How letters are created in a stone bar

How letters are created in a stone bar

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Have you ever been to a beach and ate a rock?

Yes, I come from the ocean and I always wonder "How can you put the letters through the middle of each stick?"

My initial thinking is that they like to make ice, then embed a color ink at the head and let it run through between ... but no, now I look back, it's a stupid answer.

Here's how it's actually done.

They don't create individual rocks, they use a lot of mixes and create a giant sausage-shaped stone.

It is then pulled and rolled until it's very long and thin, then cut to the size you buy.

The white middle part of an ice stick is created by heating sugar, glucose and water to 138 ° C (280 ° F).

Once this exact temperature has been reached, the mixture is poured onto a water-cooled table, then largely transferred to the tractor.

The tractor has three metal arms that continuously rotate diagonally to create a lot of air for the mixture making it white.

The remainder of the mixture not delivered to the tractor is colored and used for letters.

The color mixture is then put on a heated table.

The letters must be made large enough to extend the length of the rock (about 1.2 meters long and 30 cm in diameter).

The letters are created by taking long, flat red mixed strips and wrapping it around the white mixture to form letters, a bit like 3D letters.

For example, to create the word ‘O’, a piece of white mixture hand-rolled into a thin solid roll.

A piece of red mixture is rolled to form a flat strip and wrapped all the way around the white roll.

This part is then coated with the remainder of the white mixture and then covered with a colored crust.

Okay, you've got it!