--- product_id: 1136898 title: "Nostalgia Cotton Candy Machine - Retro Cotton Candy Machine for Kids with 2 Reusable Cones, 1 Sugar Scoop, and 1 Extractor Head – White" brand: "nostalgia" price: "₱8109" currency: PHP in_stock: false reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/1136898-nostalgia-cotton-candy-machine-retro-cotton-candy-machine-for-kids store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # Flossing sugar & hard candies Easy to clean Retro design Nostalgia Cotton Candy Machine - Retro Cotton Candy Machine for Kids with 2 Reusable Cones, 1 Sugar Scoop, and 1 Extractor Head – White **Brand:** nostalgia **Price:** ₱8109 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Summary > 🍬 Spin Back in Time with Every Sweet Treat! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Nostalgia Cotton Candy Machine - Retro Cotton Candy Machine for Kids with 2 Reusable Cones, 1 Sugar Scoop, and 1 Extractor Head – White by nostalgia - **How much does it cost?** ₱8109 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/1136898-nostalgia-cotton-candy-machine-retro-cotton-candy-machine-for-kids) ## Best For - nostalgia enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted nostalgia brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Easy Cleanup!:** Disassembles effortlessly for quick cleaning. - • **Watch the Magic!:** Clear rim guard lets you see the cotton candy being made. - • **Stability Meets Style!:** Suction cup feet ensure a steady operation. - • **Sweet Nostalgia Awaits!:** Create cotton candy in minutes with a retro twist. - • **Versatile Candy Options!:** Use traditional flossing sugar or your favorite hard candies. ## Overview The Nostalgia Cotton Candy Machine is a retro-inspired appliance that allows you to create delicious cotton candy using traditional flossing sugar or hard candies. It features a clear rim guard for visibility, includes essential accessories like reusable cones and a sugar scoop, and is designed for easy cleaning and stability during use. ## Description Bring the carnival right into your kitchen by creating fluffy, melt-in-your-mouth cotton candy. Use your favorite hard candies or flossing sugar To create a fluffy cotton candy cones The whole family will love. The clear rim acts as a protective guard and allows for easy viewing of the cotton candy. The unit includes 2-reusable cones, 1-Sugar scoop, and 1-extractor head. Review: Love this product! - I have a few things to say, both about this product and the things you can use to make cotton candy with it, about the hateful and (sorry) uninformed feedback from some buyers, and about expectations on planet earth. First, those expectations: you can go buy a chimpanzee. You can put him in little clothes and ask him to shake your hand, and you can giggle as he eats pieces of banana. And you can either admit to yourself that it's a chimpanzee, or you can fool yourself into thinking it's a live-in Certified Public Accountant. Go with the first option. Enjoy the handshakes and banana nibbling. Because if you hand him your W-2s and your bank statements and your box of receipts, you'll be really unhappy when you come back on April 15th and he hasn't prepared your Income Tax returns. He's a chimp. He TOLD you in the ad that led you to buy him that he is a chimp. It never said "Chimp CPA who can also whip up a heckuva chocolate souffle." That was YOU projecting YOUR desires on him. Not him making promises he didn't and couldn't keep. So please, people: before you buy this product and get on here and give it a One-Star review stating how disappointed your 75 party guests were that they had to wait a whole 5 minutes each for a ball of candy floss made of chewy caramels, THE PRODUCT DESCRIPTION CLEARLY TOLD YOU WHAT YOU WERE GETTING YOURSELF INTO. - This product is adorable, and so versatile in that it creates delicate cotton candy out of not only traditional commercial candy floss, but also common table sugar and an almost unlimited variety of hard candies. - "Almost" unlimited is stated very clearly in the description and the more helpful user reviews, as well as the enclosed direction manual. How many times do you have to read "soft candies and Jolly Ranchers and gummy candies do NOT work" before you stop screaming here "I used soft candies and jolly Ranchers and gummy candies and they did NOT work!" Seriously, how many times are you going to stick your hand in the chimp's mouth while he's eating his banana, each time screaming "Ow! Why did he BITE me?" - There are products on the market, many available here on desertcart.com, that cost into the thousands. These are great machines for when you own a carnival concession, or rent out to party planners and catering managers. But this unit? It