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Offline Lowfoam

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How do you keep your candy from melting?
« on: September 05, 2016, 02:06:23 PM »
This heat is killer! All of the rewards for my students seem to be melting into nice gooey puddles and I don't know how to make it stop. :c

I mean I do vary the kinds of candy I give out, but sometimes I want to surprise them with some American kinds (like Warheads, for instance), but the heat gets into everything and makes it awful. I mean hell, even some of my taffies have turned into nice gooey puddles in their wrappers.

How do you beat this kind of heat?
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Re: How do you keep your candy from melting?
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2016, 02:49:30 PM »
Quote from: Lowfoam on September 05, 2016, 02:06:23 PM
This heat is killer! All of the rewards for my students seem to be melting into nice gooey puddles and I don't know how to make it stop. :c

I mean I do vary the kinds of candy I give out, but sometimes I want to surprise them with some American kinds (like Warheads, for instance), but the heat gets into everything and makes it awful. I mean hell, even some of my taffies have turned into nice gooey puddles in their wrappers.

How do you beat this kind of heat?

A fridge
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Re: How do you keep your candy from melting?
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2016, 02:49:37 PM »
Quote from: Lowfoam on September 05, 2016, 02:06:23 PM
This heat is killer! All of the rewards for my students seem to be melting into nice gooey puddles and I don't know how to make it stop. :c

I mean I do vary the kinds of candy I give out, but sometimes I want to surprise them with some American kinds (like Warheads, for instance), but the heat gets into everything and makes it awful. I mean hell, even some of my taffies have turned into nice gooey puddles in their wrappers.

How do you beat this kind of heat?

Are you serious.....? What kind of answers are you expecting? Erm ok I'll help. Keep them in the nearest fridge.
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Offline Lowfoam

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Re: How do you keep your candy from melting?
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2016, 02:57:11 PM »
Fridges are not available in my schools as I'm a traveling teacher. :c

And each bag is for a different school, so storing them at my house isn't the best idea either. My fridge is small and can barely hold a week's worth of groceries as is.
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Offline titan103

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Re: How do you keep your candy from melting?
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2016, 03:15:02 PM »
I don't understand why everyone is responding to the OP with such unnecessary sarcasm.
Perhaps OP was hoping for suggestions about a general or specific product that could keep her rewards cool...? This community doesn't need to be so toxic!

Onto the OP's problem, how about buying a cooler bag? You can put ice in them and they are generally designed to keep things cool! It shouldn't be too heavy if you are only carrying candy or chocolate rewards. :D

As to finding a cooler bag, perhaps showing one of your Korean friends or another teacher a picture of this bag and asking them how to acquire it or by searching G-Market!

Good luck!
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Offline yirj17

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Re: How do you keep your candy from melting?
« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2016, 03:15:34 PM »
Did someone explicitly say you are not allowed to use the fridges at your traveling schools? I know mine wouldn't care. Or is it more that you're afraid someone will steal the goods? I also trust my schools not to steal my shizz but your situation might be different.

Otherwise, you might want to consider saving the candies that melt easily for the colder seasons. I bought some warheads once myself and they turned into a nasty mess because I was away a weekend and didn't leave the AC on. Lesson learned.
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Re: How do you keep your candy from melting?
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2016, 03:28:25 PM »
Quote from: titan103 on September 05, 2016, 03:15:02 PM
I don't understand why everyone is responding to the OP with such unnecessary sarcasm.
Perhaps OP was hoping for suggestions about a general or specific product that could keep her rewards cool...? This community doesn't need to be so toxic!

Onto the OP's problem, how about buying a cooler bag? You can put ice in them and they are generally designed to keep things cool! It shouldn't be too heavy if you are only carrying candy or chocolate rewards. :D

As to finding a cooler bag, perhaps showing one of your Korean friends or another teacher a picture of this bag and asking them how to acquire it or by searching G-Market!

Good luck!

Because I'm not telepathic and wasn't aware that OP didn't have access to a fridge.

I've been teaching for a few years at different middle and elementary schools. I have no reason to lie to you, OP.
Don't give your students sweets.
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Offline Lowfoam

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Re: How do you keep your candy from melting?
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2016, 03:50:13 PM »
I think I'm going to switch up the sweets I have. It's mainly my warheads exploding inside of the bags, sadly, and coating everything in a nasty goop so it all gets contaminated. I don't know how, it's not like it's sitting in the sunlight. LPT: don't buy warheads, apparently.

I'm just not really allowed to use them. They're cleaned out every week and I know my candy bag would be asked to relocate elsewhere.

But thank you for the input, I will be throwing out my candy and reinvesting in some new stock, it'll work out just fine eventually. Winter's on the way and then I won't have to worry about this issue for a bit.

And I've never had problems giving my kids candy. Every teacher's situation is different, of course. c:
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Offline Kayos

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Re: How do you keep your candy from melting?
« Reply #8 on: September 05, 2016, 04:10:53 PM »
I do the same with New Zealand sweets. I have a very small fridge as well, I store anything that can melt in my fridge, take them out right before I leave, and put them in the fridge once I get to school. At the end of the day, I take them home with me, and put them back into my fridge. If I forget them (which has happened twice), I just text my co-teacher from the school mentioning that I forgot them and that I will take them with me the next time I am there - 2 of my 3 schools, I'm there twice a week.

Also, it seems you have a small fridge as well. I buy groceries for 3 days at a time instead of a week. It gives me more room in my fridge, and makes sure my food is generally fresh.
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Re: How do you keep your candy from melting?
« Reply #9 on: September 05, 2016, 04:21:58 PM »
I know that feel on the warheads. Mine were in a well shaded area that the sun doesn't touch and still, explosive goop. At least they weren't expensive, so not too bad of a loss.
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Re: How do you keep your candy from melting?
« Reply #10 on: September 05, 2016, 04:27:21 PM »
Quote from: Lowfoam on September 05, 2016, 02:06:23 PM
This heat is killer! All of the rewards for my students seem to be melting into nice gooey puddles and I don't know how to make it stop. :c

I mean I do vary the kinds of candy I give out, but sometimes I want to surprise them with some American kinds (like Warheads, for instance), but the heat gets into everything and makes it awful. I mean hell, even some of my taffies have turned into nice gooey puddles in their wrappers.

How do you beat this kind of heat?

I didn't read through all of the comments, but I will make a suggestion. Maybe, if you carry a backpack, put the candy in a Ziplock and take the air out of it. Take the Ziplock (with the candies kind of spread out in it, not in one spot) and kind of half wrap it around a frozen bottle of water, and then wrap the bottle with a small and thick-ish kitchen towel. Then you can also have nice cold water throughout the day. The towel will keep it frozen and cool (also store it in your back pack and out of the sun when at school. I use the technique to have cold water throughout the day, so I imagine adding a few candies around it will work quite well.
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Offline Lowfoam

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Re: How do you keep your candy from melting?
« Reply #11 on: September 05, 2016, 04:52:54 PM »
Haha, I generally grocery shop once a week but I don't eat too much thankfully. Every once in a while an abundance of leftovers or whatnot and it's full again. But if I have special chocolates just for Lowfoam-teacher, that goes right into the fridge for me to eat over the course of the week. Ghiradelli is too precious to let melt!

And yeah, no more warheads. I have a feeling some of the Chews will fare well, and some other hard candies, and I'll add in some American bits from time to time so they have enough of a selection. I loved watching them eat Warheads though. They were practically screaming it was hilarious.

And that's a great suggestion! Thank you so much, I might just adopt that. It would certainly help over the course of the day, I think. That does seem like a very viable solution to what I'm facing, and I think it would work very well!
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