Jawbreakers. The drug industry is the legacy of the dental profession. There is probably no candy elsewhere with exceptional jaw hardness or perhaps high sugar content.
Enough said. Now about discovering the unsurpassed joy (and frustration) that comes with jaw experience.
The ancient Egyptians used honey, sweet fruits, spices, and nuts to make their own sweets. Sugar was not available in Egypt; The first written record of its availability was found around 500 AD, in India. India transferred the practice of making sugar from boiled syrup of sugar cane plants to the Arabs, who introduced around 1100 AD. E. Sugar to Europe. Initially, sugar was considered a spice, and until the 15th century it was used only as a medicament, expelled in small doses due to its extreme rarity. By the 16th century, thanks to large-scale sugar cultivation and improved processing methods, sugar was no longer considered such a rare commodity. At the moment, raw sweets were prepared in Europe, but by the end of the 18th century, the production of sweets produced more complex candies in much larger quantities.
When sugar is cooked at a high temperature, it fully crystallizes and becomes a solid candy. Jawbreaker, a very definitely heavy lollipop, was very similar to several chocolates popular in America in the mid-19th century. Hard candies are usually sold one at a time; the storekeeper removed from the glass case or jar the required number of pieces. By the middle of the 18th century, there were almost 400 penny candy factories in the United States.
Jawbreaker rose to fame thanks to the efforts of the Ferrari Pan Candy Company in Forest Park, Illinois. Founded in 1919, the Ferrari Pan Candy Company, the brainchild of Salvador Ferrari and his two brothers in law, specializes in sweets using hot pots and cold processing. Ferrari Pan is now specializing in the production of original jaw breakers, as well as Boston baked beans and red caps. Despite the fact that in the XXI century there are many manufacturers of jaws, such as the company Nestlé & Candy company Willy Wonka and the company Candy Candies, Ferrari Pan is still the most productive producer of pannie sweets all over the world.
Jawbreakers, also known as gobel caps (from British slang: a mountain for mouth and cork, as in the case of blocking a hole), are classified as caramel, where each candy, usually rounded, has a size from a tiny 1/4 "ball to a massive 3 -3 / 8 ". The surface, like the inside of the jaw, is incredibly hard and not intended for people with sensitive mouths. Jawbreakers, for the most part, are hollow, with the exception of a super-large 3-3 / 8 "ball, which has a gum-filled center.
Let us approach the primordial process of making fried candy. Explosives consist of sugar, sugar and more sugar. It takes 14 to 19 days to create a single jaw, from one grain of sugar to the finished product. A party of brigands constantly flows in dense spherical copper kettles over a gas flame. Kettles or pans have a wide mouth or hole.
There are five basic steps used to create Jawbreakers.
- Sugar pouring A panner (a worker who uses pots or kettles to make sweets) pours granulated sugar into the pan while the gas flame heats the pan. Each grain of sugar will jaw when the crystallization process continues; other grains crystallize around it in a spherical pattern. Panner puts hot liquid sugar in a pan around the edges. The explosions begin to increase as the liquid sugar joins the sugar grains. Apparently, endless efforts, the banner continues to add additional liquid sugar to the pots at intervals for a period of time from 14 to 19 days, while the kettle rotates continuously. Liquid sugar can be added to the pot more than 100 times in 14-19 days. Either a peiner or some other worker visually examines, with an interval of time, the jaws to ensure that there are no anomalies in the form of candies.
- Adding other ingredients Only the outer layers of most types of robbers are colored. Only when the armrests reached an almost finished goal, would the size of the tank add a predetermined color and flavor to the edge of the pan. When the teapot continues to rotate, all jaws get evenly “dressed” with color and aroma.
- Polishing When the jaws have reached their optimal size, after about two weeks, they move from a hot pan to a polishing chamber. Hot pots and polishing chambers look very similar. At this point, the jaws should rotate in the polishing pan. Another banner adds food wax to the pan so that each candy is polished when the pan falls. After polishing the jaws are complete and ready for packaging.
- Measurement The finished jaws are loaded onto a tilted ramp, where the candy colors may even be mixed. Small batches of the jaw descend along the ramp and fall into the central chute. Burglars continue their journey by falling into trays located on the spiral arms of the central gutter. Each tray holds only a given jaw weight (i.e. 80 ounces or 5 pounds). When this weight is reached, the tray moves to the side so that the next tray can load. When the upper trays reach their weight, the lower trains throw their jaws into the car for bags.
- sackcloth A large machine holding a wide coil of thin plastic on a rotating drum is used for automatic drying of the jaw. The machine forms plastic bags, fills their jaws, and then seals the bags. The filled bags are now in the final stages of production. All that is left to do is to put these completed packages in packing boxes and enter the market.
A word of caution: Jawbreakers should be pulled in, not bitten, unless you are a broken tooth.
Emergency
- A cracker can be as big as a golf ball or as small as a candy.
- When the robber falls apart, you will see a dozen dozen layers of sugar, which are very similar to the concentric rings of the old tree, which are visible in cross-section.
- The burglar is not intended for a restless person who is always in a hurry. It may take several hours to properly take a fake blow. Remember: suck, lick, whatever, but do not try to bite the layers. The jaws are made of crystallized sugar, which at times can be considered the same tooth-destroying hardness as concrete. Please be careful with it.
- At least two incidents were reported in which an explosive attack aircraft exploded spontaneously, leaving the consumer with serious burns requiring hospitalization. A 9-year-old girl from Florida participated in one blast. She left her jaws sitting in direct sunlight, and when she did her first lick, the hawk exploded on her face, leaving her with several burns in several parts of her body. Another explosion occurred on the MythBusters Discovery Channel television program site, when the microwave oven was used to illustrate, can cause the different layers compressed inside the jaw to heat up at different speeds and thus explode the jaw, causing a massive spray of exclusively hot candies. for spraying in a wide area. MythBusters took Adam Savage and treated another member of the crew with minor burns.
Happy to lick!