costs less than 40 bucks. Hello? I don't think I REALLY need to educate you here. You're lucid enough to use a computer to find and order such items, so there is an assumption that you can take certain crucial bits of info and interpret them knowledgeably (or at least rationally). IT'S FORTY BUCKS! Do you think Ringling Brothers execs sit there smacking themselves on the head, saying "Darn it all! We bought all these two-thousand dollar machines, when we could have just spent 35 bucks a pop -- with free shipping!" Nosir. A $35 machine does a $35 machine's work. And if you thought you'd stumbled upon the goose that laid the golden egg, I hate to report that the sad fact of life we learn here is "you get what you pay for." That all being said, what you PAID for is a darned good unit! If you're having the fly-away problems reported by some, you have to realize (a) it's fibrous, sticky candy being made, not adobe blocks, so yeah... gravity doesn't have much say in this; and (b) if you're vigilant in properly catching it on your cones, this is minimal at worst. Just be careful to do it, if this troubles you, in an area where a few stray wisps of flying sugar floss won't mess with your head. I was going to prop the unit up next to my grandmother's antique lace wedding dress from 1932, but instead I decided to do it on my kitchen counter with the range hood exhaust fan on. But I'm funny that way, I guess. All the complaints of the candies used to make floss, I'm sorry but: I am dismissing these summarily for the reasons of not paying attention as stated earlier. I used two different brands of floss. Both worked flawlessly and BOTH -- with just a tablespoon of product as measured by this machine's enclosed measuring scoop -- had me wondering if I'd have to start a second cone. Not because it became scary-huge, but because I thought it looked like WHAT I WOULD EXPECT A HOME COTTON CANDY CONE TO LOOK LIKE WHEN FILLED TO REASONABLE CAPACITY. I stuck it out bravely and made it all fit on one. I'm daring that way. I also used plain old, bottom-shelf, store-brand white sugar. Again: flawless floss, and more than the "two small bites" several reviewers complained of. But also bear in mind that "two bites" of cotton candy are not equal to two bites of meat loaf. Cotton candy is simply not as dense. That's why it's called "cotton candy" and not "candy loaf". And I don't think meat loaf would work well in this machine either, but I'm sure that somewhere out there someone is totally miffed that their experiment with their saucy dinner leftovers did not produce a fluffy ball of candy when stuffed into this machine. I then pushed the envelope with hard candies and discovered a truth: you have to use a "hard crack" confection, plainly and simply, as the directions and reviews and product description and logical thought have dictated already ad nauseum. Lifesavers and Worther's Originals are brilliant. I THEN GOT REALLY MAD SCIENTIST AND TRIED HALL'S COUGH SUPPRESSANT DROPS AND GUESS WHAT? Amaaaaaaaaaazing! Cotton Candy Medicine! You cannot BELIEVE how amazing this turned out. Because first, I had a cough and needed pampering, and second, because THE COUGH DROPS ARE THE RIGHT CONSISTENCY. The big lesson here though, and I think it had a lot to do with why some found the floss balls too small: the direction to use two hard candies does not take into consideration the SIZE of the candies. Two Lifesavers have FAR LESS MASS than two butterscotch or striped peppermint candies. Since it is NOT a nuclear reactor and you will NOT decimate your neighborhood or our planet by being a bit experimental, if the candy looks small, use three or four of them. G'head. Go nuts. Finally, to the complaints of it taking forever to heat up: Bull pucky. I let it run for about 10 minutes just as a preheat. From thereon in, it's smooth sailing. I found that with the addition of floss or candy or sugar or what have you, it's necessary to not belabor the step of adding the sweets. Shut it, wait for the spinning to stop, load, and then turn it right back on. Don't give it cooling time. You'll probably note as I did that there's an initial "floss fake-out" where you get a batch that spins on contact, and then barely anything further happens. Don't even bother gathering this: in a minute or so it will really start producing floss and you'll want to conserve your energy for gathering the real stuff. Do as the directions say: start by coating the cone with one or two turns in the upright, vertical position (like you see the pros doing); but since the unit is small and as the ball grows it gets too close to the heating and spinning action in the center, you want to turn the cone once started to the HORIZONTAL position, and then like you're