Terra Cotta Sugar Saver | Food-Safe Softener for Cookies, Marshmallows, Dried Fruits, Spices, and More | Hummingbird Design | Reusable Moisture Keeper Made of Durable Clay | JBK Pottery Kitchen Tool

Cute hummingbird. Soak it in water for at least 15 minutes. Dry it off with a paper towel and submerge in your brown sugar. It keeps it soft for a few weeks. In the past, I didn't remoisten it and wound up with dried up brown sugar as hard as a rock. The secret is to inspect it every few weeks and re-wet it. Doing so will save your brown sugar.

Amazing - I wouldn't have believed it could be so effective! I had a bag of brown sugar that was hard as rocks and thought it was worth trying one of these terra cotta gadgets to salvage it. Within one day, it had softened the entire 16oz. I put it in an airtight glass canister, followed instructions plus stirred the contents to make sure it was evenly distributed. Worked like a charm. Now I'm giving these as gifts.

I have one bottle of white sugar and one bottle of brown sugar left untouched on the cabinet for few years. I anticipated they could be rock hardened now because not sure if the common coffee glass bottles which i reused to fill sugar are perfectly airtight. First time seeing this kind of terra cotta pieces so i don't mind to buy myself two pieces just-in-case, the size is bigger than i thought. I was a bit worried to see fine crack lines on one of them, but overall they're beautiful i'm happy to get hummingbird pattern. I soaked the one with crack lines in water from night until the next evening and thank goodness it didn't break. I pat it dry with cloth before tossing it into the white sugar bottle to test. Few days later i opened the bottle and checked, there're moisture droplets inside the bottle. Not sure why (could it be i soaked it for generously long hours?). Sugar still looks ok, can easily loosen the upper layer with steel spoon even though slightly caked up due to long existence, oooppsss, anyway i guess it will be continuosly fine. Didn't test this on brown sugar because i test it with a different brand which i bought together.

My brown sugar went from dried lumps to soft, loose grains overnight.

Its a ceramic puck that you soak so your sugar doesn't get firm. Its not extraordinary but it does exactly what it says it does.

I was just about to toss a fairly new bag of brown sugar out when I learned of this terra cotta product. I soaked the product in clean filtered water for longer than the 15 minutes the directions state. A day later and it was perfectly soft again.

My brown sugar is stored in gallon size Ziploc freezer bag. It probably took 24 hours to harden into the hardest brick I have ever seen. I tried slamming it on the floor but it didn't crack. I soaked the terra cotta sugar saver in water for 15 minutes and put it inside the bag and later the same day it had softened the entire baglike I just bought it that day. I'm getting a few more! P.S. It's really nice!

Got these for the whole extended family. It's a bummer when we go to bake and the brown sugar is dry and hard as a rock. I don't have time to excavate the proper amount, and the rocks may not all dissolve properly in the baking. I know that we can microwave the brown sugar, but that still doesn't always produce the right results. I've also used a piece of bread in the jar before and that works too, but who wants to always be changing a slice of bread in the brown sugar? Not me! So this cute, food-safe terracotta hummingbird "tile" helps to keep our brown sugar nice and soft. Just submerge in water for 15 min, dry-off the outside, and plop into the closed container of brown sugar. Says it keeps the sugar moist for 3 months, but I would say it works much longer than that. Easy to refresh and keep going. All my gift recipients were very happy to have it. Looks just like the demo photos, no surprises with the quality!

I thought this product was a bit pricey but it works perfectly and is worth every penny. My brown sugar is soft weeks after putting it in a container. The terra cotta carving is beautiful too. I would recommend this product.

Great tool to keep my cookies and brown sugar soft

Not that it makes any difference to the way it works, but I was disappointed that - instead of the hummingbird as pictured - there was a teddy bear on the item I received.

Best product I have ever found for keeping brown sugar soft. If you use brown sugar and it is always hard as a rock you must use these terra cotta disks.

Good quality and looks beautiful.