How to Make Homemade Sour Straws

hey everyone it's james from fun foods and today i'm gonna show you how to make these homemade sour straws now this was suggested by one of my followers on tick tock matthew thank you so much for the suggestion keep watching and i'll show you step by step how to make these the first thing we're gonna do is boil some water now make sure you boil more than one cup of water because the recipe calls for one cup of boiling water and when you boil water some of it's going to evaporate so make sure you use more how much you use totally up to you so let's boil some water while waiting for our water to boil we're going to prepare our gelatin now i'm going to use two packages of unflavored gelatin just pour that into a bowl here and 1 4 cup of water this can be just room temperature water cold water really doesn't matter give that a slight mix through and we'll wait for that gelatin to bloom once your unflavored gelatin has bloomed what we're going to do now is add in some strawberry banana jello you can use any flavor you want that's the one i'm starting with and i'm using six ounces of this by the way the unflavored gelatin was half an ounce so our water has come to a boil now we're going to take one cup of that water carefully boiling hot water and add it mix this up until all that jello and unflavored gelatin has dissolved so after all the gelatin has dissolved next we're going to add in some citric acid this is going to give it that sour taste i got this on amazon i'll put a link in the description below now of course you probably don't need this much citric acid unless you plan on making a lot of recipes but i'll put the link down there anyway we're going to add two tablespoons of the citric acid to this mix it in now we want to let this sit until it comes to about room temperature it could be a little hot but we're going to be pouring it into plastic straws and if it's too hot it'll melt the straws next i have a glass here that is both thin and tall and the reason why is we want the liquid when it fills it up to go high as possible so if you have a wide glass you would have to get a lot more liquid we're going to end up putting some straws in just like this but we're not going to put the straws in yet i have seen people do that put the straws in first and try to fill the straws you don't need to do that when it comes to liquid because we can just pour the liquid in the glass like this fill it up really good and before we put in our plastic straws we want it to cool down a bit if we put it in there right now while the water is really really hot these plastic straws are going to melt and that's not good so let it come to room temperature or at least cool down a little bit once it's cooled down just take a handful of straws and push it all the way down just like so and that's going to fill the straws with the liquid and we're just going to let them firm up now before we pull our sour straws out of the refrigerator what we're going to do is i have a baking sheet here and in this baking sheet i'm going to put about a half a cup of powdered sugar just kind of spread it out and also about a half a cup of cornstarch and just mix this pretty good right here now just take this put this aside for a moment and bring out our sour straws now you can see it's on here pretty good i can't really just pull it out so i'm just going to take a knife and go straight down kind of loosen it up a little bit you can also run it under warm water that'll help loosen it up but because my glass is a little odd shape if your glass was even straight all the way through like that that would be fine but my glass it's not gonna come out that way anyway just be careful not to cut yourself and now running underneath some warm water for just about 10 or 15 seconds so this has proven to be quite difficult to get out it might work out better if you have like a disposable cup that you can just cut down the sides and get it out nice and easily so just something to think about all right it's getting somewhere let's see oh finally it did take a lot of work but we got them out now just run them underneath the water again and clean up the outsides of each one and now take these one by one i'm going to just clean it off with a paper towel just as we go and you just want to take your finger your thumb and kind of push these right on out onto that uh cornstarch and powdered sugar mixture after i completed them they're all done uh they were too soft so i let them sit out for a couple days and they did stiffen up a bit but i really not happy with the texture of the way they look or they feel so we're gonna start all over from scratch and just do it a little bit of a different way this time we're gonna use nine ounces of jello whichever nine ounces you want i have a six ounce package here and a three ounce uh so just take those put it into a pot then we have some unflavored gelatin this is going to help make it a little stiffer and i'm going to use five packages of this each one of these packages are 0.25 ounces so it's 1.25 ounces of unflavored gelatin then we're going to use our citric acid and we're going to use one tablespoon of citric acid give this a mix now we're going to add two thirds cups of water this is less water than it would take to make an actual jello package give it a little mix here and wait about five minutes for that gelatin to bloom so after five minutes your gelatin should have thickened up a bit like this bring this over stove we're gonna heat this up until it's back to a liquid state just heat this up until that gelatin has dissolved and when it's back to a liquid state now we can turn off our heat all right so after that's done before we move on to the next step i want to let it cool a little bit because i'm going to be using a plastic cup this time and of course plastic straws and if it's too hot it will melt the plastic cup and the plastic straws but don't let it sit out too long because we don't want it to thicken up now we're going to pour our liquid into our plastic cup here and that's good about 3 4 of the way up now we're going to put our straws in there i put rubber bands around here just to hold them together so it's not necessary but it makes me happy now put your straws in i'm gonna put this in the refrigerator just to speed the process up you can leave it out if you want but we'll make it quicker when your gelatin hardens nicely what we're going to do is run it over some warm water just to loosen it up and separate the straws just like before they're rather difficult to get out so i'm going to use a knife and cut around them i do like the firmness of this batch so that's good hopefully it's not going to be too firm to get out of the straws and this is why i use plastic just open it up like this and when it's out of the mold we're going to run it over some more water again and try to melt away this exterior now we're going to separate straws one by one now we're going to push them out into our cornstarch and powdered sugar mixture and hopefully they'll come out nicely we'll see so just take your thumb and push it out oh this is gonna be tough we may have to loosen it up with some warm water each one individually okay it's coming out all right and just coat it for the exterior coating we're going to mix 1 third cup of sugar and one tablespoon of citric acid now take a cold and damp paper towel that i wet it that rung out so you don't want it to be soaking wet you just want it to be completely wet and then wring it out real tight uh put that on a plate take our sour straws wipe off the excess non-stickiness and place on our damp paper towels take another cold damp rag and we're going to press on top of the ones there now one by one we're going to dip these into the sour solution there we go now it's time for the taste test i'm going to dig into one of the sour straws and see if it really tastes like a sour straw this is very soury and very good well thanks for watching i hope you enjoyed watching me make these homemade sour straws it was a lot of fun making these and thanks again to matthew who suggested this on tick tock if you enjoyed this video make sure you hit that like button and hit that big red subscribe button get new videos all the time and if you haven't watched yet check out this video here and until then i'll see you next time times it not start over more than one cup of boil you're going to put some water into a pan and i'm talking too much once you're unfair uh um i have seen people um i said um i want to let it come to temperature

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Length: 11min 4sec (664 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 15 2020