casting a spell on the machine, wave it back and forth slowly like a magic wand, spinning it between your fingers as you gather. Don't be afraid to use your free (ahem, and CLEAN) hand to sort of smooth it into place as necessary on the cone. And use your ears in conjunction with your eyes: the faster the unit spins the faster the floss is produced. So when you hear it revving higher, get ready for an increase in output. My first time out, I made six batches (I know, I'm a pig) in rapid succession. I stood over the machine, and took breaks only to get other ingredients out and ready as the mood struck. I left the machine running so it would stay warm, and literally, each batch only took a minute TOPS to get flossing once the candy was added. It works really well if you and a friend or two sit around the machine, at the table, with all your ingredients laid out, and your own cones. You can take turns, keeping it hot and going, and enjoy bolt after bolt of fluffy yum. Think of it as a spun sugar fondue. No seriously. This isn't just for kids anymore... Clean up? A total snap. And yes, there will be a buildup of unflossed candy gunk around the rim, but that is a total BONUS because when you EASILY break it loose you have a crunchy candy treat that reminds you of all the cotton candy confections you just enjoyed. Some users complained of how hard it was to assemble and dissemble but I disagree completely. The heating/spinning cup inserts VERY easily, and slides off easily with a bit of a tug. But it's built to stay together when spinning at a high RPM, so duh: it takes a tiny bit of effort. You can't just ASK it to come off. You actually have to (gasp!) pull it. The top rim pops on and off with no effort. The bottom bowl twists counter clockwise to "lock" into place but admittedly, I don't even lock it fully. I twist it, keeping downward pressure, until it says "yeah, that's good enough for me." And then it's good enough for ME in turn. It stays snug, and since there is no motion involving the bowl, and no unit motion that even shakes it loose (either up or clockwise) this has NEVER failed me. And it comes right back off, again, with a bit of a tug. Fears that the wear and tear perpetrated against the unit in this process I feel are without foundation. You needn't force the poor thing, and you also (in my opinion) shouldn't be making so much cotton candy in your every day life that the unit is used often enough to suffer much wear and tear in general. I cannot recommend this unit enough. Review: Fun and Easy to Use - We purchased this cotton candy maker to use and have fun with this summer. I wanted to try it out because it uses candy that you probably already have around the house and you don't need to order anything special to use it. I also liked the fact that you can make it using sugar-free candies as well, that way I can enjoy the treat with my children. It's ready right out of the box with just a couple pieces to assemble. You must put the extractor head, bowl and rim on top of the main unit and you're ready to roll. It also comes with two plastic cones so you can get started right away. It does not come with any candy or sugar so you need to have those. I read several reviews and watched some videos that I found on the web so I would make sure that I knew how to use it. After assembling, turn the unit on and let it heat up for 5 minutes. Turn the unit off and add your candy, sugar or sprinkles. Turn the unit back on and just shortly the floss starts appearing. Take your cones and start circling the inside the bowl to get it started on the cone. Now you can just hold over the unit and twist the cone over and over again to wrap the floss around the cone. It was actually pretty easy and it worked perfectly. We made a couple of different batches and we turned the machine off in between each batch because the extractor head spins when the machine is on. We would insert our candy while the machine was off and then turn the machine back on to make cotton candy. We used lifesavers the first few times and then we used blue raspberry flavored and colored decorating decors from Cake Mate (just the standard cookie/cupcake sugar sprinkles that come in the cake baking section of the grocery store). They each turned out terrific and had amazing flavor. The smell of the blue raspberry cotton candy making was fantastic. The sprinkles did seem to take a little longer to start making than the life savers did. It makes the same texture as carnival cotton candy but honestly, the taste is much better. Cotton candy just has a ... well, a cotton candy flavor but when you taste it and it tastes like yummy tropical flavors, etc, you will be amazed. This is cotton candy on a whole other level. Yum! You can