My sugar keeps evaporating.

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mike

Hi, I know it is kind of a silly question. The sugar I keep on the boat, liquidifies and evaporates. Is there any tips out there.
 

Ross

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Jun 15, 2004
14,693
Islander/Wayfairer 30 sail number 25 Perryville,Md.
sealed containers! Rubbermaid boxes keep our sugar

for as long as it takes us to use it.(a couple of years) Also keeps flour, cornmeal, oatmeal and rice.
 
May 11, 2005
3,431
Seidelman S37 Slidell, La.
The Rubbermaid

The Rubbermaid containers are the best I have found. As Ross stated, keeps things dry. I have tried other brands, some from the dollar store, and after a few days sugar in them is like a brick.
 

Ross

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Jun 15, 2004
14,693
Islander/Wayfairer 30 sail number 25 Perryville,Md.
Does the lid have a rubber seal in it?

The only thing that will make sugar liquefy is water. If you keep the moisture out the sugar stays dry. I use a quart mason jar at home but only for convenience because it only holds half a bag and the balance stays in the bag it came home in. Your boat must be very damp inside. What form of ventilation do you have?
 
Jun 7, 2007
875
Pearson- 323- Mobile,Al
Sugar Doesn't Evaporate!!!

I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING TO YOUR SUGAR BUT IT IS NOT EVAPORATING!!!! Here is a simple experiment .Put some sugar in a skillet and put it on the stove. High Heat. The stuff will burn before it evaporate!!! Basic chemistry. They make sugar by boiling sugar cane juice to remove the water...well there is a little more to modern sugar making but that is the basic ideal. Same thing for making maple syrup.
 

Ross

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Jun 15, 2004
14,693
Islander/Wayfairer 30 sail number 25 Perryville,Md.
Moonie, he has some reallllly big ants on his boat

that unscrew the jar tops. ;)
 
Jun 7, 2007
875
Pearson- 323- Mobile,Al
Ross he is yanking our chain!!!!

We have had a box of sugar cubes on our boat for over a year. NO syrup. Sure sugar can absorb water enough to make it hard. But I can't imagine sugar absorbing enough water from the air to liquify!!!! Maybe pixies and elves are at work!!!!
 

Ross

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Jun 15, 2004
14,693
Islander/Wayfairer 30 sail number 25 Perryville,Md.
This hasn't made any sense from the get go.

But I figured that he was just some ignorant hillbilly that didn't know how to write a question.
 
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Liam

Similar problem

I keep filling the ice locker with beer cans and it seems like they just keep on evaporating. No matter how many I put in there, and then every few days... I'll be damned if they aren't all missing. Some thangs is just mysterious like.
 
Jun 8, 2004
2,927
Catalina 320 Dana Point
No problems with sugar but the contents

of my spirits locker seem to evaporate, no ants but I sometimes see giant spiders walking on the water late at night.
 
Jun 4, 2004
167
- - Conway, Lake Ouachita, Arkansas
Us hillbillys dont have that problem

Ross, Us hillbillys in Arkansaw don't have any evaporation problems with sugar, I quit using sugar in my coffee and started using baileys only, works great. Tim Welsh Hunter 34 S/V Cabo Wabo Lake Ouachita, Arkansas Beat your competition, Run'em Aground!!!!
 

Ray

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Mar 10, 2006
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Hunter 26 Kettle Falls Wa.
A good hillbilly doesn't store sugar a'tall cause his...

sugar is converted to crystal clear, fire blow'n face twist'n sugar whiskey. Now that stuff will evaporate if you don't suck it down fast enough 'sept when Tim watches it. Then for some reason it just vanishes. Ray
 
Jun 7, 2004
944
Birch Bay Washington
My sugar keeps showing up

and adding things to my honey do list. Pretty sweet of her, eh?
 

Ctskip

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Sep 21, 2005
732
other 12 wet water
After several years of trying

to control my sugar. I finally got control of it. Keep it up, Ctskip
 
Jun 6, 2006
6,990
currently boatless wishing Harrington Harbor North, MD
Sugar control

Well as a purebread person of Appallation decent (eastern hillbilly clan BTW), I does like all you fancy city folk do and keeps my sugar in a sealed container. As for sugar vaporatin (wow, 4 sylables, my brain is startin to smoke) I never seen such a thing and don't think I ever will. I suspect critters or kids is a gettin inta the sugar kitty while yous a lookin taother way. I does have a problem with ta beers and moonshine vaporatin but I thinks I know whats a going on there. I thought for along time that them big spiders that Calif.Ted talked about was in my magination but since he is seein them way out west I can safely say that we eastern claners gots them too. Theys thursty little suckers.
 
Jun 7, 2004
944
Birch Bay Washington
I cannot explain it

MY SUGAR BOWL IS MISSING! My sweetie did not take it and it is not in the dishwasher. What do I do now?
 

Ross

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Jun 15, 2004
14,693
Islander/Wayfairer 30 sail number 25 Perryville,Md.
Patrick , call an exterminator ! You have a really BIG

ant problem. Do you live near a nuclear power plant? Headline from Washington:: Mutant ants seen in the vicinity of the nuclear power generating station. Four people are missing. Go to our web page for more details.
 
Jun 7, 2007
875
Pearson- 323- Mobile,Al
lotsa smiles here

Dam that hillbilly talkin is betterin pirate talkin. The brandy on my boat keepsa disappearing. But it only doesit when I am there. No mystery though. my wine didn't disappear last weekend. NO CORKSCREW!!!!! Well I assume it is on the boat but it is hiding where I haven't looked yet. If I was a pirate I'd just bite the top off. keep it coming!!!!!
 
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