Cotton Candy Machine - Bright, Colorful Style- Makes Hard and Sugar Free Candy, Sugar Floss, Homemade Sweets for Birthday Parties - Includes 10 Cones & Scooper

This thing was an absolute hit for my kids birthday party. We paired it with some good ole dye free sugar and it made it absolutely perfect. Setup took 30 seconds, heat up was a couple minutes and we made 6 or 7 big bushels of cotton candy in less than 10 minutes. This thing is top notch fun for the kids, but it was more fun was watching the adults go even crazier for it. Seems like it is going to hold up well, as long as you keep up with the cleaning. For the price point, in my opinion you can’t beat some good ole fashion fun and a throwback to childhood. Great value, and I’ll be using this for years to come hopefully.

My 8 year old wanted a cotton candy maker for Christmas, that's all she cared about - well, I always get nervous buying something when I see negative reviews in the mix, but I though "what the heck, lets try it". Let me tell you, I couldn't be happier with this purchase! This machine works BEAUTIFULLY! It's not that noisy (as others mentioned) I've had industrial sized machines, they ALL make some sort of noise, that's just par for the course - but compared to other cotton candy machines of this size, this one is actually quieter than most.Another gripe I see people making is that it doesn't work well or "takes too long" - you have to read the instructions, it clearly states you HAVE to let it heat up for 5 minutes first, this makes ALL the difference in the world! (Just like industrial machines, it's got to get up to the heat level - like preheating your oven before cooking) and if you turn off the machine for a couple minutes to restock your supplies, let it preheat again for another 2-4 minutes.It produced the fluffiest, prettiest cotton candy and it was absolutely easy to roll onto the cones. The trick there is to not stick the cone into the machine to gather the cotton candy, lay it parallel to the top of the machine on the SIDE of the opening (not over the heating element or it will melt the candy on the cone) and just twirl, it gathers BEAUTIFULLY and quickly!Also a HUGE selling point for me is the ease of cleaning! I thought it would be difficult as melted sugar solidifies when cooled and it will collect, all over, the inside of the heating unit and plastic collection rim - but it was actually VERY VERY easy to clean! A huge plus for the adults lol The heating center comes out by pulling it up (after it's cooled of course!) and everything comes clean with a rinse or light wiping with a sponge and hot water! Simple!I LOVE that you can use flossing sugar, regular sugar: we dye & flavor our own with food coloring & extract, then let it "dry" for a little while. Even used it when it was still a little moist with NO problems! We made orange, lemon, root beer, and rum flavored ones (for the adults lol) using regular extracts you buy in the stores! AND it takes hard candies! We didn't have any sugar on Christmas morning, thanks to our Christmas coffee lol so we used the candy canes off the tree - some of the best cotton candy I've ever had!So far we have used: candy canes, peppermints, jolly ranchers, butterscotches, and hard root beer candies, and they've all worked perfectly! (You can't use anything tacky or gummy like taffy, gummy bears, starbursts etc obviously)Also love that you can use the sugar free candies as we have a few ppl with dietary restrictions in the family - so sugar free cotton candy it is for them, and it comes out perfectly & cant tell the difference in taste!Sorry for the long review but I'm just EXTREMELY happy with this purchase and product! It does come with a handful of cones (although I prefer the bigger ones since the cotton candy doesn't really stick to the skinny ones that well) and doesn't come with any flossing sugar, but the price is worth just the machine alone and since you can use anything you already have, or just buy a cheap bag of $2 candies - totally worth it!Thank you for bringing smiles to all 3 of my kids faces (as well as the adults) this will definitely be in rotation on a regular basis and will DEFINTELY be used for their birthday parties! No more store bought cotton candy with questionable additives that doesn't taste that great to begin with. The way my kids eat cotton candy, it paid for itself already! 😂

Terrific cotton candy maker. Ive had one for years and bought another for a party we were having (so the birthday boy, my grandson, could keep it afterwards)Easy cleanup. Candy accumulated on the sides were put out as additional treats. Great value for repeat use.

