Modern Marvels
Season 13 Episode 5 - Candy
It pulls, stretches, bubbles, hardens, crunches, and melts! We eat about 7-billion tons of it yearly. We’re talking about Candy–loved by kids and savored by adults. Candy-making evolved from a handmade operation to high-tech mass production. Nowhere is that more apparent than at Hershey’s. On a tour of their newest production facility, we learn how they process the cocoa bean. At See’s Candy, we see how they make their famous boxed chocolates–on a slightly smaller scale than Hershey’s. We get a sweet history lesson at Schimpff’s Confectionery, where they still use small kettles, natural flavors, and hand-operated equipment. Then, we visit Jelly Belly, purveyors of the original gourmet jellybean. Saltwater-taffy pullers hypnotize us on our sweet-tooth tour; we gaze at extruders making miles of licorice rope; and watch as nostalgia candy bars Abba-Zaba and Big Hunk get packaged. And in this sugary hour, we digest the latest sensations–gourmet chocolates and scorpion on a stick!
Episodes in Season 13
Containers
44 min
Fire
44 min
Cotton
44 min
Engineering Disasters 18
44 min
Candy
44 min
Weird Weapons: The Axis
44 min
Nature Tech: Avalanches
44 min
Engineering Disasters: New Orleans
44 min
Leather
44 min
Engineering Disasters 19
44 min
Insulation
44 min
Hi-Tech Hitler
44 min
Shovels
44 min
Drilling
44 min
80s Tech
44 min
Ben Franklin Tech
44 min
Copper Kings
44 min
Heavy Metals
44 min
Money
44 min
BBQ Tech
44 min
American Eats Special
44 min
High Explosives
44 min
Pirate Tech
44 min
Boneyard: Where Machines End Their Lives
44 min
World's Biggest Machines 5
44 min
Super Tools: Skyscraper
44 min
The AK-47
44 min
Nuts
44 min
Classic Cars
44 min
Making Medieval Armor
44 min
Rube Goldberg
44 min
Batteries
44 min
Mummy Tech
44 min
Levees
44 min
Water
44 min
The Cola Wars
44 min
Copper
44 min
Shotguns
44 min
Building In The Name Of God
44 min
Horsepower
44 min
Renewable Energy
44 min
Freight Trains
44 min
Cities of the Underworld
44 min
Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway
44 min
Stealth & Beyond: Air Stealth
44 min
Stealth & Beyond: Sea Stealth
44 min
Ink
44 min
Distilleries 2
44 min
World's Strongest
44 min
Tomcat Sunset
44 min
Tobacco
44 min
The Supermarket
44 min
Breakfast Tech
44 min
Wine
44 min
Harvesting 2
44 min
Engineering Disasters 20
44 min
Snow
44 min
Tea
44 min
Christmas Tech
44 min
Wind
44 min
