Also more than that there's an optimum temperature for the candy and how workable it is. So a shorter handle making it harder to turn would mean it would take longer to shape the candy creating more candies that aren't formed properly.
Steve has trained some great young people how to be experts at making old fashioned candy makers! Hate to see them leave once we get to know them a bit, but I love to see new people come and learn and grow in skill! The Andreanos family keeping old fashioned candy making alive for over 100 years!
I'll have to say again that Julia has just slipped into the groove and has become a natural as a candy maker and has become a Valuable asset to the Hercules process of candy makers! Proud of you!!!
It's amazing to learn the process of candy making, it really is an art. I'm beginning to learn through your videos just how much time and care this takes.
The ASMR possibilities are really up there. I really love with listening to the sound of the bubbles popping as you pour the candy mixture onto the table. 3:12
Malic acid occurs naturally in fruits including apples and cherries. Because of this, malic acid is commonly referred to as "apple acid." Malic acid is produced in the metabolic cycles of humans, plants, and animals
I love your videos. My family never sold their candy for profit, mostly it was used for church fundraisers and holiday gifts. A lot of my favorite family memories focus around my grandmother teaching us about hardtack candy and how fun it was.
Longer handle for leverage, and less spins per run. A small handle you'd have to spin 3-4 times as many rotations, where as a longer one is just a few.
I'm assuming you need a long crank in order to get sufficient leverage to turn the gears. The shorter the crank, the more arm strength it will take to turn, while a long crank does most of the work for you.
It might be worth it to see if you guys can hook a motor up to the crank shaft. That way it would allow the person feeding the candy in and taking it out not to pause every time, switch hands and worry about consistent turning. Low power motors are pretty cheap and would save a lot of time and energy on the candy maker.
Craig did you finish renovationd the old house,like to see it now,. You add so much to the videos and explaining it so well. Hugs to all keep stirring the pots ,Lol
The handle is connected to a shaft that spins. To spin the shaft requires X amount of energy. If the length of the handle is 0, then to spin the shaft you need to provide X amount of energy all at once. The longer you make the handle, the easier it is to rotate the shaft because even though you still need X amount of energy to spin the shaft, You are now providing X amount of energy over a period of time (the radius of the circle created by the ends of the handle). Basically how gears work, a large gear, linked to a small gear, if you spin them they both complete a single rotation at the same time, however if you a providing the energy to the large gear, then the small gear is producing a large amount of torque, and vice versa.
I've seen people make pear drops with ye olde metal moulds in a local history museum here in the UK...pear drops are some yummyyyyy P.S. the colour of this one is so pretty!!
I would thing the longer handle serves two purposes: Added leverage to move the candy through the rollers, and better control of the speed of the candy through the rollers.
Love you guys! Tip for when you eat something too spicy, eat salt after. Learned this from a lovely gentleman in Mexico who took pity on me after I ate insane spice🤣
Not sure what you do with the cranberry candy broken bits but if they happened to find their way to some white chocolate I would totally buy it. All. Of it.
I would think "the longer the crank handle, the more power you can put into the roller through it", meaning you have a better chance at rolling candy that has gone cold and is about to set
Is the longer crank to make your hand go in a big enough circle that it rotates the gears at the correct time to line up correctly? Sorry if that doesn’t make sense but I’m assuming it has something to do with the diameter of the circle made when you crank it is related to the timing of the gears that are spinning because if it was too small the timing would be off and the gears/candy plates wouldn’t rotate together and mess up the candy shape?
Where the candy comes out off the press , then the chute , maybe extend the chute down to the table so you don’t have to worry about it doubling over where it meets the table.
I presume the door thing is because the candy is actively cooling down and being folded so the temperature variant may affect how fast the candy cools plus controlling humidity plus every time a door opens its an opportunity for a fly or something to get in
It's basically to give you leverage, if the candy cools before putting it through the roller it would be to difficult to turn if the handle was short 👍
Did you notice when you showed the stivers candy store over the spinning table they had a picture just like Terry's of Lucy & Vivian working the candy line
They need to hold the finished piece and guide it out so it doesn't fold on itself. Maybe it's difficult to crank and be on the end of a longer finished piece? Defo worth a try though ❤
You guys should take all the sharp scraps from each batch and grind them up fine and make kinda like pixie sticks.. Each batch could be the flavor of them.. It would save on waste and its another item you can sell!!!
Steve loves making candy for sure. Its in his blood, but its time to relax and let the kids take over. Go enjoy a nice cold beer 🍻🍺 and remince on some good times.
