Brown Sugar

[matapule]

I have some brown sugar that has gone hard as a rock. If I recall, there is someway to make it soft again. I think maybe heating it in the oven. Any ideas?

Mahalo

[lavagal]

Re: Brown Sugar

I have some brown sugar that has gone hard as a rock. If I recall, there is someway to make it soft again. I think maybe heating it in the oven. Any ideas?

Mahalo

Drop a piece of bread in the bag; in fact, storing it with a slice of bread will keep it from happening. Don't know how long it will take, though. I usually just carve out what I need and toss it back into the freezer.

[SusieMisajon]

Re: Brown Sugar

I think it's that you give it a zap in the microwave....I think.

[Ron Whitfield]

Chip off a chunk, pop in in your mouth...

... and enjoy.

[kani-lehua]

Re: Chip off a chunk, pop in in your mouth...

i just leave it out in a ziploc bag and not refrigerated.

[Amati]

Re: Brown Sugar

Google is our friend.

http://tipnut.com/10-ways-to-soften-hard-brown-sugar/

Need the sugar soft now? Put the brown sugar in a container and place in the microwave with a small bowl full of water beside it. Microwave for about 1 minute–check. If it’s still hard, try for another 30 seconds. You can keep doing this until the sugar is soft, but watch that you don’t melt the sugar

[SusieMisajon]

Re: Chip off a chunk, pop in in your mouth...

... and enjoy.

When I want to be back in Waialua, that's just what I do.

I use the brown sugar over here, which is more like raw sugar...Pop into the mouth, and I am back walking down past St. Michael's Church with the canefield on the other side of the road. In my minds' eye, the sugarmill is belching the black smoke that leaves a taste in my mouth that's exactly the same as the sugar tastes. The sun shines, the canehaul trucks pass, clanking their chains..I pick up a stalk of cane that fell onto the road, peel, bite, chew.....

[Kungpao]

Re: Chip off a chunk, pop in in your mouth...

i just leave it out in a ziploc bag and not refrigerated.

Interesting, I've never known anyone (not that it's a bad thing) to refrigerate brown sugar.

[Da Rolling Eye]

Re: Chip off a chunk, pop in in your mouth...

Interesting, I've never known anyone (not that it's a bad thing) to refrigerate brown sugar.

.......much less freeze it like Lavagirl. I've always stored brown sugar in an airtight container in the cupboard. Never, ever had a problem with brown sugar solidifying into a hard lump. Anyone care to enlighten us on why they keep their's refrigerated or frozen? Just curious.

[sophielynette]

Re: Chip off a chunk, pop in in your mouth...

At my old apartment, I didn't have much available cabinet space, so I used to store things in the fridge that didn't exactly need refrigerated. I didn't buy a lot of perishabled anyway because, well, they're perishable, and I only went grocery shopping once a month.

[kani-lehua]

Re: Chip off a chunk, pop in in your mouth...

not quite sure the reasons why people freeze/refrigerate brown sugar? maybe like sophielynette, no cabinet space?

[Amati]

Re: Chip off a chunk, pop in in your mouth...

not quite sure the reasons why people freeze/refrigerate brown sugar? maybe like sophielynette, no cabinet space?

Ants, Ants, and Ants.
Although, yes, a glass or plastic container works too.