How To Make Cotton Candy By Hand, Using an Ancient Chinese Method - You Can Do This!
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- čas přidán 4. 09. 2017
- Clifford Endo is here to tell you that cotton candy is no longer just for carnivals. You're welcome. In this episode of You Can Do This! Cliff uses the ancient Chinese method used to make a dish called Dragon's Beard to spin out over 16000 strands of hand pulled sugar.
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Recipe:
1000g Sugar
100g Corn syrup
2 cups (475 ml) water
1 teaspoon vinegar
Target temperature: 271°F (133°C)
Leo Stoll how long do you let it cool for
@A Bookworm do you let it sit on the side or freeze it?
Thanks man for converting to ml and Celsius
Let it cool for 10 minutes than poor it into containers unless you have good high heat containers. This also works if you cut it in half
Leo Stoll thank you I forgot to write it down
Dragon's beard, nice
Raphael Christofano lol
I am confused as to why he called it cotton candy when it's dragon's beard.
Melanie Vonfange cuz it's basically made out of sugars.
It's not, though. Well, authentically, it's made out of hard honey. And even if it was sugar, wouldn't be the same since cotton candy is made out of heating the sugar and spinning it while this is more of just pulling it a lot. It doesn't taste like cotton candy at all.
yeah...
When you're broke and hungry and this is the tenth cooking vid you've watched, it's time to see what some air and spices can be turned into!
Find a hot sauce you like the taste of that isn't super spicy. I find that helps with hunger cravings when I don't have food.
@@virani3120 How are you doing? Do you have food?
@@MasterYourUniverse Not well, and just instant noodles.
@@virani3120 I hope things get better for you if they haven't already.
@@ediciussnave Ironically I have a lot more food now, but ulcers are keeping me from eating it lol. But that'll hopefully be cleared up soon.
I love this. We call it the "dragon's beard candy and usually it it with ground peanuts.
Adam Kee Gosh, yes :D Where are you from?? :3
I am from Hong Kong. Dragon's Beard is still found here. It is eaten with chopped peanuts wrapped inside. A box of 6 little pieces is about 1.5 USD, sold mostly at street stalls. I used to love eating them because of the cuteness, sweetness and funny texture. But now I find them a bit too sweet for my taste, and can eat up to maybe 2 or 3 pieces per day. I still buy them from time to time though just to remind myself of the look and feel of such classic candy, which is getting rarer these days. Thanks for making a video about Dragon Beard, and introducing one of my (and many more Hong Kongers') favorite food growing up to the world. I actually have never thought about how the silly strings are made, and now I learned.
Edible spiderweb for halloween 👍
Ernie Salas agreed
Genius idea!
He needs to fix the tittle of the video 😂
He needs to trim those fingernails
Fifth House really? You might need to look again because i don't see long nails at all
When a American uses the metric system
"1000g of sugar"
What about 1kg?
what about you just be happy we saved you from ze Nazis?
@@18deadmonkeys the Nazis just ran into Brazil after the war, even a descendant of the red baron became famous after killing his parents in 2002 (Suzanne von Richthofen)
"Natal, the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, in northeastern Brazil, has a very important global geographical strategic position. This fact made the city receive the two main American military bases during World War II: Naval Base and Parnamirim. Field - the time was the largest US Air Force base overseas. "
Thank you (?) Anyway but a thousand grams is funny af
What's a gram again.... "king henery died drinking chocolate milk" So... Where is gram lol
Instructions weren't clear, accidently cooked meth!
True American...
Typical 3 same
@Darrow Au Andromedus oh sweet, can my fellow police mates come?
Y'all stop mething around this is methed up! XD
JESSE
All to be consumed in less than 5 minutes
Juan Alvarez how to get diabeetus in 5 mins
Such is the beauty of all culinary creations
Juan Alvarez it would be so good tho :0 the texture. You are basically eating melty hair 😍
Juan Alvarez well this stuff is allllll around Korea so I can just go out and just buy some😂
Ancient Chinese method- put it in the microwave for 10 seconds
Most _Dope lmao
cos we got microwave in ancient china!!!! :P
Ha,lol
in china its kinda hot (i think) so i guess they just leave it outside??
+Most _Dope the ancient Chinese used a lot of inverted corn syrup too.
Out of all the videos ive seen of this recipe, yours turned out the best, by far! Im making this today. I cant wait.
