To put caster sugar in tea?

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I always have caster sugar in for baking so I fill the sugar jar with it instead of buying granulated, specifically for teas and coffees.
My visitors think it's weird but I don't see the difference?!

PestilentialCat Yep, I too use the sniff test to determine which is which if I have a 'senior moment'

ankle glad it's not just me

sorry and Barbara

I've been giving the groundsman working on our garden granulated sugar in his tea all week. He's coming back next week so it can't be that bad!

I can smell sugar. But I didn't believe DP when he said he could taste the difference between caster and granulated sugar until I did an experiment on him.

I also didn't believe he could tell the difference between pillows until he got up to go to the loo in the night and I swapped pillow cases and pretended to be asleep when he came back to bed.......

Of course, the difference in weight per teaspoon also depends on the size of the teaspoon and the size of the cup/mug.

It's all very complicated. Just glad I'm sweet enough without it.

I dunno. I usually have 1 heaped teaspoon of Demerara sugar, but if I go anywhere that has white sugar, I take just under half a teaspoon, so I would assume caster sugar is too sweet.

I am amongst my people! I've been banned from buying any more 'speciality' ingredients for baking until I can fit the ones I have onto one shelf in the larder. Which I totally can, as long as we're happy to pick up the bits I've haphazardly piled up on top of the shelf to make them fit.

My most recent and exciting purchase was some sugar nibs, for putting on Chelsea buns and rock cakes. I'm extremely excited about these.

I have been having jam sugar in my coffee for nearly a week.

Jam sugar in coffee is foul, I tried that years ago. I don't like icing sugar in it either, though it's probably because I didn't know to use less of it.

We have an extensive sugar collection, a flour collection (including buckwheat for making galettes), and a salt collection.

We have table salt, Maldon salt, flavoured salts, smoked salt, Himalayan pink salt, black salt from somewhere or other, and a giant salt crystal with a little grater so you can grate it over your dinner.

Neither of us ever puts salt on our dinner.

Nothing wrong with that, except I wouldn't do it as it's more expensive. We used to make out own when needs for baking in the grinder.

Ooh Narcy I'd love a giant salt crystal with a little grater! Where did you get it?