Life hack

When my second box of brown sugar solidified (as in, I tried to break it with a hammer but only managed to smash it into 3 giant chunks type of solidified) despite of the fact that I kept it in a plastic bag, I was frustrated and looked up "how to declump brown sugar" on the internet. This is what I found:

You take your solid chunk of brown sugar
Put it in a ziplock bag
And stick in a slice of bread
Then you let it sit.

I was kind of skeptical of this because, as I've mentioned, I had a LOT of sugar that was REALLY solid. ...so I stuck in 2 slices of bread ...and let it sit overnight at room temperature...and it WORKED.

As in when I poked at it this morning the edges of the chunks crumpled back into the texture sugar was supposed to be and then I, thrilled, took out the bread, put the plastic baggie on the kitchen floor, and pressed down with the base of my palm and the chunks ALL WENT BACK TO BEING SUGAR GRAINS.

I felt like I just completed witchcraft. Except it was not magic, it was two slices of bread.

Anyway: the wisdom of the internet also says that if you keep the de-chunked sugar in the freezer it will prevent it from solidifying again, so I've labeled and dated the bag and put it in the freezer (this is so similar to what I do in lab that I nearly typed "sample" there instead of "bag"), and if someone will remind me in a few months I'll let you guys know how well the second tip works as well!

Also you can still eat the bread. It's got a bit of sugar on it but the bread (I used whole wheat, I don't think this matters though) isn't soggy or anything.