[Sca-cooks] Downsizing Sugar??
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Wed Nov 28 18:05:45 PST 2012
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
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