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WTF DIY Gum: Create Your Own Bubble Gum and Chewing Gum
Ever wonder how bubble gums and chewing gums are made? It’s surprisingly easy to customize your own flavors of gum as long as you have the right ingredients. Scott and Janie peel back the curtains of the process of gum making and share our recipe for making any flavor gum you like, plus bonus recipes for sugar free gum and popping root beer gum… on this week’s WTF.
Product Links:
Gum Base
Flavor Drops
Glucose DE42
Sorbitol
Citric Acid
Fructose
Culinary Crystals
Recipe Link:
DIY Bubble Gum and Chewing Gum
References and Other Links you Might Like!
WTF – Gummies (non alcoholic)
WTF – Cocktail Gummies
WTF – Sugar Substitutes
WTF – Glucose DE42
WTF – Culinary Acids
WTF – Culinary Crystals
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17 Comments.
Peppermint, cinnamon, vanilla sound like interesting flavors to start with.
I would like to make blueberry or raspberry flavor gum.
Juniper berry gum!
I would love to try a liquorice flavor, might be interesting.
Key Lime would be good!
Key Lime would be great! (PS… Having trouble with the captcha)
Spearmint, ginger and cinnamon sound good!
Yes, I would like to make chamomile, lemon balm and mint bubble gum. Thank you
Grapefruit or passionfruit with the popping crystals
Tiger gum…Licorice and orange. Will this gum base also makw Bubble Gum. Normally I have bought a different formulation for bubble gum than chewing gum.
Salmiakki! Anything liquorice, really…
This recipe creates a gum that makes smaller bubbles, but the flavor will be the familiar bubble gum if you use the bubble gum flavoring
I want to try Rhubarb and Custard 😛
I would be interested in making mocktail gum!
I would be interested in making herbal gum!
I would love to try a cinnamon flavor gum. Thank you for your wonderful website and programs.
I like spearmint and would like to try orange or strawberry ?.