Roberto Martini

Just a last quick note…
What did I tell you?
Well, it’s 7am in my corner of the world, I’d supposed to be already up and getting ready for work, while instead I’m still in bed listening to Zydeco music 🤣

Hi Jessie! (And thanks to David for relaying your previous message)
Glad to hear you succeeded in replicating your so persistently sought-after crunchy effect, I presume that the code you cracked turned out to be something like C₆H₁₂O₆ … Dan Brown would be proud of you :-)

The trick you’ve devised makes sense indeed… Since glucose (the ma…[Read more]

other than trial and error…

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Try the “brute force” method: add a spoonful of fresh sugar to the mixture when reaching 300°F and see…
Please let me know how it went, pardon me for my english (*undesired*, *unexpectedly*) and greetings from Italy.
Roberto

Hello Jessie,
It looks like you got into the recrystallization phenomenon, that is usually an undesidered (and avoided) effect in hard candy making, but that can unespectedly bring some curious results like the one you got.
As you probably know, the mix of sugars used for hard candy making should always include, together with saccharose (the…[Read more]