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Making Cotton Candy Using a Bike
Posted by Adam Frucci at 7:20 AM on September 13, 2008
Who says you need to have a fancy carnival-worthy setup to make cotton candy? In China, they make cotton candy using a simple bike. There's propane underneath the apparatus, heating up the sugar, but then it's all spun around and stretched out by simple pedal power. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like they figured out a way to make fried dough or sausage with onions and peppers using only a bike, so you might still need to go to a fair to get those. [Make]
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
alastiar
Posted September 13, 2008 11:43 PM
awww i miss those old day :D
Darkest Daze
Posted 7:51 AM 13/9/08
There goes my health
Darkest Daze
RE-L
Posted 7:39 AM 13/9/08
Ah, I miss cotton candy.
RE-L
MySaturdaySelf
Posted 7:34 AM 13/9/08
i never thought a tiny thing i see everyday when I was five years old would appear in a American website twenty years later..
MySaturdaySelf
DisposableInterloper
Posted 7:28 AM 13/9/08
That picture kinda reminds me of Eastern European markets, only with Chinese people.
DisposableInterloper
HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak
Posted 7:26 AM 13/9/08
Very nice.
Our local fair this year was depressing -- no fresh-spun cotton candy in sight. Only that crappy manufactured stuff that comes in bags.
HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak
Tweak
Posted 7:24 AM 13/9/08
I want one
Tweak
krystar
Posted 8:16 AM 13/9/08
.....damn this is old news. they used to do this when i was a kid in china. that was like ....25 years ago.
and let me also tell you about the sweet potato vendors. mmmmm they were soo good. and it was sold out of a simple metal 30 or 55gal drum chopped in half.
krystar
Xavoc
Posted 8:11 AM 13/9/08
Up until I had to do this myself, I never realized exactly how much of an art form cotton candy really is.
But that's damn cool if you ask me. Take that stuff to a street fair and booyah! Blowing out the fresh cotton to the kids and ladies. Oh yeah!
That's a pretty ingenius concept, but it's missing the large protection screen that keeps hot cotton candy from being slung at bystanders/it from being sneezed on...
Xavoc
marc_wtih_a_c
Posted 8:37 AM 13/9/08
Just hope you don't hit that guy in the street driving home...kablam goes the propane tank.
If he made the propane tank run the bike as well that would be awesome!
marc_wtih_a_c
russdogg
Posted 8:37 AM 13/9/08
@Kakkoister: Ever since they got placed on the end of sticks.
russdogg
Kakkoister
Posted 8:32 AM 13/9/08
Since when does cotton candy float like balloons?
lol..
Kakkoister
bosskev
Posted 8:30 AM 13/9/08
@MySaturdaySelf: Please keep your NSFW musings to yourself.
Umm, what's that? Oh, I see. You were talking about the cotton candy device, weren't you. Sorry.
bosskev
Xavoc
Posted 8:51 AM 13/9/08
@Xavoc: In fact, the tanks are basically welded in half, which is where they split most easily. Last I knew they did not have a habit of fragmenting upon explosion, just split down the weld typically.
Xavoc
Xavoc
Posted 8:49 AM 13/9/08
@marc_wtih_a_c: Propane is actually fairly low speed in explosive force. Doesn't make all that good of an IED device.
Xavoc
Curves
Posted 10:07 AM 13/9/08
Ah...cotton candy...The EPIC sugar buzz and inevitable crash that follows. Makes me wish I had some right now.
Curves
BiZarRroBALlmeR
Posted 4:01 AM 14/9/08
Can I get a candy Apple?
BiZarRroBALlmeR
bencahyadi
Posted 4:30 PM 14/9/08
in fact, you can see cotton candies made with using bicycle in almost every country in Asia.
bencahyadi
djangopool9
Posted 1:24 PM 15/9/08
@bencahyadi:
second that, nothing new here..
djangopool9