@@BruhMakesGlass it makes total sense! Or like a glory hole for furnace blowing. I may try this next time I teach this as a workshop 😊 thanks for the great idea!
Hi Amelise, thank you! Me too! I felt like a beginner glass blower all over again, and even had similar things happen the sugar glass that happened the real glass when I began, like the bubble blowing too thin and uneven before collapsing. It was a humbling activity for sure! Hope you enjoy it if you get a chance to try the process yourself at home.
This is great! I don't think most people realize how much skill goes into working sugar. I bought a book confectioner techniques (sugar and isomalt). It became clear very quickly that I needed to stick failing with borosilicate!
Thank you! 😁 It’s so difficult! But I could see a lot of cross over with this and furnace glass blowing. I teach glass in a university. My students did this class during lockdown and when they came into the hot shop for the first time you could see they had more of an idea about the process and more confidence! We’re hopefully taking it forward as a way to introduce people to the techniques of glass blowing before they sign up for their first hotshop class so they get a sense of working with a hot, molten material 😁 hope the torch work is going well! 🔥 hoping to install flame working here also this year!
Absolutely, my students even said it was a bit harder than real glass blowing, so if you give it a go and like it, you might be a natural glass blower!
Hey Simone! Oh thank you, I am very much a novice video maker but I am just delighted to share more about glass with the world in an informative, but safe way. Thanks for the kind words!
This is amazing!! I took a glassblowing class a few years ago, and this would be a really fun and novel way to play with that stuff at home. Question: do you have any recommendations for if i wanted to transfer the blown bubble onto a "punty"? Should I use a different implement, or stick with the metal straw? Any idea what tool might be good to use to open up the mouth? I'd love to make little sugar cups to drink out of.
Say... If I for example wanted to make a "fantasy anime special" with this being a signature thing for a glassblower character. Is it possible to adapt this recipe to being made in the field? I gather that you can melt candies and sugar and it's ingredients outside of a microwave, be it in a water bath or just over fire in a pot but how about the rest of the process? Would a field kit of a traveler complimanted with glass blowing tools be enough to replicate it in the wild? Had this idea of making a fantasy elf comic explaining this process
Great question! I just pop a bit of hot water in it and put it back in the microwave and it melts into the water, then it is really easy to clean. Be careful moving the hot water around though!
If you set up a heat gun you can move it in and out after initial microwaving if to keep the consistency you want
What a clever idea! 🔥
@@lauraquinndesign4706 thanks!
@@lauraquinndesign4706 I’m a glass blower so it just made sense to have an extra heat source in the same way we use a Bunsen burner
@@BruhMakesGlass it makes total sense! Or like a glory hole for furnace blowing. I may try this next time I teach this as a workshop 😊 thanks for the great idea!
So cool!! Really impressed with how long the "glass" remains warm and workable
Hi Amelise, thank you! Me too! I felt like a beginner glass blower all over again, and even had similar things happen the sugar glass that happened the real glass when I began, like the bubble blowing too thin and uneven before collapsing. It was a humbling activity for sure! Hope you enjoy it if you get a chance to try the process yourself at home.
This is great! I don't think most people realize how much skill goes into working sugar. I bought a book confectioner techniques (sugar and isomalt). It became clear very quickly that I needed to stick failing with borosilicate!
Thank you! 😁 It’s so difficult! But I could see a lot of cross over with this and furnace glass blowing. I teach glass in a university. My students did this class during lockdown and when they came into the hot shop for the first time you could see they had more of an idea about the process and more confidence! We’re hopefully taking it forward as a way to introduce people to the techniques of glass blowing before they sign up for their first hotshop class so they get a sense of working with a hot, molten material 😁 hope the torch work is going well! 🔥 hoping to install flame working here also this year!
Iv been wanting to try glass blowing but i think this may be a good starting point to practice!!
Absolutely, my students even said it was a bit harder than real glass blowing, so if you give it a go and like it, you might be a natural glass blower!
Thank you so much for posting this! I'm going to try this with my art students.
Please do let me know how it goes! :)
Very underrated channel with beautiful and complete explanations and examples. Keep it up!
Hey Simone! Oh thank you, I am very much a novice video maker but I am just delighted to share more about glass with the world in an informative, but safe way. Thanks for the kind words!
Im a glass artist, this was really accurate tbh.
This is amazing!! I took a glassblowing class a few years ago, and this would be a really fun and novel way to play with that stuff at home. Question: do you have any recommendations for if i wanted to transfer the blown bubble onto a "punty"? Should I use a different implement, or stick with the metal straw? Any idea what tool might be good to use to open up the mouth? I'd love to make little sugar cups to drink out of.
Amazing tutorial! Thank you!
Thanks a million! I really enjoyed making it :)
You are AMAZING!!! 👀
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Very, very COOL!
Say... If I for example wanted to make a "fantasy anime special" with this being a signature thing for a glassblower character. Is it possible to adapt this recipe to being made in the field? I gather that you can melt candies and sugar and it's ingredients outside of a microwave, be it in a water bath or just over fire in a pot but how about the rest of the process? Would a field kit of a traveler complimanted with glass blowing tools be enough to replicate it in the wild?
Had this idea of making a fantasy elf comic explaining this process
Perfect, gorgeous 👍🌷🌷🌷🌷
How do you get the residual out of the dish?
Great question! I just pop a bit of hot water in it and put it back in the microwave and it melts into the water, then it is really easy to clean. Be careful moving the hot water around though!
I ended up doing that and it seemed to work quite well. Thank you for the response.
Just set it in the sink with hot water. It's sugar so it will all melt off in a bit.
Is the piece very fragile? Would it break fast?
THANKYOU
You are most welcome!
Incredible 👍👍
Thank you so much! Super fun to do too! :D