Candymaking Horror Stories

[Goodi2shooz]

I remember my first attempt at making caramel.... I've always been the asbestos fingers type of cook...and I wanted to see if the caramel tasted alright... so I stuck my finger in the simmering mixture.... no one told me they call caramelized sugar "kitchen naplam" !! A huge blister raised up on my finger and I had to do some major burn control!

One of my other big candymaking disasters was trying to make honeycomb candy... instead of going by the recipe I thought I'd get fancy and flavor it with raspberry syrup.... so I couldn't tell by the color when it was ready... burned that batch up...the smell was unearthly... even the dogs wouldn't touch it.

Anybody else wanna share candy horror stories?

[Sara Noel]

My first attempt at chocolate dipped pretzels was interesting. I didn't buy the wafers and just used chips and had the heat a bit too high and it was smoking a bit and was a bit too thick.

My second attempt was much better.