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Regular sugar (sucrose), is quite special. It will just take more time.Ĭrystallization of sugar during caramelization It is no problem to add extra water during boiling. If you don’t add enough water though, not all the sugar will dissolve. Adding more water will result in a longer boiling time. It doesn’t matter how much water you add. Once the water has all evaporated the sugar is warm enough and caramelization will start.

The more water that is boiled of, the warmer it becomes. While heating the sugar now, you’ll boil of the water. Since it is dissolved in the water it is easier to heat it evenly. The advantage is that the sugar will dissolve in the water. Instead of pouring the sugar in a pan by itself, you mix it with some water. This more fool-proof method uses sugar and water. However, it is quicker (you don’t have to evaporate all that water again) and it does give the same quality product. This method tends to be more tricky than the wet method. It is very important that all sugar it heated up evenly, else some might already brown, whereas other parts are still solid sugar crystals. In this method you place sugar in a pot and heat it gently until it starts to melt and subsequently start to brown, the caramelization.

The wet method: using sugar and water, this one is a little more fool proof and my go to method.

The dry method: using only sugar, nothing else.

When making caramel at home there are two different ways to bring the sugar to this high temperature: As mentioned before, regular sugar (sucrose) will only caramelize at a temperature of 160☌. You can caramelize sugar by heating it to temperatures well above the boiling point of water (160☌). Since this browning reaction will start to occur at far lower temperatures than caramelization, it is also used quite often in recipes. Since butter, milk and cream contain these proteins, they can be added to sugar to initiate the Maillard reaction. However, instead of just sugar, this reaction also requires proteins to occur. During this reaction molecules with a brown colour are formed as well. It is another very common chemical browning reaction in food: the Maillard reaction. There is another way to form a brown caramel, without heating the sugar to these high temperatures. At this temperature caramelization will set in and occur by itself, only cooling down the sugars will stop the caramelization again. As a result of these chemical reactions larger molecules will form which have a brown colour.Ĭaramelization of sugar is done by heating the sugar without any other ingredients (except for water) to the correct temperature.

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Caramelization is a series of chemical reactions in which the sugar participates.

By heating sugar to very high temperatures (regular sugar caramlizes at 160☌ (320☏)) caramelization sets in. The nice brown colour of a caramel can be formed through the caramelization of sugar.

Creating the desired caramel consistency (whether it’s runny or firm).

Creating a nice brown colour (from uncoloured ingredients) through chemical reactions.

When making a caramel you are trying to achieve two things: But, since caramelization (the basis of any caramel, we’ll come back to it later) can only occur with sugars, the definition we’ll use here is that a caramel requires sugar. *There are plenty recipes for caramel without any sugar, look-a-likes. These contribute to the richness of a caramel and the flavour profile, as we will come back to later. The most common are milk, butter, cream, salt and water. Caramel can actually be quite bitter and have a far more complex flavour profile.Īpart from sugar there are a lot of other ingredients that can be a part of caramel. Therefore, even though caramel is sweet, it has more depth of flavour.

This caramelization also contributes to the flavour of caramel. This brown colour is formed during caramelization of the sugar. What is caramel?Įven though there are a lot of caramel types, the basis is always sugar.* Caramel is brown, but it can vary from a light brown/orange colour to a very dark brown, closer to being black. Caramel is super flexibly, hard to mess up completely, but it helps knowing what goes on to fix it up again. About time to dive into the science of caramel in order to help you make a perfect caramel and fix one when it all goes haywire. That said, caramel can be finicky, crystallizing when you don’t want it to do.

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Caramel can upgrade your creation to something even more special.Īll made with just a few basic ingredients and a pretty similar preparation method. You can make a runny caramel sauce to poor over an ice cream, make some chewy caramel bites or swirled some into ice cream. An almost golden brown colour, sweet, oozy or chewy, runny or firm, caramel can be found in all shapes and sizes.