Do you bottle up the sprinkles that fall through the grate and sell them as flavored candied dust/sprinkles for confection decorating, like cakes or cupcakes? I would love to purchase some is so. Probably not the only one…
I love cranberries. they are a very yummy fruit. As for malic acid it is found in fruits like blueberries, apricots and many other non-citrus fruits. Malic acid is much milder in taste than citric acid.
Couldn't you add a honey spout that can securely close to the bottom of a 5 or 7 gallon bucket and then allow the corn syrup to drain into the kettle on the scale? ou might have to raise the bucket up higher to drip into the kettle
@15:17 its painful to watch him run each time, do three then drag them as a pair to the other side, or when youre waiting on a pull, way more efficient.
13:18 - This one doesn't matter because it's not two flavors" But it's two different textures, and it's going through the roller mostly sideways in this video. Wouldn't you want to make sure it stays at least somewhat straight so that you can have both textures on every piece? You're gonna have some people winding up with more hard pieces, and some with more aerated bits that are ready to crumble.
Since you are shaking off the edges of the round candies. You could crush quite finely and sell Cranberry flavoured sugar for people to sprinkle with or put in their coffee?
It's paraffin wax Craig. Thats the type of wax that's food grade. Also the crank is so long because of physics. A shorter crank would be much harder to turn because it has less leverage.
So I will say that u guys make great hard candy it helped me stop smoking and not after 1 year it helped me stop drinking all my family in minneosta order me your candy so I stay sober and clean tie die hard candy my #1 so far
I am curious why the candy isn’t rolled through in one continuous strand. I thought when I saw them do this before it was one continuous piece similar to the ribbon candy process.
Would it be possible to replace the handle with a small electric motor? That may make the candy easier to handle since the one working it will have a free hand to feed and catch. Just watch your fingers!
Have you ever played with the brittle recipes? Like maybe add flavours that compliment peanuts or cashews, like grape with peanut or maple syrup with cashew?
my guess is that the moisture content in those flavorings or additions would be too high, causing the brittle to become sticky and for the nuts to go stale quicker
there may be powdered flavoring out there, that might help keep down the moisture content, but those might not mix in without lumps so easily, so quality control on candy made with those might be tough to do...@@HerculesCandy
This has nothing to do with anything, but I was watching a movie with Mark Ruffalo in it and I kept thinking, "who does he remind me of?" It was starting to annoy me that I couldn't figure it out. Then I realized: it was Steve.
For me rounded drops, and discs are scary. As a cub, I had a peppermint round drop lodge in my throat. Same happened with discs. Pure, absolute terror.
That happened to me at about 7 yrs old. My uncle poured fresh hot coffee down my throat and it melted it enough to slide down. Burnt me and scared me so bad. But he saved me.
Isnt it because of the rotation would be off , which would cause the teeth of the round pieces wouldn't be smooth..i can't explain it properly because I don't know the names of the components
As the candy goes thru the machine it cools down. If the handle was shorter it would be harder for the person turning the handle to crank the candy thru esp. At the end of the candy. Before they had the heaters!
Happy max and your moms brother moved on to bigger things but wish they would come back to say hi in a vid or maybe do a puzzle as you all as charectures
Thought you guys might get a kick out of this. A comment about the wax.if that's paraffin, I grew up calling it doorwax. Because it's what we use on our sliding glass doors. You should have seen my face when I found out my grandmother puts it in her buckeye candy at Christmas time 😂
The longer crank handle is because this model roller doesn’t have power steering.
SO FUNNY! I just seen it when he says something about re commenting and I had to go see if you commented!
Longer handle = more torque = easier to turn with load
The longer handle gives you more mechanical advantage, like a lever. If it were shorter, it would make it harder to turn.
i came here to leave this comment and im glad someone beat me to it !
Also more than that there's an optimum temperature for the candy and how workable it is. So a shorter handle making it harder to turn would mean it would take longer to shape the candy creating more candies that aren't formed properly.
I was also going to say this...however someone beat me to the punch
Steve has trained some great young people how to be experts at making old fashioned candy makers! Hate to see them leave once we get to know them a bit, but I love to see new people come and learn and grow in skill! The Andreanos family keeping old fashioned candy making alive for over 100 years!
Steve does it like it's his job!
@@HerculesCandy
Is making toffee the same procedure as making candy?
I'll have to say again that Julia has just slipped into the groove and has become a natural as a candy maker and has become a Valuable asset to the Hercules process of candy makers! Proud of you!!!
