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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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To say that caster sugar tastes the same as granulated.

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MsFC · 31/05/2011 19:28

We have run out of granulated sugar. I cant be arsed am too busy to go to the shop tonight for more, but DP (who has broken his ankle and so can't go anywhere at the moment) says that caster sugar won't do as he doesn't like the taste. I don't drink tea or coffee and I'm a bit , but AIBU??

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Ariesgirl · 31/05/2011 22:36

Salty choc, Hazel?
I salute you.

Does anyone remember that programme called Willie's Wonky chocolate factory or something? He used to cook with chocolate. Put it in curry and everything. Bit of a dickhead I thought...

Muser · 31/05/2011 22:46

A bit of dark chocolate in a chilli is very nice. Or a big glob of peanut butter as my Aunt does. Mmmm.

You sods have made me really want a bag of chocolate covered pretzels now. Salty, chocolatey, pretzely goodness.

Casserole · 31/05/2011 22:46

Apparently it's very nice in spag bol and chilli, Aries . I wouldn't know. I once tried to put some into a chilli I was cooking but there was a terrible accident and it somehow fell into my mouth on the way to the pan instead.

colditz · 31/05/2011 22:47

It's NOT sweeter, it's the same damn sugar, ground finer. Use a smaller spoon.

Casserole · 31/05/2011 22:53

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MsFC · 31/05/2011 23:03

Ooh. blooferlady introduced me to the salty chocolate. Not my thang. But I could see the appeal...

And Sherlock, I offered him demerera, we have that in the up board too, but he REALLY put his foot down about that.

Well I have made his flask of coffee (this saves me being arsed in the morning) with caster sugar. I'll report back in the morning with his comments...

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MsFC · 31/05/2011 23:05

Peanut butter in a chilli muse? What does it add?

I add a teaspoon of sugar to my spag bol always.

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MsFC · 31/05/2011 23:05

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Ariesgirl · 31/05/2011 23:05

He didn't use anything as common as chocolate. Oh no. He used purest cacao from his own plantation in Costa Rica.

Ariesgirl · 31/05/2011 23:07

Ooh ooh, I put sugar in spagbol too. Caster or granulated MsFC? Or icing? Or demerera? Or...or...... muscavado?

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MsFC · 31/05/2011 23:14

Ooh. I have muscavado left over from Christmas cake baking. It's all sticky at the back of the cupboard next to half a pot of glace cherries.

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MoreBeta · 31/05/2011 23:18

I use normal granulated sugar when it says caster sugar in a recipe. Never seems to make any difference - as long as I measure it by weight and not by volume.

Caster sugar is just more finely ground than granulated. If you put a spoon of caster sugar in a cup of tea though it will seem sweeter than granulated because you actually get more suger because the caster sugar grains are smaller and more tightly packed. Likewise a cup of caster sugar in a cake will seem sweeter than a cup of granulated sugar. Icing sugar seems even sweeter because the fine powder is even more finely packed.

IgnoringTheChildren · 31/05/2011 23:21

I add more than a teaspoon of sugar to my spag bol , but never white sugar - always whatever variety of brown sugar I happen to have in the house (I'd get up and check the current packet but I can't be arsed). I also add sugar to my chilli and beef caserole. Never used to use sugar in savory dishes but then I had DS1 and the health visitor went on about not using sugar in foods for the baby so I thought I'd give it a try.

Casserole · 31/05/2011 23:21

You can't pick on that there William Wonky 12ptArial and then come swanning in here with your fancy muscavado .

Nowt wrong with Silver Spoon.

Ariesgirl · 01/06/2011 10:22

Hey Cass Don't make me out to be some kind of sugar wanker. I do not have any muscavado. I have just heard of it.

Casserole · 01/06/2011 13:17

Sugar wanker

fatlazymummy · 01/06/2011 13:26

I'm another one who uses granulated sugar when I make cakes. They always come out well. I would just stick some caster sugar in and in future don't tell him things like that.

WhereTheWildThingsWere · 01/06/2011 13:34

'Sugar wanker', actual lol.

WhereTheWildThingsWere · 01/06/2011 13:39

Oh and I love Wonky Willy, I even have his book.

I put cacco in everything. Dp and I tried his kickstart the day hot chocolate once though and it gave me such bad palpatations I had to lie on the floor, dp almost called an ambulance.

It is quite speedy in effect. Did no-one else used to watch him on telly? He never slept and was constantly gnawing on a block of cacco, he was wankered on the stuff.

Casserole · 01/06/2011 16:55

Speedy hot chocolate?

What's in it? Pray tell.

Ariesgirl · 01/06/2011 18:35

Well cacao isn't a huge jump to coca is it? I have always maintained chocolate is a dangerous and addictive drug

That's how many of the mountain south American indians cope with high altitude you know - they're always chomping on coca leaves. Unfortunately loads of them die of heart attacks as a result!

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