Shadowing Practice: I Tested the MOST VIEWED TikTok CANDY Recipes! 🍬 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I've been seeing these sour blue raspberry gushers all over my TikTok.
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And it costs $30 for a tiny little jar.
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So this video with 500,000 views shows us how to make it at home.
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So she starts by emptying all of her gushers into a bowl.
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They're all kind of stuck together.
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Then she pours in a little bit of simple syrup, which is just equal parts sugar and water.
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And then she adds citric acid, which is what makes it nice and sour.
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I love my candy sour.
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Then to make it that blue raspberry, she adds this thing called baby bottle pop.
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It's just the blue powder in a baby bottle.
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And then she dumps the whole thing in there.
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I feel like that's a lot.
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She adds even more blue with a jello mix.
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Oh, that gives it like a bigger bluish granule.
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And then the simple syrup is turning the blue into like this very deep color.
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Whoa, wait.
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Yeah, I definitely think it needs more of that powder.
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So she was right to add more of that baby bottle pop and a little bit more jello.
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While we're at it Let's add more sour to it too.
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Wow.
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It smells insane And this looks exactly like that sour candy that you can find on Tik Tok shop.
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That is so sour and I love it Oh my gosh, ten out of ten But if the rest of the seven candies
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that I'm making are anywhere nearly as good as this we're in for a treat Literally.
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Now we're gonna make a classic gummy worms with only three ingredients and this one got 1.3 million views.
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So my friend Brittany starts by pouring one cup of fruit juice into a saucepan.
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I'm actually gonna be using lemonade because it adds a little bit of tartness
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and then she adds in a little bit of sweetener.
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I'm gonna be using some maple syrup and then we're gonna pour in our gelatin.
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Now she mixes it up, lets everything dissolve for about three minutes on low heat and then we're gonna transfer it into some bowls.
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Someone said just like the ones at the store.
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No, these are way better.
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Honestly, my two favorite colored gummies have always been like the orange and the green.
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So that's what we're gonna do.
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Just like her, I'm using natural dye.
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So it's giving off a little bit more of a natural color.
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Oh, actually, that's pretty.
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Okay, so now I have my gummy worm mold.
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But I've learned that you actually have to oil them or else they're impossible to get out.
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Now comes the fun part.
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So these mold came with these two droppers.
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And what you're supposed to do is get a little bit of each of the color.
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And then you fill the worms from both ends so that you get two different colors.
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Hopefully they don't mix.
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So now we're supposed to let them chill and set for about 15 minutes.
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Someone said, but they're more jello texture versus gummy.
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And then someone else said, if you let them air out overnight, they'll dry out and be more gummy.
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These do look like gummy worms.
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They're nice and stretchy and they're not...
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They're so cute.
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I should have used two drastically different colors because you can barely see the two-tone here.
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Now we have to test it, but I love how it looks and how jiggly it is.
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It has that bounce and chew to it, but it's not quite super chewy.
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So I would try to leave this out overnight to try to dry it out, but I do wonder...
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What if we made them sour?
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They're perfect.
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9 out of 10.
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Now with 2.1 million views, all you need are two ingredients to make your favorite nerd gummy clusters.
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Of course you could just buy it, but like...
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Because someone said, oh my god, I need this ASAP.
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Those cluster bags are getting so expensive.
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She starts by pouring her nerd boxes onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
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And then she pours a cup of her gummy bears into a Pyrex.
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So basically the whole bag.
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Microwaves it for two minutes.
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Okay, it goes without saying that if you're going to heat sugar in the microwave, be careful.
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Her direction says two minutes, but mine started boiling at like a minute.
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Ooh.
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And then she actually pours the melted gummy into a bag.
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But I feel like we can just pour a little dollop since it's already in a cup.
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This is actually how I do my nerd rope.
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So we're gonna try that too.
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Oh, and then she pours more nerds on top.
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So I have to just grab some.
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Oh, they dry kind of fast.
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So you have to kind of move.
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Wait, that's kind of fun.
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Okay, now I'm gonna try a rope.
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It didn't come out into like a nice straight line.
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It's very sticky.
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Bingsu slime right here.
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It's stuck.
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Let's make a few more clusters, shall we?
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Now she says to refrigerate it for three hours, but some of the smaller ones are already setting, so I'm just gonna chill it for a few minutes.
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It's set in the fridge for about 20 minutes, and I feel like the gummy clusters are hard enough.
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Let's see how our rope did.
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It's kind of a deformed rope.
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I got this big cluster right here.
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That's the size of clusters I like to see.
