I've seen chefs make this stuff on tv many times. Last time was on Iron Chef America. Basically all it seems to be is some sort of carmel or molasses mixture and when it's placed on cold steel, it immediately hardens. It's like... glass candy or something.
Not the stuff that Grandma always made at Christmas that was like a 5 foot by 5 foot sheet of candy she dropped on the floor and cracked... and then gave to us so we'd bite down real good and get our teeth jammed together and not talk for an hour...... Not that stuff.....
This is more delicate. They take it work it on their table into shapes. The last one I saw - the iron chef - she took it and swirled it around a metal post of some sort (looked like a turkey poker) and it hardened... she took it off and it was like a candy spring.
Sorry for the ignorance..... and thank you for any help you may have to offer.
2006-08-10
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