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My name is Robert Lamb.

Today is Saturday, so we have a vault for you.

This is going to be the invention of Cotton Candy Part 2.

We just re-aired Part 1.

So here we go. Part 2 of 2. It originally

published 2 4 2025. Let's have it. Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart

Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to blow your mind.

My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick, and we're back with part two of our discussion of cotton candy.

In part one, we talked about the chemistry of candy making how sugar sugar syrup, heated and reduced to a precise

consistency gets turned into everything from saltwater taffy to lollipops to spun sugar.

We talked about the properties of crystalline sugar versus sugar glass, and we described the

standard process for making cotton candy in a dedicated machine.

And we also got into some historical predecessors of cotton candy like sponge sugar and especially the Chinese culinary invention known as Dragon's Beard Candy.

And we're back today to talk about more.

Rob, did you end up eating any cotton candy between our two parts here?

You know, I did not.

I was like, surely we can make it out to the place where I know there's a Japanese

cotton candy machine because these are quite impressive.

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