Thank you I’ve always wanted to make this and this is so clear on what amount of ingredients to add. It’s so easy to follow along.
helpful hint: if the sugar strands start to get too stiff, heat up your flour a little bit in the oven, it'll help keep the strands pliable
cmrocker3 Just saying, it had to have taken effort to type "flower" instead of "flour" there, unless you don't know that "flower" only refers to those plant things with petals, so I assume you made an honest mistake :)
Neph Drummond lol yeah honest mistake. I blame my 3am brain which is when I think I posted this
cmrocker3 I know that feeling, it's almost midnight here, and I only got 4 hours of sleep yesterday.
many people actually use rice flour which I believe is more traditional..but its really all the same tbh
No its not all the same or it would all have the same name and be the same.
For an even more authentic Cantonese style, would be to wrap that around some peanut crunch filling. That shit is the bomb 💣
Nick Cheng I thought that was a Korean desert?
i thought the Indonesians like to claim e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g LEL
it's from China
Ryan Du It started in China -_-
Bobomeetworld we don't claim everything. it's others(malaysians majority) who kept claiming things that are ours, as theirs.
I wouldn't mind an extended version of this that follows the process in real time. Probably be relaxing
Watch this one : czcams.com/video/YrO0OX62ykE/video.html
watch korean dragon beard candy making
I was thinking
"wow can i do the same thing with dough?"
2 minutes later i realized i was just making cellophane noodles
Well atleast i had some pork
@@stevethea5250 what?
You just can, but also must! noodles are made in that way, but another ingredients
@@minka866 Are you sure? I'm pretty certain that the ingredients for noodles is 100% sugar?
@@Gibblo11 dude he did it with just dough
I don't know how yet, but I'm going to practice making this, then use it as and edible cobweb decoration for Halloween, just so I can freak out the neighbors and such by eating it in front of them.
deltasora how did it go?
deltasora did you make this? I want to have a go.
It doesn't keep well
deltasora I did that... they were worried
Is Tumblr your home?
Looks like someone's hair that's been bleached way to much 😂
Like Jelena Karleuša
I Found Jimin's Jams army
TOO* You're grown use the right words!
Marco Resendez "you're grown" you use the right words lol
Captain Kanari It's slang loser.
I've seen a lot of people try these at home and you did by far the best!
Dude you’re so chill that’s awesome
*THANKS!*
This is like *THE ONE SINGLE SOURCE on the internet on how to make inverted sugar,* I have found one other text documentation but much less documented.
Playing 2048 with sugar?
J Mika lol 😃
🤣🤣 I thought the same
Lol
xD
not just lol but rofl. :) I was also thinking the same thing. I play that game way too much.
i love how you wrote good things like "You can do this" i love that :3
That was the coolest thing I’ve seen!! Thank you for showing this!
Seeing some of these Cantonese recipes got me wanting to marry Cantonese guy who knows all the hot spots to get food and candy 😂😂
Don't let your dreams be dreams.
Luna Freeman ...or just look them up yourself. But sure marrying someone makes more sense...
lmao XD
The lonely loser who has to insult others to feel temporarily less empty is right on time. Good show.
dee yannie or just insult a ridiculously asinine comment. But hey hopefully she marries you, white knight. Or should I say yellow knight? o_O
Didn't know that in ancient times they had microwaves
Cavernous the more you know
Or corn syrup ^
Lmao
DirtiestHaRRy agree
DirtiestHaRRy where did u see that from (srsly where gimme a link or smth)
That was a super dope concept and execution. Well done!
I’ve been trying to make this for the past 2 weeks and every time I try it either breaks while pulling and falls apart, I burn myself while trying to make it or a piece would break off and cut me…. I ruined a good saucepan and I broke my candy thermometer and I had to buy a new one…. YOU MAKE THIS LOOK SO EASY!!!!!
Hand pulled noods tutorial next please
Send "noods" please
Jonray Diamante I was hoping to keep my vision for a few more decades.
Eliza Bear Lps lmao
*s e n d n u d e s*
Banks93 *f u c k n o*
This is also one of the ancient Indian dessert called Soan Paapdi and the south Indian one is the finest. Good to see the other version of it. Thank you for your immense energy in making it and showin us.
My 1st time watching your page. Omgoodness this is amazing. My hand strength wouldn't allow me to do this, but it's so amazing!!!!
So so cool. Can’t wait to try it.
I wonder if anyone has ever used this as a wig, lol xD
xiaorishu It was really common during the Ming Dynasty.
Its like any Cotton Candy, it will crystalize after exposed to too much humidity.
I feel like if you were in one of those baking competition on Tv , if you had the time and had to do something with a face make this for the hair. Don't know why this popped into my head been watching to much food network lately.
xiaorishu or a weave.
you know how cotton candy dissolves on wet fingers or in your mouth or when its humid, if you maybe could dip it something that isn't wet that won't dissolve it; that isn't hydroscopic, which there aren't a lot of.
