We will show you how you can make cotton candy at home and make an apparatus for it from an ordinary fan with your own hands. For work we need 2 CDs, from which we cut out two "washers":
They are done easily and simply, something round is applied to the disk, for example a coin, we circle it with a marker. After that, we heat the clerical knife and easily cut out everything unnecessary. The hole in the center can be made with the help of one also heated on the stove.
To begin with, we take the remaining disc from us and glue our washers to it, this must be done strictly in the center, if we neglect this rule, our disc will vibrate, in the end nothing will work.
Our nozzle for the cotton candy machine is ready, now we turn to the fan. We put it on the floor and remove the protective cover, after that we remove the propeller. We take the middle box, make a round hole in its bottom:
Our apparatus for making cotton candy is ready, as you can see, everything is done by hand, very simple and at home. Now it remains to prepare the syrup.
do-it-yourself cotton candy apparatus
It is done very simply, put a large metal mug of water or a small saucepan over medium heat, add 50-50, sugar and water there, mix everything thoroughly. The syrup will be ready when a yellowish tint appears, but in no case should it be dark brown. Now we can proceed directly to the production of cotton candy, turn on our device and start pouring syrup onto the "disk" in small drops:
The result is excellent cotton candy, no worse than what you could taste in parks and at public events. After making cotton candy, the fan is easily assembled back.
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Apparatus for making cotton candy with your own hands
We are pleased to present you the drawings of the device and the cooking technology of "FESHMAK". It won't take you long to make the simplest device for making it.
Feshmak is a caramel-type product, popularly called "cotton candy", usually in the form of a bundle of elongated thin white threads.
Up to 80 servings of the finished product are formed from one kilogram of sugar.
The simplest design for making a feshmak at home with a capacity of about 160 portions per hour consists of a 220 V electric motor with a power of 50 to 300 W with a rotor speed of 1250 - 1500 rpm and a disc of sheet aluminum with a diameter of 170 - 180 mm and a thickness attached to its shaft 0.2 - 0.3 mm. To make a disc, you can use tin from a herring can. At a distance of 350 - 400 mm from the center of the disc, a fence made of plastic, linoleum, etc. is installed.
Cotton candy homemade
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If you seriously decided to start making a feshmak, we recommend using the design shown in fig. 1.
For its manufacture, it is necessary to use the materials provided for by GOST for the food industry.
Rice. 1
1- electric motor;
2 - working disk;
3 - container made of material recommended by GOST;
4 - bushing;
5 - rack on wheels (4 pcs.)
Rice. 2
Apparatus for making "feshmak":
1 - electric motor;
2 - electric cord;
3 - disc mounting bolt;
4 - the resulting cotton candy layer.
Note.
The design of the apparatus we have proposed reflects only the basic principle of the production of "cotton candy", it is elementary and easy to manufacture. If you wish, you yourself can improve the apparatus by mechanizing part of the manual labor.
Method for preparing cotton candy.
First you need to prepare the caramel mass. It is prepared without preparing molasses, which simplifies the cooking process. The mass is not sugar-coated due to the formation of invert sugar under the influence of vinegar essence added in the middle of cooking. So, in a small amount of water (about 3 parts of sand, 1 part of water) dissolve granulated sugar and boil for 10 minutes, after which vinegar essence is added (for 1 kg of sugar, 3 ml of essence) and the mass is boiled again for 10 - 12 minutes. After that, the mass is brought on very low heat for 25 - 30 minutes. until a strong caramel sample is obtained with a moisture content of 1.5 - 1.7%. Moisture is determined by the boiling point of the mass. At the beginning of the boil, it should be 100 - 105 ?, and at the end - 135 - 145 ?. Pour the finished mass without letting it cool down in a thin stream onto the edge of the rotating disc (2 - 4 mm from the edge). For this it is convenient to use a small enamelled ladle. The hot syrup, breaking into thousands of thin threads, solidifies at room temperature, forming a layer of "cotton wool".
If the ambient air humidity is high, it is impossible to obtain a high quality product. In this case, you can use the closure of the apparatus with a lid with an opening for pouring the caramel mass. Turn off the motor and separate the threads from the body. Cut the finished product along the diameter line and roll the resulting semicircle into a tube on the table. Do the same with the second semicircle. Then cut the cotton wool into the desired number of servings. The product should have a white color and a pleasant sweet taste. When food colors are used, the product takes on a more attractive appearance.
