Testing expert Jack Bishop reviews a variety of sweeteners to break down his must-have sugar types.
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Aww, Jack is adorable, nice video 🙂
Turbinado sugar is great in plain yogurt. It's crunchy!
Also on top of scones or banana bread before baking. It doesn't breakdown like white sugar. The granules are large. It's sweeter too. I have baked with it many times, but I decrease the amount.
dark & light brown sugars r wonderful n coffee
🤣 Jack U sure U keep 7 forms of sugar in ur pantry ? Which 1 keeps U looking so thin & healthy ? Maybe ur keeping them in there & just looking at them 👍 😉 🙃
this is a lie. all you need is white sugar and molasses. you can turn white sugar (which is regular sugar that had its molasses removed) into light and dark sugar by adding it to white sugar. christalmighty.
Is there any instance that regular sugar would be preferred over super-fine sugar? Could I just restock with super-fine for all my white sugar needs?
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Good to know I can make my own brown sugar 😀
Hello Sugar!
Why use brown sugar when you can use date nut sugar?
And honey.
Or why not try less sugar in your cooking? Watching ATK add sugar to everything makes me sad; and watching many of the on screen identities getting fatter and fatter makes me sadder. If you stop using it in savoury, your taste adapts so you soon don't miss it. I haven't had any sugars (yeah, not even palm or syrups) in my pantry for almost
3 years, and I stopped missing it quickly. The small bag of erythritol is almost full, because my taste buds quickly adapted.
How should we store all this sugar?
Actually quite good short , suggestions for use, cLear definition of what they were
I never leave home without at least a dozen of sugars.
Hell yeah, no date sugar! Keep that suckage out of your life, no one wants cookies that taste like sadness
Jack, how about those other liquid sugars… honey, agave, corn syrup…
Take us to the other side whydontcha?
I have all but the Turbinado (not a fan of sprinkled on sugar) plus light and dark Muscovado sugar (liking it better than brown sugar), light and dark corn syrup and golden syrup. Though, I ended up with them all unintentionally. LOL!
I don’t keep brown sugar. I just combine molasses and white sugar when I need it on demand.
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I'd love to see them review natural sugar alternatives, such as Monkfruit, and which of the different sugar alternatives work best.
I thought, seven? Ha no way. And then after watching I realized I have 5 of them in my kitchen. LOL
So when would you use light brown versus dark brown sugar?
Palm sugar?
I only have two types of sugar in my side of the kitchen. One is Sucanat/Just Panela. These are raw unprocessed sugars. The only other sugar that I keep is confectioners sugar. I use Naturally Sweet cookbook for most of my dessert recipes these days. Thanks for the cookbook. If you come out with volume two let me know.
Thank you… very helpful!! I would love a video on the many types of salt there are as well!!
You should add Swedish Pearl Sugar to that list. I use Florida Crystals Organic Sugar.
If jack's brain wasn't so smooth he would have said "These are the 4 sugars I keep in my pantry but they act like 7!"
Raw sugar is best for coffee, too. The hot coffee will melt the sugar, and all of it dissolves.
Dark brown, light brown, powdered, and molasses are all you need.
Plus jaggery and Swedish pearl sugar.
That for the information.
Brilliant episode
Coconut Sugar and Monkfruit sugar in the pantry for those looking for sugar alternatives
Not being a cookie or cake baker, I get by with plain white and dark brown. I keep molasses on hand for BBQ sauces.
With climate change sugar beets are having a harder time. Meanwhile coconuts are increasing their range. And sure enough even Safeway now has coconut sugar which makes Chinese and SE Asian cooking easier. And it's really good.
No coconut sugar