How to make sugar crystals fast?

Crystals will form on a cotton or wool string or yarn, but not on a nylon line. If you use a nylon line, tie a seed crystal to it to stimulate crystal growth. If you are making the crystals to eat, please don't use a fishing weight to hold your string down. The lead from the weight will end up in the water -- it's toxic. read more

Warmth and moving air speed up evaporation of the water in the solution, causing the crystals to precipitate or form into crystals faster than normal. Make sugar crystals in three to five days instead of the usual seven days or more. read more

We bake it to long, and your crystals may form so fast you don't have the chance to get your seed strand in it before it turns to a solid block of sugar. Also try to keep your thermometer from touching the bottom of your pot for the most accurate reading. read more