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Snickers... how they're made - Maxmars - 10-30-2024
With the approach of Halloween, I found this calling out to me...
From ArsTechnica: A candy engineer explains the science behind the Snickers bar
Subtitled: How the airy nougat and chewy caramel is built.
Let’s look at the elements of a Snickers bar as an example of candy science. As with almost everything, once you get into it, each component is more complex than you might think.
![[Image: snickers2.jpg]](https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/snickers2.jpg)
This is a worth while read if, like me, you enjoy a Snickers bar once in a while, and ponder on how its built.
RE: Snickers... how they're made - Encia22 - 10-30-2024
One of my favourites. When I went to the UK in the late 70s, they were called Marathon, but reverted back to Snickers around the 90s.
I still like to cut them up into slices... easier to eat with my wonky teeth.
Here's a visual representation of how they are made...
![[Image: ats2508_cheers.gif]](https://denyignorance.com/images/ogemojis2/ats2508_cheers.gif)
RE: Snickers... how they're made - UltraBudgie - 10-30-2024
There is a size for everyone. No judgment.
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I freeze mine.
RE: Snickers... how they're made - Maxmars - 10-30-2024
(10-30-2024, 01:17 PM)UltraBudgie Wrote: There is a size for everyone. No judgment.
[Image: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41J2QTfgooL._UL1200.jpg]
I freeze mine.
I used to freeze mine, no more... teeth complain too much!
I've never seen a 100 calorie size... but then, where I live there probably isn't a market for them.
RE: Snickers... how they're made - UltraBudgie - 10-30-2024
(10-30-2024, 01:23 PM)Maxmars Wrote: I used to freeze mine, no more... teeth complain too much!
I've never seen a 100 calorie size... but then, where I live there probably isn't a market for them.
Yes, I've known people who gum Snickers, gently suckling until they end up with only the nuts in their mouth. These are the same people, I imagine, who methodically dismantle Kit-Kats with their tongue, first licking off the chocolate and then carefully teasing apart with their teeth, devouring layer by layer.
It all seems a little odd to me, but as I said, no judgment.
RE: Snickers... how they're made - FlyersFan - 10-30-2024
Before I got chronically ill and stopped being able to eat gluten, and had to cut out the processed sugars ...
Favorite Candy ...
1 - Sweet tarts ... original ones not the chewy ones.
2 - Pixy Stix
3 - Good N Plenty
4 - Jr Mints or York Peppermint Patties
5 - Red String Licorice
6 - Milky Way (frozen if possible)
7 - Tootsie Rolls
8 - Mounds Bars
9 - Hershey Bar
10 - 100,000 dollar bar (Or $100,000 Grand)
11 - Reeces Cups
12 - 3 Musketeer Bar
13 - Nestle Crunch Bar
14 - Kit Kat Bar
15 - Snickers Bar
16 - Sugar Daddy
17 - Bit O Honey
18 - Candy Corn
19 - White Chocolate (like the bunnies at Easter time)
20 - Tic Tacs
21 - Sno Caps
22 - Marathon Bars
23 - Rolos
24 - M & Ms
25 - Raisinetts
26 - Twizzlers Cherry
27 - Werthers Originals
28- Nerds
29 - Salt Water Taffy
30 - Pop Rocks
Do you want to count Marshmallow Peeps as candy? If so ... I like to cut open the package and leave them for a couple of days before eating them. That way the sugar coating gets hard. Some people like them frozen. I like to have them in hot chocolate as well. Or melt down a tobblerone chocolate bar with milk, then dip the peep into the melted chocolate. MMMMMMM
RE: Snickers... how they're made - UltraBudgie - 10-30-2024
(10-30-2024, 01:47 PM)FlyersFan Wrote: Do you want to count Marshmallow Peeps as candy?
You should try microwaving them. They turn in to Mega-Peeps.
RE: Snickers... how they're made - Encia22 - 10-30-2024
I used to gently remove the chocolate around Ferrero Rochers, leaving just the wafer shell and filling...like stripping Earth of its crust and mantle.
No wonder they tasted weird.
RE: Snickers... how they're made - FlyersFan - 10-30-2024
(10-30-2024, 01:50 PM)UltraBudgie Wrote: You should try microwaving them. They turn in to Mega-Peeps.
I can't do the sugar anymore .... but I LOVED peeps!
I read stuff on how people ate them different ways.
Some wild stuff.
I liked mine in hot chocolate.
I also liked them stale. Yes, stale.
I liked the sugar coating hard.
Apparently I'm not alone in that.
Lots of people do.
PEEPS! I LOVE PEEPS!
RE: Snickers... how they're made - FlyersFan - 10-30-2024
(10-30-2024, 01:53 PM)Encia22 Wrote: I used to gently remove the chocolate around Ferrero Rochers, leaving just the wafer shell ...
There used to be a candy with a wafer shell that melted in your mouth and left a hard little candy to suck on. They were like flying saucers. "Satellite Wafers". The melting paper thin wafer shell would be different colors and different flavors.
I LOVED THEM!
They are impossible to find except in old country stores ... and online of course.
https://www.amazon.com/Satellite-Wafers-Flying-Saucers-Fashioned/dp/B0013K7IBU
