I built a Cotton Candy Gun
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How to make molten cotton candy sugar:
7 parts sugar, 3 parts water, boil until the temperature hits 280-300°F(150°C) and let it cool down a little. Or just follow any basic sugar glass recipe! Watch out, molten sugar is basically like napalm and lots of little droplets get shot out!
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How would you make a Cotton Candy Gun?
love you
Go Go Gadget Cotton Candy Flamethrower. (Gets Crooks attacke by bees)
your worse than mark with uploads lol
This is crazier than Ross
This just looks like a sweet mess lol
I love how this man either makes things that seem like they would be fun toys, or makes things that are obviously weapons designed for war crimes
well if you fill the tank with napalm...
molten sugar is sticky and burny enough
@@TheBackyardScientistHold my beer.
This one is the latter.
No in between allowed
I gotta figure out how to make Mark Rober to fire me
Leaf blower and molten sugar INSIDE the house should do it😂😂
No one can replace the Pan.
‘To fire me’
Out of a cannon? 😂
Find where he keeps his "EXTRA FINE GLITTER" he used in his glitterbombs, spill the conents, run away looking fabulous.
Make literal Elephant Toothpaste. From elephants.
@@EyesOfByes 🤣🤣🤣
the plants across the garage have definitely suffered a lot of abuse
who knew making a cotton candy gun was rocket science
I happen to have extremely specific expertise on this as R&D chemist at a candy factory, so here's a recipe for the ideal candy gun syrup:
Add sugar, corn syrup, and water in ratio 60:30:10, melt, mix together, and then boil it down without stirring until it hits 150*C, heavy bottom pot is best. Once it hits 150*C, mix in 3% by weight glycerin, then go do your shenanigans with it. It will be way less viscous, won't make the icicles, won't burn, and turn into way more and longer strings.
The reason for doing these things is classified/arcane knowledge.
Oh also be sure to empty the pot of any syrup when you're done. If you let a thick layer solidify in there it is *hell* getting it out.
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This man knows the sacred knowledge
ok Willy Wonka
As an expert in the field, how would you go about making Redbull flavored cotton candy? Got a small cotton candy maker a while back and have been thinking about making my own flavored sugar for it.
if you happen to get sugar stuck in a pan like that, couldn't you just reheat it? and if that doesn't work for some reason, couldn't you just soak it in a bunch of water and wait a week?
Ok props for the awesome lady at the fair who when asked to open a cotton candy vending machine was just like "yeah sure"
She heard he was making a "cotton candy gun" and wanted to minimize the chance of him harming himself. Which seems to have worked since he ended up with only second degree burns :P
@Don't Read My Profile Picture okay
Most employees are drones that’s will do anything if you show common decency. Most have no drive and are waiting for directions.
@@randomdude189 wow you sound like a psycho with that sentence dude.
@@randomdude189spoken like a true unemployed person
I love how this man takes one of the least threatening sugary treats and makes it into a terrifying weapon.
YOUR MOM IS MY SCIENCE TEACHER
Dude, you don't have to rush your videos. Every second is solid gold and I wouldn't mind at all if you made them a little longer. This was too cool.
Thanks! I had so much footage and I tried so many different things I thought it would start to get boring. Its hard to know what people want to see.
@@TheBackyardScientist Seriously, dude. I would have loved to see at least a couple more minutes of you putting together a few of those last iterations of the device. Almost all of your videos could be a little longer. It doesn't matter if they're 15 or 20 minutes as long as they're not full of a bunch of obvious filler. Who's with me, gang? Sound off people, the more money he makes, the better videos he can make. We love you, dude!
I'm with you, eamonia, I'll never leave your side
@@TheBackyardScientistyour doing good. Make some longer, some shorter. Make them as long as you feel is necessary per project. Some of us have ADHD and have to watch longer videos a few times to see it all. Shorter videos are great for those hiding in the washroom as well. We will watch them all! Keep having fun with it!
@@eamonia I agree
I was surprised after the pouring worked so well that you didn't build a gravity fed tank that just poured the sugar infront of the nozel when you opened a valve.
Though the cotten candy cannon with the fire extinguisher was my personal favourite. Like a party popper but with molten sugar and cotten candy instead of confetti 😅
My thought aswell.
Right? 3D printer nozzle to melt it / keep it hot, and some kind of gate valve / flap at the bottom to stop the flow when you don't need it?
