Our brown sugar gets hard like a rock even in airtight storage. I didn’t realize there was a solution to it until last Sunday when both kids went to a 4-H baking class. This terra cottage bear does the trick!This morning the brown rocks crumbled with a hard press between the fingers.
25 responses to “This thing works!”
And here’s the old-fashioned trick, which also works: add a piece of bread to the brown sugar, and overnight it will absorb the moisture and make the sugar pliable! That’s one my grandmother and mother used!
I’ll have to try that trick!
I need one of those!
I have a version of the terra cotta bear for brown sugar, but I don’t remember where I put it!
I have one of these my mom bought from a magazine “Taste of Home” about 30 years ago. They do work.
I just learned about it! So it’s been around for a long time.
Yes. We always put brown sugar in our oatmeal, so we always had it around. Too bad it doesn’t work for white sugar too. My mom had white sugar get so hard she could not get it out of the metal canister.
I thought it was only brown sugar that got hard! How the heck do you get hard sugar out of a metal canister?! Banging it out would cause a ruckus.
We ended up throwing the canister away … my mom was worried about getting ants and I said “no ants Mom because there is no loose sugar and it is rock solid. They were metal canisters and none of the other parts of the set were problematic, just that one. They were very old – my parents bought a Coppertone fridge and stove when we moved here in 1966, so the canisters matched the fridge and stove, both which were long gone.
The ants must have hulk strength to penetrate through that sugar rock!!
Yes, that’s true too. We had Carpenter ants caused by a flying ant that got into the fluorescent light fixture in the basement and laid eggs – it took years to get rid of them … years with Orkin that is. Then we switched companies, to a small company on the recommendation of the HVAC guy who used them on his rental properties and they came in and they got rid of them the first day!
Oh, that sounds awful!! Once they lay eggs, oh boy, you’re in for a ride. They’ve made themselves comfortable.
Yes, it was awful Esther – we had them for years, cut down three trees and then when Orkin didn’t fix the problem, we had a recommendation for a small company, called them, they came out and found the nest in minutes, sprayed Marigold dust (instead of harmful Diazinon) and they were gone, never to return.
how fun to see that it works – I have seen folks use slices of bread?
That’s what one of my other readers said! Isn’t this bear cute?
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I use apple slices but this looks just as good! 🥰
That’s a new one for me. So many different ways.
Good to know, thank you 😊
Ur welcome!
We use the heel of a load of bread. The beard is way cuter! 🥰
Bear not beard. A beard would not be cute in the brown sugar.
Yea, that would be questionable to find beard in sugar. Lol. How long can you leave the bread in the sugar?
A couple months and it doesn’t get moldy or gross, it just turns super hard and quits working eventually.
That’s amazing!