Has anyone here ever made candy? I was wanting to get into it and my kind-of-but-not boyfriend bought me a candy thermometer and a tin-lined, hammered copper pot for Christmas, pic very related.
Is a tin-lined copper pot ideal for candy making? I've read about needing to clean and treat the tin lining with milk and having to re-tin the pot etc. I'll be the first to admit I don't know anything about it but is this a good purchase? Does anyone have any experience or advice?
Also, general copper pot and/or candymaking thread.
Wyatt Hughes
Sugar burns are the worst burns. You need balls of steel to make candy and perfect execution not to fuck your shit up.
I've seen some horrifying injuries in candy shops.
Isaac Campbell
>my kind-of-but-not boyfriend hold on a second, is this some "my wife's son" shit you're trying to start here?
Joseph Garcia
>my kind-of-but-not boyfriend Unless you elaborate, you don't deserve an answer
Luke Perry
Things are complicated between us right now, I'm not forcing a meme. If I'd just said my roommate bought me an expensive pot I thought it would have elicited questions but if I'd just said boyfriend and he saw the thread he would have been cross with me.
Now help with the pan?
Blake Murphy
Copper has the advantage that it is an extremely good heat conductor, only surpassed by silver. This way, you're able to control the temperature of the inner pot surface more directly, because there is little thermal inertia between it and the bottom surface where your heat source is. You want the temperature inside the pot to decrease as soon as possible when you turn off the heat (which is hopefully gas, not electric stove-top). If your pot has high thermal inertia, your sugar may burn or get too dark, cause the pot will stay hot for a long time even when you take it off the heat. Also, next time just say "you've been gifted a pot" and don't include the person who gave it to you.
Cooper Fisher
The term "fuckbuddy" has been in common use for years.
Carson Wilson
My main question is, is the tin safe for candy? I've read that the melting point of tin is only 450F and for hard candy you get dangerously close. I also found a page on Chowhound where someone ruined the tin lining on their copper pot making soft caramel, the tin blistering and bubbling.
So we're thinking we'll return it and get a bare copper pot? Is this ideal for candy?
Samuel Watson
I didn't realize mentioning the gifter would cause an uproar. Anyway, thanks for the advice from both of you. I will be returning the pot for a solid copper one, possibly thicker if I can find one in a similar price range.
It both is and isn't like that, not that it matters.
Does anyone have any good recipes or advice for candymaking while we're having this thread?
Jeremiah Martinez
I didn't even know homemade candy making was a thing. How do you even do it? If I wanted to get into it what would I start with?
Alexander Flores
>Anyway another one of those bogus 30-day "ban evasion" bans just expired on my account, and the psycho mod is probably going to wipe all my posts as soon as he discovers that, Took nearly 16 hours, psycho mod why are you so slow?
Noah Brooks
Just tell us what happened with your boyfriend, you dumb broad. It's obvious you want to talk about it, otherwise you'd've just put "someone" instead of that convoluted mess. So fess up, make the thread about what you really wanna talk about.
Parker James
Honestly, don't bother. As others have said, it's a hassle and you can pretty much fuck up that pan if it goes wrong, or worse, yourself. Sugar burns are not something to be laughed at.
It's also just not worth it, store-bought candy will be much better than anything you can make at home.
Try baking instead.
Nolan Cruz
He just got you a poison pot you cook anything in thst your gonna get sick
Joseph Reed
Are you a grill?
PLEASE BE IN Philadelphia
Wyatt Jones
user...
Charles Lopez
I used to make hard candy for about a semester in high school, its not too difficult but if you fuck up its going to hurt.
Heres my advice from my experience.
Use a wet brush to stop sugar crystals from forming on the side Dont mix the sugar too often dont punch candy sheets to break them, sugar glass is sharp get ready to lose some feeling in your finger tips, no real way to avoid this get high temperature gloves, the molten sugar could melt some regular gloves, and you DO NOT want any of it on your skin Dont pour the molten sugar over dried scorpion pepper flakes, dont. If you mess up and your sugar is too soft, just make taffy with it.
Thomas Howard
I was in a store recently and they advertised a copper pan. With a stainless steel interior and a aluminum core. Does the copper provide any benefit in this? From what I know the aluminium core wouldn't transfer heat as quickly as the copper so this pan just seems like an overpriced con.
Jonathan Wilson
>get ready to lose some feeling in your fingertips
How does that happen? Just the heat? How much feeling do you lose? Like, would you feel a paper cut?
Eli Edwards
Look, if you must know, he's a guy who I've had sex with a few times. But he doesn't want us to be in a relationship officially because he has Aspergers and will only tolerate one family member for each letter of the alphabet and he already has a 'g', his grandma. He already doesn't talk to his other grandma or grandfathers because of this so can't have a girlfriend.
Andrew Rodriguez
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Logan Diaz
Probably the same as callouses from playing guitar. You can get gloves, but sewing, cooking, music making, you will hurt your fingers and get callouses, that's just the deal.
Levi Baker
>what would I start with? By figuring out what the fuck you want to make. From there, find recipes.
Blake Gomez
Stupid bitch reeee
William Murphy
I can't breathe
Mason Edwards
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Alexander Hall
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Camden Turner
Does the "boyfriend" do anal?
Jason Long
either you have incredibly low self esteem., or those are some damn fine ass burgers.
Elijah Gomez
>my kind-of-but-not boyfriend >if I'd just said boyfriend and he saw the thread he would have been cross with me
Jeez. You're anonymous, on the slim chance he saw the thread he'd have had no idea it was you without those specifics.
William Hernandez
>he already has a 'g', his grandma. He already doesn't talk to his other grandma or grandfathers because of this so can't have a girlfriend.
So propose to him, become his fiancee.
James Price
What if he already has a father? Skip straight to the wedding and be his wife.
Tyler Turner
Call him "dad". Also that solution works too.
Robert Howard
Somebody please screen cap this thread. You know, for posterity.
James Sullivan
Fuck off, that guy who replied wasn't even OP, and it wasn't even that funny. It'll still get to the top of /r/Veeky Forums with 5000 upvotes though.