i made rock candy and its been a week. why haven't any crystals formed?

Answer 1

When you make rock candy, you need to dissolve the sugar into near boiling water (careful!), and dissolve as much sugar in it as the water can take. To bore you with a little chemistry, the hotter the liquid, the more solute (the sugar) it can hold. Then, as it cools as it sits on your counter with the sugared string in it, the water can hold less and less sugar in it, and the sugar starts to crystalize on the string (you put a little sugar on the string to help jump-start the crystallization) if the water can't hold that much dissolved sugar in it.

Try it again, except this time, get the water real hot (careful, get help if you need it) and add sugar until you see it no longer being able to dissolve. Once it has cooled down some, putting it in the fridge can actually speed up the crystalization. Heat and massive amounts of sugar are your friends in this whole process. Good luck and enjoy!

PS, cool little fact, this same process is used in chemistry a lot, we used it all the time in my Organic Chemistry class in college, but rock candy is definitely the tastiest way of using it

Answer 2

You have to add about 5 drops of cat urine on it every 2~3 days.

Answer 3

Maybe the concentration of sugar in the water isn't high enough.