Panini,
Do you think so?
What do you like about it? Personally I found it good for casting pieces. It is also much less hydroscopic so it stood up well to humidity. Though to be fair to pure sugar and tartaric acid, I made my sister a unicorn roughly 7 years ago and shipped it to California. It still exists in her China Case. A true testimoney to the California air! It has since taken on a beautiful, old Ivory type patina to it. It's a very pretty piece now and has outlived my other work by about, well, 7 years!
However I found that Isomalt was very hard to work with for pulling and blowing pieces. The temperature needs to be much hotter to have the same elasticity, and it cools too quickly to have that advantage of workability. I found that I had to work faster, pull harder and burned my fingers more with the Isomalt.
Am I the only one? Has Isomalt improved since I tried it a long time ago? What do others think?