@@Bro-trust-me Love the idea with a 3D printer nozzle/hotend! All it then needs is a raised tank for that laminar flow, and of course a table. Because table.
i feel like the main issue with that would be that the sugar would freeze and clog the nozzle, I'm honestly more surprised he didnt add in a heating element to keep the sugar liquid, theres also sugar specifically designed to be used in a cotton candy machine, so as opposed to using regular sugar he could have tried that as well
after seeing the leaf blower work i had an idea
ideal gas law says going from high pressure to low pressure results in cooling. if you put short to wide nozzle after the compressor but before the hot sugar, it should keep the air warm enough to keep the sugar from turning solid without loosing too much kinetic throwing energy.
Also your sugar injection system should be on the top so the sugar falls into the air stream. Instead of venturi or internal pressure, use a physical piston and gasket compression instead. This keeps air from escaping the cylinder instead of the more viscus sugar. work on different designs for the injection plate, as the civ seemed to have success with lots of nearby holes in an array rather than a single row of small holes you seem to be designing towards.
Doing it this way also should let you put a "butt fusion" heater assembly mounted to the gun to heat the sugar while in use, instead of rushing to mount a hot sugar to the gun before use
Would love to see a longer version with all those other things that you tried, love the content
Only a backyard scientist could weaponize projectile cotton candy
I agree. I don't know anyone else who could do this. I bet he still gets a knock at the door from the feds.
their was that guy who made candy shotgun slugs for taofeldermaus
😂😂
Remember, it's not a war crime the first time ;-)
It's like what I'd imagine Kevin McAllister to be like all grown up
2:47 "Wow, You don't know how many times it took for me to get that right" That was great!
Yeah, say that even one time fast! I tried. I failed...
One time I was at a mall and I saw that cotton candy robot and it was making weird looking flowers and just dumping them in the back of itself over and over again. We decided it would probably start a fire if too much got in there so we took one and it seemed to stop auto firing cotton candy 😂
I have a mental image but want to see that so bad.
@@thomasdickson35 lol I think I have a video of it but by now it’s long gone
This man casually said "I'm gonna use my jet engine i made last year" this guy's one bad day away from being a super villain😂
Honestly I feel like the biggest achievement you have done here is fulfilled an ants life long dream your back yard is going to have such a thriving colony after this experiment.
He may have aluminum cast his ants already
Ant nirvana, sugar drips from the plants and lines the roads
Infusing sugar with Prime and spraying it all over the grass? You're practically inviting ants to get superpowers. Some unfortunate soul will end up being bitten and transformed into a *real* Antman. Not just some guy that can change size, but someone with a super-strong exoskeleton complete with six legs and sudden cravings for picnic leftovers.
thats a better plot than any of the films have had
I just wanna point out, 8:25 he is wearing gloves. I work at a steel foundry pouring 2800 degree steel and we use the same gloves lol. (For working after the steel is poured, when we are pouring it we put on the big silver suits).
Bro is single handedly feeding all the ants in his neighborhood
You are so right about molten sugar being like napalm. It is so much hotter than you think it's going to be and you can get burned so quickly. That's why I don't think making candy.
The scariest part is how it STICKS to you.
@@MakeItWithCalvin it can also explode if you add if yo water at the wrong time
same. last year. i got burned while making squid game's dalgona candy. and i think that scar is sticking with me for life
@Don't Read My Profile Picture ok ill take your advice
The worst is how it will just dump all the melting/freezing energy into your skin at above-boiling-water-temperatures. It's basically as bad as a (non-high--pressure) steam leak that sticks to you.
A suggestion: could you heat the nozzle, whatever it would be, with a coil, using induction ? And by adjusting the parameters keep the nozzle(s) at the sugar melting temp ?
I thought thats where he was going to be honest.
Heating the air before the venturi, could have used a radio antenna.
He worked so hard on prototyping this and then just breezed through it like it was no big deal. ❤
So much effort here, love to see it.
This reminds me of a couple decades ago when I discovered you could shoot hot glue from a hot glue gun into an air compressor stream and send glue spider webs everywhere. :)
We use machines at my work that do exactly that, I hate them dearly.
no way I have to try this brb
Big mess incoming!
I'm off tomorrow and I have a jumbo glue gun.... I'm gonna make a mess.
@@Sk1m_Beeble Just out of curiosity, what would this sort of machine be used for? Hot glue isn't exactly a stellar material, and random spray isn't exactly the most useful application pattern.