I can't do that coz my palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy... Mom's spaghetti
Paul Ian Guillermo I love how everyone likes and nobody comments
+Noelle They keep forgetting what they wrote, the words won't come out.
Paul Ian Guillermo then what you need
Are some
_tendies_
But man you have only one shot and one opportunity, will you take or let it slip !
I can feel you bro, here also have sweaty palms lol
That was the most amazing video I have ever seen!!
instantly subbed, what an smart and charismatic chef, excellent work
Thank you for sharing this! I missed eating this childhood candy when they were sold as street food near the subway station in HK -Dragon Beard Candy 龍鬚糖
阿宝 Lung So Tong
Long Xu Tang in Mandarin
they still sell some near the peak
mainland 龙须糖
They only sell this at my country during Chinese New Year... or at the temple. Lol and guys please try this is so good I'm not even kidding
Saw a street vendor doing this years ago. I always wanted to try my hand at it. Thanks for the tutorial.
Or, instead of hand pulling it, just eat the puck.
Finally a person of quality
If that's the texture you like, then go for it.
well, doing that, you have an unflavored jolly rancher, instead of cotton candy.
I prefer to stimulate things with my hands before I put them into my mouth.
OMG lol
Can you use cocaine instead of corn starch?
Fun fact sugar has the same make up as cocaine but off one molecule so just add that extra molecule
If u want to 😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well I mean....you can....o.o’
David Lessard I mean..... if you want it’s just super expensive
This video just took me back 22 years when I used to live in Macau/HK. There used to be this pulled cotton candy cart right outside by the TurboJet ferry terminal in HK. It's probably not there anymore lol. Good times... The elderly man sold them in a tiny plastic box with like 6 or 8 cubed-shaped, pulled cotton candy with like a peanut or black sesame filling. I don't really remember exactly, but it was definitely a treat when you're only 6 yo.
This is just so satisfying
Much patience...very kewl.
The taste of victory
SharkByte GD 1ABZBNBZG.BBBBA
Taste of heart problems
I always enjoy these diabetes friendly recipes
Uffeman 😂😂😂😂 you are hilarious
It's diabetes friendly, when your blood sugar is low!
1000 grams of sugar. So healthy for diabetes
There's a kid at my school like that.
@A Bookworm they were joking that the recipe is good for people with diabetes, it obviously isn't as its 99% sugar. also, diabetes is GENETIC for both types, though type 2 can be caused by a bad diet
Where has this channel been my whole life!?!? Glad this showed up on my suggested!!! EATER jus got a New Subscriber
Excellent. Well done.
I wanna do this just for the satisfaction of pulling the stings
"For this ancient Chinese recipe, you're gonna need some corn syrup."
ArkadeZach I do hope you know that putting something in quotes like that implies that it's a thing he actually said, which he didn't. He didn't call it an ancient Chinese recipe, because it isn't one, he called it a technique that can also be used on sugar, and you can utilize a microwave. Seriously, it's not that hard to pay a fraction of your attention to what the content creator says before quoting them.
I'm glad my comment depicting an exaggerated summary of the contents of this video required such a didactic response, missing my joke entirely.
ArkadeZach If it was a joke, sorry, guess it wasn't funny enough for my sleep deprived brain. Just sounded like more idiotic white noise of pedantic people complaint about an awesome technique used to make awesome treats.
Neph Drummond It's okay. CZcams comments really are just the worst, I totally get it.
Yay I wish more CZcams comment arguments were like that, made my day
Thanks! I applaud you for showing us exactly how to do this too. I'm going to try I really want to make some candy for Christmas baskets this year that's different 💖💖💖💖
Cotton candy is my all time favorite sweet ever . I definitely have to try this
In Indonesia we called it 'rambut nenek' (grandma's hair)
bohong
5 2/3 cups of sugar. 1/2 or half cup of corn syrup. Saved you the trouble 😉
Calum Goetz Thanks
Calum Goetz thanks
Bro I did it with these proportions and it won't harden. What did I do wrong?
Thank you!
Nevermind I'm a moron I didn't see the five
Programmers are geeking listening to him count the strands...
Until he gave up on 8k but basically yes
Classic base 2
this was awesome
I just went out and bought a candy thermometer to do this
did it work?
@@reddestcherry kind of, it's really hard to make it so it doesn't crack, I got it to 75% work
For anyone who doesn't have access to a scale, you can use 1180 ml of sugar, and 1/3 cup of corn syrup and one tsp of vinegar
Dingle Berries, life saver
Don't even need the corn syrup. What you're looking for is a mixture of glucose and fructose. Table sugar is sucrose, which is glucose and fructose bound as a single molecule. Adding an acid (the vinegar) breaks the link in sucrose and creates inverted sugar, aka a mixture of glucose and fructose, aka corn syrup. So basically, you could do this recipe using corn syrup alone, or you could use only table sugar (sucrose), and convert it to glucose+fructose using an acid. Vinegar is used as the acid, but you could also use lemon juice, citric acid or cream of tartar.
