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How do they make M&M’s?
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How do they make M&M’s?
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You make the chocolate centers first and then you spray on layers of the candy shell
with molds and machines
Then you print the m’s on the candy.
use moulds for the choclates, then dip them in the candy, and drop them from a certain height until they cool down…. (the same way bal bearings are made, but since m&m’s are uval and flat, the choclates would have to be moulded to a certain shape)
I would just throw some chocolate balls (molded) or nuts, and then throw them in a turning concrete mixer where I would later add some sugar (so that is aggregates around the chocolate or the nut in an uniform manner), when the layer of sugar is sufficient, just add the color (spray or color bath) and finish by spraying a M on top of each. Voila. This is the way dragees are made, since there are some chocolate dragees too, m&m’s should be done the same way.
I think people are missing the “melts in your mouth, not in your hand part”, which relates to the fact that the center (of the non-peanut kind) has a lower melting point than the outside. To prevent the center from melting when it is dipped in the outer coating, one must freeze it after molding it. This also allows it to pop out of the mold easily. After dipping, I like the ball bearing idea but with the addition of a freezing blast to harden the outer coast quickly. Then probably a little rolling around to smooth. Then the colored spray.
I consider this as a “reverse engineering” question. I have the final product but need to figure out the principles behind. I should carefully break the product to small parts (crust layer and chocolate layer for m&m case), analyze the features (materials, shape, size, etc.) of each part with corresponding knowledge, and finally design reasonable processes that produce the same product.
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