then the candy is cool enough to handle (but still quite hot), put on your food-safe plastic gloves. There are specially made heat-safe gloves available that can be purchased online, but if you don't have these, consider wearing several pairs of gloves on top of each other to protect your hands from the heat.
Take the candy in both hands and pull the hands in opposite directions, stretching the candy into a long rope.
Bring the ends of the strands together and twist the candy into a rope, then pull the rope out into a long strand. Continue to twist and pull the candy until it has a satin-like finish, is an opaque red color, and is becoming difficult to pull. Once the candy is still pliable but barely warm, pull it into a strand about 2” thick, and place it on the remaining sprayed baking sheet. Put this sheet back into the oven, turn off the heat, and remove the baking sheet with the other half of the candy syrup. The pulled candy will remaining pliable in the warm oven while you work the second portion.