Gold Medal Cotton Candy: Using Flossine & Flossugar
Gold Medal cotton candy sugars are the perfect ingredient for making a classic treat that can bring in big profits. Knowing how to use Flossine and Flossugar will help you serve consistently delicious, fluffy batches of cotton candy at concession stands, festivals, and other outdoor events.
How to Use Gold Medal Flossine
Gold Medal Flossine is a concentrated flavoring and color mix that must be added to granulated sugar before it can be used in a cotton candy machine. The recommended ratio of Flossine to granulated sugar is 1 to 2 tablespoons for every 10 pounds. You can buy Flossine in individual 1-pound jars or in bulk containers of 12. It comes in flavors ranging from cherry and watermelon to hot cinnamon.
How to Use Gold Medal Flossugar
Flossugar is a premixed combination of granulated sugar, coloring, and flavor; essentially, it's everything you need to start making cotton candy. Flossugar is sold in half-gallon cartons, which means it's easy to pour product directly into your cotton candy machine. Flossugar offers a wider variety of flavors, including classics such as pink vanilla, blue raspberry, and bubblegum and more adventurous flavors, such as sour lemon and piña colada.
Flossugar is a ready-to-use product. Flossine must be mixed with sugar before it's used to make cotton candy.
Gold Medal Cotton Candy Sugar Tips
Improperly mixing Flossine can damage your cotton candy maker and yield an inferior product. Follow the guidelines below to avoid potential issues.
- Mixing Flossine: Gold Medal's recommended ratio is 1 to 2 tablespoons of Flossine to 10 pounds of sugar. Higher concentrations of Flossine can burn and damage your cotton candy machine.
- When mixing your own cotton candy sugar with Flossine concentrate, you can give the cotton candy a deeper color by mixing in a tablespoon of water per 5 pounds of sugar before pouring it into the cotton candy maker. If you exceed that concentration, the mixture won't melt properly; this can negatively affect the flavor of the finished product and potentially damage your machine.
- If you're creating your own mixture from granulated sugar and Flossine concentrate, be sure to use high-quality, 100-percent granulated sugar that does not contain cornstarch, dextrose, or corn syrup. These additives can damage your machine by burning to or clogging crucial components and produce sub-par cotton candy.
- If you're using a Gold Medal cotton candy machine with manual heat adjustment, the right heat setting depends on several factors, including the fineness of your sugar. You may have to experiment with heat settings to achieve the right cotton candy texture when you use different brands of sugar in your mix.
- If granulated sugars are slipping through your cotton candy machine's ribbons without melting at any heat setting, use sugar with a slightly coarser texture, such as sanding sugar.
Whether you're using ready-to-use Flossugar or your own mix with Flossine, you should never add cotton candy sugar to a machine when the motor is running.