I must admit one thing before starting to talk about this product. I did buy this at 3 AM on impulse because I saw HopeScope talking about it. However, unlike most other impulse purchases I make, I do not regret this one. While it is sort of an investment to make for candy, it is cool and fun to be able to make your own cotton candy at home. It was one of the cheapest ones I saw, too. It isn't too confusing to use and comes with all of the necessary pieces. As someone who has never made cotton candy before this, I can confidently say that I learned this in 5 minutes. A couple of things to remember, though, is that 1. It does not come with any sugar. 2. You will want to do this outside because the sugar will fly through the air. 3. When making cotton candy with this, start by spinning it with the stick vertically, then switch to horizontal when you get a good base. 4. The cotton candy may not stick too well to the provided straws. The easiest way to clean this (in my opinion) is to spray water on it and then turn it on, making it spin and heat the water while doing so. It will melt down any other sugar so that you can then just rinse it off. This cotton candy machine is pretty good.

This cotton candy machine worked very well! Really easy to use and worked right away. We even tried jolly ranchers in it and had no issues. It’s also really easy to clean. The bowel twists off and the metal piece pops off as well and you can clean that out and wipe the rest with a damp cloth. It’s not as noisy as a previous one we tried, but still rattles the bowl a bit and makes a little noise. The video makes it seem louder than it was, but we could talk at a normal volume and still hear each other over it. My daughter loves it. Definitely worth it.

Growing up, cotton candy was one of my favorite treats, but something I rarely ever got. I recently saw it being offered at a movie theater, where they were charging $5 for a tiny bucket—and that gave me the idea to make it myself.Making cotton candy at home has been such a fun activity. I brought it out for a Christmas party, and it was a huge hit—even with the adults. Spinning sugar into fluffy clouds definitely brings out everyone’s inner kid. I found that rolled up printer paper worked better than the thin straws. Cleanup is also simple since the machine comes apart and just the pieces just needs a soak in warm water. I decided to go with this particular model because the heating element isn’t exposed.The only real downside is needing a bit of self-control—having cotton candy this accessible makes it easy to overdo the sugar intake. That said, I completely justified the splurge by how giddy it made me and the fact that it would pay for itself if I used it just ten times. I have no regrets—this machine delivers fun, nostalgia, and smiles every time it comes out.

This cotton candy machine does indeed make cotton candy, just in painfully small quantities. I'll break down the pros and cons:Pros--#1 It is pretty cheap compared to the $150 and higher semi-commercial grade units that would have a stainless steel bowl and larger capacity etc.#2 Since it is so tiny it heats up pretty quick so you can get to scrambling around attempting to create any kind of meaningful quantity faster#3 The bowl breaks down easy enough, cleanup wasn't badCons:#1 The guard is very rigid and will break with very little force, the first unit I got had it pre-broken in the box (a handy feature to warn me of how to handle the replacement)#2 The guard and bowl do not "click" together so it will create a harmonic vibration when the unit is on and spinning that can be VERY loud and annoying. I stopped that by using a small bag clip on the outside edge just to provide some more positive contact between the guard/bowl#3 There is a pretty decent gap between the bowl and metal body that will fill with sugar and be the most difficult part to clean#4 The bowl connects to the body with a slight quarter turn like you are threading a screw, it fits decently now but plastic tabs on the bowl threading to the metal body will flex and loosen considerably, I expect this will be the next point of failure#5 The bowl itself is insanely shallow so you can only get about 3-4 inches worth of the stick in the "floss zone" so you can create a ball of candy floss about the size of a tennis ball before you just reach a point where you cannot build more until you either reshape the whole thing with your hand or pull off the ball and go again#6 The unit comes with a small measuring cup to dish the sugar into the middle receptacle. With how small/shallow the unit is you end up spinning out about 50% of the raw sugar to the sides of the bowl before floss even starts to form. I am going to post a small video to explain/show this in action. But the end result is you are lucky to get a tennis ball size bit of floss on the end of the stick with one cup worth of sugar this means you are either scrambling to keep that cup filled while juggling a small stick in a very tight space to get more sugar or you just accept defeat and look at the disappointment in your child's eyes when you hand them the most anemic looking stick of cotton candy ever produced.Tips:I used gold medal cotton candy floss sugar. It is the brand you see everywhere with the creepy clown on the carton, I got a half gallon size from Smart and Final for like $6. I wouldn't pay to ship that stuff from AmazonI ended up breaking off the raw sugar ring that builds up along the outer rim of the bowl and snacking on that which was delicious. I also used those chunks to feed the machine with one hand while collecting the floss with the other. It re-melts fine and allowed me to keep a fairly steady stream of floss going. What I did was form a ball quickly then push it off the stick with gloved hands into a bowl/bag on the side creating a pile of snowballs basically. It was really the only way to keep it going.This thing is effectively the easy bake oven of candy floss. Can you make brownies in an easy bake oven? Technically yes but it takes 30 minutes and is the thickness of seven credit cards stacked up.

