Do you need starch to make Swedish fish?? I think that’s my next edible I wanna try.
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Not sure - but judging by how much they stick to my teeth I’d guess that they are starch molded… most of the more popular gummies are made in starch molds.
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starch farmer 
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This pectin is buffered. PH varies batch to batch. Makes consistency as challenge – always having to adjust PH controlling components of your recipe.
@darkcitymolds reveals a very good pectin in their SOP. I don’t believe I am allowed to reveal under the SOP purchase terms.
We get 10 or 15 mins. PH of ~3.5 to 3.6
This and pour Brix & temp.
Interesting. Going to explore.
100%
Absolutely
We make 1k per hour flooding & scraping w/ 3 people, all-in.
Must use good molds, and dial in the brix you pour at, PH, temp, and room conditions. Then you don’t get that film over the top. Also helps to heat molds before pour and have a perfectly flat table.
I have to ask about this flooding method? Is this like rollimg dough and cookie cutter?
I currently using molds. I went with the molds i chose cause of the leaf. They work fine but a chore to demould.
Thx for the ali plug.
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Yes ali is great is great if u take your time and gather info on products and machinery.
Let me know if u want some supplier contacts.
When i run oil i scour the products available and research manufactures and what i can do for efficeiency
I was bored one time searching ali and found sex robots lol?
Suprising how they have taken over the manufacturing sector.
I have catalogs and contacts for many types of manufacturing equipment
Let me know if you want any info or direction.
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All gummy maker’s should look into starch rooms there cheap to build, easy to maintain, the cleanup on starch is the best part the cells are 5% larger than what’s being deposited so you always get clean lines. Starch is a great dessicant allowing recipes to be ran a little wetter increasing the amount of time in the hopper. The down side is the starch room has to be stand alone and kept at 25%rh and around 50f . If you look up Hercules candy on YouTube you can get a pretty good idea of how nice a starch room can be.
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Idk man, we can do more than 8k per 8 hour shift with our depositor and 3 people. deposited, cooled, de-molded, and coated… pretty easily actually.
normal gummy day for us is about 10,000 gummies per shift. More if we push it.
But that could also be from other parts of the process that we do differently/quicker too (like de-molding)
Weird. We haven’t had any inconsistency issues with HM100 pectin and we use a ton of it.
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What depositor did you go with. I keep toying with the idea .
With squeeze bottles and having things prepped before labor arrives we can do around 10000 gummies in a batch with me and 2 others. Bit demould following day.
Can only do half that if make and demould same day.
I wasnt happy with the demoulder with my molds. I got from china but they supply the truffley place so same demoulder and custim to my molds. Very disappointed with that
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What depositor do you recommend?
What he said! 
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Im llookilookinh at this one but considering a double hopper one so 2 colors can be done at once. I think the single hopper 6500 double hopper 8000
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I can provide his details if you want to discuss your requirments.
This company has some crzy cool stuff
Thwy also have the best molds. With push button to pop out gummie.
20buck a mold with 20 gummie cavity but the labor it would save o my
His name is in upper corner and i contact thru ali baba.
Worked till 230 am last nite please forgive typing lol
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We use the trufflymade. we’ve always used that one. it’s not amazing but it gets the job done.
with the trufflymade molds and the trufflymade demolder
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I was close to buying that model. The one in pic i posted is a larger unit at about same cost. From videos of both i thought the larger unit produced more but the catch needs air compressor and space for the size.
I do like the compact and not needing air compressor with your unit.
Do u feel it saves a lot of time vs the squeeze bottle method?
How is clean up on the machine
Iv only window watched these depositors with no hands on
Im still squeezing bottles for now lol
clean up kinda sucks. you have to disassemble each nozzle/piston and clean them. After doing it 100 times though, it becomes not so cumbersome.
Yeah not needing a compressor is a huge plus.
I have never done the bottle method myself but I’d imagine this is at least 6-8 times faster, because in the time you fill one cavity, you can fill 6-8 with this depositor (6-8 nozzles).
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Depositor is the way togo for sure.
Iv been holding off till i can get consitant sales its been up and down for me with the gummies.
Im all about efficiency. I went with the packager as i felt that was most cumbersom task
And that sits unused so far.
1k per hour = roughly same as you with a depositor.
We just started a couple weeks back. Check back with me when I have everything fine tuned.
A dedktop depositor can easley be beaten, using the pour and scrape method.
Can your depositor expel all of the batter in 5 min or less?
I can make 700 candies in 4 to 5 min.
How does that stack up…
Again, you have to have the correct molds… to make this work
And there is ZERO clean up.
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Roughly, yeah. but thats also a slow day for us. you said pour and scrape could 100% easily beat a depositor. i’m not sure that’s the case. I think either way can be viable and one isn’t way better than the other is all im saying
Not to mention the consistency of gummy size of a depositor beats pour and scrape.
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