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And now she does this amazing stretch.
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And that right there is the most satisfying part.
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Oh my gosh.
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I love this.
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It honestly tastes just like the real thing.
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But someone had to be a hater and say, seems like a waste of time.
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Spend the $3 and save an hour.
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But honestly, that was time well spent because it was so fun.
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9 out of 10.
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Now we're going to do a little science experiment and turn plain white sugar into rocks.
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Crystals, really.
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It's rock candy and it looks so cool.
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But apparently all you need is some sugar and water, and you first start by dipping a skewer into some water.
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It's called seeding.
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Roll it around in the sugar mixture, and this is supposed to help your sugar grow.
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Someone said this is not rock candy.
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That is traptanumum.
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Traptanumum.
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Now I'm just going to place the skewer in this jar and let it dry for 15 minutes.
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Okay, so to make the mixture, add one cup of water, bring it to a boil, and then sprinkle in about a cup of sugar at a time.
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Two and a half cups.
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It takes a lot of sugar to make sugar crystals.
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The sugar water is so thick.
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Although she doesn't say to what degree, so I'm just gonna let it bubble and be clear.
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I feel like that's good.
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Okay, I'm gonna let it cool completely before I pour it into the jar.
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I try to do this, but the sugar that I boiled and put in the jar completely hardened.
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Someone else said that's their worst nightmare.
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Spill, you spill.
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And then she adds a few drops of food coloring or she says flavoring if you want.
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I'm just gonna make it pink and cotton candy flavored.
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Ooh, so pretty.
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She says the stick has to be completely dry.
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Yep, it's nice and crusty.
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Clamps it and then drops it into the jar, but she says make sure that the tip does not touch the bottom of the jar.
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Ta-da!
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But now we're supposed to let the sugar crystals grow for a whole week.
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So I'm gonna set this over there and we're gonna check it later in the video.
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Now with 2.8 million views, it's cotton candy burrito.
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So she starts by making her layers of cotton candy.
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There's three different colors.
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If you want this a little healthier, Someone said this would be so good on grapes instead of gushers.
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So we're gonna start with some pink.
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Ugh, it's going out so fast!
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I'm trying to make it as fluffy as possible.
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Dang, this just keeps going and going.
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One color, done.
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Now she lays it down.
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I'm gonna try to leave it as fluffy as possible.
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Now we'll do blue.
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This is looking like a blue cotton candy unicorn.
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Okay, now I layer this one kind of sideways on top of the pink one.
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We're gonna mix yellow with pink because this next layer looks kind of peachy.
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This color is so pretty, oh my gosh.
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I love it.
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Now she lays this one back over, and then we kind of flatten it out like a big tortilla.
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Ah, moisture is the killer.
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Must work fast.
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She then throws on a bunch of the best part of Lucky Charms, marshmallows.
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Oh, this is harder than it looks.
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I think the frost from the ice cream is causing this to melt.
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And now we drop in some cosmic looking ice cream and strawberry.
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Folds in the sides and wraps it like a burrito.
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This is harder than it looks.
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Oh my gosh.
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Oh my gosh, that looks so cool.
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What?
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It definitely deflated way more than hers.
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But someone said impossible to eat.
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Yes.
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But do I still want this and would give anything for it?
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Yes.
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Somebody else said my teeth right now.
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Dead, dead, dead.
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This is a diabetes speed run, but I'm not gonna lie, it's amazing.
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Nine out of 10, but I'm gonna go eat a broccoli now.
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Did you know we can make sour candy straws?
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This one has 13 million views.
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Okay, so she has a plate full of water, and then to make it sour, she adds juice from a whole line.
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I hope this makes it sour enough.
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Then she takes rice paper, cuts it in half, dips them both, and then she rolls them up with some fruit.
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The only time I've ever used these to roll anything up was with veggies and meat for spring rolls.
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She layers in strawberries first and then rolls.
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I mean, I wouldn't be calling these sour straws.
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These are more like fruit roll-ups to me.
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I'm trying to get them to be more like straws instead of a burrito.
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But someone said these remind them of squinkle rellenos.
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I almost feel like jam would have been better.
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Okay, then the next one, mango with chamoy, which actually sounds so good.
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It's so wet and slippery.
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The fruit just keeps falling out.
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Okay, a little better this time.
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Roll and tuck.
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So now she rolls the straws in some sugar coating.
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And for the strawberry, she does sugar with freeze-dried strawberries.
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So I need to blitz this real quick.
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And then for the mango one, some sugar and some tahin.
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Now we just roll our straws in the sugar.
