On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Mark Burlingame <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> So if you warm up your syrup to 50C you will probably lose less than 5% to decomposition if you heat it less than an hour, however you can't really heat solutions uniformly to temperature rapidly, so usually you'll have a significant temperature differential where the container and solution near the heating source will be significantly hotter perhaps 20-40 degrees hotter, so if you do heat it, do it in a water bath not a flame or electric heating element.
Alternatively, add it while the syrup is cooling down and off the heat.
-Bob
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