🐻 Original Terracotta Brown Sugar Bear Review

I bake quite a bit, but my brown sugar often hardens before I can eat an entire bag. We recently moved and my new 2lb bag of brown sugar got lost in the mix. I found a hard piece of sugar in the back of my closet and decided to give these little bears a try. You soak it for 20 minutes, throw it in a bag and after about 2 days the sugar is so soft you'll think it's a brand new bag. I love that you can just leave it in your sugar and not think about it for 3 months. A very nice and simple…

Seeing how many of these bears break during transport, I thought it would be nice to send them in a nice box. So I bought some cheerful storage bins that needed a big box along with these bears. It worked! They arrived undamaged. I've had one like this for years, and all you have to do is soak the clay bear in water for 20 minutes, then dry it and put it in a sugar container. Softens sugar like a dream. Since I have light brown sugar, dark brown sugar, and muscovado sugar for baking, I need…

One evening I went to get brown sugar to make a lemon buttermilk cake but was quite upset when the sugar stuck together and became a hard block. I scraped the container and tried to get 1 cup of sugar out. In the meantime, I figure there must be a better way to keep sugar from sticking like that. Later that night, I came across an ad for SurLaTable's brown sugar saver. Well I read about it. I was a bit skeptical that that terra cotta would actually keep the sugar from setting, but damn I…