gears on a bicycle.
You guys should take all the sharp scraps from each batch and grind them up fine and make kinda like pixie sticks.. Each batch could be the flavor of them.. It would save on waste and its another item you can sell!!!
I presume the door thing is because the candy is actively cooling down and being folded so the temperature variant may affect how fast the candy cools plus controlling humidity plus every time a door opens its an opportunity for a fly or something to get in
those candies rainbowed would be so cool
Who else wants a bag of the cranberry candy dust?
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It's basically to give you leverage, if the candy cools before putting it through the roller it would be to difficult to turn if the handle was short 👍
I see them neat waves, great vidya.
The handle is connected to a shaft that spins. To spin the shaft requires X amount of energy. If the length of the handle is 0, then to spin the shaft you need to provide X amount of energy all at once. The longer you make the handle, the easier it is to rotate the shaft because even though you still need X amount of energy to spin the shaft, You are now providing X amount of energy over a period of time (the radius of the circle created by the ends of the handle). Basically how gears work, a large gear, linked to a small gear, if you spin them they both complete a single rotation at the same time, however if you a providing the energy to the large gear, then the small gear is producing a large amount of torque, and vice versa.
Next thing are cinnamon/clove hard candies for this coming Christmas. 🎄
Did you notice when you showed the stivers candy store over the spinning table they had a picture just like Terry's of Lucy & Vivian working the candy line
My mouth is watering
i have those same silicone bowls. they are awesome
They should do a pie mix of hard candy
Pumpkin
Banana cream
Chocolate moose
Apple
Could be like a Thanksgiving bundle
Ohhhh interesting idea!
Don't forget coconut cream pie! One of my favorites!
Thought ...... 💭 hmmmmm Cranberry Candy canes J .
It has a longer handle because it provides more leverage to roll the candy threw if it had a smaller handle it would be harder to turn
As the candy goes thru the machine it cools down. If the handle was shorter it would be harder for the person turning the handle to crank the candy thru esp. At the end of the candy. Before they had the heaters!
It's paraffin wax Craig. Thats the type of wax that's food grade. Also the crank is so long because of physics. A shorter crank would be much harder to turn because it has less leverage.
All those little crumbs would be good in white chocolate bars or in bark.
He could just put a spigot at the bottom of the 5 gallon. Or get a 10-20 gallon and put one on that
Drooooling.....
Couldn't you add a honey spout that can securely close to the bottom of a 5 or 7 gallon bucket and then allow the corn syrup to drain into the kettle on the scale? ou might have to raise the bucket up higher to drip into the kettle
I’m guessing the corn syrup has to be warmed so it will pour.
Steve loves making candy for sure. Its in his blood, but its time to relax and let the kids take over. Go enjoy a nice cold beer 🍻🍺 and remince on some good times.
I’ve used a scale similar to yours to weigh bags of green coffee when I used to roast coffee.
You must have a really big mug
should just use a large tray to crank them onto so you can move like 20 of them over to the end at a time instead of after each round of cranking.
have you tried making a teeny ramp where the strip comes out this might avoid the need to change hands to catch it coming out the other side?
Really sensual on how she gets the candy ready for the crank
So, what will y’all do with the fine pieces of candy that falls through the grate when your breaking them apart?
Candy helps make the world go around.
Don’t you want the two toned candy to be half and half? So put it through the roller with one color on top and one color on the bottom?
Do you bottle up the sprinkles that fall through the grate and sell them as flavored candied dust/sprinkles for confection decorating, like cakes or cupcakes? I would love to purchase some is so. Probably not the only one…
Woohoo, using the new (old) candy making tool! 😊
You know it!
This is so fascinating.
I'm glad you like it!
@@HerculesCandy The crew seem to be very pleasant.
I still miss my guy Max making candy 😔 what a guy! How is he?
the longer handle is for leverage
Blue raspberry, strawberry banana and tart cranberry all sold out🥺
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A shorter crank would mean you would have to crank twice as much to get the same distance. The longer crank mean less rotations for the same result
You know your stuff!
Would it be possible to replace the handle with a small electric motor? That may make the candy easier to handle since the one working it will have a free hand to feed and catch. Just watch your fingers!
I would assume that the reason the arm is so long is because you need the leverage to crank the candy through the rollers.
Longer Handle =more leverage. You'd be turning 2 times as much with a shorter handle 😊
Whats the video you mentioned where they delivered the candy maker