Have you seen how much sugar those hicks put into their tea though? It’s gotta be hot because they put coca cola grade amounts of sugar, to the point where it wont dissolve in the water anymore. Sweet tea contains 36-38 grams of sugar per 16 oz. That’s a fucking soft drink.
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bleistift2@feddit.de 11 months ago
But sugar dissolves in cold water. It just takes a bit longer. This is 9th grade chemistry. At 20°C 203.9g sugar are soluble per 100ml of water.
Wikipedia: Sugar cites Hans-Albert Kurzhals: Lexikon Lebensmitteltechnik. Volume 2: L – Z. Behr, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-86022-973-7, p. 723.
MercuryUprising@lemmy.world 11 months ago
bleistift2@feddit.de 11 months ago
16 oz (454ml) can dissolve some 900 grams of sugar, far in excess of 38 grams. Sugar is ridiculously soluble in water.
Majoof@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Please attempt this and post results
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s easy. It’s just making simple syrup.
The consistency alone is enough to know that sweet tea is nowhere near saturated.
Mosdef@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Grams per ounce? You guys are savages with your units for concentration.
MercuryUprising@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You just need to do more drugs
flames5123@lemmy.world 11 months ago
When I make my sweet tea, I use two cups per gallon, which comes out to about 50g of sugar per 16oz. And it’s delicious! It’s definitely not a “drink all the time” type drink. I only make it a few times a year for friends.
ares35@kbin.social 11 months ago
example: you don't make a pitcher of kool-aid with hot water.
however, adding sugar to the hot tea does work better than adding it after it's already chilled.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How? Wouldn’t the excess sugar just come out of solution when the tea cools down again?
raptir@lemm.ee 11 months ago
They’re not super saturating it. They’re putting an amount of sugar in the tea that can dissolve at room temperature, it just takes a long time to do so.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ok, got it. Someone in this thread mentioned ice cold water can still hold 1.7x its weight in sugar.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 11 months ago
It dissolves quickly when the solution is warm. You would need to add a ridiculous amount for it to be saturated at room temp or slightly below. Image
“ice cold” water can hold about 170 grams of sugar in 100 grams of water
Rolando@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If sweet tea drinkers could read they’d be very upset by that graph.
…is what I was going to say, but man it took me a while to figure out and I’m still not 100% sure I really understand it. The specific gravity line and the sucrose vs solution line are tied to the sucrose dissolved in water curve, right? Wait, the left axis is merging two different scales? Sometimes data really isn’t beautiful.
willeypete23@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Right but you’re forgetting there are already other things dissolved in the water as their not using pure, de-ionized water, and they’re adding in tea.
joel_feila@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah basically, leave the pitcher to evaporate and you get your sugar back as a coating on thr glass
strawberrysocial@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s very thoughtful of you to provide the imperial measurements as well for Americans ☺️
risottinopazzesco@feddit.it 11 months ago
And most of all, solubility being a function of the temperature, if you lower it the excess sugar will leave the solution and cristallize.
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I came here to say this, but the best Aqua is without sugar anyway.
risottinopazzesco@feddit.it 11 months ago
Preach
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It takes time for that to happen and in the meantime you can have a gross oversaturated solution.