I really like Julia. She's fun to listen to and very thorough when she works. Thanks for another fun vidya, Craig.
PLEEEEASE tell Julia that I very much so appreciate her thoroughness in scraping-out the copper pot?!😃👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
That was very satisfying
@@olduglyentwife5700 Indeed!😊
I was watching that and thinking "Steve must be proud!"
@@Riyo_R For sure!😃
I would listen to Julia narrate audiobooks or bedtime stories forever! 😴😊
Craig can you tell Julia ,I’m so proud of how well she is doing , she is an A1 candy maker ❤🍬🍭
Needed this video today, had surgery and need a pain distraction! Thanks for all the hard work you all do. 😊
Have you thought of combos to the cranberry like the juice? I think cranberry orange would be yummy.
It's amazing to learn the process of candy making, it really is an art. I'm beginning to learn through your videos just how much time and care this takes.
The ASMR possibilities are really up there. I really love with listening to the sound of the bubbles popping as you pour the candy mixture onto the table. 3:12
Malic acid occurs naturally in fruits including apples and cherries. Because of this, malic acid is commonly referred to as "apple acid." Malic acid is produced in the metabolic cycles of humans, plants, and animals
I love your videos. My family never sold their candy for profit, mostly it was used for church fundraisers and holiday gifts. A lot of my favorite family memories focus around my grandmother teaching us about hardtack candy and how fun it was.
I really like that old time candy press! So neat!
Longer handle for leverage, and less spins per run. A small handle you'd have to spin 3-4 times as many rotations, where as a longer one is just a few.
I'm assuming you need a long crank in order to get sufficient leverage to turn the gears. The shorter the crank, the more arm strength it will take to turn, while a long crank does most of the work for you.
Need a Candy Only Dust Pan that would scoop off the counter better than the bulky scoop.
Great to see the roller making such a large volume without getting too warm and the candy sticking to it
Doing this for as many years as you have shows just how much love you have for it.
What happens with the sugar powder and sharp edges after sifting? Have you thought of selling it as an ice cream topping or something like that?
Or make chocolate bars with them mixed in!
Oh! Or save up the flash and make bark with white chocolate! Colorful and tasty like all of the hard candies they make.
They do a similar thing with their nut brittle leftover bits so I'm sure something will come in the future.
I think they use it in some of their chocolate barks.
We will support you all. Keep working hard.
Thank you Sophia! 🙏
I have a daughter who lives in Fulton so on my next visit I must come visit your shop. I love watching you all make candy.
Please do!
All the dust from cleaning up the sharp edges could be used in bark. Like the orange cream bark, the raspberry bark, and peppermint bark
That glob dropped into the copper pot is always satisfying ❤❤❤
It might be worth it to see if you guys can hook a motor up to the crank shaft. That way it would allow the person feeding the candy in and taking it out not to pause every time, switch hands and worry about consistent turning. Low power motors are pretty cheap and would save a lot of time and energy on the candy maker.
Always a beautiful sight when candy is being made
Craig did you finish renovationd the old house,like to see it now,. You add so much to the videos and explaining it so well. Hugs to all keep stirring the pots ,Lol
Haven't started it yet 🙃 my real estate partner and I bought a real money pit, so hopefully next summer
The handle is connected to a shaft that spins. To spin the shaft requires X amount of energy. If the length of the handle is 0, then to spin the shaft you need to provide X amount of energy all at once. The longer you make the handle, the easier it is to rotate the shaft because even though you still need X amount of energy to spin the shaft, You are now providing X amount of energy over a period of time (the radius of the circle created by the ends of the handle). Basically how gears work, a large gear, linked to a small gear, if you spin them they both complete a single rotation at the same time, however if you a providing the energy to the large gear, then the small gear is producing a large amount of torque, and vice versa.
the color of cranberry is so beautiful.
Watching this is making my mouth water!
Oh snap! Cranberry!
I love Cranberries! ❤️ 😍
Oooh put the shake (small pieces) in white chocolate for cranberry cream bark
I've seen people make pear drops with ye olde metal moulds in a local history museum here in the UK...pear drops are some yummyyyyy P.S. the colour of this one is so pretty!!
...reason the doors need to be shut, the strong flavors permeate the wrapped chocolate on the sales floor
CRAIG working hard! 😂
I would thing the longer handle serves two purposes: Added leverage to move the candy through the rollers, and better control of the speed of the candy through the rollers.
