
Fun Facts About Cotton Candy
On the first Friday of every month, I have a Family Fun Friday with my kids co-hosting. For this episode, they chose cotton candy.
Cotton candy, originally introduced to the public as fairy floss, is a sugary confection manufactured through a precise scientific process. The production relies on centrifugal force, an outward pressure that pushes liquefied sugar through tiny holes in a spinning head heated to roughly 300 degrees Fahrenheit. As the liquid sugar is exposed to cooler outside air, it instantly solidifies into microscopic, thread-like strands. These delicate threads form a light…
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