6:40 congrats! you made an annular booster! its the next step in better carburation over a down leg booster which is kind of similar to you just pouring the molten sugar into the air stream
really cool how you gout to the same spot.
Sugestion from The Ionizer - Spinning the surgar will allow it to move only when it’s melted keeping it from burning. If you have a cone to bring the liquid to a center and also have some channels to flow . The idea is to fling it out in as narrow and fine as posible to give you thread. You use nozzles at that size will clog. Better experiment would love to help you with is how about a different type of heater. I can explain how a machine works and how useing a wireless way to heat a spinning chamber can work better and be better controled. works can have huge improvements.
on 5:30 he literally made a edible web shooter😂
3:35 "I didn't make cotton candy, I made an afterburner"
best thing I've heard in a while
02:39 Unfortunate bystander chosen for execution for a fun sugar shooting machine 😀.
this video is a good example of how a lot of the time the simplest solution is the most effective
I think the vertical cotton candy cannon was my favorite.
A tank with a gravity feed would and a decent valve probably work just as well as just pouring it into the stream.
And it would give you the added advatages of being able to use both hands for holding the device, and have a perfectly controllable flow of sugar.
Basically; instead of trying to fight gravity, use it.
That’s what I was thinking the entire time
The backyard scientist once again emerges from his florida abode. This is freaking awesome!
“I didn’t think I would be summoning a demon from the nozzle” is such a hilarious yet worrying line
5:42 Allen Pan is far more than Mark Rober's assistant!
9:10 Even stickier that those times about 4 years ago, when you made human-sized glue traps?
I would suggest trying to build something more closely related to a large airbrush, except rather than attaching the cup directly to the nozzle, you suspend the cup above and out in front of the nozzle on a bracket
Inside the cup would be one or more heating elements to heat the sugar for you (Instead of heating it beforehand and having to act quickly), with a valve to open and close it, letting gravity do all the work.
Those experiments you did at the end, and shown only like two seconds of each, all seemed pretty cool! :D
Bro.. now there gonna be an armada of ants all over your backyard.😂😂
4:51 Hey, it's my giant keyboard!
Omg
I made a tiny one for blowing “spider webs” onto a display before, but definitely nothing to this scale, this is awesome. I used the more brute force method of flame heating the connection X-p didnt last long, but made a cool diorama (using weaker air from a compressed air can may have also helped)
man, a new backyardscientist video feels like christmas because its always a GAD DAMN GIFT
I ❤ how He messes up his garden every time
"You won't hear anything. Hopefully you'll just see cotton candy."
Okay do I at least get a blindfold.
The Open Sauce line-up looks amazing. It's great to see people like Evan & Katelyn attending. I really wish I didn't live so far away.
1:48
“Look at that! It’s twerking! It’s twerking! It’s twerking, no!” -TheBackyardScientist
Thought you were dead man this upload is a blessing
4:42 wait a minute...CODE BULLET ?!
I saw electroboom
The man, the myth, the legend.
"Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants."
- Sun Tzu
"I didn't make cotton candy, I made an afterburner!" has to be the hardest quote in science CZcams history.
The sweetest and most dangerous science experiment I've ever seen xD
I haven't finished the video but the part where you were pouring the liquid down and spraying it and then it was finally working reminds me the movie industry figured out a way to spray I think it was like a melted plastic to make artificial cobwebs on everything so maybe you want to kind of look there to get it kind of different idea
This is the same process like making rockwool.
The key is air speed that is actually pretty "sedate" and and the molten sugar needs time to "pre cool" a bit before hitting the air stream.
This way you create skin layer that then gets stretched out.
This is essentially what you did at the end of the video.
well im sure the ants are gonna love this
i just need to say that this notification showed up on my phone as "I made a Giant C" and my brain did not guess that word was "cotton"
Anybody else here in 4months after the video just to see if he has posted a new video yet?
well if you think of something like a paint ball gun, its all hopper fed. you did make a solution that went Infront of the compressed air to make the cotton candy Infront of pressurized air. If you were to create a pressurized heated hopper (just above the melting point of sugar) with a one way valve and a have a constant flow of liquid sugar flowing into the barrel with a pressurized air source, you could create an actual cotton candy gun
He always makes me laugh eaven when I’m felling bad or tired love you kevin
rocket powered cotton candy is possibly the greatest idea of all time
Your comment is even funnier because at 5:50 she seems to have Rocket League on screen
sugar is surprisingly a significant source of energy when burned. well maybe not surprisingly, sugar is energy after all
9:05 that’s what she said
“Oh it’s so sticky”
Nah bruh 💀
You should use a vortex tube. Those split the compressed air into a stream of hot air and cold air. I think the temp on the hot side can get up to 200C.
