Why Do You Pull Candy

Good exercise—but what does it do for the candy? As it turns out, pulling taffy aerates it, or incorporates many tiny air bubbles throughout the candy. This makes it lighter and chewier. … In this case, the air bubbles added by pulling were to make the candy less rock hard and more brittle.

What is pulling taffy mean?

Definition of taffy pull : a social gathering at which taffy is made.

Why is taffy called salt water?

The story goes that Bradley’s candy store became flooded during a major storm in 1883. His entire stock of taffy became soaked with seawater from the Atlantic Ocean, so he began to call it “salt water taffy” as a joke.