The longer handle helps with leverage. Also if it was shorter they'd have to turn it more on top of it being harder to turn.
Beautiful old machine! That was soothing to listen too also. Very neat!
A longer handle allows for more leverage and allows the user to use less energy to turn the crank.
Love you guys! Tip for when you eat something too spicy, eat salt after. Learned this from a lovely gentleman in Mexico who took pity on me after I ate insane spice🤣
I would have never guessed that!
Yup my friend from New Orleans said the same it works
Not sure what you do with the cranberry candy broken bits but if they happened to find their way to some white chocolate I would totally buy it. All. Of it.
Thanks again for another great vlog
I would think "the longer the crank handle, the more power you can put into the roller through it", meaning you have a better chance at rolling candy that has gone cold and is about to set
I ordered the butterscotch hard candy, and I’m hooked! Love watching your channel.
Save the sharp edges and bag them as candy topper for cakes, ice cream, etc. 😊
That flavor sounds so good. 🍭
It really needed it's own bag!
Is the longer crank to make your hand go in a big enough circle that it rotates the gears at the correct time to line up correctly? Sorry if that doesn’t make sense but I’m assuming it has something to do with the diameter of the circle made when you crank it is related to the timing of the gears that are spinning because if it was too small the timing would be off and the gears/candy plates wouldn’t rotate together and mess up the candy shape?
The big handle acts like a Large Cog. It makes the smaller cogs rotate more times than the handle goes round. Like gears on a bicycle.
Been watching for years now.. Julia is a pleasure to watch 🙊
These are so pretty 😍 you guys should make some coconut cashew clusters, amazing combo! Lots of love from New Zealand 🇳🇿 ❤
They should do a pie mix of hard candy
Pumpkin
Banana cream
Chocolate moose
Apple
Could be like a Thanksgiving bundle
Ohhhh interesting idea!
Don't forget coconut cream pie! One of my favorites!
Can we appreciate Steve’s watch. Looks like a digital seiko watch from the 80’s
Leah's apron is so COOL!!!
Where the candy comes out off the press , then the chute , maybe extend the chute down to the table so you don’t have to worry about it doubling over where it meets the table.
It has a longer handle because it provides more leverage to roll the candy threw if it had a smaller handle it would be harder to turn
Ooo, I love cranberry! A mix of cranberry and orange would be fantastic.
I presume the door thing is because the candy is actively cooling down and being folded so the temperature variant may affect how fast the candy cools plus controlling humidity plus every time a door opens its an opportunity for a fly or something to get in
It's basically to give you leverage, if the candy cools before putting it through the roller it would be to difficult to turn if the handle was short 👍
Did you notice when you showed the stivers candy store over the spinning table they had a picture just like Terry's of Lucy & Vivian working the candy line
Love you Hercules Candy! Question, why don't you put longer pieces through the candy drop roller? ❣
That’s what I was thinking. I would just keep doing one long rope through it. 😂
But that’s why I’m watching and not making! 🤪
They need to hold the finished piece and guide it out so it doesn't fold on itself. Maybe it's difficult to crank and be on the end of a longer finished piece? Defo worth a try though ❤
You guys should take all the sharp scraps from each batch and grind them up fine and make kinda like pixie sticks.. Each batch could be the flavor of them.. It would save on waste and its another item you can sell!!!
Longer crank gives you more power so it's easy and smooth turning
Steve loves making candy for sure. Its in his blood, but its time to relax and let the kids take over. Go enjoy a nice cold beer 🍻🍺 and remince on some good times.
the long handle creates leverage making it easier to roll the candy out. Or as my son says it every time he helps Dad change a tire "LEVERAGE BABY".
You guys have a drop roller now, that's great! :)
Cranberry pearls. They remind me of 'pop beads' that I played with many years ago.
Do you bottle up the sprinkles that fall through the grate and sell them as flavored candied dust/sprinkles for confection decorating, like cakes or cupcakes? I would love to purchase some is so. Probably not the only one…
I love cranberries. they are a very yummy fruit. As for malic acid it is found in fruits like blueberries, apricots and many other non-citrus fruits. Malic acid is much milder in taste than citric acid.
It's fall and I'm watching you to gear up for my candy making season!
Couldn't you add a honey spout that can securely close to the bottom of a 5 or 7 gallon bucket and then allow the corn syrup to drain into the kettle on the scale? ou might have to raise the bucket up higher to drip into the kettle
I’m guessing the corn syrup has to be warmed so it will pour.
those candies rainbowed would be so cool
A shorter crank would mean you would have to crank twice as much to get the same distance. The longer crank mean less rotations for the same result
You know your stuff!
