Ain’t no cure for the summertime candy blues…
Hot times, summer in the city, or town or where ever you live.
With the harsh heat all over North America let us not forget the most important thing. What are you going to do with your candy? If you’re like me and you have many boxes of treats waiting to be devoured or savoured at just the right time storage can be an issue. Let me just put one thing out there: DON’T PUT YOUR CANDY IN THE REFRIDGERATOR!!!There are many reasons why candy and chocolate should never be put into your refrigerator and here’s some of the ones I’ve learned first hand.
Chocolate loses all of it’s own flavour and tends to gain the flavours of anything you might have left in open. Even if you decide to lock it in an airtight container it will still lose its taste, and don’t get me started about cold moisture and chocolate.Gummies and a refrigerator is a sad thing, they get all dry and hard. If you like your gummies dry and hard then maybe you don’t really like gummies because being soft and chewy is the main point.I had a really bad experience with cold skittle once doing an article for Candy Critic. They basically just hurt my teeth and shattered in my mouth.I find most basic hard candies tend to stick together if you keep them in the refrigerator, I’m sure it’s because of the condensation. Well there’s a few personal reasons I can tell you it’s a bad idea, but what are you going to do, you’ve got all this great chocolate and candy but the heat is too much? Well I recommend putting them in a dry spot in your basement. Dry and cool is really the best thing for any candy. If you don’t have that option I recommend eating it all right now, because there’s no point in ruining candy, it’s just not right.Chris StewartCandy Critic
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