To maintain the high quality of "cotton wool", it is necessary to clean the disk from adhering syrup after each working cycle. Feshmak cannot be stored outdoors for a long time - this is its significant drawback. Sealed packaging and cold will keep it for a day or more.
Do not despair if the quality of the product does not suit you the first time. The main condition for success is the accuracy of each operation.
This material was taken from the site http://freeseller.ru
Cotton candy (or cotton candy) is cool, but quite expensive. And it looks completely insane to buy a machine for cotton candy in order to spoil yourself with this delicacy only occasionally. This project is assembled with your own hands very quickly from an intact pan and what may be lying around in your bins idle.
The main part of the apparatus for making cotton candy is a container with sugar and holes, which will heat up and rotate, and the melted sugar threads will fly out into these holes. This container will be inside the pot to prevent the sugar strands from scattering throughout the kitchen.
Step 1: Materials Required
To make a device for making cotton candy at home you will need:
- Turbo lighter - these lighters burn with a blue flame, the temperature of their fire is much higher than that of conventional gas lighters, and they do not contain soot. You need a lighter with a latching switch.
- Small electric motor (8 V possible).
- Battery for the engine (I used a pp3 battery - crown).
- Battery connector.
- Tin Can - I used a can of beans. Of course, a can of canned fish would fit better, but cotton candy would also have a fishy smell.
- To install the engine in a mini cotton candy machine - milk bottle caps.
- A deep pot or a clean bucket - the pot shown in the first photo was not large enough, and I ended up replacing it with another, larger one.
- Long stick, longer than the width of the pot. I used a runner from an old dishwasher.
- Threaded rod for stem (approx. 15 cm. I used a 10 cm hairpin, it should be longer than the height of the can.
- Small nut, bolt and washer. I took a steel bolt, it screwed perfectly into a soft brass tube.
Expendable materials:
- Sugar
- Bamboo skewers
- Fast acting epoxy
- Cling film
Instruments:
- Drill with a set of drills (including 1 mm or less)
- Soldering Station
- Needle files
- Tin scissors or can opener
Step 2: stabilize the lighter
The lighter that I used in the typewriter was very unstable. And due to the fact that it was filled from the bottom, I could not just put it on epoxy.
In order to make a lighter stand, you need to wrap it in a couple of layers of cling film. Then mix the fast acting epoxy and fill the bottle cap with it, insert the lighter into the epoxy. After a few minutes, take out the lighter and peel off the cling film. you have a detachable base for a lighter.
Step 3: install the motor on the rail
The motor is connected to the pan using a threaded rod, for this a hole has been drilled on one side of the rod for the motor shaft. Such a hole is very convenient to drill with a bench drill, but I did it by hand. Check if the drilled hole fits the motor shaft.
On the other side of the stud, drill a hole slightly smaller than the diameter of the bolt you prepared. Secure the motor shaft in the hole with super glue.
Now you need to attach the motor to the rail. There was a hole in my dishwasher rail, which only needed to be slightly widened with a file. Drill two holes on the sides for the motor mounting screws.
Step 4: preparing the tin can
In this jar, sugar will heat up and melt, which means that it must be filled with sugar, fixed above the flame and quickly rotate around its own axis so that the melted sugar scatters around the jar.
The first step is to cut a hole in the lid. I used tin scissors and a file. To prevent the sugar from falling out over the edge, I left a small edge. Practice has shown that there is no need for it, which means that the lid can be easily cut out with an opener.
In any case, the edge of the cut must be processed with a file so as not to cut yourself. Then you need to drill holes in the wall of the can along the bottom. I used a 1 mm drill for this, and sugar crystals fly out into the holes. Therefore, it is advisable to use even less drill. I drilled holes about 1 cm apart.
Step 5: install the jar
Now screw the retaining screw into the drilled hole in the end of the threaded rod. If you have a tap to cut an internal thread of the right size, that's great, but if not, then it's okay - brass is a fairly soft metal, you can simply screw the screw into the hole.