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Oh, it actually catches on pretty well.
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Well, that looks yummy.
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Someone said they're shocked by how good these look.
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I can confirm they're not sour.
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The powder went down the wrong height.
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But they're not bad.
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Not candy, not a straw.
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Literally a sweet spring roll covered in sugar.
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Five out of 10.
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Now with 20 million views, we're gonna make wax candy.
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She starts by melting a whole block of wax.
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I went online trying to find beeswax that was food grade, and mine doesn't exactly look like hers.
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People were so confused.
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Can I eat the wax part or no?
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They melt almost immediately.
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They look more like butter sticks than beeswax sticks.
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Honestly, it smells like honey.
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It smells so good.
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She pours it into a Pyrex cup and then she has all these molds.
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The coolest one she did was with this Dubai chocolate bar.
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She just covers the bottom.
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Let me get the sides covered.
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So I think that the wax that I bought was like the unfiltered pure natural kind.
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And I made sure to buy the food grade kind because someone in here said, I saw a girl make wax candy, but she used dot dot dot candle wax.
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And I'm pretty sure you can't eat that.
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This one's starting to harden, so I have to dump the rest out.
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Oh, it does leave a nice little shell.
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Then they fill it up with some jam.
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I'm going to use some strawberry on these strawberry molds.
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This wax candy really just jam in the middle.
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And then for these orange slices, I have this lemon honey jam.
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So this one, she does a cool ombre effect where she'll go lightest to darkest.
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It looks so pretty.
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I had to melt more wax to cover everything.
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Okay, now she says just pop it in the fridge for like 20 minutes until everything gets nice and hard.
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It's ready.
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It feels nice and hard.
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Part of me is like afraid of breaking it even though I know wax is pretty sturdy.
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Oh, wow.
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The little dimples in the wax.
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It actually looks like a little strawberry.
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An albino one.
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That's so cute.
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Now we get our citron.
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I gotta work on my wax coverage.
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Oh, what?
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Whoa!
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You can't really see through mine as much as you could with hers, but it's got like a stained glass vibe.
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How exactly are you supposed to eat this?
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Chew the wax like gum and then you spit it out.
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It reminds me of my days of wearing braces, where I would just be chewing on the wax that goes over the metal piece.
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Five out of ten.
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Now with 42.3 million views, This creator calls it hand-pooled cotton candy, but it's actually known as dragon's beard,
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and it's supposed to be the hardest candy to make ever.
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So she starts actually by pouring water, but she forgot to tell us about the sugar.
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Then I'm gonna pour half a cup of water, two tablespoons of corn syrup, a quarter teaspoon of vinegar, and some food coloring.
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She uses blue.
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I'm gonna go for pink.
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And then she says to bring it to a boil, and if it's not exactly 260 degrees, it's not gonna work.
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So I'm gonna whip out my candy thermometer and park it right here.
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And then she says not to touch it because you don't want the sugar to crystallize.
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I'm thinking this process is gonna probably take me around five minutes to come to town.
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We've hit 260.
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Kinda went a little over.
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But now she pours hers into little circular containers.
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A lot of people pour them into these donut silicone molds, which I feel like might be easier.
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Okay, so this is super hot to work with right now
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so we have to let it cool for about 30 minutes she says it's firm
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but still pliable and now she pours cornstarch into a container
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and we're gonna start pulling it's like the consistency of a jolly rancher it's pretty sticky
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which is probably why she says dip it in a lot of powder
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and then she says a lot of people like to pull but don't pull just squeeze to get it to thin out.
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And once it's big enough like this, she double loops it.
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Oh man, mine's kind of breaking.
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No!
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I wonder if I put two donuts together, they would be stronger.
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She was able to stretch hers to get a million strands.
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Someone said, a million strands sounds like a lot of work, but it's actually like 20 folds and pulls.
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Broke already.
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Gosh.
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Round two, also a fail.
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Good thing I have one left.
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This has to work.
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They did say that this is the hardest candy ever to make.
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I'm not gonna squeeze too much.
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At least we went a little further than last time.
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16. I just need to get to 100 guys.
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132 and it broke.
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I'm not the only one with the struggle
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because someone else said this was not hard but proceeded to spend two hours trying to make this.
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I don't love all that corn starch
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but it has a consistency of a high chew and
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if I were to flavor it with something sour and green apple it'd be really good.
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7 out of 10.
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It's time to revisit our rock sugar.
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I mean by day two I noticed something wasn't right.
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Yeah, it didn't exactly turn rock hard, but it's definitely really murky.
