How Many sugars do you have?

How many sugars do you have in tea or coffee?


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lazybloke

Today i follow the flying spaghetti monster
Location
Leafy Surrey
I just filled the mug, like I do with mugs and cups now with diluted bleach and water for an hour or so, which makes tea and coffee stains disappear. You can also use a wire scourer and washing up liquid if you don't like using bleach.

What, no Royal Doulton?
 
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Electric_Andy

Heavy Metal Fan
Location
Plymouth
I heard if you put a bleached mug in the freezer overnight, it gets rid of the bleach smell
 

Accy cyclist

Legendary Member
What, no Royal Doulton?


The only 'posh' cup I have is this cup and saucer from the coronation of King George the 6th in May 1937, which I don't use to save it from breakage. All the rest of my cups and mugs are the usual ones you'd see in anyone's cupboard. 🧐

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Alex321

Guru
Location
South Wales
I have brown sugar for when I bake bread .......if I have it right it needs sugar to activate the yeast.

It needs water (or other liquid such as milk or cooking oil) to activate the yeast. It needs sugar for it to feed on in order to continue working once activated.

I'm not sure brown sugar is as good for that (not saying it isn't, just that I'm not sure). The recipes all call for caster sugar, though I use ordinary granulated.
 

Dave7

Legendary Member
Location
Cheshire
It needs water (or other liquid such as milk or cooking oil) to activate the yeast. It needs sugar for it to feed on in order to continue working once activated.

I'm not sure brown sugar is as good for that (not saying it isn't, just that I'm not sure). The recipes all call for caster sugar, though I use ordinary granulated.

TBH I don't know why I have brown sugar on the shelf (as against white).
Does it go out of date ? Mine will be years old now.
 
I just filled the mug, like I do with mugs and cups now with diluted bleach and water for an hour or so, which makes tea and coffee stains disappear. You can also use a wire scourer and washing up liquid if you don't like using bleach.

My wife won;t have bleach anywhere near things used to contain food

and she reckons that using anything scouring just cleans it but adds fine lines that make it stain faster afterwards

She is certainly right about the second one - I have only used a cloth on my current mugs and they are lasting much longer
The first one I am not so sure about - I reckon and damn good rinse afterwards is fine
(I have a Chemistry degree - I am qualified to test for any residue but apparently what her Mum said ranks higher than a degree from a good UK University!!!)

BTW - I drink black coffee (quite strong) and tea that I like to brew for a while - so I am quite capable of staining a mug!
 

wafter

I like steel bikes and I cannot lie..
Location
Oxford
There's a couple of bags in the pantry but the granules are really small - I'll let you know when I've counted them all but it might take a while!
 

Paulus

Started young, and still going.
Location
Barnet,
Up until I got married I used to have two sugars in both tea and coffee. MrsP did the same. After, we went down to one, it took no time to get used to that. Then we went down to a level one, and then half a level one, and then we stopped completely.
The whole process took about six months. :cuppa:
 

Ming the Merciless

There is no mercy
Location
Inside my skull
No sugar in my tea and no fizzy drinks at home. But if I’m doing an audax, touring or long distance walk, no problems adding sugar or having a fizzy drink as the muscles will take it up for fuel pretty quickly.
 
When I first started work as a raw 17 year old I was working with people a lot older than me. I hated them all !!!! - anyway I kept forgetting my sugar and I sure as hell wasn't asking them boring decrepit old codgers if I could borrow there's !!!

I soon got used to zero sugar - and if sone sugar finds it's way into my cup of tea - I just can't drink it ! All I taste is sugar not the tea.

Each to there own - but I can't understand why anyone puts sugar in tea .
 
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