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- This is 16K strands of dragon beard's candy guys.
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Look at that.
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Hi, I'm Inga.
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Today we're gonna try and make this super cool looking cotton candy called dragon beard's candy.
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This candy originated from China, apparently ancient emperors used to eat this.
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Think of cotton candy that's made purely from your hands.
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That's pretty cool.
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Success rate is super, super low,
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but we're still gonna give it a shot.
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Let's do it.
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The ingredients are pretty simple.
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It's basically just sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar, and water.
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Sugar, water, corn syrup, vinegar, maltose.
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You put them all in this pot, boil them up until it becomes this sticky, gooey liquid
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that we're then gonna shape into candy.
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I also got burn relief gel because I wasn't sure if I would burn myself.
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So one step at a time.
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If I remember correctly what I was supposed to do.
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So sugar first.
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Ooh hoo hoo.
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Get every single bit.
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Maltose.
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Super gooey.
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That's what it looks like.
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From the videos and the recipes I saw,
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I'm supposed to turn this on and then not stir it.
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If you stir it, the sugar's gonna crystallize,
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and if it crystallizes, you're screwed.
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And that is a big no-no.
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Oh my god.
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Okay, so now I'm supposed to just leave it running.
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I'm not the most patient person in the world, so.
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It's about 225, looks like a little volcano.
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You can only look at it, which is what I'm doing.
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Looking at it.
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But it's so slow.
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I think I might have cooked it for too long.
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It's 277, I don't know if we're screwed.
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I'm gonna pour this into this silicon mold.
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Oh my god.
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Okay.
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Oh that was not a good idea.
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We're going to let it cool down for a little bit.
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We are back in business.
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The cornstarch is to keep it from sticking together.
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Here we go.
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I think it's ready.
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Ooh, look at that.
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This is what it looks like right now.
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Very, very pliable.
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We're gonna poke a hole through this,
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cover it in starch, ooh.
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That feels nice.
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We're gonna shape it into a ring.
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Keep doing this, and then twisting it.
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One ring becomes two rings, two rings become four rings,
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up until we get to 16,000 rings.
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If that sounds really ambitious, it is.
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How it looks so far.
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Ahh.
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Twist it, now we have two rings.
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So we're gonna keep pulling it.
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Oh my god.
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In the trash.
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Guess that means we're gonna do another one.
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Here we go.
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Nope.
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This means we have to come back, redo the sugar.
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All right.
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Next time, you can cut.
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It's after work now, I'm just gonna keep on doing this.
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Can't just give up.
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My dad didn't bring me up like that.
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I cooked the sugar less this time.
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Last time I couldn't even get it this big.
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Feels good.
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Stretchy, stretchy.
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One to two.
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Two to four.
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Ooh, look at that.
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It's stretching, there's no cracks.
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I think it might actually work.
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Four plus four.
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Eight to 16.
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It definitely feels very flexible.
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32, right?
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Oh my god, this is so much better than the first batch.
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Maybe they just don't want me to succeed in front of people.
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32 plus 32 is 64.
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It looks like it's going somewhere!
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128.
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Pulling it, 256.
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Looks like it's working.
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512.
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1,024.
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You see that, I couldn't even get it past two last time.
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2,048.
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This is really working my muscles, 4096.
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8,192.
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So close.
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Last one.
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16,384.
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Yo, yeah.
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16K, I did it.
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Wha.
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Should we go one more?
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32,768.
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There it is.
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Look like a dragon's beard?
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This looks like a 400 thread count Egyptian cotton bed sheet.
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Now we're gonna fill it with peanut filling.
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Oh, I'm so excited.
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It looks like whiskers.
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Take a strand, put it in here.
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There's a tiny little bite right there.
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Does somebody wanna try this?
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It's really good.
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Yes.
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I did it, I feel like I just climbed a mountain
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and I'm at the very top.
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People who are professionals at this, what they do really is amazing.
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So that's another thing off of my bucket list.
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I've made the impossible cotton candy from ancient China.
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Let's see what we can do next.