order sugar and cones for it right here on desertcart but you probably already have candy around the house that you can use and you can even make your own cones with just rolled up paper if the 2 plastic ones included are not enough. ## Features - Flossing sugar or hard candies - unique extractor head allows you to use traditional flossing sugar or your favorite hard candies to make delicious cotton candy - Cotton Candy kits - this unit works perfectly with any Nostalgia cotton candy kit - try the cotton candy flossing sugar (Ccfs300), or the hard candy party kit (Hck800) - Simple operation - warm up the unit, add your flossing sugar, and enjoy your cotton candy in just a few short minutes - Retro design - This unit has retro design and details that will bring you back to the time of record-spinning jukeboxes and American muscle cars - Clear rim guard - acts as a protective guard and lets you watch the cotton candy being made - Accessories - Includes 2 Reusable Cones, 1 sugar scoop, and 1 Extractor head - Easy cleaning - unit disassembles for easy cleaning - Extra stability - suction cup feet keep the unit in place and provide extra stability during use - Fabric Type: Plastic / Metal ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B003FA0KN4 | | Additional Features | Manual | | Best Sellers Rank | #1,329,809 in Kitchen & Dining ( See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining ) #271 in Cotton Candy Makers | | Brand | Nostalgia | | Brand Name | Nostalgia | | Color | Pink | | Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 1,783 Reviews | | Global Trade Identification Number | 00082677213068 | | Included Components | Cotton Candy Maker, Extractor Head, Rim | | Item Dimensions D x W x H | 11"D x 12"W x 11"H | | Item Type Name | Cotton Candy Maker, Includes 2 Reusable Cones And Scoop – White/Pink | | Item Weight | 4 Pounds | | Manufacturer | Emgee | | Manufacturer Warranty Description | 1-year limited. | | Material | Polycarbonate | | Material Type | Polycarbonate | | Mounting Type | Countertop Mount | | Product Dimensions | 11"D x 12"W x 11"H | | Recommended Uses For Product | kitchen | | UPC | 885248708969 725638186642 887660229008 885107659906 082677213068 791769522239 885424931426 728131243300 722651277951 885701752522 885119613873 100012713544 963041560462 848296032844 756832731161 885108618322 787543826976 885662903353 741435466046 628304102499 | | Unit Count | 1.0 Count | ## Product Details - **Material:** Polycarbonate - **Product Dimensions:** 11"D x 12"W x 11"H - **Brand:** Nostalgia - **Color:** Pink - **Recommended Uses For Product:** kitchen - **Mounting Type:** Countertop Mount - **Item Weight:** 4 Pounds - **Special Feature:** Manual - **Manufacturer:** Emgee - **Size:** 2 Reusable Cones ## Images ![Nostalgia Cotton Candy Machine - Retro Cotton Candy Machine for Kids with 2 Reusable Cones, 1 Sugar Scoop, and 1 Extractor Head – White - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/714zrMtNIaL.jpg) ![Nostalgia Cotton Candy Machine - Retro Cotton Candy Machine for Kids with 2 Reusable Cones, 1 Sugar Scoop, and 1 Extractor Head – White - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81ixPdNpIIL.jpg) ![Nostalgia Cotton Candy Machine - Retro Cotton Candy Machine for Kids with 2 Reusable Cones, 1 Sugar Scoop, and 1 Extractor Head – White - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61SsAwDyh-L.jpg) ![Nostalgia Cotton Candy Machine - Retro Cotton Candy Machine for Kids with 2 Reusable Cones, 1 Sugar Scoop, and 1 Extractor Head – White - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51F10AEoTcL.jpg) ![Nostalgia Cotton Candy Machine - Retro Cotton Candy Machine for Kids with 2 Reusable Cones, 1 Sugar Scoop, and 1 Extractor Head – White - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51kQhNLQbuL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Pattern, Style** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Love this product! *by C***O on December 7, 2011* I have a few things to say, both about this product and the things you can use to make cotton candy with it, about the hateful and (sorry) uninformed feedback from some buyers, and about expectations on planet earth. First, those expectations: you can go buy a chimpanzee. You can put him in little clothes and ask him to shake your hand, and you can giggle as he eats pieces of banana. And you can either admit to yourself that it's a chimpanzee, or you can fool yourself into thinking it's a live-in Certified Public Accountant. Go with the first option. Enjoy the handshakes and banana nibbling. Because if you hand him your W-2s and your bank statements and your box of receipts, you'll be really unhappy when you come back on April 15th and he hasn't prepared your Income Tax