How do I prevent my brown sugar from hardening?

Question

I've heard somewhere to put a piece of bread in your brown sugar jar. But, can't the bread get fungus on it like this?

Answer 1

I came across this little "gadget" several years ago. It was a oval shaped clay disk (as Kaia posted) about the shape of an egg that I found in a kitchen gadget store.

All you do is soak it for 15 minutes in water, dry it off, and throw it in with your hardened brown sugar. My sugar had been in a Ziploc bag and was cement hard. The next day I could loosen it up. It was amazing!! Since then, I have given it as gifts to my other friends. It is the best thing I have ever gotten for my kitchen (besides my other inexpensive gadget to make perfect soft, medium or hard boiled eggs).

If I remember right, it only cost me about $3.00 and is well worth the money.

Once you get your brown sugar softened up, I would keep it in one of those Lock N Lock airtight, watertight containers. Those are fabulous too. (I get those off of "www.qvc.com"

Answer 2

The best way to keep your brown sugar from hardening is to put it in an airtight container ... like one of those glass jars with a 'ring lock' at the top. The next best way to keep it soft is to add a cracker (regular saltine) to the bag and seal it up well. I don't know why a cracker that is dry and crispy will keep your brown sugar from hardening, but I've tried it, and it does. Put a paper towel piece between the sugar and the cracker, though, or you could get cracker crumbs in your sugar.

Answer 3

You change out the bread after a couple of days, it hardens, that always helps, you can also put it in an air tight container. Do not put it in the fridge, the humidity will cause it to stick like a rock

Answer 4

Keep brown sugar soft and useable by placing a piece of bread in your container with brown sugar. Another method is to place a slice of apple in hardened brown sugar to soften it up quickly.

Answer 5

There's a cute little thing you can put it with it, most of the time it's called a sugar bear. It looks like a baked clay, and retains the humidity in a sealed package.

The other alternative is to put it in a vacuum container, which is what I do.

Answer 6

put a piece of bread in there. The bread wont get moldy. It actually hardens.

Answer 7

Ceramic Bear sold in kitchen stores or grocery stores
I would not use bread eeewwww the bacteria and mold.

Answer 8

I use Lock&Lock airtight boxes for most of my food stuffs. Brown sugar never hardens this way.

http://www.locknlock.com.au/lock/

Answer 9

I usually put mine inside a ziploc bag. But they also sell athese brown sugar savers. I don't know if they work. I know the ziploc works, but here's a link:

http://www.cooksquarters.com/miscellaneous.htm?gclid=CK2qoMvBvo8CFQdEFQod-wH9Xw

Answer 10

I keep it in a closed container and put a whole apple in the container, then keep it in the fridge. Really works!