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Are you ready to pull taffy this Halloween? You want candy, you’re gonna get some!
Taffy pulling is a group activity. Perhaps you can draw in some of your trick or treaters. . .
Everyone involved has to pull, pull, and pull— until you collapse— that's when you know it's ready.
The taffy link I've posted is from the Exploratorium in San Francisco, a "kids" science museum that adults go crazy over. It's actually called "a museum of art, science, and human perception." Yes!
The first time I tried it, I got help from a Taffy Nerd:
—Tip from Dennis the Taffyman:
Taffy Pulls are fun, but the recipe at the Exploratorium in San Francisco has too high a tempurature. I do taffy pulls professionally and own a taffy store, and a better tempurature is to cook to 240 degrees.
As you go higher, the candy becomes more difficult to pull. It makes the pulling much easier and much more fun!
The reason I recommend 240 degrees is that was the tempurature the candy maker at Knott's Berry Farm gave us back in …