![]() ![]() With patience & time, you can make your own sugar crystals from a hot saturated solution of granulated sugar. ![]() Rock sugar, rock candy, sugar crystals, or sugar swizzle sticks are easy to make at home but are also widely available in stores. Traditional coarse crystals are the purest refined sugars containing over 99.96 percent sucrose.Ĭoarse sugars are crystallized from very high purity sugar syrups, under slow-boiling rates and extended times. The most common are sanding ( 0.6 to 0.7 mm), sparkling ( 0.65 to 0.75mm), and rock sugar, the largest of all refined sugars. They don't readily dissolve, and because they are clear crystals, they attract and reflect light, resulting in sparkle. The higher the number before the 'X', the finer it is the most common is 10X, followed by 6X (the coarsest) and 12X (the finest).ĭue to the addition of an anti-caking agent, powdered sugars contain approximately 97 percent sucrose.Īs the name implies, confectione rs (or 's), is used in confections, icings, baked goods, as a garnish for decorative purposes.Ĭoarse sugars are glossy transparent crystals larger than granulated sugar often with additional ingredients (food coloring.). The fineness of the crystals is indicated by a number before an 'X' which is derived from the sizes of the meshes. To prevent caking, lumping, and dust explosion, it usually contains around 3% starch by weight, resulting in a floury taste.Ī variety of powdered sugars with different crystal sizes are made in a refinery crystals are separated through special size screens. Powdered or Confectioners is a refined sugar with smaller crystal size than granulated, superfine and ultrafine sugars.Ĭrystals size average is less than 0.1 mm due to its fineness nature, it is very prone to caking, lumping, and dust explosion!Īn anti-caking agent (starch) is added to powdered sugars to absorb moisture and let it free-flowing. In some countries, such as Brazil, superfine sugar is the most common type of sugar available to consumers. It is typically produced by grinding granulated sugar and then screened to size promoted as a "quick dissolve sugar".Īlso called bar sugar as it dissolves faster in alcoholic cold beverages, but bartenders make their own simple syrups with table sugar. Superfine sugar, just like table sugar and other white sugars, is almost pure sucrose (about 99.95%) with the rest being mostly water. Having finer crystals, superfine sugar has more surface area per spoonful and appear whiter than larger crystals such as table sugar. Superfine is a refined sugar with smaller crystals than regular granulated sugar crystal size ranges from 0.2 to 0.3 mm.Ĭompared to table sugar, superfine sugar dissolves faster and gives a smooth texture to icing, frosting, and fillings.Īs it dissolves more rapidly than large crystals, if eaten alone it seems sweeter on the tongue than table sugar. Read all about it in one of my blog posts titled What is Granulated Sugar? or explore all posts about sugars here. It has a familiar clean, pleasant sweetness from start to finish, that hits quickly, without lingering. Table sugar, either from cane or beet, is considered one of the purest food products, containing around 99.95% sucrose.īeing the most familiar and versatile type of sweetener of all, it is considered the gold standard of sweet taste. In a Sugar Refinery, granulated sugar is the starting point for white sugars with finer crystals, such as superfine, ultrafine & powdered. Granulated, Fine Granulated & Extra Fine Granulated Sugars in stores may be from sugar cane, sugar beet, or a blend of both. Table sugar may be called and labeled as Fine Granulated and Extra Fine Granulated, depending on the manufacturers' designation.įine Granulated Sugar is granulated sugar with a more narrow range of crystal size, from 0.32 to 0.42 mm.Įxtra Fine Granulated Sugar is granulated sugar with slightly smaller crystals, ranging from 0.3 to 0.35 mm. What manufacturers call granulated sugar is the type of refined sugar with midsize crystals ranging from 0.3 to 0.55 mm. Table sugar, labeled as granulated, is the most recognizable and used sweetener of all, being the favorite among home cooks. ![]()
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