How Jawbreakers Are Made

[Music] to make their bubblegum centers a worker blend synthetic rubber with powdered resin which will dissolve the rubber he adds a thickener a preservative and an oil called soya palm stirring so the candy won't stick to your teeth after mixing and steaming at 300 degrees Fahrenheit for four hours the batter pours into trays to cool sugar coloring and flavoring would deteriorate in the heat so workers add those later there's enough of this base to make gum centers for 450,000 small jawbreakers after 24 hours the batter's hard workers chop it up and blend it with corn syrup to make it softer and sweeter [Music] they had just under 100 pounds of finished gum that didn't make it into jawbreakers before because it wasn't the right shape now they add natural and artificial flavors which can include lemon orange strawberry grape even tutti frutti then they add icing sugar it makes the gum smoother to chew than regular sugar wood workers dump the batch into an extruder that shapes two continuous streams of batter called rope another extruder divides each rope into six hollow tubes the cavity inside will become pockets of air inside the gum centers the next machine slices the tubes into segments that are three feet three inches long [Music] [Music] a mechanical arm pushes the segment's into the channel of a forming machine steel rolls then slice through the tubes and shape them into balls the balls range in diameter depending on the size of the jawbreakers being produced [Music] [Music] air blows through perforations in a cooling tunnel to cool and firm the center's then they fall into another forming machine which restores their round shape other jawbreakers have hard candy in the center the machine that makes them works like the presses drug companies used to make pills it feeds candy powder into dyes then applies up to five tons of force to compress the powder into a solid candy now for the rest of the jawbreaker first they dump the candy centers into what's called a coating pan they had a hot mixture of water corn syrup and food coloring then dextrose a type of powdered sugar the fan rotates for 20 minutes as warm air drives the ingredients over the center's the factory repeats this step 10 times for each layer talk about a sweet ordeal making a jawbreaker takes four days workers give this badge special treatment they speckle these jawbreakers with different colors giving them what this company calls the psychedelic look [Music] after letting the candies drive for 24 hours a worker adds pinches of powdered carnauba wax this gives the jawbreakers a shiny finish sliced open you can see these jawbreakers have ten layers of flavors and sugar surrounding either hard candy or bubble gum course they measure two and a quarter inches in diameter as big as a billiard ball and if you're counting calories forget it a jawbreaker is 90% sugar you

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Length: 5min 3sec (303 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 23 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/troubledbrew]

Gum center? Has my life been a lie?

[u/YetiBettyFoufetti]

When I saw this my brain jumped to Hugbees video.

[u/A_Useless_Redditor]

They are made with jaws......

[u/Wickedaddy]

Rubber and resin what the fuck never eating jawbreakers again

[u/muddyclunge]

I love shit like this

[u/TheRealGaelen]

When the first ingredient was synthetic rubber, I thought I was watching a parody video.

[u/tillyboy242]

“Tutti-frutti”

[u/redditreloaded]

Did you catch the part where the rat fell in?

[u/i_hate_android_p]

Obviously u have not seen charlie and the chocalate factory