Bears, worms, whatever. Is there a trick to getting them to have a consistency like in this photo?

I melted some in the microwave, then let them cool down overnight on the counter. I had a blob in the bottom of the bowl, but it was as solid as a gummy bear. Yes, while it was scaldingly hot, it went stringy and gooey, but all of that disappeared after it cooled back down to room temperature. I even tried checking it before it was completely cooled down, but it was still much too hot as it was hardening.

Is there some special science to this that I'm missing? Is it a certain brand or composition of the product? For the life of me, I can't get it to work.

While I haven't actually tried it myself, my experience working with the ingredients would suggest that mixing through extra glucose syrup as they cool would interrupt the setting of the gelatine. A few small scale tests would be required to determine what ratio would produce a product which still sets enough to hold a stable film when extruded but not enough to stop it from flowing as a liquid.

The only way gelatine or sugar, glucose as in gummy bears, candy would behave like that I would imagine would be due to heat, sugar has a boiling point which is a lot higher than most substances. Not something you would want to add to skin.

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Stretchy gunge can be obtained in other safe ways sugar which is malleable in a stretchy sense isn't gonna be of a temperature you could handle safely?

I know you all aren't stupid but please be safe when trying new messy substances.

Thanks for those replies. Of course, caution is needed when dealing with anything heated to a temperature that can scald or burn skin. I'm pretty sure I remember someone on here making a stringy, sticky mess out of melted gummy bears, but of course, they were at room temperature. It looked similar to the photo I posted with my question.

I know many syrups are sugar-based and can result in that stringy-sticky kind of structure. The other slimes and gunges are very good, but not quite the same thing. I just want to re-create that gooey, stringiness that I have seen in images where people have melted gummy bears. I know it's been done, but I don't remember which producer or wammer did it. I'm pretty sure gummy candies are a mix of sugars and gelatin, and that's why they are 'gummy'. Maybe it's as simple as melting them down and adding water, but at this point I am only guessing.

To answer this and start off with, the basis of sugar syrup is 1 part sugar to 1 part water.

Gum lollies use thickeners and 'sugar syrup' which is the semi solid basis for making lollies with other sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) and other by-products from sugarcane itself.

Here in Oz you can tins of ' thickened sugar syrup' which is thick and dark brown in colour.
Primarily this is the left over from sugar cane when making sugar its self after steaming the cane and crushing to obtain the sugars, white, brown, dark, etc.

Method of making home made sugar syrup.

1 part sugar to 1 part water both w/v (weight /volume)

metric = 1kg /1 litre

imperial = 1 pound / 1 pint

1 ceramic bowl

pour sugar into bowl

NOT glass (can crack) or plastic (melt) as sugar will increase temperature NOT lower temperature.

Bring water to the boil and add into a big ceramic bowl not saucepan as it gets past 100c over 200f when mixed together (sugar will increase temp when added to boiling water over 120+c).
Let cool in room until it becomes like a thick paste if needed add more sugar so it thickens.

Do not mix on stove at home as sugar will burn and domestic stoves don't have exact temperature setting of 60c which is used in factories when making this.

Lolly/confectionary companies use other additives like pectin, lactose syrup (different to the above - milk based and used in dairy products), gelatine, corn starch, etc.

There is a regional township/city, in Queensland (Ozzy State), called Bundaberg which has both a sugar refinery and Rum distillery (Polar Bear logo on label) and uses the name of the township/city Bundaberg.

Or agar solution which is seaweed abstract and acts like a glue and can buy it at some stores.
This also gives a glue like substance and ask other video/ film producers what they use as well.

If anyone needs more information please PM me.

I've done a messy scene with gummy bears at a BDSM event.

I did it by melting it in the microwave 30 seconds at a time and stirring it, until it started to go, and then 15 seconds at a time. Stir every time, and as soon as it's loose enough to play with, go for it.

For a very short while (maybe a minute or two), it was pourable, but got stringy and then stuck to the skin. It was never clear - it was almost flesh-colored from the different colored bears melting together.

It then became more of a BDSM scene, as we both would just stick to each other. In fact, we both got lots of little bruises from pulling the skin apart. Now, we were both into the pain and bruising aspect of it, so that was fine.

The pictures here are right out of the melted bowl (darker brown), and then how it looked one minute later (after air got into it, so it was lighter and stringy). Shortly after, it just stuck on the skin, and was sticky for a while, and then hardened more.

But it never hit a state that you see in the picture - that's another mixture. It looks much more like a slime with add-ins to me.