This is a wonderful machine for a good price. I am so pleased with my purchase. We have used this for 5 days straight for a couple of hours each time and it is still going strong. We used it for a few hours at my daughter's 5th birthday party with no problems. We use the Gold Medal brand Flossugar and with this machine, it makes DELICIOUS cotton candy, just like at the fair. Better than the pre-packaged cotton candy. One scoop makes a fair amount. Not too small and not too big. However, I pour in 2 scoops of flossugar per round and it worked just the same. It didn't overheat, did not overflow, did not get jammed. I made real big ones, so I did 2 or 3 rounds of 2 scoops per round per cone of cotton candy. The pics and video I posted are of the ones I made using 2 scoops and 2 or 3 rounds. And the super big one was a lot of rounds. No problem with the machine at all! It spits out a lot of floss. Even if I only put one scoop in there, it still makes a fair amount of cotton candy fluff. It was a big hit at the birthday party. When it first starts off, it is quiet. But after a while, it gets loud. The noise doesn't bother me. It's a great machine and good for the price. The sticks the product comes with aren't good. You won't be able to stick cotton candy on them. I purchased the cotton candy stick cones separate. It took me about 3 tries to figure out the best way to make the cotton candy. DONT stick your cone inside the machine and twirl it around while it's making floss. You won't get a lot (if any) that way. Instead, wait for a fair amount of floss to be produced by the machine and then put your cone ON TOP of the machine and twirl the cone. The floss will stick to the cone. Move your cone around and continue to twirl and you'll get a nice round stick (and plenty of) of cotton candy. ***Take a look at my video of me making the cotton candy and also my pictures to get a better idea ***It's also very important to let the machine heat up for 10 minutes every single time you take it out to use it. I personally let it heat for 12-13 minutes. Be patient and wait the full 10+ so minutes for it to warm up. Otherwise, it will hardly produce any cotton candy floss and in the end, it's going to take longer to make one if it isn't heated properly. Once you get started actually making the cotton candy, the machine isn't slow. It's not super duper fast like with the super expensive and big commercial machine at the fair, but it's not slow either. It spits out the floss pretty fast once the sugarfloss melts, and that itself (the sugar melting into floss) takes only a few minutes, I would say less than 3-5 minutes. I found that the longer I use it, when making multiple cones one after the other, the machine melts the sugar much faster and much more efficiently.I want to add, when the machine appears it isn't making cotton candy anymore, BUT you see sugar stuck to the sides of the applicator, turn the machine off. I use a wooden chopstick and scrape the floss that is stuck to the sides of the floss applicator where you pour the floss in. Let the sugar you scraped off fall back into the applicator. Note: you are NOT removing the sugar stuck on there, but simply scraping it to let it fall back into the applicator. It doesn't do this all the time but it does happen from time to time. Takes 5 seconds to scrape off the sugar left on the sides. Not a big deal. After I scrape off , I turned it on again and the machine INSTANTLY makes the remaining cotton candy from the remaining sugarflos. Once none of the sugar was left inside the applicator, that's when I refilled it.*** See my video and photos to get a better idea of why I rated this product 5 STARS ***EDIT: I have been using this daily for 2 weeks now. Still makes great cotton candy but it is very loud. Just wanted to mention that in case anyone is bothered by loud machines. However, it still makes delicious cotton candy and at a reasonable time. I don’t need to wait forever for it to start making the threads.