Key insights

• ⚙️ Workers blend synthetic rubber, resin, thickener, preservative, and oils to make bubblegum centers, then steam the mixture at 300°F for four hours and add sugar, coloring, and flavoring after cooling.
• 🍬 A large amount of gum is prepared for jawbreakers, while leftover gum is sweetened with corn syrup and flavored with lemon, orange, strawberry, and grape.
• 🍭 The gum-making process involves adding icing sugar for smoothness, shaping the batter into tubes, creating air pockets, and slicing the tubes into segments.
• 🔵 The process of making jawbreakers includes shaping them into different-sized balls, cooling and firming the candy centers, and using a machine similar to those for making pills.
• ⏳ Making a jawbreaker involves compressing powdered candy into layers, coating them multiple times, and taking four days to complete the process.
• 🌈 A company creates jawbreakers with a psychedelic look, 10 layers of flavor, and high sugar content, then adds carnauba wax for a shiny finish. Each jawbreaker is as big as a billiard ball.

Q&A

• What are the special features of the jawbreakers created by the company?

  The company creates jawbreakers with a psychedelic look, 10 layers of flavor and high sugar content, and adds carnauba wax for a shiny finish. Each jawbreaker is as big as a billiard ball and contains 90% sugar.

• How long does it take to make a jawbreaker?

  Making a jawbreaker is a time-consuming process that involves compressing powdered candy into layers over four days, coating the candy centers with a mixture of water, corn syrup, food coloring, and dextrose, and repeating the coating process 10 times for each layer.

• Can you describe the process of making jawbreakers?

  The process of making jawbreakers includes shaping the candy into balls of different diameters, cooling the centers of the jawbreakers by blowing air through perforations in a tunnel, and using a machine to produce jawbreakers with hard candy centers.

• What are the key steps in the process of making gum?

  The process of making gum involves adding icing sugar, shaping the batter into hollow tubes, creating air pockets inside the tubes, and slicing the tubes into segments.

• What flavors are added to the leftover gum?

  The leftover gum is sweetened with corn syrup and flavored with natural and artificial flavors such as lemon, orange, strawberry, and grape.

• What are the main ingredients used to make bubblegum centers?

  The main ingredients used to make bubblegum centers include synthetic rubber, resin, thickener, preservative, oils, sugar, coloring, and flavoring.

• 00:19 Workers blend synthetic rubber with resin, thickener, preservative, and oils to make bubblegum centers. The mixture is steamed at 300 degrees Fahrenheit for four hours and then cooled before adding sugar, coloring, and flavoring.
• 00:54 A large amount of gum is prepared for jawbreakers, but some is left over; flavors such as lemon, orange, strawberry, and grape are added to the gum.
• 01:39 A process of making gum involves adding icing sugar, shaping batter into tubes, creating air pockets, and slicing the tubes into segments.
• 02:25 A description of the process of making jawbreakers, including shaping, cooling, and forming of the candy.
• 03:10 Making a jawbreaker is a sweet, time-consuming process that involves compressing powdered candy into layers over four days.
• 03:54 A company creates jawbreakers with a psychedelic look, 10 layers of flavor, and high sugar content, then adds carnauba wax for a shiny finish. Each jawbreaker is as big as a billiard ball.