Thank u
So about 5 cups?
Amazing!! Fantastic!
This looks more easy than I thought it was!!
Nice video! Subbed!
Eudaemonius MarkII why is this on my recommended I hate things like this it's just too boring
Thunder Likes To Play Then why click on it if you find something that's pretty amazing boring? :/
Eudaemonius MarkII FYI he's doing it wrong...just look up dragons hair candy and watch an Chinese dude do it
@Kyle Schlapkohl , or you could commend him for attempting a difficult thing and making a nice watchable video.
Not only that, he has inspired others to try it at home too. Don't tear people down, inspire them to do more, be more.
Cooking with science. Interesting and I want more so I subscribed 😊.
Joon Smiths thanks for likes 😊.
gaju masarre I did to #lol I am going to do that thing he is doing and I subscribed
Felicia Keisha let's see how interesting videos we get from this channel 😊.
Wish I could do this in class
Byrd H I also want to do bro 😊.
Well done. I'll try it. Thank you for sharing.
Impressive! Hand made exponential growth.
This is probably what we call it dragon hair candy in China
Cheung Carl gonna be honest it looks more like an old man's beard from those slightly rascist American kungfu movies though
whats up dammit man😂😂
That's actually true
He said that in the video
Cheung calling it the Dragon's Beard is correct
龍鬚糖 - with
龍 (Dragon) , 鬚(Beard) and 糖(Sugar/Candy)
It says that right in the video description.
I'm gonna try this
Totally Amazing
Incredible!
Ooh yummy! I want to do this but I don't have a device to measure the temperature haha.
In Turkey we also do one of our dessert in the same way.
I know pismaniye we have it in germany too I could eat a whole bucket of this😍
@@hajra637 Yess 😁 you know it.
Wow! What is it called?
@@Ir1sss_ pişmaniye
The pismaniye was the first to be invented and the chinese one was just derived from it... i donno how it's called 'ancient chinese'
This is beautiful.
it looks so soft
"i'm listening to the sugar" yeah same dude
"Let's cook." - Walter White
Karl Månsson this comment is everything.
That is awesome!
Looks so nice
all part of a whole balanced meal
Dragon's beard candy, the ring should be cut into small pieces and wrapped around crushed peanuts, sesame seeds, crunched chocolate, or coconut inside. But you got the hardest part done anyway.
Pretty satisfying
Nice. Subscribed to you're awesome channel bro. Keep up the great work.
This was oddly satisfying 😂
1:41 ok today we will make some crystal meth
So cool!
XD this dude is keeping count of each flip knowing me I would have forgotten easily
he is now my favorite food person thingy
Alex Santi
There is only one person that I have found as fascinating to watch as I have Alton Brown., and that would be you, Clifford Endo. Wow, I was amazed watching this. I am now subscribed.
its so beautiful
Yeah I'm not sure I'd consider this cotton candy. Like it says in the description, but not the title- This is Dragon's Beard.
Same thing dumb dumb, it’s just strung out crystal sugar. I bet you think left and right Twix bars are actually different as well lmao.
I bet you think toast and pizza dough is the same thing.
coolio diablo Of course they are, one is on the left, the other is on the right :p
Actually they are the same thing, this is just done by hand. A cotton candy machine just pulls the sugar strands much finer
Can you store the pucks for later? if so, how long? p.s those strands make me think of Falkor and making one with them.
Alessandro Scott for several years if you want
Cheetah Kek its sugar keep it sealed and cool/dark and ur good2go for years
Tukukado or could freeze it for longer, sugar preserves very well it doesn't go bad in a dry or frozen state
I bet the texture of this is so cool to eat
Thank you
Looks like tana mongues bleached hair extensions
NA NA NA NA BOO BOO! Lol
NA NA NA NA BOO BOO! Inhale
Nooooo😂😂😂😂😂😂💀
0:31 "A thousand grams of Sugar" HAHAHAHA... a.k.a ONE KILO everywhere else but U.S
Man you are incredible..Thanks..a million !!!
Awesome video
4:52 You can make dessert candy pasta!😋
So you basically just told us how to eat sugar after a ton of work
You could say that about LITERALLY ALL CANDY.
[sic] ikr
You gain back the calories you burned
Amazing! I didn't even know this was possible to do by hand.
I like this,
Good stuff!
I can appreciate this labor intensive method I just would never want cotton candy that badly.
It would probably be a fun thing to teach kids to help them understand exponents.