Rock Candy "Crystal Meth" ala Breaking Bad

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm going to have trouble saying goodbye to Breaking Bad!!

Since tonight is the season finale, I decided to finally try the rock candy recipe thats been floating around the internet for a few weeks. 

According to the interweb, Aaron paul is as addicted to the blue candy as Jesse Pinkman is to Heisenburg's blue stuff. 

Super easy recipe  but if your gonna do it without a candy thermometer  DONT DO IT. I tried twice with a broken one (By the 3rd time I was just really determined to get it right) and it was just a disaster. If you dont cook it enough it wont harden, and if you cook it too much it will turn brownish and mess with the coloring (A lesson we learn from Todd.)

Anyways, enjoy tonight's finale, I'll be on my couch at 9 PM sharp if anyone wants to join me.

 I put mine in little baggies which promoted my dad to ask where I was going to sell.

Sayonara, Mister White! 

 *Shatra for Dummies does not in any way reccomend snorting, smoking, or injecting rock candy*

What You Need:

2 cups sugar

3/4 cup light corn syrup (Important to use light bc dark is brownish and wont make clear candy)

1/2 cup water

2 tsp of any CLEAR flavoring. So not like vanilla, or orange. I used McCormick's peppermint from fine fare.

A few drops Blue food coloring. I dont know exactly how food colorings work but I got a pretty good color with like 5 drops of McCormick's (again from fine fare)

Candy Thermometer

What you need to do:

1) Line a tray with tinfoil and spray it with pam. Once the candy is cooked your gonna wanna transfer it quick so its good to have this ready.

2) Put the sugar, corn syrup, and water into a medium pot. Put it on the stove on like medium heat but leaning towards the high side, and stir it. 

3) Keep stirring until it just begins to bubble on the sides. If you have a pastry brush handy, now would be a good time to brush the sides of the pan with water, bc it would let the candy bubble up and harden on your pan.

4) Stop Stirring once the candy starts to boil, and stick in your candy thermometer. 

 5) Let it boil for like 5 minutes, until the thermometer reaches 285 (i cant find the degrees sign but were talking about degrees Fahrenheit . You want the candy to get to 290, so turning off the heat at 285 will give it enough time to get to 290, but not over.

(see the temp? this is after i turned the heat off)

6) After you take if off the heat, let it cool for like a minute, till theres no more boiling. Dump in the flavoring a the food coloring, and mix it all up!! See how nice and blue its turning?!! I put like 5 drops of blue food coloring but I feel like it could've used one or two more. (99% purity BITCH)

iphone pix

7)Pour it onto the tray and spread it into an even sheet by like tinting the tray, then let it harden for like 20 minutes.

8) Use whatever you have to break it up into small pieces, and make it look as Heisenberg-esque as you can. Eat it when you get nervous at the show, break it up and serve at a viewing party in little bags, screw with  a parent who watched Breaking Bad, have fun with it.