Help - Handling Hot Sugar

[snowla]

Hi,

I just tried to make popcorn balls with a recipie that basically involved boiling sugar then mixing it with popcorn. The instructions then said to work quickly to form into balls. But the mixture was much too hot to handle without getting burned and by the time I could bear to touch it, it had gone too cold to stick together anymore.

How do you do this??

Thanks!

Snowla - you must have read the recipe wrong - you would not handle caramel like this!! I'm sure it would say something like heat sugar / water until a soft ball stage - can you check. Soft ball - if you drop a bit of the mix into cold water it goes into a ball and is still soft and squidgy - then you would mix the pop corn into this - thats what I would do anyway....don't handle hot sugar / water ouch ouch burney burney

Two tablespoons used to quickly pick up scalding hot caramel popcorn and bung on over trays to cool usually does the trick. And if you dip the spoons in veg. oil first it stops the caramel sticking to spoon.

I prefer to make a fudge for popcorn, with sugar, butter and milk or cream, then spread it in a tray and pop it in the over to dry out for about ten minutes, then when it is cool it all breaks apart into individual kernels again and is delishious