Drill a hole in the bottom of the can and insert a motor stud into this hole. Screw on the nut to secure the jar to the hairpin, so it will rotate with the motor shaft hairpin.
The can, which is attached to the shaft, must be well above the flame of the lighter when placed on the pot.
Step 6: making cotton candy
The apparatus for the production of cotton candy is ready, now turn on the lighter, pour a couple of tablespoons of sugar into the jar and turn on the electric motor. Place the lighter under the edge of the can. As the jar heats up, the sugar will begin to melt and scatter through the holes in the jar and over the saucepan. Once you have a few strands of sugar, collect them on a bamboo skewer.
Many people ask, is it possible to make cotton candy yourself, or is it possible to make a cotton candy apparatus yourself?
I answer the first question: yes, of course! Even at home, you can make cotton candy with your own hands. To do this, it is enough to buy an electric motor, attach an analogue of a jet head (a can with a bunch of holes) to it and pour hot sugar syrup into the rotating head. At the exit, sweet sugar fiber will fly - if you collect it and wrap it on a stick, then there will be cotton candy. This is how it happens in the video:
Now we need to answer the second question: Is it possible to make a cotton candy machine with your own hands and make money on it?
Not everything is simple here: on the one hand, there are drawings of machines on the Internet that can (theoretically) produce cotton candy. And I can even cite one of them as an example - see photo
The design includes: an electric motor (from a washing machine), a disk (analogue of a jet head), bushings, a housing. It is interesting to read the description of the device:
“Any other can be used while maintaining the specified number of shaft revolutions. The disc is made of sheet aluminum, its diameter is 170 - 180 mm (and thickness is 0.2 - 0.3 mm. You can use tin from a can (from under herring). "
The process of cotton wool production is also very interestingly described:
“To prepare 8-10 standard portions, put 110 - 115 g of granulated sugar (20 - 22 lumps of sugar) into a small, preferably enameled dish. Pour this 120 - 150 ml of water and, without stirring, put on fire. After 5-10 minutes, the water will boil away, and the sugar will begin to turn a little yellow, a slight smell characteristic of burnt sugar will appear. Knock down the foam with horizontal movements of the bucket and pour the contents of the bucket in a thin stream onto the edge of a 2-4 mm disc that is already rotating. Hot syrup, breaking into thousands of thin threads, solidifies at room temperature.
Then turn off the engine, separate the threads from the body with a simple knife, cut the finished product along the diameter line and roll the resulting semicircle into a tube on the table. Do the same with the second semicircle and cut the cotton wool into the required number of servings. The use of food colors is possible.
To maintain the high quality of "cotton wool", it is necessary to clean the disk from the adhering syrup after each working cycle. When using two or three buckets at once, the manufacturing process becomes virtually continuous. Do not despair if the product is not of very high quality the first time, use the same mass again. "
As you can understand, a lot of difficulties await in the theory of the future vatokat. In practice, I am sure there will be even more of them - we must not forget that we work in the field trade and therefore the apparatus must be assembled and disassembled all the time. Unfortunately, in such conditions it is impossible to ensure the constant quality of products and a reasonable speed of cotton wool production.
Therefore, both answers to the second question are negative: it is impossible to make a cotton candy apparat with your own hands, and even more so, it will be impossible to make money on it!
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Introducing you drawings of a homemade apparatus for making cotton candy("Feshmak") and the technology of its preparation. It doesn't take you long to craft it.
Feshmak is a caramel-type product, popularly called "cotton candy", usually in the form of a bundle of elongated thin white threads.
Up to 80 servings of the finished product are formed from one kilogram of sugar.
The simplest design for making a feshmak at home with a capacity of about 160 portions per hour consists of a 220 V electric motor with a power of 50 to 300 W with a rotor speed of 1250 - 1500 rpm and a disc of sheet aluminum with a diameter of 170 - 180 mm and a thickness attached to its shaft 0.2 - 0.3 mm. To make a disc, you can use tin from a herring can. At a distance of 350 - 400 mm from the center of the disc, a fence made of plastic, linoleum, etc. is installed.
If you seriously decided to start making a feshmak, we recommend using the design shown in fig. 1.