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So I tried again twice.
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In each one I did a little bit differently.
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This one was with a bigger sugar crystal, turbinado sugar.
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I thought maybe a bigger crystal would create bigger rocks.
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And then I tried the exact same process as this one, except I poured the syrup into the jar to cool.
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Rocks definitely formed a little bit better than this one.
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And this one, oh my gosh, I can't even get it out.
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What's going on?
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Ooh!
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These are big crystals!
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Actually, though, it looks very similar to my store-bought one, except mine didn't turn a pretty pink color.
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You're supposed to dry it completely, but there's a nice crunch to this.
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Seven out of ten.
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And finally, with 52.7 million views, this is that famous candy from Squid Games, the Dalgona.
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But he starts off by adding three tablespoons of sugar into a little pan.
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He just keeps stirring it until it caramelizes into a nice golden brown.
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He uses a metal knife to stir it.
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Don't do that.
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I'm just going to use a wooden chopstick to kind of move it around.
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And I could feel the sugar already sweating.
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Get ready to mess up a lot because it took me five tries before I got it right.
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Kept burning it.
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I'm going to pay close attention here.
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Someone else said, go ahead and try your luck.
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Oh, this is going fast.
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The edges are starting to get brown.
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Whoa, that went super fast.
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I was not ready for that.
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Okay, now I'm just gonna kind of break up the clumps.
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It's getting a little amber yellow.
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And then he adds in a tiny pinch of baking soda.
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Whoa, it's starting to bubble.
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And then it's turning into that like lighter, Dalgona-ish color.
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Whoa, that's so cool.
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Now we pour it onto the surface And then we just get something flat.
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I'm gonna use the same pan.
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Oh, please don't stick.
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Oh, it didn't stick.
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Oh, what?
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It kind of stuck.
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And then I just imprint it with my star cookie cutter.
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That worked out really well.
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I'm gonna try it to this one.
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Oh, I waited too long.
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So I had it work super fast and it did get some big bubbles.
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Someone in the comments said, if it's not working for you, you probably use too much baking soda, which I thought I used only a pinch.
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A pinch goes a long way anymore.
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You get a lot of bubbles and it burns.
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Well, I got two of the shapes.
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I couldn't find an umbrella or the triangle.
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I'm gonna go ahead and try my luck with the earring because I don't have a needle.
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Oh, I already lost.
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Oh my gosh.
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I mean, where's my $500,000, Jimmy?
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But if you like this video, go watch me test the most satisfying TikTok dessert recipes.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “I Tested the MOST VIEWED TikTok CANDY Recipes! 🍬”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: sugar, candy, sour, wax, pour. This video has 338 sentences and 3216 words to shadow. The speech runs for 16:23. The speaker talks fast, about 196 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 79% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| candy noun | /ˈkæn.di/ | Crystallized sugar formed by boiling down sugar syrup. |
| pour verb | /poɹ/ | To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it. |
| sour adjective | /ˈsaʊ.ə/ | Tasting of acidity. |
| gummy adjective | /ˈɡʌmi/ | Resembling gum (the substance). |
| gosh | /ɡɑːʃ/ | A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm. |
| strawberry noun | /ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/ | The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria. |
| straw noun | /stɹɔ/ | A dried stalk of a cereal plant. |
| cluster noun | /ˈklʌstɚ/ | A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other. |
| syrup noun | /ˈsɪɹ.əp/ | Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavoring. |
| mold noun | /moʊld/ | A natural substance in the form of a furry or woolly growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and… |
| whoa | /woʊ/ | Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down. |
| melt verb | /mɛlt/ | To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. |
| chew verb | /tʃuː/ | To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed. |
| worm noun | /wɝm/ | A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm. |
| boil verb | /bɔɪ(ə)l/ | To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| break up verb | To break or separate into pieces. | |
| dry out verb | To cause moisture to be completely removed from; to make dry. | |
| fall out verb | To come out of something by falling. | |
| get out verb | To leave or escape. | |
| give off verb | /ɡɪv ɒf/ | To emit; to produce and send forth; to come across in some manner. |
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. | |
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What if we made them sour?
- Let's make a few more clusters, shall we?
- Did you know we can make sour candy straws?
- Can I eat the wax part or no?
- How exactly are you supposed to eat this?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have always been · I've learned · We've hit |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | syrup, which is · acid, which is |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 118 contractions and reduced forms, such as gonna, I'm, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, bluish /ˈbluːɪʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, consistency /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/, caramelize /ˈkaɹ(ə)məlʌɪz/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like candy, pour, sour.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.