returns. He's a chimp. He TOLD you in the ad that led you to buy him that he is a chimp. It never said "Chimp CPA who can also whip up a heckuva chocolate souffle." That was YOU projecting YOUR desires on him. Not him making promises he didn't and couldn't keep. So please, people: before you buy this product and get on here and give it a One-Star review stating how disappointed your 75 party guests were that they had to wait a whole 5 minutes each for a ball of candy floss made of chewy caramels, THE PRODUCT DESCRIPTION CLEARLY TOLD YOU WHAT YOU WERE GETTING YOURSELF INTO. - This product is adorable, and so versatile in that it creates delicate cotton candy out of not only traditional commercial candy floss, but also common table sugar and an almost unlimited variety of hard candies. - "Almost" unlimited is stated very clearly in the description and the more helpful user reviews, as well as the enclosed direction manual. How many times do you have to read "soft candies and Jolly Ranchers and gummy candies do NOT work" before you stop screaming here "I used soft candies and jolly Ranchers and gummy candies and they did NOT work!" Seriously, how many times are you going to stick your hand in the chimp's mouth while he's eating his banana, each time screaming "Ow! Why did he BITE me?" - There are products on the market, many available here on amazon.com, that cost into the thousands. These are great machines for when you own a carnival concession, or rent out to party planners and catering managers. But this unit? It costs less than 40 bucks. Hello? I don't think I REALLY need to educate you here. You're lucid enough to use a computer to find and order such items, so there is an assumption that you can take certain crucial bits of info and interpret them knowledgeably (or at least rationally). IT'S FORTY BUCKS! Do you think Ringling Brothers execs sit there smacking themselves on the head, saying "Darn it all! We bought all these two-thousand dollar machines, when we could have just spent 35 bucks a pop -- with free shipping!" Nosir. A $35 machine does a $35 machine's work. And if you thought you'd stumbled upon the goose that laid the golden egg, I hate to report that the sad fact of life we learn here is "you get what you pay for." That all being said, what you PAID for is a darned good unit! If you're having the fly-away problems reported by some, you have to realize (a) it's fibrous, sticky candy being made, not adobe blocks, so yeah... gravity doesn't have much say in this; and (b) if you're vigilant in properly catching it on your cones, this is minimal at worst. Just be careful to do it, if this troubles you, in an area where a few stray wisps of flying sugar floss won't mess with your head. I was going to prop the unit up next to my grandmother's antique lace wedding dress from 1932, but instead I decided to do it on my kitchen counter with the range hood exhaust fan on. But I'm funny that way, I guess. All the complaints of the candies used to make floss, I'm sorry but: I am dismissing these summarily for the reasons of not paying attention as stated earlier. I used two different brands of floss. Both worked flawlessly and BOTH -- with just a tablespoon of product as measured by this machine's enclosed measuring scoop -- had me wondering if I'd have to start a second cone. Not because it became scary-huge, but because I thought it looked like WHAT I WOULD EXPECT A HOME COTTON CANDY CONE TO LOOK LIKE WHEN FILLED TO REASONABLE CAPACITY. I stuck it out bravely and made it all fit on one. I'm daring that way. I also used plain old, bottom-shelf, store-brand white sugar. Again: flawless floss, and more than the "two small bites" several reviewers complained of. But also bear in mind that "two bites" of cotton candy are not equal to two bites of meat loaf. Cotton candy is simply not as dense. That's why it's called "cotton candy" and not "candy loaf". And I don't think meat loaf would work well in this machine either, but I'm sure that somewhere out there someone is totally miffed that their experiment with their saucy dinner leftovers did not produce a fluffy ball of candy when stuffed into this machine. I then pushed the envelope with hard candies and discovered a truth: you have to use a "hard crack" confection, plainly and simply, as the directions and reviews and product description and logical thought have dictated already ad nauseum. Lifesavers and Worther's Originals are brilliant. I THEN GOT REALLY MAD SCIENTIST AND TRIED HALL'S COUGH SUPPRESSANT DROPS AND GUESS WHAT? Amaaaaaaaaaazing! Cotton Candy Medicine! You cannot BELIEVE how amazing this turned out. Because first, I had a cough and needed pampering, and second, because THE COUGH DROPS ARE THE RIGHT CONSISTENCY. The big