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| Sour Candy Factory |
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| Manufacturer: Scientific Explorer |
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| List Price: $19.99 |
| Sale Price: $9.00 |
| Availibility: Usually ships in 1-2 business days |
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Product Description |
| Get ready to pucker up as you make your own sour candy. How sour can you go? This kit includes everything you need to make sour liquid candy, hard candy, powder candy, lollipops and more! Measures 12"L x 2.75"W x 10"H. |
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Product Details |
- Kit includes everything you need to make sour liquid candy, hard candy, powder candy, lollipops and more!
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 Skip the lollipops, but the rest is okay... |
| Review Date: January 2, 2010 |
| Reviewer: T., Missouri, USA |
My kids love to help cook, but at 8 and 5 they need supervision (perhaps I do too; in the process of making the lollipops I got a nice burn on my thumb - the stuff looks cooled but it's not!) so we work together on these projects.
I bought this kit for my 8-year-old son's Christmas, and so far during Christmas break we've made three of the projects - the Sour Lollipops, the Liquid Sour Candy, and the Sour Marshmallows. We've run out of the included corn syrup (it doesn't *look* like regular corn syrup although if we try to make something that needs it we'll use regular Karo and see what happens), but there are no more projects that require it so I'm guessing there's just enough material included to make each project once, and that's fair. As mentioned in other reviews, I think you can get the special materials elsewhere if you choose to make any of these again.
Not everything you need is included, though - you'll need to have other things on hand like granulated sugar, powdered sugar, vanilla extract, mixing bowls, etc, to complete some of the projects.
Like other reviewers, we also felt the lollipops were a bust. This was my first time making hard candy so I didn't expect great results but hoped for something edible since the box listed the age range as 8+. The instructions *were* helpful in describing the various stages of candy so that wasn't the issue, although since the sugar mixture turned tan before we added the flavoring and citric acid it could be that we burned it and thus the taste was off (*waaaay* off). Either way, they tasted really bad and ended up in the trash; we did not try again. Still, even though the kids were disappointed, I still learned something. :]
The Sour Liquid Candy was much better - tasted as expected (very tart with a little sweet); some people liked it (my son) while others didn't. That's normal.
The Sour Marshmallows are our favorites so far - quite fun! They aren't like store-bought marshmallows, but we made them and they tasted good. :] We hope to do these again soon.
I'm not sure the kit was worth the two Hamiltons I paid for it at TRU, but it still has been fun and we still have a few projects to go... the Sour Rock Candy has to wait until we buy a new bag of sugar (takes 4 cups of sugar per batch), and the Sour Powder Candy and Sour Gummis look really simple which means the kids can do more of the work.
Overall we have enjoyed this product. Might be just as enjoyable to find the recipes online and put together your own kit as a gift, but if you're short on time this is a decent substitute. :] |
It was really easy to understand and work with
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| Review Date: January 19, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Leslie Bilbay, Henderson, NV United States |
| I found the product to be very educational and fun at the same time. It was interesting to see just how easy it is to make different types of sour candy. The kids want to try more of the items from this company. |
toy the teaches scientific skills while being tasty
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| Review Date: January 19, 2009 |
| Reviewer: M. Vaughn, Baltimore, MD United States |
| Daughter begged for this product because she had had several other kits similar to it and she loves sour candy. She did make some sour gel on Christmas Day but has yet to make anything else. I did take te time to look at the recomemnded activites and did see hat the projects do teach scientific process and measurment skills. Might take it to school and make some sour candy with my first graders. |
its the thought that counts, right?
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| Review Date: December 27, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Still searching..., Savannah, GA |
| Well, I think that if you have $20 to spend and you want to teach your 3yr old how to make candy, you should just Google hard candy and go to the grocery store. |
Big box, smaller contents
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| Review Date: January 6, 2009 |
| Reviewer: C. Bird, Los Gatos, CA United States |
| The box is great, good graphics, clear type, bright colors. It really gives the impression of a mad scientist's candy factory, but the contents do not quite live up to the image. The items included are overall much smaller than the size of the box implies. Both kids who I gave one of these to reported back that they'd rather have had a smaller box crammed full of supplies than a large box that rattled - even if the total supplies came to the same. That said, both "kid scientists" loved it, but it didn't last long and they could not see any details on where to get more supplies or what to use from home instead. |
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