Lynn from Fargo wrote:
>
> On Oct 8, 10:42 pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> > Sheldon wrote:
> >
> > > If any cocoa fat is present all you will make is a schticky mess.
> >
> > I was thinking of putting dry ice or liquid nitrogen
> > in the bowl of the machine, so the threads would solidify
> > in the atmosphere of the bowl before hitting anything.
> > I'd gather up the threads on a paper cone like regular
> > cotton candy. If an unmodified dark chocolate bar
> > can be turned into chocolate cotton candy, that would
> > be great stuff I believe.
>
> I'm not a physicist (nor do I play one on TV) but don't you think if
> you first melted hocolate so it would flow and then you flash froze it
> it would just shatter into chocolate dust?

If that happens, raise the temperature! Cotton candy
is made from sugar that is melted, then refreezes shortly
after leaving the spinnerets of the cotton candy machine.
That works because the sugar is really hot, so it cools
rapidly in air before hitting the bowl or the paper cone
used to gather it. Because chocolate melts at a much
lower temperature, I'm thinking the heater would have
to be modified to run at a lower temperature or simply
disabled (with liquid chocolate from a tempering machine
ladled in). To accomplish the cooling within a reasonable
distance from the spinnerets, a cold atmosphere in the bowl
might be necessary.

I've been thinking compound chocolate would actually be
more likely to be successful, at least on the first try.