lesson here though, and I think it had a lot to do with why some found the floss balls too small: the direction to use two hard candies does not take into consideration the SIZE of the candies. Two Lifesavers have FAR LESS MASS than two butterscotch or striped peppermint candies. Since it is NOT a nuclear reactor and you will NOT decimate your neighborhood or our planet by being a bit experimental, if the candy looks small, use three or four of them. G'head. Go nuts. Finally, to the complaints of it taking forever to heat up: Bull pucky. I let it run for about 10 minutes just as a preheat. From thereon in, it's smooth sailing. I found that with the addition of floss or candy or sugar or what have you, it's necessary to not belabor the step of adding the sweets. Shut it, wait for the spinning to stop, load, and then turn it right back on. Don't give it cooling time. You'll probably note as I did that there's an initial "floss fake-out" where you get a batch that spins on contact, and then barely anything further happens. Don't even bother gathering this: in a minute or so it will really start producing floss and you'll want to conserve your energy for gathering the real stuff. Do as the directions say: start by coating the cone with one or two turns in the upright, vertical position (like you see the pros doing); but since the unit is small and as the ball grows it gets too close to the heating and spinning action in the center, you want to turn the cone once started to the HORIZONTAL position, and then like you're casting a spell on the machine, wave it back and forth slowly like a magic wand, spinning it between your fingers as you gather. Don't be afraid to use your free (ahem, and CLEAN) hand to sort of smooth it into place as necessary on the cone. And use your ears in conjunction with your eyes: the faster the unit spins the faster the floss is produced. So when you hear it revving higher, get ready for an increase in output. My first time out, I made six batches (I know, I'm a pig) in rapid succession. I stood over the machine, and took breaks only to get other ingredients out and ready as the mood struck. I left the machine running so it would stay warm, and literally, each batch only took a minute TOPS to get flossing once the candy was added. It works really well if you and a friend or two sit around the machine, at the table, with all your ingredients laid out, and your own cones. You can take turns, keeping it hot and going, and enjoy bolt after bolt of fluffy yum. Think of it as a spun sugar fondue. No seriously. This isn't just for kids anymore... Clean up? A total snap. And yes, there will be a buildup of unflossed candy gunk around the rim, but that is a total BONUS because when you EASILY break it loose you have a crunchy candy treat that reminds you of all the cotton candy confections you just enjoyed. Some users complained of how hard it was to assemble and dissemble but I disagree completely. The heating/spinning cup inserts VERY easily, and slides off easily with a bit of a tug. But it's built to stay together when spinning at a high RPM, so duh: it takes a tiny bit of effort. You can't just ASK it to come off. You actually have to (gasp!) pull it. The top rim pops on and off with no effort. The bottom bowl twists counter clockwise to "lock" into place but admittedly, I don't even lock it fully. I twist it, keeping downward pressure, until it says "yeah, that's good enough for me." And then it's good enough for ME in turn. It stays snug, and since there is no motion involving the bowl, and no unit motion that even shakes it loose (either up or clockwise) this has NEVER failed me. And it comes right back off, again, with a bit of a tug. Fears that the wear and tear perpetrated against the unit in this process I feel are without foundation. You needn't force the poor thing, and you also (in my opinion) shouldn't be making so much cotton candy in your every day life that the unit is used often enough to suffer much wear and tear in general. I cannot recommend this unit enough. