Product Description

The Ultimate Gum Kit contains everything you need to make huge amounts
of homemade gum. Create your owen crazy concoctions as you mix fifteen d
ifferent flavors. Scare up some graveyard gum, or whip up creamy blue ra
spberry. This really is an ultimatekit, with more gum and flavors than a
ny other product on the market. Ages 8+

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4752 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Scientific Explorer
• Model: 229
• Released on: 2007-01-01
• Dimensions: 3.20" h x 12.20" w x 15.20" l, 2.70 pounds

Features

• Create up to 15 different flavors of gum
• Design your own custom gum with and packaging
• Be a culinary scientist and learn the chemistry behind making chewing gum
• Can be shared by several children at the same time - a great group activity
• Comes with easy instructions for experiments in flavors, colors and shapes

From the Manufacturer
The Ultimate Gum Kit contains everything you need to make huge amounts of homemade gum. Create your own crazy concoctions as you mix a variety of flavors, in fact, more gum and flavors than any other gum kit on the market.

Customer Reviews

Disappointing!
This looked so cool, I thought my kids would love it. But the gum base is impossible to stir - you need to nuke it for way longer than it says to and then it hardens up and is impossible to work with. It becomes hard and brittle rather than smooth and workable. Save your money and don't bother with this! My kids were totally disappointed!

Works as expected with a few minor extras
My 8 year old son and I were able to make a truck-load (a quadruple batch in a pint sized plastic take-out container) of half-way decent gum with this kit. It was time consuming and the directions are not completely accurate. For example, it took much longer to melt the gum base in the beginning than they stated. We kept nuking it at 20-second intervals until it was workable. We also had to keep reheating it (15 seconds at a time) during the kneading process. When it's warm, it's easier to knead. When it cools and starts getting stiff, reheat it. Other than all the reheating, this kit was a good thing.

Note: The corn syrup was crystallized and we ended up using our own. They mentioned this in the instructions and indicated that it could be melted down, but we didn't want to bother with that since we had our own.

I was a little nervous about getting this product based on the 1 star review I read here, but my son had already written to Santa. The key to making this work is you have to keep re-heating and see it through to the end. Once you get through the kneading process, and you get all the sugar worked into it, it will turn out as expected. Experience with bread making helped a lot.

BTW: A quadruple batch is A LOT OF GUM.

Ultimate Gum Kit instruction incomplete
Once we figured out that you needed to add a teaspoon of water to the gumbase before you microwave it it was a lot of fun. The instruction say to pour off excess water but neglect to tell you to add water in the first place. My son and his freids had a blast making their own custom gums. I had to help with the kneeding process but over all I think it's a great product for kids who like their gum. You can substitute splenda for the powdered sugar if you want to make sugar fee gum too.