What's the recipe of a bubble gum?!


Question:

What's the recipe of a bubble gum?

I am wondering what makes it so chewy


Answers:
You mix some baking soda and flour in a 3 gallon bowl (depends on how much you make). You add some corn syrup and vegetable oil to help make the goey texture. Then add in sugar and other flavors you would like to make the gum tast and then lastly bake in oven at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.

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Experience

its made from polymers

i think they use bubbles and gum.

j/k. i heard its called chickle. from the chickle tree.

Chewing gum is a combination of a water-insoluble phase, known as gum base, and a water-soluble phase of sweeteners, flavoring and sometimes food coloring.

The approximate manufacturing methods are fairly constant between brands. The gum base is melted at a temperature of about 115 °C (240 °F), until it has the viscosity of thick maple syrup, and filtered through a fine mesh screen. Then it is further refined by separating dissolved particles in a centrifuge, and further filtered. Clear base, still hot and melted, is then put into mixing vats. Other ingredients that may be added include: powdered sugar, whose amount and grain size determines the brittleness of the result, corn syrup and/or glucose which serve as humectants, coat the sugar particles and stabilize their suspension, and keep the gum flexible, various softeners, food colorings, flavorings, preservatives and other additives.

The homogenized mixture is then poured onto cooling belts, and cooled with cold air. Extrusion, optionally rolling and cutting, and other mechanical shaping operations follow. The chunks of gum are then put aside to set for 24 to 48 hours.

Coated chewing gums then undergo other operations. The chunks are wrapped with optional undercoating for better binding with outer layers then immersed into liquid sugar. The pellets are then colored and coated with a suitable glazing agent, usually a wax. The coating/glazing/colors on gum is most often derived from animal based sources such as resinous glaze that is derived from an insect or beeswax. Vegans, vegetarians, and those who do not wish to consume animal based products or have allergies should be aware of the limited variety of non-animal derived gums available. Always contact the manufacturer of the gum to clarify the ingredients including the coating/glazing/color sources.

Non-coated varieties are covered in sweetened marble dust to prevent the wrapper from sticking to the product.




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