You should do one on throwing molten glass into your pool!
2:04 a semen demon
7:36 who needs that much cotton candy
Everyone
That's wall insulation
Maybe a system like a paint sprayer that u can conect to a compressor. And to keep the sugar hot a electric heating coil in it , or around the container.
If it doesnt work, try and place the cotton candy above and far away from the air. Thats just what i think.
Always glad to see backyard scientist post! Keep up the good work!
4:26 lmao
Glue (not Elmer's glue) and an air compressor also works extremely well if not better than molten sugar. I figured that out when I was 9 or 10, this video brought back a lot of memories.
this man has inspired me to do a lot. thank you
2:19 come
'milk'
Cum
Okay hear me out:
do you know those strong, industrial grade superglues? When hardenibg they often produce heat and can even burn stuff
so if you do it right you could technically cook food using a superglue powered heater
idk i hope you read this lol
Instead of melting all the sugar at once, I’d use some sort of heating element to melt the sugar just before it comes out of the tube, and then blast it with air to cool it down again
This man gets a good idea and DOES NOT stop until the product is perfect/ exactly what he thought of. He doesn't care about how low the frequency of his uploads is, but the quality of each vid is op.
A inspiration to scientists and engineers everywhere, Quality over quantity
@@ivan_d_feets4495 fr
Can we just appreciate for a second how much time and energy and money gets spent to make these videos. You sir are a legend.
Love your videos. I've been watching since I was a tiny bean subscribed, probably on every single CZcams channel I've ever had
Should make a v2 where the tank is also heated so you don’t have to preheat the sugar
4:09 That contact panel got me acting unwise, my oh my. What a gorgeous rear view.
was that rocket league in the background???? 5:49
Perhaps more surface area is what you need. I have no idea how cotton candy machines work, but they have many many many holes. Also, when you used the colander and the leaf blower it looked like that worked the best. Think, mesh.
POV: Backyard Scientist
“So a while ago I made this cotton candy flamethrower, but now I’m going to add acid so I can create a war machine”
My man 👊🏻😁🍻🍻🍻🍻
Did not expect to see you here! 👋
It's big D! Wait.....what?
Wtf big stack is a sub
My man! I was thinking of your channel the other day when i melted down like 40 pounds of aluminum and made 100+ aluminum ingots made from little corn bread baking molds haha.
4:20 normal american behaviour
I'm rather curious what would happen if you tried to use a laminar flow setup with the molten sugar. It'd require some tinkering, but might be worth a shot.
every video you do is gold
Love the ideas, keep the great work coming
You do not disappoint with these uploads!
2:10 - Archer: that's how you get ants
oh. my. god.
all that is left is to make it self-heating, self-compressed, and super easy to refill
add a 3s lipoly battery, a 12v 3D printer bed heater, a car tire compressor, a small air tank(old propane bottle out to be fine), and then regulate the airflow via a regulator and a solenoid valve
a simple thermostatic switch to control the 12v heater(or even a fancy PID arduino sketch with mosfet module) and a thermostatic lockout so you can't feed it when the chamber is too cold
fill it, plug it in, preheat, and press button for sugary webby goodness
now the heater would risk battery damage so you will likely need a 20a bms(most bed heaters are ~120w or 10a) and it would not run long without power so maybe add in a standby power input that can feed the system 12v through a relay that only clacks when the aux is plugged in and saves the battery for the mobile part
you could even just use a large sodastream or welding tank as CO2 is pretty food-safe and would provide a nice high-capacity high-flow gas source
but it MUST be made 100% portable and capable of mobile reloading rather than preheating the tank and sugar in the kitchen
7:58 is where the promo ends
Thank you
Same@@jakekymantas8778
1:53 my nose at night be like:
I can relate
You should put the final method into some sort of shooter casing and add a heating element, so you could put cotton candy sugar into the top and make it shoot out cotton candy strands automatically.
TBS:“I want you to be safe”
Also TBS:*Pulls out Cotton Candy Gun*
Me: that means surfshark doesn’t do anything.
Can't wait to show this to my kids 😊.
Thank you for all the things you make!
"this is like napalm, its very terrifying"
now what if you used napalm hmm
I think heating elements, induction coils and isolation could be your friend with the freezing sugar problem.