Cotton Candy Maker!

[BlancoNino]

I'm going to buy a cotton candy maker, but I don't know anything about them or the brands. I'm looking to spend maybe $50-$100 for one. I see a bunch on ebay, but I don't know where to start.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

 

[Lola]

we got my husbands niece one for christmas a few years ago. It was a plastic childs one, but it really did work and it was tasty spun sugar!

 

[BlancoNino]

Originally posted by: LolaWiz
we got my husbands niece one for christmas a few years ago. It was a plastic childs one, but it really did work and it was tasty spun sugar!

I read a guide on ebay that said not to "waste" money on any machine less than few hundred dollars as they don't work very well and hardly make any cotton candy.

 

[Scarpozzi]

If you buy one, you might as well turn it into a side business and go to little league baseball games with it and church events. 😛 Otherwise, just buy the decomposing flat plastic bag from Kmart like the rest of us. 😀

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
If you buy one, you might as well turn it into a side business and go to little league baseball games with it and church events. 😛 Otherwise, just buy the decomposing flat plastic bag from Kmart like the rest of us. 😀

The man DOES have a point. I'd imagine cotton candy has like a 300% profit margin. What's in it? Sugar, corn syrup and food coloring? 100 pounds of CC = $10 in materials.

 

[BlancoNino]

I more or less had it in mind as a christmas gift for my girlfriend. Don't think she wants a big commercial one, but I don't think she's going to want some stupid thing she'll never use.

BTW, this is what she said she wanted.

 

[randay]

just save yourself a lot of money and trouble and just buy a bag of sugar and a spoon.

 

[randay]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
I more or less had it in mind as a christmas gift for my girlfriend. Don't think she wants a big commercial one, but I don't think she's going to want some stupid thing she'll never use.

BTW, this is what she said she wanted.

Still picking them up at the local high-school fun fair I see... 😉

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Mmm........sugar coma.

 

[BlancoNino]

Originally posted by: randay

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
I more or less had it in mind as a christmas gift for my girlfriend. Don't think she wants a big commercial one, but I don't think she's going to want some stupid thing she'll never use.

BTW, this is what she said she wanted.

Still picking them up at the local high-school fun fair I see... 😉

LOL nope, but good guess! She's in college just like me and she's beautiful and no I don't have pics because I'm lazier than anyone on this entire forum.

 

[funboy6942]

Originally posted by: randay
just save yourself a lot of money and trouble and just buy a bag of sugar and a spoon.

But its not fluffy. If im going to put myself into a diabetic coma Im going to have fluffy sugar damnit.

Now that I had to cut out the sugar for several years I find anything made with it, like a sip of regular cola, of coffee, is the nasty. I just cant stand regular sugar anymore and have to have splenda or the pink/blue stuff that will make me die of cancer instead.

 

[Bryophyte]

<Homer Simpson> There you go. Suckle daddy's sugar ball. </Homer Simpson>

 

[DanDrop]

I own a few. I have several econo floss ones and they work great. They are pricey, about $550-$700. They use floss sugar, you can get them at Smart and final for about $5 per box (good for about 50-100 cones). Incidentally you can find these cotton candy machines at smart and final as well.