Why won't sugar melt in cold tea, even with no ice in it? ...bugs me when order Tea that's not sweet enough.!
Why won't sugar melt in cold tea, even with no ice in it? ...bugs me when order Tea that's not sweet enough.
Answers:
you're not melting sugar in tea, the sugar is being dissolved; even with hot tea, you're still going to have to stir it to fully dissolve your sugar.
(stirring is "like heating" in the sense that it is getting the liquid agitated enough to "break" the crystaline sugar form allowing for hydrogen bonding between the hydroxlys of the sugar and the hydrogens of the water. "super fine" sugars dissolve faster because there is more surface area to volume ratio for water contact--making the whole "breaking" the crystal structure faster.)