Syrup issues
I was wondering if anyone has had an issue with their sugar free syrups. Two bottles of sugar free (made with splenda) caramel syrups formed a weird waxy layer on the top of the syrup. These bottles weren't old (we checked the freshness date) or opened for a long time, as we go through syrups rather fast at this location. We use Routin 1883.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Kerkhof on
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if they weren't open, something separated out probably or they were contaminated and are growing something. If water separates out and settles on top, bacteria has a chance to do some work because of lower sugar content in the settled water (kind of like oil and water settled in a jar, however it's different). have they been exposed to ranging temps or sunlight, or if opened water or steam?
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Permalink Reply by Jordan Jed on
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Not really exposed to anything like that, unless cleaning the pumps and puttingthem back into a bottle will put enough water into the bottle to do this. What do you think?
Kevin Kerkhof said:if they weren't open, something separated out probably or they were contaminated and are growing something. If water separates out and settles on top, bacteria has a chance to do some work because of lower sugar content in the settled water (kind of like oil and water settled in a jar, however it's different). have they been exposed to ranging temps or sunlight, or if opened water or steam?
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Permalink Reply by Brady on
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No issue with Monin O Sugar free doing that at our place. Even with regular pump removal and cleaning that surely introduces a small amount of clean water to the bottle.
Do we know that Splenda has the same bacteria-growth inhibiting properties of regular sugar?
Define "opened for a long time". Days? Weeks? A couple of months? If only a week or couple of days, that sounds weird. Call your supplier.
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It happened twice. I will get credit from them at some point, but I was wondering if anone else has experienced this. Time frame for a SF caramel syrup is a week or so. I do have some other SF syrups that sit on my shelf for longer, but nothing happened. I do get settlement (splenda) at the bottom sometimes, but I just shake the bottle to reinfuse this stuff. The waxy layer is just weird and, of course, I don't want to serve it.
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Picture of slimy waxy stuff.
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Permalink Reply by Joseph Robertson on
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Jordan, thanks for bringing this up. I will pay close attention to the bottles.
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