Comments on: Unitasker Wednesday: Cotton candy maker

By: Ericka

Ericka — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:37:10 +0000

But I love cotton candy (”sugar clouds” lol) so much that this might be the only Unitasker I’ve considered buying so far.

By: hilton

hilton — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:08:45 +0000

This one from Japan does not need sugar or coloring, it uses normal hard candy. Cool!
http://japansugoi.com/wordpres.....e-wataame/

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:50:08 +0000

We had one of these. I said “had” because coincidentally I dropped it off at Goodwill on the way to work today. I just happened to be looking at Unitasker archives and it caught my eye.

My wife rcvd this as a prize for something or other when she was selling Tupperware. (another huge amount of clutter that disappeared after she got a job in a clothing store) Anyway, she used it once with the kids when it arrived and then it disapppeared into the attic. I was thinking about getting rid of it and wanted to see how it worked. It DOES work, and it makes cotton candy. The biggest problem was that I made some for my son while he finished a chore and when he came to eat it, the light fluffy strings had turned into gloppy, shriveled, hard sugar crystals.

Stick to the carnival cotton candy.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:25:26 +0000

sadly i had this in my freshman dorm and it overheated and became a fire hazard so i had to throw it away.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:01:36 +0000

Mother’s Day Unitaskers…

Hey Erin — so this mother’s day I made my well-loved fruit salad, which involves not ONE but TWO unitaskers –1. cherry pitter and
2. mango pitter.

I could NEVER make this salad if I didn’t have these trusty unitaskers….even tho my husband rolls his eyes at their little Unitasking Selves….

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:46:50 +0000

Thank goodness for the astricks at the end – I’m a new reader and was thinking, “What?!?!” Now I know, very funny. :>

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:31:54 +0000

Hey, I can see an extra feature you forgot to mention. No matter how messy your kids can be, you can use this to greatly increase their ability to make every surface in your home sticky in record time. How bored would you be without all that to clean up?

By: Ally

Ally — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:32:47 +0000

A real “Kitchen Carnival” kind of things actually exists! I think it was sold by Harriet Carter, Miles Kimball, or Walter Drake. If I had a use for it, I totally would have bought it!

By: Dee

Dee — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:58:42 +0000

I can’t believe for a mere 150 bucks I can get plastered on martinis while I make cotton candy, that a deal !

By: Kat

Kat — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:38:39 +0000

I would LOVE one of these, but it’s actually quite huge and I have nowhere to put it. Plus, it’s not the same if I have to do the work.

By: Brooke

Brooke — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:56:06 +0000

Ok, I actually have this. My husband LOVES cotton candy. I had to do it. And since we’ve had it, we’ve used it about 3 times in the last 4 years. And it’s a Unitasker because you can get 17 home projects done while you’re waiting for one sugary cone to fill! And it’s doing a great job keeping our garage shelving unit warm. Cheers to the Cotton Candy Maker!

By: Sandy

Sandy — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:40:56 +0000

@Michael …or, for those nasty Domino’s Pizzas, for when they use the hot glue gun to spray the cheese ON the pizza….

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:16:55 +0000

@Kimberly The machine melts the sugar into a liquid then blows air through it to create the tasty cobwebs. It’s not unlike the fine strands you get when using a hot glue gun or when you eat a really cheesy pizza.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:06:26 +0000

I was totally going to rush right out and buy one, but I OD’d on Pixie Stix and passed out.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:11 +0000

We rented a professional heavy-duty cotton candy maker for my brother’s 13th birthday party. It only cost, like, 20 dollars to rent, and was a huge hit. The next day we took it back to the party supply shop, and presto, no clutter!

By: Sandy

Sandy — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:46:55 +0000

@Corrie — Mr Martini at BehindTheBarShow.com just featured this, too, on his podcast this week — these folks are getting a lot of press for their silly unitasker!

@Catherine — think you could bi-task for the salad spinner WITH the cotton candy maker? A little nice romaine…with that Carnival Taste? Or “green” cotton candy? (OK, revolting I will quit now)

By: Springpeeper

Springpeeper — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:50:47 +0000

You hit the nail on the head with “some foods weren’t meant to be made at home”.
Being able to make this at home makes it ordinary, not the special treat that it should be, and this takes away much of the enjoyment.

By: lorenzbutterfly

lorenzbutterfly — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:20:02 +0000

LOL, I actually got one of these for my mother last Christmas. Certainly a unitasker, and I don’t know if she ever used it (i believe it was missing the sugar). However, she adores cotton candy, and the sentiment meant a lot to her.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:56:26 +0000

OMG. I can’t find a good place for our salad spinner, and we use it almost every day. A cotton candy maker?? Just NO.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:25:06 +0000

Ahahahha! We had one of these when I was a kid. We used it once at home (probably Christmas day or whatever day it came as a gift) and then used it a few more times at church festivals. Then it was probably sold at a garage sale. I still don’t understand how it turned crystals into strands of sugar.