{"id":2341,"date":"2011-02-04T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2011-02-04T09:17:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T14:17:25","slug":"maple-cubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2011\/02\/maple-cubes\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Cubes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"maple<\/a>
\nThis is just one of nature’s little oddities. At least to me it is.<\/p>\n

Those cubes in the bottom of this small jar — doesn’t it look like they’re mostly melted ice cubes at the bottom of a glass? But they’re not. They’re cubes of maple sugar, left at the bottom of a jar that had some really delicious homemade maple syrup in it. I used all the syrup up, and these cubes are left.<\/p>\n

I tried setting the jar in a shallow pan of water that had just boiled, thinking I could soften them up, the way I soften up hard honey. Nope. Doesn’t touch them. They remain solid, hard, and completely stuck to the bottom of the jar. <\/p>\n

I tried putting the jar in my microwave for a few minutes, hoping the same thing.
\n\"maple<\/a>
\nI should have been standing right by the nuker. In less than a minute and a half, it burned the sugar crystals and totally cracked the jar. Now my house smells like burnt sugar and I’ve wasted a perfectly good half-pint canning jar.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first time it’s happened to me, or I’d think it simply an anomaly. (Clarification: It isn’t the first time those crystals have formed and become one with the jar. It is<\/em> the first time I tried the nuker thing. I wouldn’t be dumb enough to do that<\/em> experiment twice!)<\/p>\n

I remember back from my science classes that sugar forms crystals. I even have the experience of making rock candy from super-saturated simple syrup. But somehow this seems different to me. I can’t explain why, exactly. The shape of the crystals? Their insistence on being one with the jar?<\/p>\n

So if you have a science background, or a maple sugaring background, I’d love to hear from you on why this happens and how I can make use of those yummy crystals in the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is just one of nature’s little oddities. At least to me it is.<\/p>\n

Those cubes in the bottom of this small jar — doesn’t it look like they’re mostly melted ice cubes at the bottom of a glass? But they’re not. They’re cubes of maple sugar, left at the bottom of a jar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[495],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","tag-food","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}