Nostalgia PCM405RETRORED Hard and Sugar-Free Countertop Cotton Candy Maker - Create Delicious Treats at Home!

Patricia Nicole Tang Prince: Fonctionne très bien

Canada on Oct 05, 2023

Tanya: Does not make alot of cotton candy

Canada on Sep 02, 2023

Lindsay: Well it works! My 10 year old son can do it by himself, but you have to fill up the sugar tray 4 or 5 times to get a decent portion. It's a lot of work, but fun for special occasions or sleep overs with his friends.

Canada on Aug 10, 2023

FarrabFarrab: This is by no means a professional cotton candy machine but it definitely serves its purpose. It takes a little while to heat up and a little practice to figure it out. We have had this machine for over a year and it still works great. Do not use crushed up hard candy like the directions suggest. It won’t work well and will make a mess of the machine. Stick with the powdered cotton candy sugar that Amazon sells.

United States on Jun 27, 2023

Arturo: Me encantó

Mexico on Jun 23, 2023

Giovani Jiménez A.: lo compre en octubre de 2018, al día de hoy siguen funcionando sin problemas, pero a pesar de eso tiene algunos problemas, el primero es que el algodón de azúcar no se puede hacer tan bien, es mas fácil que las paredes del protector se llenen mas de algodón que el que intentes hacer, como tal solo eso es el problema mas grande, lo otro es el como puede ser algo difícil de limpiar por el azúcar, pero es es algo normal

Mexico on Jan 11, 2023

Emily: We had a home cotton-candy machine when I was little, and I feel like it worked much better and faster than this one does.

EFFICIENCY/ SPEED:
Prepare to spend at least a couple of minutes for each small cotton candy you wish to make. And it's recommended that you stop the machine from spinning before adding more sugar or hard candy, so that also slows down the process.

SIZE OF COTTON CANDY:
Don't expect to ever be able to make the super large ones that you can get commercially. In addition to how long it would take, once the cotton candy you're working on gets beyond the small size, you won't really be able to add to it, because the bowl of this machine is too small. You'll end up with a partially-melted sticky mess. So plan on small

WHAT TO USE IN THE MACHINE:
When I was little, we used plain old table sugar in the machine we had, and it worked great. So did Koolaid. With this machine, regular sugar works, but it makes and already slow process even slower. I had never known that you could use hard candy in a cotton candy machine, but it works great, all things considered. Hard candy turns into cotton candy much faster than table sugar does. Maybe...

United States on Jun 14, 2020

Andrew Broekhuijsen: I was super worried about this. I bought it on an impulse and then read a lot of reviews that basically made me expect to spend 15+ minutes to get a tiny amount of gritty, low-quality candy. The worst reviews said it broke, it was impossible to take apart, or it just straight up didn't work.

I fired it up yesterday when it arrived and could not be more pleased with the results. I used a single Jolley Rancher, crushed up with a hammer in a ziplock bag and poured carefully into the provided tablespoon scoop. I then topped of the rest of the tablespoon with regular old white sugar. Let it heat and spin for 10 minutes, then turn it off for just long enough to add the sugar/candy without it spraying everywhere. Turn it back on immediately.

Use the stick vertically only for long enough to attach the cotton candy to the cone. Then pull it out of the bowl and hold it horizontally above the center, rotating it and moving a bit as necessary to make sure you're pulling the candy out of the bowl. Worked fantastically for me. Taste was great, texture was great, after 1 or 2 tries I got the hang of it and it was really easy to use. Takes like 2 minutes or less to go through the 1...

United States on Jun 08, 2016

JDBJDB: Honestly, I did not expect much from a $25 cotton candy maker. I used my kids as an excuse to buy this for Christmas, because I love cotton candy as much as they do, if not more. Our 8-year-old was really excited when he opened it Christmas morning. I couldn't wait to try it out! I read the instructions and I think that's what really helped make this a success for me. I have made cotton candy on 5 or 6 occasions now and I feel like I have a little system down. As the instructions state, I let it run for about 10 minutes before pouring in the floss sugar. I have found that letting it heat up/run between 10-15 minutes ensures that I will get a nice, fluffy product. Then I use paper cones and start turning it around vertically and then switch to horizontally once I've gone around a few times. I got the hang of it really fast. We get 2 small cones of cotton candy per 1 tablespoon of floss sugar. I thought clean up would be a nightmare, but it really is not. Once the water is warm enough to melt the sugar off, I clean the removable piece with some mild dish soap and make sure to dry it thoroughly. I also wipe down the outside of the machine. We love this so much that we haven't put it...

United States on Jan 04, 2016