Place machine on tabletop. Ensure that stabilizing bolts,
located on each side of spinning head, are loosened.
Place silver dish on machine, being careful to allow the floss spinner
free movement.
Place the plastic netting on the inside of the silver dish and secure
with clips provided.
Fill the spinner head with floss crystals, allowing 1/4" space from top.
Do not overfill.
Turn the heat dial all the way to the right.
Turn both the heat and the spinner switches on. These are located below
the dial.
When floss strings start to appear, turn the heat dial to the left
halfway. This is a normal heat setting for making floss. However, the
room temperature will affect the heat setting.
If the floss is wet when it hits the plastic netting, you will need to
turn the heat dial down or to the left. If you hear pinging against the
silver dish, the heat dial needs to be turned up or to the right.
When the floss has amassed around the inside of the silver dish, you
will remove it by using the candy floss cones and turning the floss onto
the cones.
When you have made enough floss or when the spinner head is empty and no
floss is coming out, you must turn both switches off. When the spinner
head stops you may refill it with more floss crystals and begin again by
turning both switches on.
If the machine has been off long enough to have cooled down, you will
have to preheat it by turning the heat dial all the way to the right
until the floss starts coming out. If you start the machine right back
up, this step will not be necessary.
The machine works by spinning the crystals against a heating element.
When the crystals are heated, they dissolve and are sprayed out through
small slits on the spinner head. As the sugar spins out, it cools into
long floss strings. Therefore, if the heating element is set too high,
the floss does not have enough time to cool before it hits the silver
dish. And if the crystals are pinging against the silver dish, the
heating element is not set high enough to fully dissolve the sugar
crystals. |