Talk:Toffee

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[edit] Origin

Where is its country of origin? Is it Kazakhstan? It's Englandstan!!! I like s

[edit] stickiness of toffee

i think it is an urban legend that toffee or caramel can pull out fillings because i have eaten a lot of toffee, caramel and other similar sticky sugar-substances and i also have more than 10 fillings (perhaps due to eating so much caramel...) and i have never had one pulled out even a tiny bit, also i have never heard of anyone who has had their fillings sucked out by sticky toffee.

i haven't changed the article, but if someone wants to remove that or at least change it to say it is an urban legend. whatever

[edit] English toffee

Speaking as an Englishman living in the US, British-style toffee to me is supposed to be (very) chewy. Never the brittle crunchy type that invariably seems to be marketed as 'English' here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.48.205.42 (talk) 17:25, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hammer?

Someone knowledgeable should write about toffee hammers here. Kellen T 11:23, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

I should say! I have never even heard of them.

[edit] Taffy vs Toffee

There are separate pages for taffy (candy) and toffee. I always thought this was a different spelling/pronunciation of the same thing, allowing for regional differences of recipe. Are there people who eat both "taffy" and "toffee" and can explain the difference? Currently bth articles "See also" to each other but don't explain what the difference is. jnestorius(talk) 20:40, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I have always thought the difference between taffy and toffee was milk/cream and soft ball-hard crack . Toffee has milk or cream and is hard crack, taffy does not and is soft ball and pulled.

The Confectionery page disagrees with this. 216.243.200.225 16:49, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Taffy does not have chocolate, and it's kind of like gum you can swallow. Toffee is a candy that is usually harder, and sometimes has chocolate.75.74.112.76 10:44, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Acutally, there are some recipies for chocolate Taffy out there, although I don't really know if it's commercially sold. A quick google of "Chocolate Taffy" can verify this.204.101.159.34 12:12, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Toffee made with milk?

I think toffee is just sugar and butter heated until the soft or hard crack stage, depending on the temperature, so it forms a thick paste that is cooled down. Water can be used to mix the sugar and the butter. Milk is used to make fudge. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.203.0.210 (talk) 01:02, 15 February 2007 (UTC).

That's my understanding; so I've amended the article [16/4/08].