Jolly Ranchers and Mountain Dew are advertised on TikTok and Instagram but contain products banned in the UK.

  • pinkdrunkenelephants
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    1 year ago

    Is there a way to make homebrew Jolly Ranchers without chemical bullshit? Anyone know of a recipe?

    • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      homebrew Jolly Ranchers

      sugar, corn syrup and water will make hard candy. after that, it’s just a matter of dialing in the amounts of flavorings and citric acid for some tartness

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        1 year ago

        🤔 I wonder if there’s a way to make them with natural sweeteners and not sugar.

        I sense an opportunity

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          I wonder if there’s a way to make them with natural sweeteners and not sugar.

          get out of your own arsehole, do you know what sugar is made of? Sugarcane. Do you know what Sugarcane is? It’s a fucking natural plant.

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          1 year ago

          not really, at least not that I know of. the formation of hard candy kinda depends on how sugar acts once you get it above certain temperature points. there’s probably a materials engineer somewhere that can offer you a sol’n that mostly does what you want but in the traditional world of candymaking sugar does a lot more than just sweeten.

    • kyle@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I love how you used the term “homebrew” and not “homemade” lol.

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      There’s even a wikiHow, if you use a search engine you can find it ❤️