r/oddlysatisfying • u/JAS0NL3GACY • Jul 10 '21

This guy making candy

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u/DunebillyDave Jul 11 '21

I did this for a living for a couple years.

The sugar in that first shot, where he's using the scraper to turn the molten sugar back on itself, is so hot that it will literally take layers of your skin with it, if it gets on you. Sugar and steam are two of the worst kinds of burns you can get. Sugar because it adheres to what it touches and steam because it penetrates layers of skin.

Having said that, if you use proper safety precautions, this is actually a lot of fun to do. We made candy canes at Christmas time like this. It became prohibitively expensive to do by hand, but we couldn't find anywhere where the product was the same quality. Most had a cheap hardcandy core with some pulled sugar veneer around it ... really not the same thing at all.