Making Sugar Crystals

Making Sugar Crystals

Ingredients and supplies 

• small saucepan
• stove
• wooden stirring spoon
• sugar
• 100 ml water
• pyrex measuring cup (300 ml minimum)
• wooden skewer 
• thread

Procedure 

1. Pour 100 ml of water into the small saucepan and bring to a slight boil.
2. When the water starts to boil, slowly add sugar while stirring the sugar into the water.
3. When the sugar starts to accumulate on the bottom of the saucepan immediately transfer the sugar water in to the pyrex measuring cup.
4. Wrap the thread around the skewer, leaving enough thread hanging of it to almost reach the bottom of the pyrex measuring cup, and secure it.
5. Slowly submerge the thread into the sugar water and rest the skewer on the brim of the cup.
6. When the sugar starts to cool, it will form crystals on the thread.
7. After about a week, crack any crystals on the surface and pull out the thread.
8. Now you can eat the crystals you made yourself!

The surface crystals

The crystals on the thread

The crystals seen from the side