Sugar lamp

Also commonly referred to as a warming lamp, a sugar lamp is an essential component in sugar pulling and sugar blowing. The lamp is used to warm and soften hard portions of precooked and stored sugar and to keep the sugar mass malleable while the chef is forming it. A sugar lamp is generally composed of a large infrared bulb of 250 watts and 125 volts, attached either to the top of the sugar warming case or a flexible gooseneck stem. The opaque top of the bulb drives the light and its corresponding heat down to the round bottom surface of the bulb and onto the work surface below. The position of the bulb can be moved up and down to adjust the intensity of the heat, still leaving room between the work surface and the lamp where the sugar can be worked on by the chef.