in your recipe do you have trouble combining the gelatin with the water? im using 75g gelatin (250 bloom) and 130g water. I just tried it and there was a good amount of gelatin powder that doesnt get absorbed, so i just dumped the whole thing into a zippy and is now sitting in a sous vide maybe it will melt and absorb we shall see.
IIRC the water needs to be room temp when mixing the gelatin or else it will mess up the blooming process. Your ratio of water to gelatin seems fine. I usually combine my gelatin with the corn syrup first, then the water dissolves it all a lot easier.
Oh and be careful with the ziplocks in a sous vide, I had one break on me earlier when I was trying to heat up a syringe in there. Stupid idea btw, tossing it on a hotplate is way easier.
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Also you need to mix the water and gelatin super fast and try and get it all set then when heated it will all dissolve
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yeah it worked, i stirred the water and gelatin into these tiny dry looking pellets and dumped it into the sous vide and it turned out all liquid dissolved no chunks or anything.
But once i poured it onto the molds (i did the pour and scrape) its not coming out of the molds lol so sticky so i put it in the fridge i hope it’ll be less sticky. I only used corn starch for the molds but i just sprinkled it, i got this MCT coconut oil spray coming that im going to use.
thats interesting, but if you combine it with the corn syrup, what liquid medium do you use to melt the sugars into?
when you scrape does it get the entire sheen of gummy off? i found that i had some layers on the top of the mold connecting some gummies together and i scraped a bunch of times. Does the quality of the mold make much difference?
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I would like the recipe
The quality molds are easier to scrape clean. I just give them to friends and its not resold so i leave the skim part as extra and it means the cavities are all full. Some of the people i give gummies to quit smoking and just eat gummies. I only have samples of the good molds but they are much firmer than amazon. best way to be all the way full and no skim may be to mostly scrape and then top off at the end with a ketchup bottle they seem to shrink a bit as im pouring and I prefer them all full and uniform.
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Appreciate you letting me know.
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so after a day or two in the fridge i was able to pop them out and now they are pretty perfect lol. I guess if i left them in the molds in room temperature it wouldve been the same? I might get some quality molds too
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The worst advice possible…
Your Name/post should really come with a warning…
I’m glad you figured it out for yourself…
Thumper can give shitty advice, it’s 100% expected at this point.
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so refrigerator and time remove the skim. OK??? What I said is quality molds are easier to scrape and miller says im wrong. my bear molds get kinda thin in the head if not full. Ive seen millers pics and they arent full either.
you are the one who told me to use a ketchup bottle dude. And you said the same shit about pouring into cheapo molds. My bear mold is only 1 ml each gummy but i like the surface tension to make the bottom fat, they shrink a bit in the cornstarch. my recipe makes 200 bears perfectly. it sounds stupid when you contradict your own advice and call it the worst advice ever. I prefer the bottom not be concave so i top off and make it bulbous, or leave the skim as a bonus and then its not 200 gummies its 190 or less- oh no people get extra!!! Miller should be named gummy chad because he doest even grow the weed or extract the hash. he buys disty and does less work than a fast food worker. he must have tons of pride in the final product like real people like me do-= not. Thats dumb shit that a chad is giving me a hard time when i typically start with a seed and make dank and diamonds. This industry wouldnt be a thing without people like me. dickhead gave me a hard time over pouring the gummy- that I grew, extracted etc… but hes the expert?
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So a friend of mine is thinking about teaching me how to make his gummies, so I can make them for him.
He told me it takes 10 hrs to complete start to finish this can’t be right can it?
I’ve read thru most of this thread and and several others, and no one ever mentions how long it takes, can someone give me a ballpark idea of how long they usually spend?
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My batch of 180 candies takes me about 2 hours but I smoke and chill while I’m doing it, lol. The curing takes a few days, though,
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The cooking process will take a few hours and then your playing the waiting game w/ the AW content to get them shelf stable.
IME it takes about the same amount of time to cook 100 as it does 1000. Your cook time will increase slightly when making bigger batches but if you scale your pot size it’s not too bad
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Instead of coating with regular sugar, use bakers sugar for a finer coat on gummies. Way smoother taste.
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So I ended up being able to do this, I’ve already made 30,000 small bears. I could probably fill and demold about 5-6000 bears in a 10 hour day by myself. I’m able to cook up and fill 6 pint ketchup bottles with the gummy batter, in about 35-40min. I could probably make a much larger batch in thr same time frame, but they warned me not to let the bottles sit in the sous vide for more that 3 hours, and I’d rather make a larfer variety of flavors
It does take 2 hours heat up a mixture of corn syrup/sugar in a pot sitting in a sous vide. But I don’t count this as I only have to stir it very occasionally. Its fool proof, you can’t burn it.
I’m using a recipe that has the same ingredients as the killa recipe without the monk fruit, it has very different amounts though. I made the killa recipe and I much prefer my recipe the mouth feel is better, wish I could share it but I swore to secrecy.