Don’t you want the two toned candy to be half and half? So put it through the roller with one color on top and one color on the bottom?
I know other candy makers use a fry basket to separate the candy from the shards.
He could just put a spigot at the bottom of the 5 gallon. Or get a 10-20 gallon and put one on that
@15:17 its painful to watch him run each time, do three then drag them as a pair to the other side, or when youre waiting on a pull, way more efficient.
13:18 - This one doesn't matter because it's not two flavors"
But it's two different textures, and it's going through the roller mostly sideways in this video.
Wouldn't you want to make sure it stays at least somewhat straight so that you can have both textures on every piece?
You're gonna have some people winding up with more hard pieces, and some with more aerated bits that are ready to crumble.
Since you are shaking off the edges of the round candies. You could crush quite finely and sell Cranberry flavoured sugar for people to sprinkle with or put in their coffee?
It's paraffin wax Craig. Thats the type of wax that's food grade. Also the crank is so long because of physics. A shorter crank would be much harder to turn because it has less leverage.
what are you doing with the "dust"/"sprinkles" that get left under the sieve?
have you tried making a teeny ramp where the strip comes out this might avoid the need to change hands to catch it coming out the other side?
Blue raspberry, strawberry banana and tart cranberry all sold out🥺
That just means we'll make them all again soon. Make sure to click the email when available button!
So I will say that u guys make great hard candy it helped me stop smoking and not after 1 year it helped me stop drinking all my family in minneosta order me your candy so I stay sober and clean tie die hard candy my #1 so far
Woohoo, using the new (old) candy making tool! 😊
You know it!
Gamecock passing at 11:30.
I could be wrong, but Quick Steve's airplane looks a lot like a British Gloster Gamecock.
I am curious why the candy isn’t rolled through in one continuous strand. I thought when I saw them do this before it was one continuous piece similar to the ribbon candy process.
The ribbon candy isn’t one long continuous strand either though. It’s cut to length and then shaped
Would it be possible to replace the handle with a small electric motor? That may make the candy easier to handle since the one working it will have a free hand to feed and catch. Just watch your fingers!
Have you ever played with the brittle recipes? Like maybe add flavours that compliment peanuts or cashews, like grape with peanut or maple syrup with cashew?
We've done maple walnut brittle and smoked almond brittle, but we discontinued them because they were too sticky
my guess is that the moisture content in those flavorings or additions would be too high, causing the brittle to become sticky and for the nuts to go stale quicker
@@liannehoenderboom1018yeah, both of them needed a lot of liquid flavoring
there may be powdered flavoring out there, that might help keep down the moisture content, but those might not mix in without lumps so easily, so quality control on candy made with those might be tough to do...@@HerculesCandy
Really sensual on how she gets the candy ready for the crank
Love your candy!!!
This has nothing to do with anything, but I was watching a movie with Mark Ruffalo in it and I kept thinking, "who does he remind me of?" It was starting to annoy me that I couldn't figure it out.
Then I realized: it was Steve.
Who else wants a bag of the cranberry candy dust?
🙋♀️
should just use a large tray to crank them onto so you can move like 20 of them over to the end at a time instead of after each round of cranking.
For me rounded drops, and discs are scary. As a cub, I had a peppermint round drop lodge in my throat. Same happened with discs. Pure, absolute terror.
That happened to me at about 7 yrs old. My uncle poured fresh hot coffee down my throat and it melted it enough to slide down. Burnt me and scared me so bad. But he saved me.
Has anyone ever ordered for shipping to UK and are able to tell me how much roughly custom fees were for their order? Thanks
Isnt it because of the rotation would be off , which would cause the teeth of the round pieces wouldn't be smooth..i can't explain it properly because I don't know the names of the components
i have those same silicone bowls. they are awesome
Did you stop doing the ribbon deco on packing? I don't see it anymore.
As the candy goes thru the machine it cools down. If the handle was shorter it would be harder for the person turning the handle to crank the candy thru esp. At the end of the candy. Before they had the heaters!
Happy max and your moms brother moved on to bigger things but wish they would come back to say hi in a vid or maybe do a puzzle as you all as charectures
Thought you guys might get a kick out of this. A comment about the wax.if that's paraffin, I grew up calling it doorwax. Because it's what we use on our sliding glass doors. You should have seen my face when I found out my grandmother puts it in her buckeye candy at Christmas time 😂