ever wondered how they make lollies? LOOK NO FURTHER! i shall show you :D

[MattyB]

i was in the city with a few girls and my brother looking for laptops, and the girls wanted to see Suga, a store in melbourne that makes hard boiled lollies and a bunch of other stuff

they were making them infront of us as per usual, so i took the op to take a bunch of photos, and i thought you guys might be interested

here you go!

(maybe i won a golden ticket? )


first they put all the stuff into a big roll, but everything is put there properly so it makes a patern or text when it's finished


then they roll it into 'stretch' type of lollie stuff, which stops it breaking your teeth if you bite down (they still don't recommend yo bite it)


then they put it into blue lollie (berry flavour)


this thing is about 70kgs (aobut my weight), so they roll it to the edge of the table, squeeze a 'neck' into it, then lift it up by the neck and let the weight of it stretch it out evenly


then they stretch morrreeee and it ends up into the thickness of the lollies you eat (starting to see it now?)



then it's the right thickness, he gives it to the other guy
NOTE: the table on the right is hot and keeps the lollie stuff soft and plyable
the table on the left is cold steel and makes the lollie go transparent and rock hard


so this guy rolls it out with his hand while it's plyable, and at the same time it cools down and turns into a hard stick


now that they are rolled out and ready, but not yet!


he chops them up realllllly fast, (like.. faster than a 1Ds MK II shutter!) and on a slight angle


see?! how fast was that!!


then he gives some to us to taste test and look at the pattern


o0o0o, berry tree pattern!! it's better when it says stuff, thats amazing, some of them say "i love you" or "happy birthday", how cool is that?!


then they go on the shelf and get sold to us! with every flavour you can think of, including chocolate filled ones and all, yummmm.


who wants a lollie?

[Nidz]

Haha nice pics.. I'm surprised they let you take photos.

[MattyB]

sif my lollies don't deserver hundreds of replies :P

[RockOne]

Interesting series. Never even thought about how they we're made before !

[zakabog]

photobucket was down for a bit so I finally get to see your images today. So happy cause I love watching stuff like that get made (I saw it once on Discovery HD Theater or some channel like that except they did one with words.) I like the series and I'm also surprised they let you photograph that.

[MattyB]

i didn't ask, i just shot :P

[Desertraptor]

i hope you got their signatures on the release

[MattyB]

what is this release thingy? does it apply in aust?
where do i get the form?

etc etc - info pls

[Rendezvous]

Very interesting. You don't think of how things are made normally.. and I wouldn't have worked it out if I had have tried!

[Ronald S. Jr.]

I saw a special on a place that makes that type of candy on discovery HD Theater the other day...very interesting.

[FlipFlopWS6]

that's awesome!! mmmm now i want candy!!


thats talent to get it to say something in that tiny little candy piece!!!

[Diamond]

This is so funny! I was just in there, and I wanted to see how they made the lollies but I had to get back to work. So I did a search on how to make lollies and this forum came up. Out of all the lollie shops in the world; you talked about the one I was just in AND I had one of thier lollies in mouth at the time (still is.. Blackcurrent lolliepop... yum)

[Bu Yao]

Nice work. Interest and inform.

[sprinkles]

love the colourful series & love the lollies!

thanks for sharing!

[Livinthalife]

looks like they are designeing hot glass! nice work!