3 Coins sells Electric Cotton Candy Maker as a part of its newly launched summer season pageant sequence

Celebrate the season by making the favored carnival meals proper within the consolation and comfort of your private home. 

Last week, Japanese funds chain 3 Coins began promoting a lineup of family items themed round summer season festivals, referred to as natsu matsuri in Japanese. The items have a distinctively retro-looking design with principally blue and white patterns, plus characteristic kanji that you just’d possible see on lanterns and banners at an actual summer season pageant comparable to 祭 (“festival”) and 氷 (“ice;” normally discovered close to stands promoting kakigori shaved ice).

A particular a part of the lineup consists of two kitchen home equipment for making some candy treats. Now, we had already purchased the Fruit Candy Maker (3,080 yen [US$20.80]) earlier within the week, however sadly, it wasn’t all that it was cracked as much as be and we promptly retired it. At the identical time, we couldn’t assist however wonder if we must always have chosen the Electric Cotton Candy Maker (3,520 yen) to carry house as an alternative. The thought stored haunting us, so we inevitably made a return go to to our native retailer.

Most cotton sweet makers on-line normally value within the vary of about 5,000 yen. Therefore, 3 Coin’s model was a relative cut price–however that was nonetheless a good sufficient sum of money that we’d be irked if it didn’t work nicely. Therefore, we promptly set about assembling the entire components in accordance with the directions booklet.

First, we eliminated the granulated sugar dish from its storage location on the bottom of the equipment.

Next, we positioned the dish on prime. It was a little bit tough to get the alignment excellent on prime of the grill, so when you plan to make cotton sweet with children, it is a step that’s most likely finest performed by adults.

Finally, we snapped the encompassing tray and facet defend into place, and voila! It was able to go.

We plugged the equipment in and flipped on the change.

You must let it heat up for about 5 minutes earlier than use. While ready, you may get pleasure from watching the sugar dish within the middle rotate at a excessive velocity.

When it was heated, we flipped the change off momentarily to pour one spoonful of sugar (utilizing the included measuring spoon) into the middle of the dish…

…and watched as threads of sugar began appearing out of nowhere within the subsequent couple of minutes. It was actually working!

We held one of many included wood skewers over the system and commenced to spin it, watching because the cotton sweet shortly took form in actual time.

The completed product was like a completely shaped cloud. Kids and adults alike would positively get a kick out of constructing this at house.

We realized via trial and error that for the reason that equipment is small, it’s important to watch out to not contact the spun cotton sweet to the new middle dish or else it is going to soften immediately.

Thankfully, clean-up was additionally easy. Every a part of the maker that the sugar touched may very well be simply eliminated and washed.

In different phrases, the Fruit Candy Maker couldn’t maintain a skewer to its cousin the Electric Cotton Candy Maker.

By the best way, on our second time utilizing the system, we had been capable of make an excellent rounder, extra cloud-like cotton sweet.

Other gadgets in 3 Coin’s summer season pageant sequence would make for enjoyable and low-cost Japanese souvenirs, so chances are you’ll wish to choose some up when you’ll be touring there quickly. If you wish to expertise the true deal of a Japanese summer season pageant as nicely, take into account touring to see among the finest fireworks in the entire nation developing in about two weeks.

Reference: 3 Coins
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