In the photo: On the left, a plastic jar with two kilograms of sugar. On the right is a therapeutic physiotherapy electric massager with four different vibration frequency ranges. The walls of the jar are FLEXIBLE.

I buy all the products ahead of time with stock. That’s sugar, too, for a few months.

But I bought it at the end of July with high humidity. The lid, as it turned out, is screw-on, but it does not keep airtight. Today I took it out and I see that the sugar has formed a solid dense lump.

Sugar, like salt, is a HYGROSCOPIC substance, that is, it feeds water vapor from the air and, because of this, slightly dampens and clumps together into a kind of lump, repeating the shape of the vessel into which is poured.

I started crushing it with a steel spoon – I got tired of it quickly.

Two thoughts came to mind.

First: Open the jar, put it in the microwave and warm it up. Then the water will evaporate and the sugar will become crumbly again (In theory).

But there was doubt against it: The plastic of the jar was not resistant to heat, it could simply melt and turn out to be interesting in appearance, but not in taste, “sugar plastic”.

I decided not to take any chances.

The second is to turn on the electric massager and press its vibrating head (the ball in the photo) with moderate force against the flexible elastic wall of the jar. Then the vibrations will destroy the sugar lumps.

I tried it.

The most effective destruction occurs at the maximum vibration frequency of about 30-40 Hertz. Within a few minutes of “irradiation”, most of the lumps in contact with the wall collapsed. It is only necessary to turn the jar so that the lumps come into contact with the vibrating wall.

Physical therapy in the kitchen!

13 I 2025