Scott Winners
04-13-2020, 10:09 PM
Wasn't sure which forum, Off Topic seemed like a good guess.
The wife and I are getting away from refined sugar and like the more complex flavor from the stuff that is poured as a molten lava into some kind of mold anyway. Seems like the Asian palm sugar usually comes in a disc shape, the Caribbean/ Latin America stuff seems to be mostly truncated cones.
I have been noticing "sugar hammer" on antique tool websites, and have a candidate for a user sugar hammer; some wire brush time, new haft, ready for the kitchen.
What I don't have a clue on is a container to have the sugar lump in while I am whacking on it. The palm sugars from Thailand seem especially prone to releasing high velocity shrapnel when struck. Besides holes in the drywall I don't want cockroach food sliding under the fridge when I use the hammer either.
Will gentle taps on a plain cutting board break off pieces OK? Once I have my 2-3 tablespoons of shards I can pulverize in a mortar and pestle, it's getting one recipes worth off the half pound block that has me head scratching.
Thanks in advance.
The wife and I are getting away from refined sugar and like the more complex flavor from the stuff that is poured as a molten lava into some kind of mold anyway. Seems like the Asian palm sugar usually comes in a disc shape, the Caribbean/ Latin America stuff seems to be mostly truncated cones.
I have been noticing "sugar hammer" on antique tool websites, and have a candidate for a user sugar hammer; some wire brush time, new haft, ready for the kitchen.
What I don't have a clue on is a container to have the sugar lump in while I am whacking on it. The palm sugars from Thailand seem especially prone to releasing high velocity shrapnel when struck. Besides holes in the drywall I don't want cockroach food sliding under the fridge when I use the hammer either.
Will gentle taps on a plain cutting board break off pieces OK? Once I have my 2-3 tablespoons of shards I can pulverize in a mortar and pestle, it's getting one recipes worth off the half pound block that has me head scratching.
Thanks in advance.