Sugars

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The primary material used for CandyFab fabrication thus far has been crystaline sucrose, aka, table sugar.

Sucrose caramelizes (turns dark and tasty) as it cooks. Fructose may be a better choice for a number of reasons, including its low melting point and lack of caramelization. (It may also be possible to avoid caramelization by operating a CandyFab in an oxygen-deprived environment.)

There are a great many other sugars and "sugar alcohols," sweet chemicals like sorbitol, that may be suitable for CandyFab production.

Here are some qualities of sugar that make it ideal for fabrication:

• Rigid
• Low melting point
• Inexpensive
• Readily available
• Safe
• Water soluble
• Edible
• Smells incredibly good when it cooks.

(This article is a stub. We need a list here of various other sugar and sugar-like materials, where to buy them, and their properties.)