[Sca-cooks] Downsizing Sugar??

[Terry Decker]

A five pound (avoir.) bag is only slightly larger than the 2kg bag and at 4 
pounds is about .4 kg less.  For smaller use, you can get a 2 pound (.8kg) 
bag.  For larger, 10 pound (4.5 kg) or 25 pound (11.4 kg).  Cost per pound 
against storage until use tends to make the 5 pound bag the best buy.  For 
family use, I use about 5 to 7 pounds of refined sugar, 4 pounds of brown 
sugar, 2 pounds of superfine granulated sugar and less than a pound of 
powdered sugar per year.  I try to buy on price drops and store in sealed 
glass canisters until needed.

And then there is the issue of running out of ingredients is a fit of 
midnight madness.

Bear


> The interesting thing from my point of view is that this is really large 
> amounts of sugar you're talking about here. The most common sugar packet 
> size in my supermarket is 1kg, you also get 1/2kg and 2kg.
>
> Is it that the people on this list are all cooks, and tend be more likely 
> to cook things from scratch and to go through larger quantities of cooking 
> supplies, or is there more of a habit of buying sugar (and other goods??) 
> in bulk in the US? I've only ever bought sugar in 2kg packets when I'm 
> planning on doing a large baking run for a special occasion, or jam.
>
> Margaret/Emma
> Melbourne, Australia/Krae Glas, Lochac