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minus-squareares35@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·2 years agoexample: you don’t make a pitcher of kool-aid with hot water. however, adding sugar to the hot tea does work better than adding it after it’s already chilled.
minus-squareTangent5280@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·2 years agoHow? Wouldn’t the excess sugar just come out of solution when the tea cools down again?
minus-squareraptir@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·2 years agoThey’re not super saturating it. They’re putting an amount of sugar in the tea that can dissolve at room temperature, it just takes a long time to do so.
minus-squareTangent5280@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoOk, got it. Someone in this thread mentioned ice cold water can still hold 1.7x its weight in sugar.
minus-squarejoel_feila@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoYeah basically, leave the pitcher to evaporate and you get your sugar back as a coating on thr glass
example: you don’t make a pitcher of kool-aid with hot water.
however, adding sugar to the hot tea does work better than adding it after it’s already chilled.
How? Wouldn’t the excess sugar just come out of solution when the tea cools down again?
They’re not super saturating it. They’re putting an amount of sugar in the tea that can dissolve at room temperature, it just takes a long time to do so.
Ok, got it. Someone in this thread mentioned ice cold water can still hold 1.7x its weight in sugar.
Yeah basically, leave the pitcher to evaporate and you get your sugar back as a coating on thr glass