Do Everlasting Gobstoppers Really Last Forever?

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Today, we're taking a look at jaw breakers and gobstoppers, and seeing what happens if we heat them up, melt them down, rinse them away, or just plain smash 'em. [Music] Most of you are probably familiar with jawbreakers. They're a round candy that just has layers and layers of color and flavor. They come in a few different varieties, and we've got some things we want to try out with these bad boys. This right here is just over 2 inches in diameter. It's pretty standard size for a jawbreaker. We've also got this Mega jawbreaker, which, oh boy, feels quite a bit heavier than our mid sized one. And I can only imagine that it would take months to eat this whole thing. Normally, when you're eating a jawbreaker, you're going to lick it, and since it's made up almost entirely sugar, flavor, and coloring, it's going to take a while to get through, but you can get through it. Rather than just sit here, licking this jawbreaker forever, I thought we would get a little time lapse of something a little bit faster. We're going to take this jawbreaker, put it on a little stand, and then have running water flow down over it, and just let that water run until it just carves away the jawbreaker. Hopefully, we should be able to see the different layers as they're exposed, and then washed away, and we're a little curious what shape we're going to end up with. [Music] We've got our giant jawbreaker, and you know what? I just-- I want to cut it in half. Now, if you're a big fan of the channel What's Inside, you may have seen a few years ago, they did cut one of these in half. I wanted to try as well, and then we're really going to clean it up. I want some really good shots of what the inside of one of these looks like. So I've never cut one of these in half. They had quite a hard time with it. They use a chisel. They ended up using like a grinder to just cut all the way around part of it, and then break it in half. I'm gonna see if I can get through this whole thing with a hacksaw. I've never tried this before though, so I may have to improvise if the hacksaw doesn't work. Now, this is our largest Jawbreaker. It's pretty dang big. It's about the size of a softball, and it weighs, I believe, a pound, which is a lot of candy. I do kind of want to test if you can actually break a jaw with this Jawbreaker. I have an idea. Success. This is now a verified, well, Jaws breaker, if not Jawbreaker. [Music] Okay, I think I've cut all the way through this jawbreaker now. It's sort of clicked together, so at least half of it, I think that means is separated. I have a ton of this just jawbreaker dust here, and flakes just chipped off the outside, and I think I owe an apology to the What's Inside team because I thought it was going to be easier than it was, and it was really weird. It kept sticking to the saw. I ended up having to just wash the saw blade off every like 30 seconds or so. But that is super cool. Okay. I need to clean this up, and make it just really nice and pretty. 'Cause you can see all of the layers, but you can't see them very well just because of all the saw marks, and the different cutting angles and stuff. So it looks good now, we can make it better. [Music] As you can see, we've got lots of these little ones. These are called Gobstoppers, or Everlasting Gobstoppers, that's what they say on the box. The name comes from a Roald Dahl book called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In the book, Everlasting Gobstoppers were supposed to last forever. You could suck on them. They would change colors. They would change flavors, but they'd never go away. Well, we haven't quite figured out how to make the Everlasting part. Each one of these boxes says it has about 9 servings, and each serving is 9 pieces, and that gives us about 81 Gobstoppers per box. And if we're trying for 1,000 Gobstoppers, that's 12 and 1/2 boxes, give or take. And so, we are going to load up 13 boxes, so we might actually have just over a thousand Gobstoppers. Throw them on the barbecue. Just your standard cookout food. You know, some people like chicken, some people like steaks, some people like Gobstoppers. That should be just over 1,000 tiny little Jawbreakers. We've got a tray full of a thousand jawbreakers. Let's go upstairs where the barbecue is. [Music] We could put another rack over here, and put the whole pan on top of that. But where's the fun in that? Let's go put the rack directly onto the charcoal. Here we go. I've always really preferred my jawbreakers to have a good smoky flavor to 'em, you know. This is a good way to get that. [Music] Our 1,000 Gobstoppers in the barbecue have now been cooking for maybe 15-20 minutes, and they are mostly melted away in just this soup of molten jawbreaker candy. Just turned a sort of chocolatey raspberry color. It's very thin. Like I didn't think it was going to get this thin, but look how liquid that is. [Music] It's not terrible. It has a really interesting texture to it, and it's not something unexpected. Even though it's smooth at this point, having been all melted down, it still has a feel as though it's slightly powdery, like other compacted powder candies, like Smarties or something like that. That would be the American type of Smarties, which are small fruit flavored things, and not the Canadian or perhaps other types of Smarties as well, which are basically M&M's under a different name. So yeah, it tastes like it doesn't-- I don't know. I don't know if it taste powdery is the right way to say, but it feels powdery. I know I've licked this, but I'm the only one who's going to be eating it. So I'm just gonna put it right back here in the soup. Keep mixing this up. We have melted most of what's in here. Just trying to finish off those last few sticklers to really get this all liquid. [Music] There's just a lot of burnt boiled over sugar on the barbecue down at the bottom. I don't see any Gobstoppers left in here. So I'm going to say that is thoroughly toasted at this point. [Music] It's a lot like a soft Starburst, like a slightly warm Starburst. That's about the texture. Really sticks to my teeth a lot. [Music] It really is kind of just a mix of all the different flavors, like there's grape, and orange, and lime, and raspberry, and whatever else is in those. I think it's better to just have individual flavors than all mixed together, but it's just sort of a general fruit-flavored candy. So sticky. As an option of something to show, we did have some Gobstoppers in a slow cooker. However, we decided that's pretty similar to the look of the barbecue, it's just on a smaller scale. So we were going to turn it off, but I discovered something interesting. The Gobstoppers, even after sitting here for like an hour and a half, it barely changed shape at all. But I did discover that they've become soft as they've heated up. So now, we've got squishy Gobstoppers, and they are fairly hot, but not so hot that it's really hurting to hold them. And so now, it's just-- Instead of jawbreakers, they're just like a soft candy. Out of all of the jawbreaker tests that we've tried out today, this might be the one that I recommend actually trying. You definitely want to be careful that you're not going to burn yourself on them, but they're pretty good. No broken jaws. It's not known exactly when jaw breakers were invented, but they became popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s thanks to the Ferrara Pan Candy Company. Guys, that's not all. We've always got more for you to see. 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Channel: The King of Random
Views: 2,623,383
Rating: 4.7759671 out of 5
Keywords: everlasting gobstopper, willy wonka, bbq pit, grant thompson, random happens, what happens when, what's inside a gobstopper, how many layers are in a gobstopper, how is a jawbreaker made, can a jawbreaker actually break your jaw, what happens when you melt a jaw breaker, how to get through jawbreaker layers without eating it, thekingofrandom, tkor, nate, calli, what flavors are in jawbreakers, gobstopper candy, what jawbreakers do to your jaw
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Length: 10min 29sec (629 seconds)
Published: Sat Feb 16 2019
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