Cotton Candy Express CC1000-S Cotton Candy Machine, Easy to Use and Clean, Nostalgia, and Fun, Comes with Instruction Manual and Tip Card, Pink

I bought this thing as a pandemic depression purchase. I have used it a lot. Like a LOT.If it's for personal use, this thing is your dream cotton candy maker. You want something to do? Want to twirl a stick for a while? Fantastic.Don't use hard candy. It's a waste of hard candy. You CAN do it, it just takes a lot of the hard candy to successfully do it. I tried to do it with some smarties and ran out of smarties before it could spin much. Buy flossugar. It's cheap, easy to get in bulk, and tastes fantastic. No, you do NOT want peppermint cotton candy. It's a very odd and arguably awful experience.Now I will mention that I am NOT a responsible cotton candy maker owner. I'm just not. It's a fact to face.The main reason you wanna clean this thing after every third use is the sugar starts stacking up along the edges and gunking up the pathway for the actual floss. I'm lazy and disgusting and very, very depressed, so my solution to this problem is to genuinely just snap the trail of melted sugar off the edges of the machine and put it right back into the part that spins to melt it all over again. Do NOT do this for your kids; the resulting cotton candy genuinely will have sharp and painful bits to it and the floss will come out strangely wiry. Still tastes great and doesn't hurt if you know what you're getting into.Definitely always clean the thing when you're done with your candymaking for the day, though, even if you utilize my horrible methods. Just dip the dome and UFO shaped thing in hot water with a little bit of Dawn and the thing cleans itself. The heated element, though.... is tough to clean, to say the least. I say just get a pipe cleaner for that. It works okay. Just try not to get it wet, and don't clean that part too often.Don't worry about running out of cones. Do you have paper in your house? Great. You have tape? Great. You can make your own paper cones. It isn't worth buying paper cones when you can just wrap some paper around itself for a second.Overall, you want cotton candy from time to time for you and maybe a friend or two? This tiny hunk of junk is exactly what you're looking for. Do it. Get it. It's worth it.

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Doesn’t really work with hard candies, and isn't the easiest to clean, but it is doable (I took it apart with a small screw driver and soaked the candy off in extremely hot water). I used jolly ranchers and I had to do one jolly rancher at a time and that was time consuming. Probably took over 6 jolly ranchers to make a decent cone. The cotton candy sugar would have worked way better! Would be less sugar too😂 I believe the problem was that the jolly ranchers were not melting enough by time it was spinning. Over all this was a fun bday party activity!

Granddaughters love it!

Worked great but did not comeWith cotton candy powder. I bought this and variety pack so we were able to makeSome.

Works perfectly. Turn on let run for awhile then, turn off and full with sugar. Turn back on and wait for the spider web of cotton candy.. good buy !

I purchased this product for my granddaughter's 13th birthday. There's a great 5 minute video from another purchaser on YouTube and my granddaughter watched it a couple times before using the machine. After a couple tries she got the hang of it and has been happily and independently making cotton candy ever since! Clean up is easy - most parts can be washed in the sink and the easiest way to clean the base/motor unit is to simply scrape the sugar off - comes off easily.

this product does not work. I assembled the product exactly to specs but there is still a gap between bowl and motor piece that sugar escapes from. In addition from the beginning, it will only produce a mouthful worth of cotton candy before the sugar starts to melt and collect i. Hard pieces on the stick. Also it shoots out sugar from the top and sticks to the little cotton cany you do get makimg it hard and crunchy. I have followed the making instructions to a T so know this not to be a user error. This is purely the product itself. I couldn't be more disappointed as this was a gift for my daughter and she was heartbroken when it went working properly. I am not sure if I just got a defective unit or if its purely a design flaw. Has anyone else reported this issue? Should I return and demand my money back?