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fun and Easy to Use *by I***N on May 15, 2013* We purchased this cotton candy maker to use and have fun with this summer. I wanted to try it out because it uses candy that you probably already have around the house and you don't need to order anything special to use it. I also liked the fact that you can make it using sugar-free candies as well, that way I can enjoy the treat with my children. It's ready right out of the box with just a couple pieces to assemble. You must put the extractor head, bowl and rim on top of the main unit and you're ready to roll. It also comes with two plastic cones so you can get started right away. It does not come with any candy or sugar so you need to have those. I read several reviews and watched some videos that I found on the web so I would make sure that I knew how to use it. After assembling, turn the unit on and let it heat up for 5 minutes. Turn the unit off and add your candy, sugar or sprinkles. Turn the unit back on and just shortly the floss starts appearing. Take your cones and start circling the inside the bowl to get it started on the cone. Now you can just hold over the unit and twist the cone over and over again to wrap the floss around the cone. It was actually pretty easy and it worked perfectly. We made a couple of different batches and we turned the machine off in between each batch because the extractor head spins when the machine is on. We would insert our candy while the machine was off and then turn the machine back on to make cotton candy. We used lifesavers the first few times and then we used blue raspberry flavored and colored decorating decors from Cake Mate (just the standard cookie/cupcake sugar sprinkles that come in the cake baking section of the grocery store). They each turned out terrific and had amazing flavor. The smell of the blue raspberry cotton candy making was fantastic. The sprinkles did seem to take a little longer to start making than the life savers did. It makes the same texture as carnival cotton candy but honestly, the taste is much better. Cotton candy just has a ... well, a cotton candy flavor but when you taste it and it tastes like yummy tropical flavors, etc, you will be amazed. This is cotton candy on a whole other level. Yum! You can order sugar and cones for it right here on Amazon but you probably already have candy around the house that you can use and you can even make your own cones with just rolled up paper if the 2 plastic ones included are not enough. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Not entirely sold ... yet - Now I'm sold *by I***M on August 24, 2011* Okay - so I bought this because I love cotton candy, and I thought my daughter would like it. I also bought the Cotton Candy Express - Cotton Candy Sugar - 5 Floss Sugar Flavor Pack - 12 Oz. Containers . The sugar is great! It has 5 great flavors, all with bright wonderful colors! So the cotton candy machine came the day after the sugar. I set it up immediately, carefully following the included instructions. I ran the machine for five minutes (using a timer to ensure that it was the correct amount of time), then turned the machine off, then poured in one scoop (scoop included with the machine) of the aforementioned sugar (blue raspberry), turned the machine back on and waited. After a few short minutes, the sugar webs began to fly. I grabbed up my included plastic cone to collect the web and started twirling and swirling, collecting my sugar webs. After about 2 minutes, the webs stopped and I had about a lemon sized ball of sugar webs on my cone. It wasn't much, but well, it's a toy, so I stuffed my ball in my mouth and prepared to make another ball. That's when I noticed that at least half, if not more, of my sugar was still in the cup, melted and clogging the machine. So I turned it back on and waited for about 5 minutes to see if it cleared out. It didn't. So I wondered if maybe I could put a little sugar in, not so much, if it would work. I put in about 1/3 of a scoop. It just melted further clogging the machine. So, I dismantled the machine, soaked out the sugar and tried again, this time with half a scoop. This time, I got a golf ball sized piece of candy, and it still left about half the sugar. So that would be my biggest complaint. I'm not really sure what I'm doing wrong, or if I'm doing something wrong, it is what it is. It makes cotton candy, it's fun, if you want more, apparently it's kind of a hassle. I'm not entirely sure at this point if I'm going to keep it. I just got it today. I'll play with it and wait to see if I get any suggestions on how to make it work better. We'll see. Okay....this is an edit to the original. I originally rated this a 3 star but have amended it to a 4 star. We tried again and it turns out if you stop the machine and give the spinner a light tap with one of the plastic cones, the sugar that melted will shake off, remelt and spin out. So if you do that 2 or 3 times you can spin out all of the sugar. We actually get a large grapefruit sized clump when we do that. We let it spin until most of the sugar spins out then stick the cone in and collect the sugar, turn off the machine, give it a thump, then go again. When the sugar is gone, we refill it. It takes about 10 minutes to get a carnival sized scoop - well worth the wait. I only rate it 4 stars due to the thumping issue. 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