For its manufacture, it is necessary to use the materials provided for by GOST for the food industry.
Drawings of the apparatus for producing cotton candy
Rice. 2 Apparatus for making cotton candy "feshmak":
1 - electric motor; 2 - electric cord; 3 - disc mounting bolt; 4 - the resulting cotton candy layer.
Note.
The design of the apparatus we have proposed reflects only the basic principle of the production of "cotton candy", it is elementary and easy to manufacture. If you wish, you yourself can improve the apparatus by mechanizing part of the manual labor.
Method for preparing cotton candy.
First you need to prepare the caramel mass. It is prepared without preparing molasses, which simplifies the cooking process. The mass is not sugar-coated due to the formation of invert sugar under the influence of vinegar essence added in the middle of cooking. So, in a small amount of water (about 3 parts of sand, 1 part of water) dissolve granulated sugar and boil for 10 minutes, after which vinegar essence is added (for 1 kg of sugar, 3 ml of essence) and the mass is boiled again for 10 - 12 minutes. After that, the mass is brought on very low heat for 25 - 30 minutes. until a strong caramel sample is obtained with a moisture content of 1.5 - 1.7%. Moisture is determined by the boiling point of the mass. At the beginning of the boil, it should be 100 - 105 ?, and at the end - 135 - 145 ?. Pour the finished mass without letting it cool down in a thin stream onto the edge of the rotating disc (2 - 4 mm from the edge). For this it is convenient to use a small enamelled ladle. The hot syrup, breaking into thousands of thin threads, solidifies at room temperature, forming a layer of "cotton wool".
If the ambient air humidity is high, it is impossible to obtain a high quality product. In this case, you can use the closure of the apparatus with a lid with an opening for pouring the caramel mass. Turn off the motor and separate the threads from the body. Cut the finished product along the diameter line and roll the resulting semicircle into a tube on the table. Do the same with the second semicircle. Then cut the cotton wool into the required number of servings. The product should have a white color and a pleasant sweet taste. When food colors are used, the product becomes more attractive.
To maintain the high quality of "cotton wool", it is necessary to clean the disk from adhering syrup after each working cycle. Feshmak cannot be stored outdoors for a long time - this is its significant drawback. Sealed packaging and cold will keep it for a day or more.
Do not despair if the quality of the product does not suit you the first time. The main condition for success is the accuracy of each operation.
You need an engine. Its power determines the size of all other parts of the apparatus, since the more powerful the engine, the larger. You can use an engine from a tape recorder or a washing machine.
It is necessary for the sugar that heats up during cooking, a sufficiently capacious bowl. Since it will heat up, the material must be safe and not melt from high temperatures.
The last necessary element is the power supply. It can be anything - or a 220V network.
This design reflects the manufacturing principle and can be modified and improved in any way desired.
Build process
The basis of a simple apparatus for making cotton wool will be a board. On it, to secure the engine, carnations are driven in, but you can attach the engine with wire.A simple tape-recorder motor with several holes and a small shaft is taken into the engine. The bowl is fixed on the shaft, and the slider is attached to the base using the holes.
The bowl is the most difficult element in the device for the production of cotton candy. You can use small corks - from beer or ketchup. You can use cans of Pepsi, beer, and other drinks, provided they are cut straight. Any items are sanded to remove all paint.
After that, a hole is made in the middle and many small holes are punched along the perimeter. In the second plug, a small hole is made in the middle and 4 more along the perimeter.
Using a wire, both parts are connected together. The upper part has a large hole in the middle, and the lower one has many small holes around the perimeter. The finished bowl is fixed to the engine. Now, in order to make the first batch of cotton candy, you just need to power the engine with an old charger.
To do this, cut off the plug from the charger (so it doesn't matter what kind the charger has) and strip the wires at the end. Connected to the motor, observing the polarity, included in the network. If the bowl moves without falling off, everything is done correctly.
Manufacturing process
You need sugar and a heat source. Sugar is poured into a bowl and heated to a fluid state. Then the device turns on and you can pick up thin cotton candy threads with a stick.With high air humidity, a good product will not work. In this case, you can develop a structure with a cover.
A lot of cotton wool cannot be made with such a device, but it will be enough to please children on Sundays.